The ENFORCE Project

ENFORCE is developing novel vehicles for the formalization, analysis and enforcement of policies to ensure well-funded trust. ENFORCE addresses security and trust from a broad perspective including laws and regulations for privacy, data protection as well as more general ethical norms. In order to ensure the practicality of the approach, real cases in the area of virtual organizations built on state-of-the-art technology for interoperability and communication will be addressed. ENFORCE will deliver:

• Conceptual framework for trust management
• Policy specification language with formal semantics
• Methodology for the capture and analysis of policies within trust management
• Methodology for legal risk analysis to ensure trust
• Prototype tool supporting the above
• Documentation of empiric experiences and results from using the above in large case studies
• Methodology handbook

The project combines the experience of three principal researchers − a lawyer, a philosopher and a computer scientist − with strong international academic and industrial reputation, with the initiatives and creativity of three doctoral students, and three visiting researchers.

ENFORCE is funded by the Research Council of Norway and runs from January 1, 2005 until December 31, 2007.

ENFORCE is a joint initiative between

• Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
• Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, University of Oslo
• SINTEF ICT in Oslo
• Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

Further information:

• The ENFORCE team
• The ENFORCE advisory board
• The ENFORCE dissemination
• The ENFORCE technical description
• The ENFORCE contact point

Created: January 16, 2005. Last updated: May 31, 2007.