Recent Publications

• Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu, William Winsborough, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, ROWLBAC: Role Based Access Control in OWL, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 08), 11-13 June 2008.
• Lalana Kagal, Chris Hanson, and Daniel Weitzner, Using Dependency Tracking to Provide Explanations for Policy Management, IEEE Policy, June 2008.
• Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, Lalana Kagal, Yosi Scharf, and Jim Hendler, "N3Logic: A Logical Framework for the World Wide Web", Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Special Issue on Logic Programming and the Web, 2007.
• Chris Hanson, Lalana Kagal, Gerry Sussman, Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Weitzner (MIT), "Data-Purpose Algebra: Modeling Data Usage Policies", IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks 2007 (POLICY 2007).
• Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Lalana Kagal, and Ora Lassila, "A Semantic Context-Aware Access Control Framework for Secure Collaborations in Pervasive Computing Environments", 5th International Semantic Web Conference, 2006.
• Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, "Modeling Communicative Behavior using Permissions and Obligations", Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on Agent Communication, 2006.
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, and Sol Greenspan, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Open and Dynamic Environments", IEEE Computer, June 2006.
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, "Using Semantic Web Technologies for Open Policy Management on the Web", 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006).
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, and Daniel Weitzner, "Self-describing Delegation Networks for the Web", IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks 2006 (POLICY 2006)
• Daniel Weitzner, Hal Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Chris Hanson, Jim Hendler, Lalana Kagal, Deborah McGuinness, Gerry Sussman, K. Krasnow Waterman, "Transparent Accountable Inferencing for Privacy Risk Management", The Semantic Web meets eGovernment, AAAI Spring Symposium 2006.

• Lalana Kagal, "A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments", PhD Thesis, September 2004
• Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paoucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin, and Katia Sycara, "Authorization and Privacy for Semantic Web Services", IEEE Intelligent Systems (Special Issue on Semantic Web Services), 2004
• Anand Patwardhan, Vladimir Korolev, Lalana Kagal, and Anupam Joshi, "Enforcing Policies in Pervasive Environments", International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 2004
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, "A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web", 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), September 2003
• Grit Denker, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Katia Sycara, and Massimo Paoucci, "Security for DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking", 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), September 2003
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, "A Policy Language for A Pervasive Computing Environment", IEEE 4th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2003
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, "Developing Secure Agent Systems Using Delegation Based Trust Management", Security of Mobile Multi-Agent Systems Workshop, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002)