Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Access Control for Cooperation Systems Based on Group Situation

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_2,
        author={Minsoo Kim and James Joshi and Minkoo Kim},
        title={Access Control for Cooperation Systems Based on Group Situation},
        proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Group Situation Access Control Cooperation System},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_2}
    }
    
  • Minsoo Kim
    James Joshi
    Minkoo Kim
    Year: 2012
    Access Control for Cooperation Systems Based on Group Situation
    COLLABORATECOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_2
Minsoo Kim1,*, James Joshi2,*, Minkoo Kim1,*
  • 1: Ajou University
  • 2: University of Pittsburgh
*Contact email: visual@ajou.ac.kr, jjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu, minkoo@ajou.ac.kr

Abstract

Cooperation systems characterize many emerging environments such as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. Agent based cooperation systems have been proposed in the literature to address challenges of such emerging application environments. A key aspect of such agent based cooperation system is the group situation that changes dynamically and governs the requirements of the cooperation. While individual agent context is important, the overall cooperation behavior is more driven by the group context because of relationships and interactions between agents. Dynamic access control based on group situation is a crucial challenge in such cooperation systems. In this paper we propose a dynamic role based access control model for cooperation systems based on group situation. The model emphasizes capability based agent to role mapping and group situation based permission assignment to allow capturing dynamic access policies that evolve continuously.