ISBN 978-3-8439-0285-4

978-3-8439-0285-4, Reihe Informatik

Christoph Ringelstein
Data Provenance and Destiny in Distributed Environments

272 Seiten, Dissertation Universität Koblenz-Landau (2011), Softcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Modern Internet and Intranet techniques, such as Web services and virtualization, facilitate the distributed processing of data providing improved flexibility. The gain in flexibility also incurs disadvantages. Integrated workflows forward and distribute data between departments and across organizations. The data may be affected by privacy laws, contracts, or intellectual property rights. Under such circumstances of flexible cooperations between organizations, accounting for the processing of data and restricting actions performed on the data may be legally and contractually required. In the Internet and Intranet, monitoring mechanisms provide means for observing and auditing the processing of data, while policy languages constitute a mechanism for specifying restrictions and obligations.

The book presents a novel model for data-centric auditing in distributed processes, a solution for provenance-aware policies and a formal specification of obligations offering a procedure to decide whether obligatory processing steps can be met in the future.