Collaborative information service: The security question

Abstract

Growth of computing and analytics, internet and distributed computing, and increasing tendency to use crowd sourcing for creative tasks, the use of collaborative idea in information intensive activities is a growing research concern. In CIS companies would cooperate to do their interlinked business together. It responds to customer requests for information retrieval from or writing on data contents. We study the role of a flexible privacy model that can simplify the job of maintaining security in a collaborative environment. There has not been sufficient effort put in this direction though vast amount of literature exists on security in databases, distributed databases and cloud. Not many attempts for the security of collaborative information retrieval systems either exist. IRaaS - Information Retrieval as a Service - introduced 'privacy template', whereas the explicit expression of privacy constraints adopted by CIS for security implementation. The rational approach to security for such problems is a novel idea. © 2016 IEEE.