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A LICS'06 (and FLoC'06) Affiliated Workshop on

FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY and AUTOMATED REASONING FOR SECURITY PROTOCOL ANALYSIS

Seattle, Washington, August 15-16, 2006

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/%7Evigano/fcs-arspa06

*********************** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ***********************

Submission deadline: May 10, 2006

BACKGROUND, AIM AND SCOPE =========================

Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and design of security protocols and their applications, the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis.

The workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is the fusion of two workshops. The workshop FCS continues a tradition, initiated with the Workshops on Formal Methods and Security Protocols (FMSP) in 1998 and 1999, then with the Workshop on Formal Methods and Computer Security (FMCS) in 2000, and finally with the LICS satellite Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS) in 2002 through 2005, of bringing together formal methods and the security community.

The ARSPA workshop is the third in a series of workshops on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both the security and the formal methods communities, from academia and industry, who are working on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. The first two ARSPA workshops were held as satellite events of IJCAR'04 and of ICALP'05, respectively.

The aim of the joint workshop FCS-ARSPA'06 is to provide a forum for continued activity in these areas, to bring computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community, and to give LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress.

We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Automated reasoning techniques Access control and resource usage control Composition issues Authentication Formal specification Availability and denial of service Foundations of verification Covert channels Information flow analysis Confidentiality Language-based security Integrity and privacy Logic-based design for Intrusion detection Program transformation Malicious code Security models Mobile code Static analysis Mutual distrust Statistical methods Privacy Tools Security policies Trust management Security protocols

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

SUBMISSION ==========

Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references, in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Simultaneous submissions to a journal or another conference are accepted.

Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files).

The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the electronic submission web-site (which will soon be available).

IMPORTANT DATES ===============

Papers due: May 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006 Final paper versions due: July 14, 2006 Workshop: August 15-16, 2006

PUBLICATION =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. The authors of the best papers might be invited to submit an extended revision for inclusion in a special issue of a journal, with an additional reviewing process.

INVITED TALKS ============= To be announced

PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================

* Alessandro Armando (Universita` di Genova, Italy) * Jorge R. Cuellar (SIEMENS AG, Munich, Germany) * Anupam Datta (Stanford University, USA) * Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy; co-chair) * Pablo Giambiagi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) * Virgil Gligor (University of Maryland, USA) * Roberto Gorrieri (Universita` di Bologna, Italy) * Carl A. Gunter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * Joshua Guttman (Mitre, USA) * Ralf Kuesters (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany; co-chair) * Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA) * Sjouke Mauw (University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) * Peter Ryan (University of Newcastle, UK) * Luca Vigano` (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair) * Laurent Vigneron (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France) * Bogdan Warinschi (INRIA-LORRAINE, Nancy, France) * Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA; co-chair)

FCS Steering Committee: * Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) * Joshua Guttman (MITRE, USA) * John Mitchell (Stanford University, USA) * Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers, Sweden; chair) * Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ======================

Information about registration, travel, and venue can be found at the LICS'06 and FLoC'06 web-sites.

For further information send an email to the workshop co-chairs at

fcs-arspa06 -at- lists.inf.ethz.ch