8. The method of claim 7 , wherein said priorities are allocated by numerically naming the individual branches.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein said priorities are allocated by numerically naming the individual branches. 9. The method of claim 8 , wherein said step of translating said policies from said executable feature language into said policy conflict detection language further comprises visiting successive ones of said branches downwardly and producing corresponding rules, using the following mapping: name policy to name rule; priority policy to number rules; operation policy to result rule; precondition policy to triggering event rule; target policy to result rule; exceptions policy to constraint rule; and time constraints policy to precondition rule.