Controlling historical information dissemination in publish/subscribe

  • Authors:
  • Jatinder Singh;David M. Eyers;Jean Bacon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge;University of Cambridge;University of Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on Middleware security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Application environments dealing with sensitive information require mechanisms to define the circumstances for data disclosure. In event-based environments, access control typically concerns messages (events) as they occur. However, scenarios exist in which the retrieval of historical information is required. The publish/subscribe paradigm decouples producers from consumers, where information from numerous sources can satisfy an information request (subscription). These sources may be unknown to subscribers. This paper describes a unified approach for managing the disclosure of both historical and future events. We show, with the aid of healthcare scenarios, how context and access mechanisms can be used for fine-grained control over the circumstances for information disclosure.