The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
RBAC '97 Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Role-based access control
Adept_flex—Supporting Dynamic Changes of Workflows Without Losing Control
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special jubilee issue: DKE 25
The specification and enforcement of authorization constraints in workflow management systems
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) - Special issue on role-based access control
A reflective infrastructure for workflow adaptability
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Business Rule-Oriented Conceptual Modeling
Business Rule-Oriented Conceptual Modeling
Exterminating the Dynamic Change Bug: A Concrete Approach to Support Workflow Change
Information Systems Frontiers
IntelliGEN: A Distributed Workflow System for Discovering Protein-Protein Interactions
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Design for Change: Evolving Workflow Specifications in ULTRAflow
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Managing Evolving Workflow Specifications
COOPIS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
A Repository System for Business Rules
DS-6 Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP TC-2 Working Conference on Data Semantics: Database Applications Semantics
Role-Based Access Control
Flexible Support of Team Processes by Adaptive Workflow Systems
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Organizational Management in Workflow Applications – Issues and Perspectives
Information Technology and Management
Correctness criteria for dynamic changes in workflow systems: a survey
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Advances in business process management
Managing the Life Cycle of Access Rules in CEOSIS
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
A formal framework for adaptive access control models
Journal on data semantics IX
Balancing flexibility and security in adaptive process management systems
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
On the controlled evolution of access rules in cooperative information systems
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
Mining staff assignment rules from event-based data
BPM'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Business Process Management
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The definition and management of access rules (e.g. to control access to business documents and business functions) is a fundamental task in any enterprise information system (EIS). While there exists considerable work on how to specify and represent access rules, only little research has been spent on access rule changes. Examples include the evolution of organisational models with need for subsequent adaptation of related access rules as well as direct access rule modifications (e.g. to state a previously defined rule more precisely). This paper presents a comprehensive change framework for the controlled evolution of role-based access rules in EIS. First, we consider changes of organisational models and elaborate how they affect existing access rules. Second, we define change operations which enable direct adaptations of access rules. In the latter context, we define the formal semantics of access rule changes based on operator trees. Particularly, this enables their unambiguous application, i.e. we can precisely determine which effects are caused by respective rule changes. This is important, for example, to be able to efficiently and correctly adapt user worklists in process-aware information systems. Altogether this paper contributes to comprehensive life cycle support for access rules in (adaptive) EIS.