The 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS-2005), to be held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005), June 6-9, 2005, Columbus, OH, USA.
The 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing
Systems (SDCS-2005), to be held in conjunction with the 25th
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005),
June 6-9, 2005, Columbus, OH, USA.
Workshop website: http://securityworkshop.ece.iastate.edu
PURPOSE:
Cyber security is a research area of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, interest has increased in the field of security of distributed computing systems, since securing a large-scale networked system becomes a great challenge, which include the following: specification, analysis, and design of protocols, access control mechanisms, mobile code security, denial-of-service attacks, trust management, modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area, to allow interaction of security researchers and developers with the distributed systems communities, and to give attendees of ICDCS 2005 an opportunity to network with experts in cyber security. We will focus our program on issues related to important properties of system security, such as measurability, sustainability, affordability, and usability in distributed computing systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
We are interested not only in the newest results in computer security theories, but also in the more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Distributed Access Control and Trust Management
* Key Management and Authentication
* Privacy and Anonymity
* Benchmark and Security Analysis
* Security for Peer to Peer systems and Grid Computing Systems
* Secure Multicast and Broadcast
* Secure multiparty and two-party computations
* Computer and Network Forensics
* Denial-of-service Attacks and Countermeasures
* Secure E-Commerce/E-Business
* Security Verification
* Distributed Database Security
* Digital Rights Management
* Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code
* Intrusion detection
* Viruses, Worms, and Other Malicious Code
* Security in ad-hoc and sensor networks
* World Wide Web Security
Workshop Organization
General Chair: Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University
Program Chair: Yong Guan, Iowa State University
Program Committee Members:
Terry Benzel, University of South California
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kai Hwang, University of South California
Douglas Jacobson, Iowa State University
Carl Landwehr, NSF
Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Ninghui Li, Purdue University
Peng Liu, Penn State University
Daniel Massey, Colorado State University
Clifford Neuman, University of South California
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Michael Oehler, DoD
Daniel Ragsdale, United States Military Academy
Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University
Pierangela Samarati, Universita’ di Milano, Italy
Chita Das, Penn State University
Haining Wang, College of William and Mary
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University
Lixia Zhang, University of California at Los Angeles
Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: February 10, 2005
Final Manuscript Due: February 28, 2005
Workshop Date: June 6, 2005
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of unpublished manuscripts or position papers, not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages, to guan@ee.iastate.edu. Submissions should be in PDF format. Authors should make sure that the submission can be printed on a regular printer that uses standard letter size paper (8.5” x 11”). Accepted papers will be published in joint formal proceedings with ICDCS-2005 Conference.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: http://securityworkshop.ece.iastate.edu