Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 8th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT 2003. SACMAT continues with the tradition, first established by the ACM Workshop on Role-Based Access Control, of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of access control, including models, systems, applications, and theory. The mission of the symposium is to share novel access control solutions and identify new directions for future research and development work. SACMAT gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of access control.A total of 63 papers were submitted this year from Asia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. The papers in these proceedings were evaluated for their technical contribution, originality and impact to the field of access control and authorization management. By limiting the program to a single panel, and extending the conference a half day, the program committee was able to increase the number of accepted papers from 17 to 23. These papers cover a variety of topics to include, access control and administrative models, access control systems and applications, policy context and specification, and range from the highly theoretical to real world commercial implementations.