The Adaptive Policy chooses completely different aim in China and Japan:Japanese civilian estate and Chinese scholar-bureaucrat.

This paper presents an Adaptive Policy Increment Processor(APIP) model and realization scheme, which can automatically accomplish policy increment distribution based on the change of the PEP's policy.

With adaptive spinning the duration of the spin is not fixed anymore, but determined by a policy based on previous spin attempts on the same lock and the state of the lock owner.