@Article{JICS-6-177,
author = {A. Mohammad, G. Kanaan, T. Khdour and S. Bani-Ahmad},
title = {Ontology-Based Access Control Model for Semantic Web Services},
journal = {Journal of Information and Computing Science},
year = {2024},
volume = {6},
number = {3},
pages = {177--194},
abstract = { Studies show that reducing the gap between security services and semantic web is important. In 
this paper we present an ontology-based access-control (OBAC) to support semantic web service. For that, 
security ontologies are developed to specify concepts and terms involved in this model. Our proposed access 
control  model  is  expressive  and  general  with  these  important  features:  (i)  The  use  of  ontology  provides 
reasoning  ability  for  access  control  decision  making,  and  allows  access  control  information  to  be 
automatically  searched,  queried  and  discovered.  (ii)  Our  proposed  model  has  a  higher  degree  of 
interoperability compared to other approaches of access control mechanism. This is because of the nature of 
ontologies in providing semantic interoperability. (iii) Our proposed model is context sensitive; the constraint 
ontology represents different types of context constraint. (iv) Our proposed model is designed based on the 
widely accepted semantic web languages, Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Web Ontology Language for 
Service  (OWL-S),  therefore  its  implementation  can  be  easily  achieved  by  using  already  existing  tools 
designed for working with these languages.  
},
issn = {1746-7659},
doi = {https://doi.org/},
url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jics/22676.html}
}