Seattle,Washington, July 20 - July 24, 2009
           Co-located with IPSJ/IEEE SAINT 2009

1st Security Aspects of Process and Services Engineering (SAPSE 2009)

GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop aims to foster cooperation among software practitioners and researchers in order to exchange the latest industrial experience and research ideas on services and processes engineering focussing on security related issues.

THEME AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

New challenges arise in the area of processes and services engineering, where research is devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications and the goal is to provide effective solutions to the development, deployment and management of the resulting software systems. Security plays a fundamental role, since the resulting applications are expected to function correctly and resist also to malicious attacks in different and changing threat scenarios. Service integrators, software developers, and service providers need to create novel methodologies, tools, and techniques to take into account the security issues related to the development and use of dependable services and service oriented applications. Even if recently many standards providing basic properties and protocols for the secure composition of business processes and services have appeared, many security problems need to be addressed. The engineering of complex processes and service oriented software still lacks powerful, effective methods and tools to build better, more robust and more secure systems.

The SAPSE workshop is intended to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of a wide range of topics related to the security aspects of software processes and services engineering. Researchers from both academia and industry, working in the areas of process engineering, service-oriented computing, and security are invited to discuss state of the art solutions, novel issues, recent developments, applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the development and use of secure service oriented systems.

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

• Trust, security, and privacy in service oriented systems
  
• Secure business process composition
  
• Service dependability, survivability, and reliability
  
• Design and development of secure service oriented systems
  
• Security specification of service oriented systems
  
• Certification of service oriented systems
  
• Verification, validation and testing of security properties of service oriented systems
  

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the Electronic Submission Page. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by an author.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS