Title
Access control for semantic data federations in industrial product-lifecycle management
Abstract
Information integration across company borders becomes increasingly important for the success of product lifecycle management in industry and complex supply chains. Semantic technologies are about to play a crucial role in this integrative process. However, cross-company data exchange requires mechanisms to enable fine-grained access control definition and enforcement, preventing unauthorized leakage of confidential data across company borders. Currently available semantic repositories are not sufficiently equipped to satisfy this important requirement. This paper presents an infrastructure for controlled sharing of semantic data between cooperating business partners. First, we motivate the need for access control in semantic data federations by a case study in the industrial service sector. Furthermore, we present an architecture for controlling access to semantic repositories that is based on our newly developed SemForce security service. Finally, we show the practical feasibility of this architecture by an implementation and several performance experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.compind.2012.08.015
Computers in Industry
Keywords
DocType
Volume
industrial product-lifecycle management,SemForce security service,access control,available semantic repository,semantic technology,cross-company data exchange,confidential data,semantic data,company border,fine-grained access control definition,semantic data federation
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0166-3615
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
22
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Fabian138135.06
Steffen Kunz2897.11
Marcel Konnegen330.39
Sebastian MüLler4193.57
Oliver Günther51671156.38