Information security and assurance are new frontiers for collaborative design. In this context, information assurance (IA) refers to methodologies to protect engineering information by ensuring its availability, confidentiality, integrity, nonrepudiation, authentication, access control, etc. In collaborative design, IA techniques are needed to protect intellectual property, establish security privileges and create “need to know” protections on critical features. This paper provides a framework for information assurance within collaborative design based on a technique we call Role-Based Viewing. We extend upon prior work to present Hierarchical Role-Based Viewing as a more flexible and practical approach since role hierarchies naturally reflect an organization’s lines of authority and responsibility. We establish a direct correspondence between multilevel security and multiresolution surfaces where a hierarchy is represented as a weighted directed acyclic graph. The permission discovery process is formalized as a graph reachability problem and the path-cost can be used as input to a multiresolution function. By incorporating security with collaborative design, the costs and risks incurred by multiorganizational collaboration can be reduced. The authors believe that this work is the first of its kind to unite multilevel security and information clouded with geometric data, including multiresolution surfaces, in the fields of computer-aided design and collaborative engineering.
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Hierarchical Role-Based Viewing for Multilevel Information Security in Collaborative CAD
Christopher D. Cera,
Christopher D. Cera
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Ilya Braude,
Ilya Braude
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Taeseong Kim,
Taeseong Kim
Mobile Multimedia Laboratory,
LG Electronics Institute of Technology
, Seoul, 137-724, Korea
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JungHyun Han,
JungHyun Han
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Korea University
, Seoul, 136-701, Korea
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William C. Regli
William C. Regli
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Christopher D. Cera
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Ilya Braude
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Taeseong Kim
Mobile Multimedia Laboratory,
LG Electronics Institute of Technology
, Seoul, 137-724, Korea
JungHyun Han
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Korea University
, Seoul, 136-701, Korea
William C. Regli
Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
Drexel University
, Philadelphia, PA 19104J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. Mar 2006, 6(1): 2-10 (9 pages)
Published Online: March 24, 2005
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January 26, 2004
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March 24, 2005
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Cera, C. D., Braude, I., Kim, T., Han, J., and Regli, W. C. (March 24, 2005). "Hierarchical Role-Based Viewing for Multilevel Information Security in Collaborative CAD." ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. March 2006; 6(1): 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2161226
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