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In this paper, we discuss the issue of collaborative data sharing among a number of parties to provide rich online services to their clients. We assume that each party hosts its data in a private cloud infrastructure but they collectively agree to certain well-defined set of accesses and access restrictions to one another's databases. We show how these can be used to derive access rules that become...