Tuesday, December 15, 2009

CFP: Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'10)

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center Chicago, Illinois, USA May 17-21, 2010 In
Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending)

http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010

Brief Description:

Dynamic, on-demand, whole life-cycle, multi-domain, coalition, fusion between
security technologies and models.

Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project. Security services are an important component of the collaboration infrastructure that ensures normal uninterruptible reliable operation of the collaborative systems. The open Internet and networking environment, over which the modern collaborative systems operate, impose a number of common and specific security threats and attacks (spamming, worms, session hijacking, buffer overflow, denial of service, social engineering, etc.). Collaborative organizations require better security properties (strong authentication, efficient encryption, Mandatory Access Control, integrity, non-repudiation and availability). Nowadays, collaborative organizations use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, collaborative organizations and technologies face several challenges in the field of security.

This Workshop on Security and Collaboration, to be held as part of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'10), will focus on security issues related to collaborative systems with emphasis on distributed environments, Grid and cloud based resource virtualisation and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation. The aim is to have a dedicated workshop that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The workshop will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present new ideas and solutions addressing modern security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, enable intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology.

Workshop topics must address security and collaboration:
* Frameworks for Security in Collaborative Systems
* Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications
* Security models for emerging Cloud Computing
* High performance optical networking infrastructure for collaboration
* Access Control in Collaborative Environments
* Role Based Access Control, Reputation, and Trust
* Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems
* Security Context Management in Scientific Workflow Applications
* Security models and infrastructure for Complex Resource Provisioning in Distributed Collaborative Systems, supporting the whole life-cycle of the provisioned resources
* Security model for Coalition Networks combining on-demand provisioned multilayer infrastructure for communications, Information exchange and human interaction
* Security standards and security education
* Relation between Infrastructure security, information security and security management
* Policy driven SLA negotiation
* Privacy Protection for Collaborative Systems
* Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems, including group oriented and Identity Based Cryptography
* Security for Specific Collaboration Domains (e.g., e-Government, e-Business, Public Services, P2P, e-Social Security, Medical Collaboration, etc.)
* Virtual Organisations and dynamic security associations
* Trust and reputation management in dynamic environment
* Web Services Security
* Security in multi agent systems
* Secure collaborative agents
* Using multi agent systems for security
* Middleware Security
* Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration
* Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
* Usability and security
* Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments
* Honeypots for Collaborative Systems
* Intrusion and Attacks Detection for Collaborative Systems
* Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems
* Disclosure and Integrity Issues
* Resistance to Denial of Service
* Detection and Self-Recovery Schemes and Strategies Supporting Cooperation


Submission Instructions:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and any other related topics are solicited. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript not to exceed 8 pages in length in single-space, two columns IEEE format Conference style. If accepted the final camera ready version will be following the CTS 2010 template and requirements to be posted on the CTS web site. Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format uploaded at http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/. For other electronic formats, please check with the organizers.

Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers in the Workshop are required to be presented and will be included in the Symposium proceedings. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the web site later.

Further instructions will be provided at
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/.

Organizers Information:
Dr. Patrice Clemente and Dr. Jean-François Lalande
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO)
ENSI-Bourges
10 Bld Lahitolle
18020 Bourges Cedex France
Emails: patrice.clemente@ensi-bourges.fr , jean-francois.lalande@ensi-bourges.fr

Dr. Yuri Demchenko
System and Network Engineering Group
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 107, 1098XG, Amsterdam
Email: y.demchenko@uva.nl

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members.

