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Call for Paper for the 1st International Workshop on
QUALITY of PROTECTION - QoP 2005
Security Measurements and Metrics
http://dit.unitn.it/~qop/
Milano, Italy, Thu. 15 September 2005.
Affiliated with 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer
Security (ESORICS 2005) in Milano (12-14 Sep).
http://esorics05.dti.unimi.it
and the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS
2005) in Como (19-22 Sep)
http://www.swmetrics.org/metrics2005
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WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Information Security in Industry has matured in the last few decades.
Standards such as ISO17799, the Common Criteria, a number of
industrial certification and risk analysis methodologies have raised
the bar on what is considered a good security solution from a business
perspective.
Yet, if we compare Information Security with Networking or Empirical
Software Engineering we find a major difference. Networking research
has introduced concepts such as Quality of Service and Service Level
Agreements. Conferences and Journals are frequently devoted to
performance evaluation, QoS and SLAs. Empirical Software Engineering
has made similar advances. Notions such as software metrics and
measurements are well established. Processes to measure the quality and
reliability of software exist and are appreciated in industry.
Security looks different. Even a fairly sophisticated standard such as
ISO17799 has an intrinsically qualitative nature. Notions such as
Security Metrics, Quality of Protection (QoP) or Protection Level
Agreement (PLA) have surfaced in the literature but still have a
qualitative flavour. The "QoP field" in WS-Security is just a data
field to specify a cryptographic algorithm. Indeed, neither ISO17799
nor ISO15408 (the Common Criteria) addresses QoP sufficiently.
ISO17799 is a management standard, not directly concerned with the
actual quality of protection achieved; ISO15408 is instead a product
assessment standard and yet does not answer the question of how a user
of a product assessed by it can achieve a high QoP within his/her
operational environment. Both standards cover just one aspect of an
effective QoP and even the combination of both would not address the
aspect sufficiently. "Best practice" standards, such as the baseline
protection standard published by many government agencies, also belong
to the category of standards that are useful, but not sufficient, for
achieving a good QoP.
Security is different also in another respect. A very large proportion
of recorded security incidents has a non-IT cause. Hence, while the
networking and software communities may concentrate on technical
features (networks and software), security requires a much wider notion
of "system", including users, work processes, organisational structures
in addition to the IT infrastructure.
The QoP Workshop intends to discuss how security research can progress
towards a notion of Quality of Protection in Security comparable to the
notion of Quality of Service in Networking, Software Reliability, or
Software Measurements and Metrics in Empirical Software Engineering.
SUBMISSION TOPICS:
Original submissions are solicited from industry and academic experts
to presents their work, plans and views related to Quality of
Protection. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Industrial Experience
* Security Risk Analysis
* Security Quality Assurance
* Measurement-based decision making and risk management
* Empirical assessment of security architectures and solutions
* Mining data from attacks and vulnerabilities repositories
* Security metrics
* Measurement theory and formal theories of security metrics
* Security measurement and monitoring,
* Experimental verification and validation of models,
* Simulation and statistical analysis, stochastic modeling
* Reliability analysis
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Stefano De Panfilis - Engineering SpA (IT)
- TBA
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Fri 10 June (deadline is extended till Thu 23 June) - Paper submissions
- Fri 8 July - Notification of acceptance
- Mon 12 Sep - Wed 14 Sep ESORICS
- Thu 15 Sep - QoP Workshop
- Mon 19 Sep - Thu 22 Sep IEEE METRICS in Como
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Original RESEARCH PAPERS are solicited in any of the above mentioned
topics. Research papers should be limited to 12 pages in the standard
Springer Verlag format, describing significant research results based
on sound theory or experimental assessment.
We also solicit INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE REPORTS, limited to 6 pages, about
the use of security measurements and metrics in industrial
environments. Industry papers should have at least one author from
industry or government, and will be considered for their industrial
relevance.
PUBLICATION:
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to give full presentations
at the workshop. Revised versions of the papers presented at the
workshop will be published by Kluwer/Springer in the Applied Security
Series.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Matt Bishop - U. California Davis (USA)
Imrich Chlamtac - CreateNet (IT)
Yves Deswarte - LAAS-CNRS (FR)
Paolo Donzelli - University of Maryland (USA)
Gerhard Eschelbeck - QUALYS (USA)
Dieter Gollmann - TU Hamburg-Harburg (DE) --- Co-chair
Erland Jonsson - Chalmers University of Technology (SW)
Svein Johan Knapskog - The Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NOR)
Helmut Kurth - ATSEC (DE)
Bev Littlewood - City University, London (UK)
Fabio Massacci - Univ. di Trento (IT) --- Co-Chair
Flemming Nielson - Technical University of Denmark (DE)
Mario Piattini - Polytechnical University of Madrid (SP)
Ketil Stшlen - SINTEF (NO) & Univ. of Oslo (NO)
Lorenzo Strigini - City University, London (UK)
Edgar Weippl - Vienna University of Technology (AU)
Jeannette Wing - Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Marvin Zelkowitz - University of Maryland (USA)
Call for Papers
The 4th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
ICOCN2005
http://www.ICOCN2005.org
December 14 - 16, 2005
Conference Location Inter-Continental Hotel
Bangkok, Thailand
Paper Submission Deadline: September 10, 2005
Dear all,
please find enclosed the minutes of TC6 meeting 2005-1.
