Su, M, Li, F, Tang, Z, Yu, Y and Zhou, B (2014) An Action-Based Fine-Grained Access Control Mechanism for Structured Documents and Its Application. Scientific World Journal. ISSN 1537-744X

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Abstract

This paper presents an action-based fine-grained access control mechanism for structured documents. Firstly, we define a describing model for structured documents and analyze the application scenarios. The describing model could support the permission management on chapters, pages, sections, words, and pictures of structured documents. Secondly, based on the action-based access control (ABAC) model, we propose a fine-grained control protocol for structured documents by introducing temporal state and environmental state. The protocol covering different stages from document creation, to permission specification and usage control are given by using the Z-notation. Finally, we give the implementation of our mechanism and make the comparisons between the existing methods and our mechanism. The result shows that our mechanism could provide the better solution of fine-grained access control for structured documents in complicated networks. Moreover, it is more flexible and practical.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Science & Technology; Multidisciplinary Sciences; Science & Technology - Other Topics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Computer Science & Mathematics
Publisher:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2020 09:52
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 14:45
DOI or ID number:	10.1155/2014/232708
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/300

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