Program committee chair: Prof. Christian Toinard
LIFO, ENSI-Bourges, France

Dr. Julien Bourgeois, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Jorge R. Cuellar, Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Germany
Dr. Nora Cuppens, ENST Bretagne, France *
Dr. Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA *
Dr. Eric Dubois, Centre d'Innovation par les Technologies de
l'Information, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg *
Dr. Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
Dr. Jean-Bernard Fischer, Nagra, France
Mr. Vincent Glaume, CEA, France *
Pr. Claude Godart, INRIA Lorraine, France
Pr. Hervé Guyennet, LIFC, France *
Dr. Vincent Louis, France Telecom R&D, France *
Dr. Volkmar Lotz, SAP, France *
Pr. Philippe Mathieu, University of Lille, France *
Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA *
Dr. Franck Panaget, France Telecom R&D, France *
Pr. Pierre Paradinas, CNAM Paris, France
Dr. Emmanuel Prouff, Oberthur Card Systems, France *
Dr. Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA Lorraine, France
Dr. Luca Spalazzi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Pr. Pascal Urien, ENST, France

* Final acceptance pending


Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: ---------- January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: ------------------ February 8, 2010
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due: ---------- March 3, 2010


For information or questions about the workshop and the paper submission procedure, please contact the Workshop organizers.

For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panels, posters, workshops and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs:
Bill McQuay at AFRL/RYT, WPAFB (William.McQuay@wpafb.af.mil), or
Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu).


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Patrice Clemente
Maître de Conférences
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges
Equipe Sécurité et Distribution des Systèmes - LIFO
88 bld Lahitolle, 18020 Bourges cedex
Tel: +33 (0)2 48 48 40 63

Monday, December 7, 2009

CFP: IEEE HST 10


NEWS from IEEE-USA
2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-4910
 

IEEE Homeland Security Conference Seeks Technical Papers, Posters, Tutorials
WASHINGTON (3 December 2009) -- Organizers of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) are seeking technical papers, posters and tutorials in the following areas:
-- Homeland cyber security
-- Land & maritime border security
-- Attack & disaster preparation, recovery & response
-- Counter-WMD techniques & key resources protection physical security
 

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and presented at HST 10 at the Westin Waltham Boston in Waltham, Mass., USA, 8-10 November 2010. At least one author of an accepted paper has to register for the conference and pay the conference fee. 
 

The event, the 10th in an annual series, will bring together leading researchers and innovators working on technologies designed to deter and prevent homeland attacks, protect critical infrastructures and people, mitigate damage and expedite recovery. Input from international partners is encouraged.
 

Papers should focus on technologies capable of deployment within five years, particularly applied research addressing areas in which breakthroughs are needed. Proposals should be no more than 500 words. Tutorial and poster submissions should include a one-page abstract and one-page biography.
 

Here are important 2010 submission dates to keep in mind:
-- Abstract & tutorial proposal deadline - 24 April
-- Tutorial acceptance notification - 10 May
-- Full paper submission deadline - 25 June
-- Paper acceptance notification - 6 August
-- Poster abstract submission deadline - 13 August
-- Poster acceptance notification - 27 August
-- Publication-ready paper deadline - 3 September
-- Tutorial presentation deadline - 3 November
 
All submissions must describe original work not previously published or currently under review for publication in another conference or journal. Instructions can be found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf .
For more information on submitting paper, poster and tutorial proposals, go to http://www.ieee-hst.org/technical_program/cfp/HST_2010_CFP_Nov_24_09.pdf.

For general information on the conference, see http://www.ieee-hst.org/.
The IEEE Boston Section (http://www.ieeeboston.org/) is producing HST 10 with organizational support from IEEE-USA. More than 450 people attended the 2009 conference, including representatives from at least 10 foreign countries. The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate and the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office are providing technical assistance.
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
 Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: 1 202 530 8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org



Friday, December 4, 2009

CFP: Special Issue of Visual Studies on New Visual Technologies

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Visual Studies

TITLE: New Visual Technologies – Shifting Boundaries, Shared Moments

LINK TO FULL CALL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rvstcfp.pdf

