My research focuses on the management of distributed systems with an emphasis on policy-based approaches (e.g., 1,2,3,4) and extending and refining my doctoral work on strategy-trees (e.g., 5,6,7,8,9,10). At a high level, my current work involves developing a cloud management framework (e.g., 11,12,13,14,15,16) that automates the deployment of applications to public/private and hybrid clouds, mitigates security concerns while facilitating the dynamic management (e.g., 17,18) of the application’s elasticity policy and configuration in alignment with the deployer’s set of business objectives.