Security policies in multi-domain environments
MULTIPOL is an European project funded by France in the context of ITEA 2 Eureka call for the period: 2008-2010. The consortium is composed of 10 partners from 2 countries (France, Spain). The MULTIPOL project deals with how policies can be established to allow the composition of services in multi-domain environments such as those involving IoT and Ambient Intelligence technologies. The definition and management of these kind of policies in order to control information sharing and services usage in restricted environments, spanning devices, robots to any kind of complex system, is a real issue since the local policies are in general defined by human experts for their local domains. Thus, the composition of multi-domain policies by humans without an AI based assistance becomes a very complex task and prone to mistakes due the heterogeneity of the semantics and the complexity of the local domains. MULTIPOL develops an AI based approach for enforcing at runtime the semantic interoperability and composability of local domain policies. Ontology reasoning and Optimization mechanisms are used to ensure that the resulting multidomain policy is reliable and cleaned from any conflicting rules that can lead to decision flaws or deadlock. Compared to the state of the art, Medolution overcomes drawbacks of existing methods that lacks semantic expressiveness and reasoning capabilities.
Two major use cases have been developed to validate the MULTIPOL approach. In the first use case, which deals with pervasive healthcare scenarios, the focus is made on simplifying secure inter-hospital access to services and patient records. The second use cases focus on smart spaces interoperability in particular those imposes mission critical constraints, such as military campuses or embassies. The latter require the composition of policies and services for a context aware control of accesses to facilities and information sharing when users have to move between highly secured spaces. The MULTIPOL approach have been adapted by the LISSI laboratory to validate services and policies composition for ambient assisted living when services belong to heterogeneous domains hosting robots and IoT systems. The LISSI laboratory have been awarded in 2011 the ITEA Best Achievement Gold Award as recognition for its leadership of work package 5 and its scientific contributions dealing with AI and its application to build the Medolution approach.
For information, ITEA is a cluster research program of the EUREKA Network, which promotes transnational, market-driven innovative research and development projects around information and communication technologies.
