Implementing Workﬂow with Microsoft’s Distributed Object Model (DCOM)

Dreyer and Olivier

2003

Citation information

L. C. J. Dreyer and M. S. Olivier. “Implementing Workﬂow with Microsoft’s Distributed Object Model (DCOM)”. In: Research Directions in Database and Application Security. Ed. by E. Gudes and S. Shenoi. Kluwer, 2003, pp. 61–72

Abstract

Workﬂow systems are becoming increasingly important as organisations automate their paper-based processes. Workﬂow systems make it possible to track processes and the responsibilities of individuals within these processes with relative ease. It is further possible to implement complex constraints including security and access control with workﬂow systems. Separation-of-duty is a security constraint that recently started to ﬁnd its way into the workﬂow environment. A workﬂow model is presented in this paper that implements role-based access control and separation-of-duty. This model extends previous research by including semantics that can be used to implement the model. A prototype of the model has been implemented with Microsoft’s SQL Server, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and Visual Basic.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35697-6_6

BibTeX reference

@inproceedings(dcomwf,
author={Lucas C J Dreyer and Martin S Olivier},
title={Implementing Workflow with {M}icrosoft’s {D}istributed {O}bject {M}odel {(DCOM)}},
pages={61--72},
booktitle={Research Directions in Database and Application Security},
editor={Ehud Gudes and Sujeet Shenoi},
year={2003},
publisher={Kluwer} )