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Application of Scenario-driven Role Engineering to the MinaBASE Process Knowledge Database

Authors:
Daniel Kimmig
Andreas Schmidt
Klaus Bittner
Markus Dickerhof

Keywords: Data confidentiality and integrity;knowledge management; RBAC;

Abstract:
Collaborative systems, which are often used in short-term virtual enterprises or long-term cooperation net- works, often contain informations about the manufacturing and fabrication competences of the technology partners which should only be made available to a very restricted group of persons for example to support feasibility studies in the context of actual customer requests. This is a new important feature to be supported in nowadays knowledge management systems. Hence, the goal of this paper is so to present a methodology for implementing an access system that supports the definition of fine granular access rights for cooperative process knowledge management systems, that could protect such sensible information. In this paper we present an adaption of the scenario-driven role engineering method to the special needs in a collaborative process knowledge management system with fine granular access requirements. Beside the adaption of the scenario-driven role engineering method to such a system, the adapted method will be concretely applied to the process knowledge management system MinaBASE, which was developed in our institute. To complete, an implementation will be shown with the help of the inversion of control framework “Spring Security”. Here static aspects as well as dynamic aspects of security will be presented. The paper shows in a detailed manner the usability of the scenario-driven role engineering method for applications in the field of collaborative knowledge management.

Pages: 125 to 132

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-146-5

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011