DACS Articles

Here are links to DACS-related conference presentations and technical articles. Additions to this list are welcome.

• Time-Gated Mutual Authentication: System Architecture
• DACS 1.4.20 is the subject of a Masters thesis by Jerry Falkcrona, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, entitled "Role-Based access control and single sign-on for Web services", 20-Mar-2008.
• Access control in a coalition system, Alf Bengtsson and Lars Westerdahl, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI-R--2393--SE, December 2007.
• Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)-In-A-Box, a Footprint to Deliver Geospatial Data through Open Source Applications by Aaron Peeke-Vout and Brian Low, Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics, September 2007.
• SiteReference published a three-part article by Rick Morrison of Metalogic Software Corporation entitled Web 2.0 Access Control [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3].
• A piece entitled Rule-based access control: Improve security and make programming easier with an authorization framework was published as a featured highlight on the IBM developerWorks SOA & Web services zone.
• Using Free and Open Source software to deploy a Spatial Data Infrastructure by Brian Low, Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics, September 2006.
• The Role of Open Source Software in Canada's National Forest Information System by Brian Low and Robin Quenet, Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics, September 2006.
• The July, 2006 issue of the German magazine iX features an article about DACS (in German) by André von Raison and Oliver Müller. OMSE hosts various downloads (including RPMs) of DACS 1.4.11.