Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog

Summary: Introduces a distributed, Datalog-based access-control model for WebdamLog to govern user data and apps. Provenance-based, tuple-level policies, a formal spec, and an open-source implementation atop a distributed Datalog engine with modest overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h213f5b3b96132dd1
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.1842615e-05
Overall Rank: 9,402 | 36.79%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2749433

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Vera Zaychik Moffitt (Drexel University)
2. Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)
3. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA; École Normale Supérieure)
4. Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{moffitt_sigmod15,
        title = {{Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog}},
        author = {Moffitt, Vera Zaychik and Stoyanovich, Julia and Abiteboul, Serge and Miklau, Gerome},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2749433},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2749433},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,635	Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark	2016	SIGMOD	8.1965216e-05
12,196	Explanations and Transparency in Collaborative Workflows	2018	PODS	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059752575
568	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016262553
819	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.00013666629
1,245	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011353116
1,959	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	2004	VLDB	9.3126683e-05
3,247	On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases	2007	VLDB	7.4946402e-05
5,073	A Rule-based Language for Web Data Management	2011	PODS	6.2870136e-05

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