Distributed management of user profiles and identities allow reuse of profile information for different personalization services but also raises privacy issues. Users need a possi...
—Shibboleth is an architecture and protocol for allowing users to authenticate and be authorized to use a remote resource by logging into the identity management system that is m...
Identity federation is a powerful scheme that links accounts of users maintained distinctly by different business partners. The concept of network identity is a driver for accele...
—In an ad-hoc collaborative sharing environment, attribute-based access control provides a promising approach in defining authorization over shared resources based on users’ p...
Computer based community support systems can provide powerful support in direct exchange of information and in finding people for information exchange Such applications usually mak...