Exploring Generic Identity Management Processes - An approach to model the generic Identity and Access Management Process "approve-request" is a position paper on behalf of the NIFIS competence centre Identity Management (GenericIAM).

In this first article we present a top-down modelling approach for the development of generic identity and access management (GenericIAM) processes based on a variant of a state transition model (coloured Petri nets). Byconsidering the interactions and state transitions of the fundamental objects involved in the IdentityManagement and the generic subjects acting on them we were able to generate an adequate abstract modelof the first GenericIAM core process “approve request”, which is presented here for further discussion. Ourapproach complements the bottom-up modelling approach of factoring out generic patterns out from anempirical base of flow oriented diagrams for IAM processes. [read more...]