[TYPES/announce] CFP: International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS'14)

[Pieter Philippaerts]

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International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS)
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      http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2014/
      February 26 - 28, 2014, Munich, Germany
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In cooperation with (pending): ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT and IEEE CS (TCSP)


CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

Trustworthy, secure software is a core ingredient of the modern world.
So is the Internet. Hostile, networked environments, like the Internet, can
allow vulnerabilities in software to be exploited from anywhere. To address
this, high-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic
components) are necessary, but insufficient. Indeed, the construction of
secure software is challenging because of the complexity of modern
applications, the growing sophistication of security requirements, the
multitude of available software technologies and the progress of attack
vectors. Clearly, a strong need exists for engineering techniques that scale
well and that demonstrably improve the software's security properties.


GOAL AND SETUP

The goal of this symposium, which will be the sixth in the series, is to
bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the states of the
art and practice in secure software engineering. Being one of the few
conference-level events dedicated to this topic, it explicitly aims to
bridge the software engineering and security engineering communities, and
promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of
technical program with keynote presentations by Ross Anderson and Adrian
Perrig. In addition to academic papers, the symposium encourages submission
of high-quality, informative industrial experience papers about successes
and failures in security software engineering and the lessons learned.
Furthermore, the symposium also accepts short idea papers that crisply
describe a promising direction, approach, or insight.


TOPICS

The Symposium seeks submissions on subjects related to its goals. This
includes a diversity of topics including (but not limited to):

 - scalable techniques for threat modeling and analysis of
   vulnerabilities
 - specification and management of security requirements and policies
 - security architecture and design for software and systems
 - model checking for security
 - specification formalisms for security artifacts
 - verification techniques for security properties
 - systematic support for security best practices
 - security testing
 - security assurance cases
 - programming paradigms, models and DSL's for security
 - program rewriting techniques
 - processes for the development of secure software and systems
 - security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution
 - security measurement
 - automated development
 - trade-off between security and other non-functional requirements
   (in particular economic considerations)
 - support for assurance, certification and accreditation
 - empirical secure software engineering
 - security by design

IMPORTANT DATES

 Abstract submission: September 6, 2013
 Paper submission: September 13, 2013
 Author notification: November 18, 2013
 Camera-ready: December 8, 2013 


SUBMISSION AND FORMAT

The proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Submissions should follow the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS.
Submitted papers must present original, non-published work of high quality.

For selected papers, there will be an invitation to submit extended versions
to a special issue in the International Journal of Information Security.

Two types of papers will be accepted:

Full papers (max 14 pages without bibliography/appendices) - May describe
original technical research with a solid foundation, such as formal analysis
or experimental results, with acceptance determined mostly based on novelty
and validation. Or, may describe case studies applying existing techniques
or analysis methods in industrial settings, with acceptance determined
mostly by the general applicability of techniques and the completeness of
the technical presentation details.

Idea papers (max 8 pages with bibliography) - May crisply describe a novel
idea that is both feasible and interesting, where the idea may range from a
variant of an existing technique all the way to a vision for the future of
security technology. Idea papers allow authors to introduce ideas to the
field and get feedback, while allowing for later publication of complete,
fully-developed results. Submissions will be judged primarily on novelty,
excitement, and exposition, but feasibility is required, and acceptance will
be unlikely without some basic, principled validation (e.g., extrapolation
from limited experiments or simple formal analysis). In the proceedings,
idea papers will clearly identified by means of the "Idea" tag in the title.

Two affiliated workshops also solicit contributions. Further guidelines will
appear on the website of the symposium.


STEERING COMMITTEE

Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG)
Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - chair Fabio Massacci
(Università di Trento) Gary McGraw (Cigital) Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open
University) Daniel Wallach (Rice University University)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General chair: Alexander Pretschner (Technische Universität München, DE)
Program co-chairs: Jan Jürjens (TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, DE), Frank
Piessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) eHealth workshop chair: Wouter
Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Smart Grid workshop chair: Jorge
Cuellar (Siemens AG) Publication chair: Nataliia Bielova (INRIA Rennes, FR)
Publicity chair: Pieter Philippaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)
Local arrangements chair: Regina Jourdan (Technische Universität München,
DE) Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal
Holloway University of London, UK Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University,
US Werner Dietl, University of Washington, US François Dupressoir, IMDEA,
Spain Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, US Eduardo
Fernandez-Medina Paton, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Cormac
Flanagan, U. C. Santa Cruz, US Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Arjun Guha, Cornell University, US
Christian Hammer, Saarland University, Germany         
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Maritta
Heisel, U. Duisburg Essen, Germany Peter Herrmann, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Martin Johns, SAP Research, Germany Jay Ligatti, University of South
Florida, US Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Haris Mouratidis, University
of East London, UK Martín Ochoa, Siemens AG, Germany Jae Park, University of
Texas at San Antonio, US Erik Poll, RU Nijmegen, The Netherlands Wolfgang
Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ketil Stølen, SINTEF, Norway
Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania, US      
Mohammad Zulkernine, Queens University, Canada



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