David F. Ferraiolo

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

David F. Ferraiolo is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, David F. Ferraiolo has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in David F. Ferraiolo's work include Access Control and Trust (20 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (11 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (11 papers). David F. Ferraiolo is often cited by papers focused on Access Control and Trust (20 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (11 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (11 papers). David F. Ferraiolo collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. David F. Ferraiolo's co-authors include D. Richard Kuhn, Serban I. Gavrila, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ravi Sandhu, David R. Kuhn, Vincent C. Hu, John Barkley, Jeffrey Voas, Gail‐Joon Ahn and Karen Scarfone and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, IEEE Network and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

In The Last Decade

David F. Ferraiolo

23 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Proposed NIST standard for role-based access control 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2015 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Proposed NIST standard for role-based access control
    2001 1.5k citations David F. Ferraiolo, Ravi Sandhu et al. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security profile →
  2. Attribute-Based Access Control
    2015 334 citations Vincent C. Hu, D. Richard Kuhn et al. Computer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David F. Ferraiolo United States 10 2.2k 2.0k 1.4k 743 236 24 2.9k
Charles E. Youman United States 5 2.9k 1.3× 2.6k 1.3× 1.6k 1.2× 997 1.3× 274 1.2× 6 3.6k
Ramaswamy Chandramouli United States 11 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 853 0.6× 458 0.6× 178 0.8× 40 1.8k
Serban I. Gavrila United States 9 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 826 0.6× 442 0.6× 163 0.7× 24 1.9k
William H. Winsborough United States 20 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 886 0.7× 543 0.7× 62 0.3× 70 2.2k
Piero A. Bonatti Italy 22 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 725 0.5× 553 0.7× 114 0.5× 86 2.1k
Jonathan Moffett United Kingdom 20 748 0.3× 802 0.4× 868 0.6× 383 0.5× 185 0.8× 44 1.5k
Kent Seamons United States 22 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 822 1.1× 57 0.2× 91 2.3k
Ting Yu United States 17 906 0.4× 966 0.5× 586 0.4× 338 0.5× 55 0.2× 64 1.4k
Sylvia L. Osborn Canada 18 858 0.4× 949 0.5× 437 0.3× 435 0.6× 62 0.3× 45 1.3k
Hassan Takabi United States 20 348 0.2× 944 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 637 0.9× 56 0.2× 50 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David F. Ferraiolo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David F. Ferraiolo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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DeFranco, Joanna F., et al.. (2021). A Trusted Federated System to Share Granular Data Among Disparate Database Resources. Computer. 54(3). 55–62. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Vincent C., D. Richard Kuhn, & David F. Ferraiolo. (2018). Access Control for Emerging Distributed Systems. Computer. 51(10). 100–103. 13 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., et al.. (2016). Exploring the Next Generation of Access Control Methodologies | NIST. 3 indexed citations
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Kuhn, D. Richard, Vincent C. Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, Raghu N. Kacker, & Yu Lei. (2016). Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing of Attribute Based Access Control Rules. 51–58. 9 indexed citations
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Hu, Vincent C., D. Richard Kuhn, David F. Ferraiolo, & Jeffrey Voas. (2015). Attribute-Based Access Control. Computer. 48(2). 85–88. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hu, Vincent C., David F. Ferraiolo, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, & Yu Lei. (2015). Implementing and Managing Policy Rules in Attribute Based Access Control. 518–525. 7 indexed citations
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Hu, Vincent C., David F. Ferraiolo, & Karen Scarfone. (2007). Access Control Policy Combinations for the Grid Using the Policy Machine. 9 indexed citations
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Hu, Vincent C., D. Richard Kuhn, & David F. Ferraiolo. (2006). The computational complexity of enforceability validation for generic access control rules. 1. 260–267. 10 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., Serban I. Gavrila, Vincent C. Hu, & D. Richard Kuhn. (2005). Composing and combining policies under the policy machine. 11–20. 16 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Gail‐Joon Ahn, & Serban I. Gavrila. (2003). The role control center. 12–20. 21 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Gail‐Joon Ahn, & Serban I. Gavrila. (2003). The role control center. 1 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., Ravi Sandhu, Serban I. Gavrila, D. Richard Kuhn, & Ramaswamy Chandramouli. (2001). Proposed NIST standard for role-based access control. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. 4(3). 224–274. 1454 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ferraiolo, David F.. (2001). An argument for the role-based access control model. 142–143. 8 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F. & Serban I. Gavrila. (2000). A Method for Visualizing and Managing Role-Based Policies on Identity-Based Systems | NIST. 1 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., John Barkley, & D. Richard Kuhn. (1999). A role-based access control model and reference implementation within a corporate intranet. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. 2(1). 34–64. 254 indexed citations
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Barkley, John, et al.. (1997). Role Based Access Control for the World Wide Web | NIST. 5 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F., et al.. (1995). Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Features and Motivations | NIST. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. 241–248. 352 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F. & D. Richard Kuhn. (1992). Role-Based Access Controls. 554–563. 358 indexed citations
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Ferraiolo, David F. & David R. Kuhn. (1992). Role-Based Access Controls | NIST. 1 indexed citations

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