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An active entity (a physical person, an organization or moral person, a process or device) whose identity attributes are digitally recorded and used for transactions or other purposes. A subject may cause information to flow among objects or change system state.

Subject: An active entity, generally in the form of a person, process, or device that causes information to flow among objects (see below) or changes the system state [NCSC88].

(Hu et al., 2006, p. 3)

Subjects are the parties, typically individuals, whose identity attributes are digitally recorded and used for transactions and other purposes.

(Bertino and Takahashi, 2010, p. 25)

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