Fast exact and heuristic methods for role minimization problems

Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-10

  Ene, Alina ^a,d   Rao, Prasad ^b,e   Horne, William ^b,e   Schreiber, Robert ^b,e   Milosavljevic, Nikola ^c,f   Tarjan, Robert E ^a,d,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Role mining; Role based access control

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE YIELDS; BOTTOM-UP; EXPONENTIAL METHODS; GRAPH REDUCTIONS; INPUT GRAPHS; LOWER BOUNDS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS; ROLE ENGINEERINGS; ROLE MINING; ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL; ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROLS; TEST CASES;

CONTROL THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 57349100404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1377836.1377838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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