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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 individual agent context is important, the overall cooperation behavior is more driven by the group context because of relationships and interactions between agents. Dynamic access control based on group situation is a crucial challenge in such cooperation systems. In this paper we propose a dynamic role based access control model for cooperation systems based on group situation. The model emphasizes capability based agent to role map** and group situation based permission assignment to allow capturing dynamic access policies that evolve continuously.
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Kim, M., Joshi, J.B.D., Kim, M. (2009). Access Control for Cooperation Systems Based on Group Situation. In: Bertino, E., Joshi, J.B.D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_2
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