GUEST EDITORS: Connor Graham, Eric Laurier, Vincent O'Brien, Mark Rouncefield

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SYNOPSIS
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This special issue of Visual Studies aims to explore the implications of the wide range of
contemporary and emerging visual technologies for social groups, professions and
institutions. Visual technology has been and is being transformed in a number of areas:
carriers (e.g. cellular networks, the Internet), production technologies (e.g. digital
camcorders and cameras, mobile phones), display technologies (e.g. public displays,
mobile phone projectors) and services (e.g. Flickr, MMS, blogs), Of particular interest for
this special issue is the dissolving boundaries of exchange and media mobilities that these
transformations entail. New visual technologies (e.g. the Internet) now support sharing of
visual media across geographical regions, temporal zones and cultural conventions. This
not only has implications for how boundaries between individual (e.g. friends) and groups
(e.g. different households) are defined but also for how these boundaries are managed
through the use of different forms of media. Some examples of this are the visual
narratives portrayed in digital photographs on Flickr and snippets of video on YouTube.
Such visual technologies can be used to maintain family through the remote,
asynchronous sharing of digital photos or to bring home the experience and impact of a
particular event.

This special issue represents an exploration of both new visual technologies material form
and their content-carrying capabilities across different settings as well as how these
technologies interlock and interweave with more traditional visual (e.g. paper photos) and
written technologies (e.g. text on paper) to achieve particular purposes. We wish to
gather articles on new visual technologies which represent forays into visual research,
explorations of the visual aspects of culture, as well as new or adaptations to existing
methods and methodologies for investigating particular social worlds. Submissions can
include uses of digital photography and video and other new visual media in domestic,
community and leisure settings.

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SUBMISSIONS
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Appropriate longer submissions include:

* Extended reports from the field studies using visual and other technologies;
* Critical literature reviews of uses of visual technologies in other studies;
* Discursive pieces exploring themes in visual technology use and/or their potential in
particular settings;
* Developments of existing/proposal of new methods/methodologies.

Shorter submissions can include:
* Reflections on approaches and methods;
* Opinion pieces;
* Early reports on studies of technologies in situ;
* Design proposals addressing particular themes.

Given the topic of the special issue and the nature of the journal, visual materials (e.g.
photographs, screen shots, figures) are encouraged as an integral part of submissions.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submitting authors should conform with the journal's guidelines including copyright
guidelines available from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1472-
586X&linktype=44
. Papers can either be long submissions of between 7,000 and 8,000
words or shorter papers of between to 2,000 and 3,000 words. Papers should be
submitted via email to Connor Graham at cgraham@unimelb.edu.au.

Information on the Visual Studies journal is available from:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1472586X.asp. Please contact Connor Graham
(cgraham@unimelb.edu.au) if you have any questions.

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KEY DATES
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15th February 2010 : Papers due*
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31st July 2010 : Final notification:
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late 2010/early 2011: Target Publication
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*2400 (EST) to cgraham [at] unimelb.edu.au

Thursday, December 3, 2009

CFP: CrownCom 2010

*CROWNCOM 2010*

*5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks and Communications*
16-18 June 2010, Cannes, France

www.crowncom2010.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


*SPONSORS*

Sponsored by ICST <http://www.icst.org/>
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET <http://www.create-net.org/>,
U.R.S.I. and SPS IEEE (pending)

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*SCOPE*

Cognitive radio is an emerging technology in wireless access, aimed at
vastly improving the way radio spectrum is utilized. The motivation for
cognitive radio stems from various measurements of spectrum utilization,
which generally show that spectrum is under-utilized. This means that there
are many "holes" in the radio spectrum that could be exploited by the
secondary users. The secondary user must exploit these spectrum
opportunities without causing harmful degradation to the primary system. The
research challenges in this area include devising methods for efficient
spectrum pooling and sensing, and for interference management and dynamic
resource allocation as well as circuits and architectures meeting the often
challenging requirements.

The aim of this conference is to bring together original, high-quality
contributions that present new techniques, concepts and analyses in the area
of cognitive radio algorithms and system design. Specific topics of the
conference include: spectrum sensing and pooling, network design and
optimization, software-defined and flexible radio architectures, channel
modeling, cooperative communications, as well as beamforming and multicast
methods.

