Towards a Modeling and Analysis Framework for Privacy-Aware Systems

Nowadays, almost any software application deals with private information. However, effective tools that support the specification and implementation of privacy-aware systems are still missing. This work makes a step to address this issue. In this paper we present MAPaS, a model based framework for the modeling and analysis of privacy-aware systems. MAPaS provides a modeling language for the privacy domain and a rich set of functionalities that allow users to easily analyze privacy-preserving characteristics of a system at the early stages of its development. In this paper, besides presenting the main modules of MaPaS, we show how it can effectively help in the development of privacy-aware systems.