Object oriented database with authorization policies

Yun Bai*, Vijay Varadharajan

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Abstract

Authorization specification in object oriented databases is being increasingly investigated recently by many researchers [4, 5, 7, 9, 10]. However, most of the work todate suffers from a lack of formal logic semantics to characterize different types of inheritance properties of authorization policies among complex data objects. This paper is to address this issue from a formal logic point of view. In particular, we propose a logic language that has a clear and declarative semantics to specify the structural features of object oriented databases and authorizations associated with complex data objects in databases. Our formalization characterizes the model-theoretic semantics of object oriented databases and authorizations associated with them. A direct advantage of this approach is that we can formally specify and reason about authorizations on data objects without loosing inheritance and abstraction features of object oriented databases.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)229-250
Number of pages22
JournalFundamenta Informaticae
Volume53
Issue number3-4
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2002

Keywords

  • Database
  • Formal specification
  • Security

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