Advanced Policy Explanations on the Web

  • Authors:
  • P. A. Bonatti;D. Olmedilla;J. Peer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universities of Naples, Hannover, and St. Gallen, respectively. D. Olmedilla is also a member of L3S. Contact: bonatti@na.infn.it;Universities of Naples, Hannover, and St. Gallen, respectively. D. Olmedilla is also a member of L3S. Contact: bonatti@na.infn.it;Universities of Naples, Hannover, and St. Gallen, respectively. D. Olmedilla is also a member of L3S. Contact: bonatti@na.infn.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The frameworks for protecting security and privacy can be effective only if common users---with no training in computer science or logic---increase their awareness and control over the policy applied by the systems they interact with. Towards this end, we introduce a mechanism for answering why, why-not, how-to, and what-if queries on rule-based policies for trust negotiation. Our framework is lightweight and scalable but it fulfills the main goals of modern explanation facilities. We adopt a novel tabled explanation structure, that simultaneously shows local and global (intra-proof and inter-proof) information, thereby facilitating navigation. Answers are focussed by removing irrelevant parts with suitable heuristics.