A Unified Framework for Enforcing Multiple Access Control Policies

Summary: Proposes FAM, a unified authorization manager that enforces multiple access policies within a single system. Formal language for authorizations, with proofs of expressiveness, consistency, and completeness; shows classic policies encoded for flexible, extensible coexistence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he2103b37cbadfec6
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.6893592e-05
Overall Rank: 4,281 | 71.22%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253364

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University)
2. Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan)
3. V. S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland)
4. Elisa Bertino (University of Milan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jajodia_sigmod97,
        title = {{A Unified Framework for Enforcing Multiple Access Control Policies}},
        author = {Jajodia, Sushil and Samarati, Pierangela and Subrahmanian, V. S. and Bertino, Elisa},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253364},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253364},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,399	Query Execution Assurance for Outsourced Databases	2005	VLDB	8.5216365e-05
5,510	Rights Protection for Relational Data	2003	SIGMOD	6.0997019e-05
13,192	Belief Reasoning in MLS Deductive Databases	1999	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
608	An Authorization Mechanism for a Relational Data Base System	1976	SIGMOD	0.00015599661
1,325	The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract)	1989	PODS	0.00011009279
6,913	An Approach For Building Secure Database Federations	1994	VLDB	5.6482844e-05

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