There is a reference in the minutes on the new TC6 publication policy
which is also attached (and which is to be considered as part of the
minutes).
I would like to thank Jan Slavik for the great job when preparing the
meeting minutes.
Best regards
Otto
Call For Participation
1. World Congress in Applied Computing
(12 joint conferences)
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 20-23, 2005
&
2. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Computer Engineering
(16 joint conferences)
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 27-30, 2005
You are invited to participate in one or both of the above events.
Please see below for registration information and conference schedules
for both events.
1. World Congress in Applied Computing:
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The congress will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
June 20-23, 2005. The event is composed of 12 joint conferences made up
of over 100 technical and focused tracks, with tutorials, workshops,
and invited and keynote presentations. The 12 joint conferences are:
O. Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'05);
O. Conference on e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
e-Government, and Outsourcing (EEE'05);
O. Conference on Computers for People with Special Needs (CPSN'05);
O. Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'05);
O. Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI'05);
O. Conference on Computer Vision (VISION'05);
O. Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'05);
O. Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'05) +
Data Fusion (FUS'05);
O. Conference on Security and Management (SAM'05) +
Biometric Authentication (BIOAU'05)
O. Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in
Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'05);
O. Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS'05);
O. Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and
Computer Engineering (FECS'05).
For general information refer to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/Home/ws
Conferences programs/schedules can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/WCAC2005/ws/Program
Registration information can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/WCAC2005/ws/Registration
(One registration permits access to all sessions of all
12 joint conferences.)
Hotel rooms:
Attendees are responsible in finding their own hotel rooms.
To reserve a hotel room at Monte Carlo Resort (the site of the
conferences), you would need to call the hotel: 1-800-311-8999
(from USA) or 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777 (from outside USA).
2. Joint Conferences in Computer Science & Computer Engineering:
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This set of joint conferences will be held at Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 27-30, 2005. The event is composed of
16 joint conferences made up of over 200 technical and focused tracks,
with tutorials, workshops, and invited and keynote presentations.
The 16 joint conferences are:
O. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques
and Applications (PDPTA'05);
O. Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI);
O. Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'05);
O. Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05);
O. Conference on Computer Design (CDES'05);
O. Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'05);
O. Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
Methods (MSV'05);
O. Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'05);
O. Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'05);
O. Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'05);
O. Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC'05);
O. Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and
Applications (MLMTA'05);
O. Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'05);
O. Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and
Algorithms (ERSA'05);
O. Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC'05);
O. Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'05).
For general information refer to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/Home/ws
Conferences programs/schedules can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/IMCSE2005/ws/Program
Registration information can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/IMCSE2005/ws/Registration
(One registration permits access to all sessions of all
16 joint conferences.)
Hotel rooms:
Attendees are responsible in finding their own hotel rooms.
To reserve a hotel room at Monte Carlo Resort (the site of the
conferences), you would need to call the hotel: 1-800-311-8999
(from USA) or 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777 (from outside USA).
Looking forward to seeing you at the conferences.
Kind regards,
Hamid
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Hamid R. Arabnia, PhD.
General Chair, IMCS'05 and WCAC'05
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer/Kluwer)
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
email: hra(a)cs.uga.edu
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Please note: extended submission deadline: June 24, 2005
(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this document)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The First International Conference on
Communication Systems Software and Middleware
http://www.comsware.org
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January 8 - 12, 2006
Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India
Technical Co-Sponsor : IEEE Communications Society
In Co-operation with : ACM SIGMOBILE
Sponsored by: CreateNet (Italy), ICST (USA)
Co-Sponsors: IBM, Microsoft Research, NOKIA,
Lucent Technologies, Sasken
University Co-Sponsor: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Paper Submission: June 24, 2005 (extended)
(Instructions at http://www.comsware.org)
(Proceedings to be published by IEEE and to appear in IEEE
Explore)
The convergence of the communications, information technologies and the
Internet has ushered in a revolution in the way people communicate with
each other. The key enabler for this convergence has been the
advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, as
evident by the high levels of activity in the industry, academia, and
standards bodies, coupled with the increasing dependence of this
convergence to sustain and improve growth rates in many countries around
the world.
