MOTIVATION

Pervasive computing has progressed significantly during this decade due to the developments and advances in portable low-cost light-weight devices and emergent short range, and low-power wireless communication networks. Pervasive computing focuses on combining computing and communications with the surrounding physical environment and make computing and communication transparent to the users in day to day activities. In pervasive computing, numerous, casually accessible, often invisible, frequently mobile or embedded devices form an ad hoc network, which sometimes connects to fixed networks structure too. These pervasive computing devices often collect information about the surrounding environment using on board location and other sensors. Pervasive computing has the inherent disadvantages of slow expensive connections, frequent line disconnection, limited host bandwidth, location dependent data, etc. These challenges make the pervasive computing applications even more vulnerable. Traditional security measures do not fit well in pervasive computing. Since location and contexts are key attributes of pervasive computing applications, the privacy issues need to be handled in a different way than traditional computing. The devices leave and join in an ad hoc manner in the pervasive network. These create a need for new trust models for pervasive computing applications. In this workshop, we solicit papers on the challenges, requirements, tools, and techniques related to security, privacy, and trust for pervasive applications along with some open issues. This workshop will serve as a platform for the interaction among like-minded researchers and practitioners to identify future theoretical and experimental research directions of security, privacy, and trust in pervasive applications.

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

IMPORTANT DATES

Apr 1 , 2006: Workshop Paper Submission due date (Deadline Extended to Friday April 14).
May 15, 2006 notification of acceptance
June 25, 2006 camera-ready due

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the SPTPA 2006 Submission Page (http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/SPTPA/). The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers will be accepted (and can be submitted) as regular papers (six pages), short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category will depend on reviewer feedback.

Accepted papers or fast abstracts will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 30th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) by 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