------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2007)
in conjunction with COMPSAC 2007 Beijing, USA , July 24-27, 2007
http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/stpsa.html
MOTIVATION
Information security has become a major concern for both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications. Software systems must be engineered with reliable protection mechanisms with respect to security, privacy, and trust, while still delivering the expected value of the software to their customers. The traditional approaches to secure a system (e.g., IDS, firewalls) are no longer sufficient to address many security, trust, and privacy (STP) issues. These issues should be addressed by building more effective STP-aware software applications. The principal obstacle in developing STP-aware software is that current software specification, design, implementation, and testing practices do not include adequate methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals. As most systems now are Internet-based, the number of attackers is increased dramatically and threat scenarios have changed. Traditional security measures do not fit well for the software of pervasive applications. Since location and contexts are key attributes of pervasive applications, the privacy issues need to be handled in a novel manner than traditional software applications. The devices in pervasive computing leave and join in ad hoc manner in the pervasive network. These create a need for new trust models for pervasive computing applications. In this workshop, we will also welcome papers on the challenges and requirements of security, privacy, and trust for pervasive software applications. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned with respect to the state of art for the security, trust, and privacy aspects of both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications along with some open issues.
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Security, trust, and privacy specific software development practices Security, trust, and privacy requirements elicitation and specification Models and languages for STP-aware software specification and design Architecture for STP-aware software development STP challenges for pervasive software applications Testing security, trust, and privacy properties of both pervasive and non-pervasive software STP management and usability issues in software applications User interfaces for STP-aware pervasive and non pervasive software Software reengineering for security, trust, and privacy for both pervasive and non pervasive applications Tradeoffs among security, privacy, trust, and other criteria STP challenges in e-services, e.g. e-health, e-government, e-banking, e-commerce, e-marketing and other web-based and pervasive applications STP challenges in mobile software applications STP issues in sensor based software applications User interfaces for secure and privacy-aware pervasive computing applications STP-aware service discovery mechanisms for pervasive computing environments Models for ensuring security, trust, and privacy in pervasive software applications STP issues for handheld device software applications Teaching STP-aware software development Experience reports on developing STP-aware software
IMPORTANT DATES
February 23, 2007 deadline for paper submission March 30, 2007 notification of acceptance April 30, 2007 camera-ready due
SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted electronically via the SPTPA 2007 Submission Page (will be available later). The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Program Co-Chairs
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Dept. of Math, Statistics, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA Mohammad Zulkernine School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Program Committee
Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India John Buford, Panasonic, USA Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Philip Fong, University of Regina, Canada Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary, Canada Neelam Gupta, University of Arizona, USA Christian Hauser, University of Stuttgart, Germany Raquel L. Hill, Indiana University, USA Andreas Holzinger, University of Graz, Austria Patrick Hung, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech., Canada Min-Shiang Hwang. National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan Anwar Haque, Bell Canada, Hamilton, Canada Tom Karygiannis, NIST, USA Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Mujtaba Khambatti, Microsoft Corporation, USA Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, SPAIN Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Kiran Mudiam, Motorola Corporation, USA Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Nanjangud Narendra, IBM Corporation , India George Roussos, University of London, UK Sahra Sedigh-Ali, Univ. of Missouri at Rolla, USA Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Miroslav Velev, Consultant, USA Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA George Yee, NRC Canada Wang Yu, Auburn University, USA Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Stephen Weis, MIT, USA Wensheng Zhang. Iowa State University, USA
GENERAL INQUIRIES
For updated information, please contact the Program Co-Chairs: iq@mscs.mu.edu or mzulker@cs.queensu.ca
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