ownersrecurs

Ownersrecurs is a term used in information management to describe a recursive ownership relation among entities within a system that tracks control, responsibility, or access. It combines the notion of ownership with recursion to model how authority can be delegated through multiple layers.

In practice, an ownersrecurs structure encodes a directed graph where each node represents an owner or control point and edges indicate ownership or delegation. Recursion allows representing nested ownership such as a department owning teams and teams owning individuals, as well as cross-hierarchical links through recursive references. The model supports inheritance of permissions, data rights, or obligations along the ownership path, with explicit mechanisms for overrides and exceptions.

Applications include access control, license management, data governance, and provenance tracking in supply chains or digital asset management. In access control, ownersrecurs supports transitive permission granting, while permitting explicit denial or restriction at certain levels.

Implementation considerations include cycle detection to avoid infinite recursion, handling of cycles through pruning or explicit exceptions, and performance concerns for large graphs. Some systems use transitive closure to answer ownership queries, while others compute on demand to reduce storage requirements.

See also ownership graph, recursive data structure, transitive closure, provenance.