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Diagrammatically Formalising Constraints of a Privacy Ontology

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2018)

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Data privacy is a cross-cutting concern for many software projects. We reify a philosophically inspired model for data privacy into a concept diagram. From the concept diagram we extract the privacy constraints and demonstrate one mechanism for translating the constraints into executable software.

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    http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/oecd privacy framework.pdf.

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    http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/.

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    http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/.

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  1. The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

    Shan Chen & Aidan Delaney

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter Chapman

  2. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Gem Stapleton

  3. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Amirouche Moktefi

  4. Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

    Sarah Perez-Kriz

  5. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Francesco Bellucci

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Chen, S., Delaney, A. (2018). Diagrammatically Formalising Constraints of a Privacy Ontology. In: Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Moktefi, A., Perez-Kriz, S., Bellucci, F. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10871. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_59

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