Semantic-Aware Data Protection in Web Services

This paper presents a method to remove the dependency of XML access control models on the syntactic representation of the XML trees. We propose a semantics-based approach, expressing XML access control on ontologies that describe the XML documents. The semanticsbased model is transformed to the syntactic representation on the actual XML instance. Our method supports the uniform enforcement of an authentication model on syntactically different but semantically equivalent XML documents. Contact Author: Csilla Farkas, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Telephone: 803-576-5762, Fax: 803-777-3767, email:farkas@cse.sc.edu