Title
A uniform approach for access control and business models with explicit rule realization.
Abstract
Access control is an important part of security in software, such as business applications, since it determines the access of users to objects and operations and the constraints of this access. Business and access control models are expressed using different representations. In addition, access control rules are not generally defined explicitly from access control models. Even though the business model and access control model are two separate modeling abstractions, they are inter-connected as access control is part of any business model. Therefore, the first goal is to add access control models to business models using the same fundamental building blocks. The second goal is to use these models and define general access control rules explicitly from these models so that the connection between models and their realizations are also present. This paper describes a new common representation for business models and classes of access control models based on the Resource–Event–Agent (REA) modeling approach to business models. In addition, the connection between models and their represented rules is clearly defined. We present a uniform approach to business and access control models. First, access control primitives are mapped onto REA-based access control patterns. Then, REA-based access control patterns are combined to define access control models. Based on these models, general access control rules are expressed in Extended Backus–Naur Form.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s10207-015-0275-z
International Journal of Information Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Access control models, Business models, Access control rules, Patterns, Resource–Event–Agent
Abstraction,Computer science,Role-based access control,Theoretical computer science,Software,Access control,Business model,Business rule
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
2
1615-5270
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.35
35
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vahid R. Karimi131.71
Paulo S. C. Alencar239345.89
Donald D. Cowan358190.75