Privacy-Aware Web Service Protocol Replaceability

Nawal Guermouche (1) , Salima Benbernou (2) , Emmanuel Coquery (3) , Mohand-Said Hacid (3)

1 ECOO - Environment for cooperation
2 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information
3 BD - Base de Données

Business protocols are becoming a necessary part of Web services description. Many works investigate mechanisms for analyzing the compatibility and the substitution (i.e., replaceability) of Web services based on their functional properties. In this paper, we focus on the replaceability analysis. Whether a service can replace another depends not only on their functional properties but also on non functional requirements (e.g., privacy policies). We propose a privacy aware protocol replaceability approach to extend the earlier work of Web services replaceability by privacy properties. We introduce a rule-based privacy model and we extend business protocols, leading to what we call Private Business Protocols. Finally, a private replaceability analysis of private business protocols is discussed. We mainly investigate compatibility issues, that is whether one private business protocol can support the same set of conversations with respect to the privacy requirements.

Mots clés: Web services replaceability; privacy policies; privacy analysis; business protocols analysis

Domaines: Web; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Nawal Guermouche, Salima Benbernou, Emmanuel Coquery, Mohand-Said Hacid. Privacy-Aware Web Service Protocol Replaceability. IEEE International Conference on Web Services - ICWS 2007, Jul 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. pp.1048 - 1055, ⟨10.1109/ICWS.2007.143⟩. ⟨inria-00133666⟩