This new international conference will provide a forum to exchange
ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices and
challenging issues, raise awareness and share experiences among
researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the
field of software techniques in communications. The conference will
bring leading researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from
communications software and software engineering aspects of
communications software, to middleware and networking protocols. The
objective of the conference is to provide a high degree of
collaboration, participation and discussions of the various topics among
multi-national participants from the industrial, governmental and
academic sectors.
COMSWARE will include a regular paper track and an industry track. The
paper track will include a highly selective technical program. The
conference solicits original, previously unpublished research work,
experimental efforts, and practical experiences for the technical
program. COMSWARE will also feature panel discussions from experts
in academia and industry, workshops and tutorials featuring the
state-of-the-art in various communications software and related areas.
There will be demos and exhibits that will expose the delegates to
exciting products and software solutions from industry and academia.
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society. The top
papers accepted to the conference will be published in a reputed journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Communications Software
· Reconfigurable Software Stacks
· Software Engineering Aspects of Communications Software
· Context-Based and Implicit Computing
· Telecommunications Services and QoS
· Software for Billing and Pricing
· User Interfaces and Interaction Models
· Multi-Agent Systems
· Client-Server Applications
· Mobile and Intermittently Connected Applications
· Mobile Data Management
· Middleware Services and Agent Technologies
· Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
· Middleware for P2P Systems
· Middleware for Future Communication Networks
· Information Infrastructure and Security
· Security and Privacy Issues of Pervasive Computing Systems
· Network Operations and Management
· Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations
· Reliability Support Software
· Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms
· Management Software for Optical Networks
· Network Monitoring Software
· Internet and IP based Services
· Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment
· Service Discovery Mechanisms
· Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery
· Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services
· Performance Evaluation Techniques
· Location Determination
· Positioning and Tracking Technologies
· Smart Devices and Smart Spaces
· Enterprise Networking
· Personal Area Networks
· Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks
· Next Generation Networks and Services
Deadlines
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Paper Submission: June 24, 2005 (Instructions at http://www.comsware.org)
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2005
Camera-ready due: September 26, 2005
Conference Organizing Committee
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General Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA
Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy
(Chair)
Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India (Co-Chair)
Prasant Mohapatra, University of California,
Davis, USA (Co-Chair)
Program Chairs: Sanjoy Paul, Whenu, USA
G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India
Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
Tutorial Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
Workshop Chairs: Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Research, USA
Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester, USA
Demos/Exhibit Chair: Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India
Demos/Exhibit Co-Chair: Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India
Publicity Chair: Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs: Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Marco Conti, IIT, Pisa, Italy
Ben Lancini, LinLan, Brisbane, Australia
Prashant Pradhan, IBM Research, USA
Hemant Chaskar, Airtight Networks, India
Local Arrangement
Co-Chairs: Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi
Laurent Mignet, IBM Research, Delhi
Please excuse if you received that Call for Participation several times.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
DAIS 2005
The 5th IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications
and Interoperable Systems
To be held in conjunction with
FMOODS 2005
Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
Athens, Greece
June 15-17, 2005
http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/
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Dear colleague,
enclosed please find the Call for Participation for the 5th IFIP
Conference DAIS 2005 held in Athens, the capitol of Greece, June 15th -
17th, 2005. DAIS 2005 is organized by the University of Athens.
It is co-located with the IFIP Conference FMOODS 2005 (Formal Methods
for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems).
You can find more information on the conference programme, registration,
and hotels at the DAIS web site
http://www.di.uoa.gr/dais-fmoods-2005/
DAIS 2005 features are:
* 3 Invited talks by Gordon Blair (Univ. of Lancaster), Rocco de Nicola
(Univ. of Florenz), and Andreas Reuter (European Media Laboratory
Heidelberg),
* 2 and a half-day single track of peer-reviewed papers on context and
location awareness, configuration and adaptability, interoperability
issues, grid, performance evaluation, and methodological aspects,
* Proceedings and free access to FMOODS 2005,
* Social event in the Acropolis area.
We are looking forward to meeting you at DAIS 2005,
Nancy Alonistioti and Lea Kutvonen.
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Dear all,
there is a request for the nomination of people who should get
an OSA (outstanding service award); see below.
Proposals for such nominations are welcome.
Best regards
Otto
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Dear TC Chairs,
This award was created in 1987 by the IFIP General Assembly. As you can
see in the rules (Standing Orders 6.2) the prime responsibility for
nominations lies with TC Chairmen.
