"An Open Distributed Policy Framework for the Web"

09/28/05: 10:30 AM, webcast
11th Floor Large Conference Room
Host: Patrick Pantel, schedule

Abstract: Rein is a distributed framework for representing and reasoning over security policies for resources on the Web. It allows policies to be described in different policy languages defined in RDFS and OWL and provides a uniform way for reasoning over them. The framework consists of two main components - a high level ontology for describing how web resources, policies, policy languages, and meta-policies relate to each other, and a reasoning engine for inferring policy decisions. We have currently implemented the Rein engine using N3 rules [2] and we will be investigating the use of other rule systems such as SWRL and RuleML to develop similar functionality. [1] Experience with N3 rules, http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/paper/94/

About Lalana Kagal: Lalana Kagal is a postdoctoral associate at the Decentralized Information Group, a research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, led by Tim Berners-Lee. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she worked with her advisor, Tim Finin, on various aspects of trust, security, and privacy in dynamic distributed environments such as the Semantic Web and pervasive computing systems. She is currently working on developing a policy framework for the Web and is looking into the use of policies for transparency and accountability in large-scale.

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