Modeling Identity Management Architecture Within a Social Setting

Managing digital identity is about intelligently using the identity management solutions to achieve business goals. There is a pressing need for frameworks and models to support the analysis and design of complex social relationships with regard to identity in order to ensure the effective use of existing protection technologies and control mechanisms. This paper explores how the GRL/i* approach could be used in the design of a more integrated and comprehensive identity management solutions for organizations. Using this modeling approach, we may explicitly relate the different strategic rationales of stakeholders to the alternative design choices in the context of identity management. We argue that different actor configurations and vendor-based identity management components may be evaluated and selectively combined to achieve the best requirements satisfaction level based on strategic analysis results.

Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

   Lin Liu

2. Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3G6, Canada

   Eric Yu

3. Shanghai Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan, Shanghai, 200433

   Lin Liu

Editors and Affiliations

1. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

   Xiaofang Zhou

2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, China

   Jianzhong Li

3. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

   Heng Tao Shen

4. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 153-8505, Tokyo, Japan

   Masaru Kitsuregawa

5. Victoria University, Australia

   Yanchun Zhang

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