@InProceedings{ frank.ea:probabilistic:2009, abstract = {Role mining algorithms address an important access controlproblem: configuring a role-based access control system.Given a direct assignment of users to permissions, rolemining discovers a set of roles together with an assignmentof users to roles. The results should closely agree with thedirect assignment. Moreover, the roles should be understandablefrom the business perspective in that they reflectfunctional roles within the enterprise. This requires hybridrole mining methods that work with both direct assignmentsand business information from the enterprise.In this paper, we provide statistical measures to analyzethe relevance of different kinds of business information fordefining roles. We then present an approach that incorporatesrelevant business information into a probabilisticmodel with an associated algorithm for hybrid role mining.Experiments on actual enterprise data show that our algorithmyields roles that both explain the given user-permissionassignments and are meaningful from the business perspective.}, author = {Mario Frank and Andreas P. Streich and David Basin and Joachim M. Buhmann}, booktitle = {16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009)}, copyright = {ACM}, language = {USenglish}, month = 11, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A Probabilistic Approach to Hybrid Role Mining}, url = {http://www.mariofrank.net/paper/ccs09_frank_Hybrid Role Mining.pdf}, year = 2009, user = {mafrank} }