TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fabian, Benjamin
A1  - Kunz, Steffen
A1  - Konnegen, Marcel
A1  - Müller, Sebastian
A1  - Günther, Oliver
T1  - Access control for semantic data federations in industrial product-lifecycle management
JF  - Computers in industry : an international, application oriented research journal
N2  - Information integration across company borders becomes increasingly important for the success of product lifecycle management in industry and complex supply chains. Semantic technologies are about to play a crucial role in this integrative process. However, cross-company data exchange requires mechanisms to enable fine-grained access control definition and enforcement, preventing unauthorized leakage of confidential data across company borders. Currently available semantic repositories are not sufficiently equipped to satisfy this important requirement. This paper presents an infrastructure for controlled sharing of semantic data between cooperating business partners. First, we motivate the need for access control in semantic data federations by a case study in the industrial service sector. Furthermore, we present an architecture for controlling access to semantic repositories that is based on our newly developed SemForce security service. Finally, we show the practical feasibility of this architecture by an implementation and several performance experiments.
KW  - Access control
KW  - Data federation
KW  - Information integration
KW  - Product lifecycle management
KW  - Semantic data
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.08.015
SN  - 0166-3615
VL  - 63
IS  - 9
SP  - 930
EP  - 940
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fabian, Benjamin
A1  - Kunz, Steffen
A1  - Müller, Sebastian
A1  - Günther, Oliver
T1  - Secure federation of semantic information services
JF  - Decision support systems : DSS ; the international journal
N2  - fundamental challenge for product-lifecycle management in collaborative value networks is to utilize the vast amount of product information available from heterogeneous sources in order to improve business analytics, decision support, and processes. This becomes even more challenging if those sources are distributed across multiple organizations. Federations of semantic information services, combining service-orientation and semantic technologies, provide a promising solution for this problem. However, without proper measures to establish information security, companies will be reluctant to join an information federation, which could lead to serious adoption barriers.
 Following the design science paradigm, this paper presents general objectives and a process for designing a secure federation of semantic information services. Furthermore, new as well as established security measures are discussed. Here, our contributions include an access-control enforcement system for semantic information services and a process for modeling access-control policies across organizations. In addition, a comprehensive security architecture is presented. An implementation of the architecture in the context of an application scenario and several performance experiments demonstrate the practical viability of our approach.
KW  - Information federation
KW  - Service orientation
KW  - Semantic web
KW  - Information security
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.049
SN  - 0167-9236
VL  - 55
IS  - 1
SP  - 385
EP  - 398
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -