[TYPES/announce] SecCo'07: final call for papers

[Daniele Gorla]

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                          5th International Workshop on
                        Security  Issues  in  Concurrency
                                     (SecCo'07)
                    September 3rd, 2007, Lisboa (Portugal)
                          Affiliated to CONCUR 2007

                 http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~gorla/SecCo07/


SCOPE AND TOPICS:
Emerging trends in concurrency theory require the definition of
models and languages adequate for the design and management of
new classes of applications, mainly to program either WANs (like
Internet) or smaller networks of mobile and portable devices
(which support applications based on a dynamically reconfigurable
communication structure). Due to the openness of these systems,
new critical aspects come into play, such as the need to deal
with malicious components or with a hostile environment. Current
research on network security issues (e.g. secrecy, authentication,
etc.) usually focuses on opening cryptographic point-to-point
tunnels. Therefore, the proposed solutions in this area are not
always exploitable to support the end-to-end secure interaction
between entities whose availability or location is not known
beforehand.

The aim of the workshop is to cover the gap between the security
and the concurrency communities. More precisely, the workshop
promotes the exchange of ideas, trying to focus on common interests
and stimulating discussions on central research questions. In
particular, we look for papers dealing with security issues (such
as authentication, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, access
control, denial of service, service availability, safety aspects,
fault tolerance, trust, language-based security) in emerging
fields like web services, mobile ad-hoc networks, agent-based
infrastructures, peer-to-peer systems, context-aware computing,
global/ubiquitous/pervasive computing.

SecCo'07 follows the success of SecCo'03 (affiliated to
ICALP'03), SecCo'04 (affiliated to CONCUR'04) and SecCo'05
(affiliated to CONCUR'05).


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ENTCS series
(*Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science*); we thus encourage
submissions already in that format. Submissions may be of two kinds:
   - Short papers (not included in the proceedings):
     up to 5 ENTCS pages;
   - Full papers: up to 15 ENTCS pages (including bibliography).
Papers must be sumbitted electronically at the following URL:
           http://www.easychair.org/SecCo07/
Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is only
allowed for short papers. These are an opportunity to present
innovative ideas (without working out a full paper) and to get
feedback from a technically competent audience.

As done for the previous SecCo workshops, if the quality of the
accepted submissions warrants it, there will be a special issue
of the *Journal of Computer Security* devoted to selected papers
from the workshop.


INVITED SPEAKER (joint with EXPRESS'07):
Cédric Fournet (Microsoft Research - Cambridge, UK)


PANEL DISCUSSION: "Information hiding: state-of-the-art and emerging trends"
The last afternoon session will host a panel that will be a venue where
researchers from different areas of computer security will present
common/orthogonal problems, techniques and goals related to information
hiding. We shall cover aspects like data secrecy, anonimity, database
security, ... approached from different points of view (language-based
security, quantitative aspects, access control, ...). in the security of
concurrent systems. The panelists are:
    Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Univ. Milano, IT),
    Steve Kremer (INRIA and ENS Cachan, F)
    Pasquale Malacaria (Queen Mary, UK)
    Peter Ryan (Newcastle Univ., UK)
    David Sands (Chalmers Univ., SE)
They will present their point of view on the topic and take questions
from the audience. Active participation in the discussion by the
audience will be encouraged.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: June 4th, 2007
Notification: July 13th, 2007
Pre-Final version: July 23rd, 2007
Meeting date: September 3rd, 2007
Final version: September 28th, 2007


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Daniele Gorla (Dip. di Informatica - Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", IT)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and Ecole polytechnique, F)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Michael Backes (Saarland Univ., G)
Tom Chothia (CWI, NL)
Véronique Cortier (CNRS Loria, F)
Yuxin Deng (Univ. of New South Wales, AUS)
Heiko Mantel (RWTH, G)
Mogens Nielsen (BRICS, DK)
Flemming Nielson (DTU, DK)
Mark Ryan (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
Luca Viganò (Univ. Verona, IT)
Jan Vitek (Purdue Univ., USA)