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Agent-Based Semantic Role Mining for Intelligent Access Control in Multi-Domain Collaborative Applications of Smart Cities
School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications
  • Rubina Ghazal, COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Ahmad Kamran Malik, COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Basit Raza, COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Nauman Qadeer, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science &Technology, Islamabad
  • Nafees Qamar, Governors State University
  • Sajal Bhatia, Sacred Heart University
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
6-1-2021
Abstract

Significance and popularity of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is inevitable; however, its application is highly challenging in multi-domain collaborative smart city environments. The reason is its limitations in adapting the dynamically changing information of users, tasks, access policies and resources in such applications. It also does not incorporate semantically meaningful business roles, which could have a diverse impact upon access decisions in such multi-domain collaborative business environments. We propose an Intelligent Role-based Access Control (I-RBAC) model that uses intelligent software agents for achieving intelligent access control in such highly dynamic multi-domain environments. The novelty of this model lies in using a core I-RBAC ontology that is developed using real-world semantic business roles as occupational roles provided by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), USA. It contains around 1400 business roles, from nearly all domains, along with their detailed task descriptions as well as hierarchical relationships among them. The semantic role mining process is performed through intelligent agents that use word embedding and a bidirectional LSTM deep neural network for automated population of organizational ontology from its unstructured text policy and, subsequently, matching this ontology with core I-RBAC ontology to extract unified business roles. The experimentation was performed on a large number of collaboration case scenarios of five multi-domain organizations and promising results were obtained regarding the accuracy of automatically derived RDF triples (Subject, Predicate, Object) from organizational text policies as well as the accuracy of extracted semantically meaningful roles.

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DOI
10.3390/s21134253
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation Information

Ghazal, R., Malik, A., Raza, B., Qadeer, N., Qamar, N., & Bhatia, S. (2021). Agent-based semantic role mining for intelligent access control in multi-domain collaborative applications of smart cities. Sensors, 21(13), 4253. Doi:10.3390/s21134253