Title
Secure federation of semantic information services
Abstract
A fundamental challenge for product-lifecycle management in collaborative value networks is to utilize the vast amount of product information available from heterogeneous sources in order to improve business analytics, decision support, and processes. This becomes even more challenging if those sources are distributed across multiple organizations. Federations of semantic information services, combining service-orientation and semantic technologies, provide a promising solution for this problem. However, without proper measures to establish information security, companies will be reluctant to join an information federation, which could lead to serious adoption barriers. Following the design science paradigm, this paper presents general objectives and a process for designing a secure federation of semantic information services. Furthermore, new as well as established security measures are discussed. Here, our contributions include an access-control enforcement system for semantic information services and a process for modeling access-control policies across organizations. In addition, a comprehensive security architecture is presented. An implementation of the architecture in the context of an application scenario and several performance experiments demonstrate the practical viability of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.049
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
access-control policy,security measure,access-control enforcement system,product information,semantic technology,semantic information service,information security,comprehensive security architecture,information federation,secure federation,semantic web
Data mining,Semantic integration,Semantic technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Semantic analytics,Semantic interoperability,Information security management,Semantic grid,Enterprise information security architecture,Semantic computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
1
0167-9236
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
58
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Fabian138135.06
Steffen Kunz2897.11
Sebastian MüLler3193.57
Oliver Günther41671156.38