A resource management method (300) and a corresponding system are
proposed. In the solution of the invention, an authority publishes (324)
multiple rules, each one defining a desired target configuration for a
category of subjects (without any information about their dependencies).
Each subject retrieves (320 322, 326) the rules corresponding to its
category in a random order. The rules are then applied (427 439) on the
subject according to a trial-and-fail approach. Particularly, the
application of any failed rule is continually repeated (427 448), until
all the rules are successfully applied (463) or a deadlock condition is
detected (451). In this way, any dependency is automatically resolved on
the subject at run time. Moreover, as soon as all the rules have been
successfully applied the compliance of the subject to the rules is
verified (455 457) again; should the subject be not compliant to one or
more rules any longer, an infinite loop condition is detected (466).