A Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control (GTRBAC) model that captures an exhaustive set of temporal constraint needs for access control has recently been proposed. GTRBAC’s language constructs allow one to specify various temporal constraints on role, userrole assignments and role-permission assignments. However, the presence of temporal constraints on role enablings and role activation...

This paper focused on two aspects of access control: graphical representation and reasoning. Access control policies describe which operations on resources are granted to users. Role-based access control is the model which introduces the concept of role to design user’ permissions. Actually, there is a lack of tools allowing security officers to describe and reason on their policies graphically...

Access Control is an important mechanism of information security. Role-Based Access Control is a famous access control approach with good flexibility. RBAC96 and ARBAC97 are classical RBAC models. The ARBAC97 model facilitates decentralized administration of RBAC. However, ARBAC97 has some shortcomings in the case of being used in an organization with autonomous subsidiaries. The member of an a...

In this paper, we present an enhanced use of RBAC features in articulating a security policy for access control in medical database systems. The main advantage of this implementation is that it supports both MAC and DAC features at the same time; a feature that has been proved to be necessary in healthcare environments. The eMEDAC security policy that results from the above implementation provi...

While Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) are appropriate for multilevel secure military applications, Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) are often perceived as meeting the security processing needs of industry and civilian government. This paper argues that reliance on DAC as the principal method of access control is unfounded and inappropriate for many commercial and civilian government organiza...

Access Control is the process or mechanism for giving the authority to access the specific resources, applications and system. Access control defines a set of conditions or criteria to access the system and its resources. There are three main accesses Control model first is Mandatory access control model, second is Discretionary access control model and third is Role based access control models...

While Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) are appropriate for multilevel secure military applications, Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) are often perceived as meeting the security processing needs of industry and civilian government. This paper argues that reliance on DAC as the principal method of access control is unfounded and inappropriate for many commercial and civilian government organiza...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in attribute based access control (ABAC) to overcome the limitations of the dominant access control models (i.e, discretionary-DAC, mandatory-MAC and role based-RBAC) while unifying their advantages. Although some proposals for ABAC have been published, and even implemented and standardized, there is no consensus on precisely what is meant by ABAC ...

As part of the access control process an authorization decision needs to be taken based on a certain authorization model. Depending on the environment different models are applicable (e.g., RBAC in organizations, MAC in the military field). An authorization model contains all necessary elements needed for the decision (e.g., subjects, objects, and roles) as well as their relations. As these ele...

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 indivi...