Access control and authorization for protecting disseminative information in E‐learning workflow

Abstract

SUMMARY E-learning defined as learning activities performed over electronic devices is rapidly increasing and has become one of the key e-commerce applications with a growing commercial market in the near future. Access control and authorization in E-learning workflow is a vital problem with low costs and no location limits for students. E-learning organizers prefer to disseminate their message as widely as possible, while at the same time authorized people only are able to access disseminative information. However, in the E-learning workflow it is a challenge to protect from access, such as reading and updating, the digital message that has been disseminated out from the organizations. This paper aims to substantially provide a foundation for developing appropriate security solutions for organizations' secure dissemination of digital information. An application-level secure architecture is developed based on the references on both server side and client side. The architecture provides control and tracking capabilities for dissemination and usage of digital information while others provide only tracking capability. The outcomes of this paper can immediately apply to prevent unauthorized dissemination of digital content amongst agents of universities regardless of their intention or possession of the digital information and will contribute to higher security in E-learning.

Access control management for e-Healthcare in cloud environment

“…Semantic web is the extension of current web which gives information a well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in co-operation [24]. The semantic web provides a framework for dynamic, for Innovation L. Sun et al 4 distributed and extensible structured knowledge founded on formal logic [16].…”

“…In cloud computing environment, one organization seeking to share information with authorized personnel from other organizations has to deal with semantic heterogeneity across the information sources in these organizations [14,24,28,31]. An example is a medical centre where a patient is under the treating of a medical centre doctor.…”

Special Issue: Fourth International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009)

“…This special issue contains 10 papers based on those that were presented at ICWM2009.They are listed as22–31. Research problems in these papers have been analysed systematically, and for specific approaches or models, evaluation has been performed to demonstrate their feasibility and advantages.…”

“…Sun and Wang 31 extend workflow management to E‐learning area. It is a challenge in E‐learning workflow to protect the digital message from accesses, such as reading and updating, which has been disseminated out from the organizations.…”