A resource management method (400c) and a corresponding system
implementing an adaptive model are proposed. The method allows an
authority to define a desired target state of several kinds of resources,
which are directly controlled by different subjects. The authority
publishes (460) a series of rules in a shared repository; each rule
indicates the target state of a resource for a corresponding category of
the subjects. Each subject retrieves (444-456;462-468) the rules
corresponding to its category from the shared repository. The rules are
then applied (458;469) by the subject directly. In this way, the subjects
self-adapt to the rules, without requiring any direct interaction with
the authority.