On behalf of the chairman of the Internal Awards Committee Roger Johnson
I invite you to nominate members of your TC or its Working Groups whose
contribution to IFIP you wish to recognize and who you deem eligible to
receive the OSA.
Please send me details of your nominee(s) prior to our GA meeting in
Gaborone including information about how they satisfy the selection
criteria.
You will see that the annual number of awards is limited to twenty. In
the unlikely event that the total number of submissions exceeds that
number it is the responsibility of the IAC to rank them in priority
sequence using the information you provide and hence select the award
winners.
The list will be reviewed by the Internal Awards Committee Chair with
you immediately before the GA for any final adjustments and then
submitted to the GA for formal approval.
The OSA certificates will be signed by the President and yourself and
subsequently presented to the winners in the way you deem to be most
appropriate.
A list of OSA Award holders is available at
http://www.ifip.or.at/bulletin/b_osa.htm
Best regards
Eduard Dundler
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In response to many requests for an extension, we are pleased to extend
the paper submission deadline for WILF 2005 to ** June 13**.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
WILF 2005
Sixth International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications
Crema (Milan), Italy -- September 15-17, 2005
Conference Website: HYPERLINK
"http://dsa.uniparthenope.it/wilf2005"http://dsa.uniparthenope.it/wilf20
05
WILF 2005 is at its 6th edition. WILF 2005 is an international workshop
on the theoretical, experimental, and applied fuzzy and, more generally,
soft-computing techniques and systems which
brings together researchers and developers from both Academia and
Industry to report on the latest scientific and theoretical advances, to
discuss and debate major issues and to demonstrate
state-of-the-art systems.
The scientific program will include, besides two invited talks,
contributed papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster
sessions. Original and unpublished papers on BV&AI 2005 main research
areas and related topics are welcome.
Topics:
1. General techniques and algorithms:
Fuzzy Sets; Rough Sets; Possibility Theory; Fuzzy Logic; Fuzzy Systems;
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems; Representation of Vague and Imprecise Knowledge;
Fuzzy Evolutionary Algorithms; Fuzzy Pattern Recognition; Fuzzy Data
Fusion.
2. Applications:
Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control; Communications; Information
Retrieval; Intelligent Resource Management; Knowledge Management;
Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Semantic Web;
Speech Analysis; Television; Telepresence; Virtual Reality.
3. Implementations:
Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems; Architectures and VLSI
Hardware; Programmable Processors; Commercial Software.
Two special sessions on "Soft Computing in Image Processing" and
"Bioinformatics" are planned.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 13 June 2005
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2005
Camera ready papers due: 1 September 2005
Workshop: 15-17 September 2005
Submission:
Manuscripts, prepared according to the Springer LNCS format
(instructions downloadable from HYPERLINK
"http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf"http://www.sprin
ger.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf) may not be longer than 6 pages,
including a cover sheet stating (1) Paper title, (2) Keyword(s), (3)
Authors names and affiliations, (4) Contact Authors name and contact
details including telephone/fax numbers and e-mail address, and (5) an
Abstract (200 words). The papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors
will be notified via email of the results of the review by June 20,
2005. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author per
paper to register, attend the workshop, and present the paper. WILF 2005
Proceedings, including all accepted contributions, are planned to be
published by Springer-Verlag in the series LNCS. In addition, two
special issues of international journals are planned, which will include
extended versions of selected WILF 2005 papers.
Chairs:
Isabelle Bloch (ENST-CNRS, France)
Alfredo Petrosino (University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy) ,
Andrea Tettamanzi (University of Crema, Italy)
Scientific Program Committee:
Jim Bezdek (University of West Florida, USA)
Didier Dubois (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France)
Miguel Delgado (Granada University, Spain)
Marco Gori (University of Siena, Italy)
Ugur Halici (METU, Ankara, Turkey)
Jim Keller (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
Etienne Kerre (Ghent University, Belgium)
Rudolf Kruse (Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Jerome Lang (IRIT, CNRS, France)
Henrik Larsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Sankar Pal (Indian Statistica Institute, India)
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada)
Elie Sanchez (Universitée de Marseille, France)
Daniel Sanchez (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Settimo Termini (University of Palermo, Italy)
Enric Trillas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Ronald Yager (Iona College, New York, USA)
H.-J. Zimmermann (RWTH-Aachen, Germany)
Steering Commitee:
Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico of Milan, Italy)
Vito Di Gesù (University of Palermo, Italy)
Antonio Di Nola (University of Salerno, Italy)
Francesco Masulli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Gabriella Pasi (Univerity of Milan, Italy)
Alfredo Petrosino (University of Napoli "Parthenope", Italy)
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