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Access Control Policy Languages

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Authorization policy languages

Definition

An access control policy language is a particular set of grammar, syntax rules (logical and mathematical), and operators which provides an abstraction-layer for access control policy specifications. Such languages combine individual rules into a single policy set, which is the basis for (user/subject) authorization decisions on accessing content (object) stored in various information resources. The operators of an access control policy language are used on attributes of the subject, resource (object), and their underlying application framework to facilitate identifying the policy that (most appropriately) applies to a given action.

Historical Background

The evolution of access control policy languages is inline with the evolving large-scale highly distributed information systems and the Internet, which turned the tasks of authorizing and controlling of accessing on a global enterprise (or on Internet) framework increasingly challenging...

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  1. Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Athena Vakali

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  1. Athena Vakali
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. DiSTA, Univ. of Insubria, Via Mazzini, 5, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Elena Ferrari

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Vakali, A. (2014). Access Control Policy Languages. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_5-2

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