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Constraints are an important aspect of role-based access control (RBAC). Constraints have to be satisfied when an administrator wants to assign (revoke) a role to a user or a permission to a role. The importance of constraints associated with user-role assignments and permission-role assignments in RBAC has been recognized but the modelling of these constraints has not been received much attention. In this paper we use a de facto constraints specification language in software engineering to analyze the constraints in user-role assignments and permission-role assignments. We show how to represent role-based access constraints with object constraint language (OCL) and discuss the future work. Finally, comparisons with other related work are presented.
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Wang, H., Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Yang, J. (2004). Specifying Role-Based Access Constraints with Object Constraint Language. In: Yu, J.X., Lin, X., Lu, H., Zhang, Y. (eds) Advanced Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24655-8_75
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