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*TOPICS*

We seek original and unpublished work not currently under review by any
other journal/magazine/conference. Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:

*Track 1: Cognitive access and interference management strategies*

- Advanced access technologies for spectrum sharing
- Location-aided optimization of communication networks
- Cooperative and compressed sensing techniques for spectrum measurements
- Higher-layer resource allocation and scheduling
- Interference management, avoidance and alignment
- Multiple-antenna techniques (beamforming, MIMO, multicast)


*Track 2: Fundamental limits *

- Fundamental limits of cognitive radio
- Cooperative and coordinated multiuser communications
- Network, resource, and interference aware coding and decoding
- Network information theory, channel capacity bounds and network coding
- Wireless networks with private and common information: physical layer
secrecy


*Track 3: Network design and optimization*

- Self-organizing Networks
- WSN aided cognitive radio
- Cognitive radio protocols design
- Cognitive radio pilot channel


*Track 4: Architectures and implementation aspects*

- Software defined radio and flexible radio
- Real-time implementation and testbeds for cognitive radio
- Circuits and Architectures for cognitive radio


*Track 5: Modeling and performance evaluation tools*

- Spectral and Spatial aspects of channel modeling
- Antenna issues in cognitive radio
- Phy/Mac layers abstraction and modeling
- Interference modeling
- System level simulations


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*PUBLICATION*

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(confirmation pending).

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*SUBMISSION*

For submission instructions, please visit the conference
website<http://www.crowncom2010.org/>
..

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission and tutorial proposal deadline: 14 February 2010
Special session proposals deadline: *1 November 2009*
Notification of acceptance: *11 April 2010*
Camera-ready deadline: *2 May 2010*

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*General Co-Chairs*
Erik G. Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Aawatif Hayar, EURECOM, France

*General Vice-Chair*
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain

*Technical Program Chairs*
Peter Olanders, Ericsson, Sweden
Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit
http://www.crowncom2010.org/org_committee.shtml

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

CFP: Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems @ iEMSs 2010

** CALL FOR PAPERS **

Please consider submitting a paper for the International Congress on
Environmental Modelling and Software, July 5 - 8 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Please pass this along to any potentially-interested parties. Please let me know
if you have any questions or concerns.

"Modelling for Environment's Sake"

http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/

Potential topics include:
• agricultural sustainability and food safety
• adapting to a shifting climate
• water resources management
• ecosystem service issues
• sensor networks
• integrated modelling approaches
• modelling and software frameworks
• decision support systems issues
• capacity-building in less-developed countries and regions

In particular:
S22. Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/page04.html

> Organisers: Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Canada (dhh@cs.uregina.ca)
> Steven Frysinger, James Madison University, USA (frysinsp@jmu.edu)
> Markus Wrobel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
> Germany (wrobel@pik-potsdam.de)
>
> Environmental informatics (or enviromatics) is a maturing subject
> with interdisciplinary roots. The application of information and
> communication technology (ICT) to the environment is emerging as one
> of great importance as the health of our planet gains priority on
> research agendas. Ultimately, environmental information must be put
> into people's hands so that they can make decisions. How best to
> involve stakeholders, so that they can access the information they
> need and put it to use in a satisfying manner, remains a topic of
> inquiry. Underlying the larger benefits of enviromatics as a tool
> for policy decisions is the architecture that enables those decision
> making processes. To maximize the value of the infrastructure,
> interaction design must be an integral part of the architectural
> plan. How do we best employ metaphor in educating users and
> influencing their mental models? What are the ethical concerns
> involved and how can they be addressed? This design helps the user
> to improve the quality of the information that is produced,
> presented, and used. Contributions are sought for a special session
> on human factors in enviromatics. We will seek to put work on
> interaction design and human computer interaction into the specific
> context of environmental modelling and software, with the goal of
> understanding how to draw on and apply existing knowledge to
> environmental informatics so that efforts are focused on refinement
> and adaptation instead of reinvention. Topics include, but are not
> limited to:
> • Usability analyses
> • Decision psychology
> • Task analyses (including, for example, decision support)
> • Validation of ICT tools
> • Human-computer interface design
> • Human performance evaluation
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312