Security in a Collaboration Bus

Collaboration cannot become pervasive until users are assured of security. Security has been studied extensively in traditional fields such as database systems and operating systems. Recently, there has been initial work on security in the context of CORBA (a framework for supporting interoperating objects), Java, and collaborative user-interfaces. The goal of this project is to extend/adapt these works to develop a security model for the collaboration bus.

This project will give you experience in interoperability and security. For more information, contact John McHugh or Prasun Dewan.