AI-Enabled Policy-Driven Web Governance: A Full-Stack Java Framework for Privacy-Preserving Digital Ecosystems
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9262.IJAIDSML-V3I1P112Keywords:
AI-Enabled Web Governance, Policy-Driven Architecture, Privacy-Preserving Digital Ecosystems, Adaptive Governance Intelligence, Data Integrity Management, Governance Automation Models, Enterprise-Scale Security Engineering, AI-Enabled Compliance AutomationAbstract
The digital ecosystems have experienced a paradigm shift as there is a growing level of integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), distributed computing apparatus, and robotic policy enforcement strategies. Governance structures are faced with the difficult task of negotiating the vagaries of privacy laws and decentralized data processing and the use of algorithmic decision-making with the migration of data-intensive applications to web-based environments. The increasing regulatory environment, such as GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific data protection requirements, have significant forces on the requirement to have strong policy-driven governance infrastructures that entrench privacy and security at every layer of the web application stack. Although cloud platforms and microservice architectures have been developed, modern governance solutions have weaknesses in terms of scalability, being context-aware and dynamically adapting to changes in policy constraints. The research paper presents the AI-Enabled Policy-Driven Web Governance Framework that has been developed on the Full-Stack Java ecosystem which involves spring boot, Jakarta EE, containerized deployment platforms and intelligent agents which are rule-based. The framework incorporates machine learning-related policy interpretation, semantic arguments engines, as well as automated monitoring applications that regulate user interactions, data activities, service coordination, and cross-layer correspondence. AI agents will adapt legal and organizational privacy requirements into dynamic policies that are explicitly and dynamically implemented in real-time at the front-end, API, middleware, and database tiers. These challenges in digital governance that are solved are minimization of data, contextual privacy, verification of compliance, detection of anomalies, and fine-grained access control.
The given architecture proposes a Multi-Layer Governance Orchestration Model (MGOM) that divides the governance issues into policy ingestion, AI interpretation, runtime enforcement, auditability, and compliance reporting. The framework also includes three levels of privacy shield with a static code analysis, user behavior analytics (UBA), and encrypted data pipelines. Through an extensive assessment analysis, it is evident that the framework has the ability to be highly precise in automated policy enforcement, decreases the latency of governance and enhances consistency of compliance over the traditional rule-based systems. The findings of the experiments point out that AI-enabled governance engine helps to improve the accuracy of policy compliance by 27.8 percent, minimize privacy invasions by 42.1 percent, and decrease administrative workload by 34.6 percent. A combination of a supervised learning, the natural language processing (NLP) and the symbolic rule mining allow the system to be autonomously adapted to new regulatory conditions without being reconfigured by human operators. Security benchmarks also indicate resiliency to partial attack vectors, such as inference attacks, unauthorized data elevation, and access patterns analysis. The paper will add value to the digital governance field by offering a holistic, scalable, and future-proof implementation that can assist with current web environments of many services including medicine, finance, online commerce, and smarter cities. The framework ensures the creation of a novel model of transparent, compliant, and privacy-conscious digital ecosystems by entrenching AI at the core of policy interpretation and enforcement. The publication contributes to the discussion of intelligent governance systems and offers a reference design to the developers, policymakers, and researchers, who seek to develop trustful and ethically aligned digital spaces
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