Elisa Bertino

Elisa Bertino is professor at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University and Research Director of CERIAS.

Her main research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and database systems. Her research combines both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing as well applications on a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities. Current research includes:

  • access control systems, secure publishing techniques and secure broadcast for XML;
  • advanced RBAC models and foundations of access control models;
  • trust negotiation languages;
  • data mining and privacy;
  • multi-strategy filtering systems for Web pages and sites;
  • security for grid-computing systems and web services;
  • object-oriented and object-relational databases;
  • databases and multimedia, integration of database and virtual reality techniques;
  • geographical information systems and spatial databases;
  • advanced applications in the area of archaeology.

She is an associated editor of several international journals, including ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Security&Privacy, Acta Informatica.

She is author of several articles in International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is co-author of the books:

  • Object-Oriented Database Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1993)
  • Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems (Kluwer, 1997)
  • Intelligent Database Systems (Addison-Wesley, 2001)

List of Publications

Teaching Academic year 2007-2008

Current Projects

·        OCR Project on Policy Management

·        StreamShield

·        Digital Identity Management

Events

·        DIM 2008

·        WWW 2008

·        SPRINGL 2008

·        NSF Workshop on Data Confidentiality

Some recent papers authored by our research group:

·        M.L.Damiani, E. Bertino, B. Catania, P. Perlasca. GEO-RBAC: A Spatially Aware RBAC. ACM TISSEC, February 2007.

·        R. Bhatti, E. Bertino, A. Ghafoor. An Integrated Approach to Federated Identity and Privilege Management in Open Systems. Communications of ACM, February 2007.

·        G. Mella, E. Ferrari, E. Bertino, Y. Koglin. Controlled and Cooperative Updates of XML Documents in Byzantine and Failure Prone Distributed Systems. ACM TISSEC, November 2006.

·        M. Mecella, M. Ouzzani, F. Paci, E. Bertino. Access Control Enforcement for Conversation-based Web Services. Proceedings of 2006 WWW Conference (acceptance rate 11%).

·        E. Bertino, J. Crampton, F. Paci. Access Control and Authorization Constraints for WS-BPEL. Proceedings of 2006 IEEE ICWS - International Conference on Web Services (acceptance rate 18%).