IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/infosf/v3y2001i3d10.1023_a1011461409620.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Managing Workflow Authorization Constraints through Active Database Technology

Author

Listed:
  • Fabio Casati

    (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

  • Silvana Castano

    (Università di Milano)

  • MariaGrazia Fugini

    (Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. Da Vinci)

Abstract

The execution of workflow processes requires authorizations for enforcing the assignment of tasks to agents, either human or automated, according to the security policy of the organization. This paper presents a workflow authorization framework based on roles and organizational levels, and on authorization constraints. To facilitate the assignment of tasks to agents, roles and organizational levels are organized into hierarchies. Authorization constraints are introduced to specify instance-dependent, time-dependent, and history-dependent authorizations. Authorization constraints are specified in terms of active rules, used also for authorization management. The Workflow Management System determines authorized agents on the basis of the contents of an authorization base maintained through the active rules defined in the system.

Suggested Citation

  • Fabio Casati & Silvana Castano & MariaGrazia Fugini, 2001. "Managing Workflow Authorization Constraints through Active Database Technology," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 319-338, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:3:y:2001:i:3:d:10.1023_a:1011461409620
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1011461409620
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1011461409620
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1023/A:1011461409620?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xue Bai & Ram Gopal & Manuel Nunez & Dmitry Zhdanov, 2012. "On the Prevention of Fraud and Privacy Exposure in Process Information Flow," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 24(3), pages 416-432, August.
    2. Sigrid Schefer-Wenzl & Mark Strembeck, 2014. "Modeling Support for Role-Based Delegation in Process-Aware Information Systems," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 6(4), pages 215-237, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:3:y:2001:i:3:d:10.1023_a:1011461409620. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.