Enhancing web services compositions with privacy capabilities

Imen Khabou, Mohsen Rouached, Mohamed Abid, Rafik Bouaziz

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Abstract

Web service composition has been extensively studied in recent years. Although a lot of new models and mechanisms have been proposed, many issues in service composition still remain unsolved. Among them, privacy is one of the major concerns. Indeed, inheriting characteristics of Web services environments such as high dynamism and untrustworthiness often generate conicting privacy specifications with respect to the data exchanged within a composition. Even existing technologies for managing and applying data privacy policies are unsuccessful when dealing with this kind of applications as they involve autonomous entities and continuously exchange huge amount of heterogeneous information. This made urgent to have in place effective technologies for data privacy management in service compositions. These technologies should (1) deal with the exibility, scalability, and heterogeneity in the overall infrastructure in which data are exchanged; and (2) integrate privacy concerns into the development process of these compositions. In this context, this paper tackles the problem of modeling, managing and preserving privacy in Web service composition processes. More specifically, we propose a first step towards providing a privacy preserving Web service composition approach that enables to (i) model and specify privacy policies, preferences, and requirements both at the client and at the provider sides, (ii) enforce the privacy model and build privacy aware compositions, (iii) verify the compliance between users privacy requirements and providers privacy policies, (iv) rank the composite Web services with respect to the privacy level they offer, and (v) provide privacy aware recovery actions to deal with incompatibilities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsMatthias Steinbauer, Maria Indrawan-Santiago, Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis, Ismail Khalil
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450334914
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 11 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2015 - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: Dec 11 2015Dec 13 2015

Publication series

Name17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2015 - Proceedings

Other

Other17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2015
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period12/11/1512/13/15

Keywords

  • Compliance
  • Composition
  • Privacy
  • Web services

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications

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