Speaker: Dr. Mark Evered is a Senior Lecturer of University of New England. He is working on Object-oriented languages, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems and Protection. 

Title: An Object-based Approach to Minimal Access

Abstract:

In this seminar I will give an overview of research into
object-based mechanisms and languages for enforcing minimal,
need-to-know access control for persistent data. This
research has led to the capability-based middleware system
Opsis and to a Java language extension called Jarrah, which
supports persistent objects and fine-grained access control.
Current work includes the definition of a specification
language for minimal access control based on algebraic
specification. The talk will highlight some of the difficulties
involved in specifying and implementing minimal access
in real, complex information systems such as in the Health
sector.

Mark Evered obtained his PhD at the Darmstadt University of
Technology in Germany. He has worked at a number of German
universities and has been at the University of New England
since 1999. His research interests include object-oriented
languages and systems, software engineering and protection
in persistent and distributed systems.