Provisions and Obligations in Policy Management and Security Applications

Summary: Provisions and obligations are core notions in policy management; a rule-based framework enforces pre-decision provisions and post-decision obligations. Reasoning derives all global PO sets per decision and selects the best via weights and semantics; applied to security. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9061
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 5.0723324e-05
Overall Rank: 12,893 | 11.85%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50051-2

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Authors

1. Claudio Bettini (University of Milan)
2. Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University)
3. X. Sean Wang (George Mason University)
4. Duminda Wijesekera (George Mason University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bettini_vldb02,
        title = {{Provisions and Obligations in Policy Management and Security Applications}},
        author = {Bettini, Claudio and Jajodia, Sushil and Wang, X. Sean and Wijesekera, Duminda},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50051-2},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50051-2},
        year = {2002}
}

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2,829	On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System	1991	VLDB	8.0579686e-05

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