WELCOME to COMPSAC 2009 !
33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference


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

4th IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2009)

4th IEEE International Workshop on
Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2009)

IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPSAC 2009

 

 

GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP

 

This workshop will bring researchers from academia and industry to discuss methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals of both pervasive and pervasive software applications. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned with respect to the state of art for the security, trust, and privacy aspects of both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications along with some open issues.  

 

THEME AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Information security has become a major concern for both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications. Software systems must be engineered with reliable protection mechanisms with respect to security, privacy, and trust, while still delivering the expected value of the software to their customers. The traditional approaches to secure a system (e.g., IDS, firewalls) are no longer sufficient to address many security, trust, and privacy (STP) issues. These issues should be addressed by building more effective STP-aware software applications. The principal obstacle in developing STP-aware software is that current software specification, design, implementation, and testing practices do not include adequate methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals.

 

 

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

  • Security, trust, and privacy specific software development practices
  • Security, trust, and privacy requirements elicitation and specification
  • Models and languages for STP-aware software specification and design
  • Architecture for STP-aware software development
  • STP challenges for pervasive software applications
  • Testing security, trust, and privacy properties of both pervasive and non-pervasive software
  • STP management and usability issues in software applications
  • User interfaces for STP-aware pervasive and non pervasive software
  • Software reengineering for security, trust, and privacy for both pervasive and non pervasive applications
  • Tradeoffs among security, privacy, trust, and other criteria
  • STP challenges in e-services, e.g. e-health, e-government, e-banking, e-commerce, e-marketing and other web-based and pervasive applications
  • STP challenges in mobile software applications
  • STP issues in sensor based software applications
  • User interfaces for secure and privacy-aware pervasive computing applications
  • STP-aware service discovery mechanisms for pervasive computing environments
  • Models for ensuring security, trust, and privacy in pervasive software applications
  • STP issues for handheld device software applications
  • Teaching STP-aware software development
  • Experience reports on developing STP-aware software

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Match 30, 2009    Deadline for paper submission(Extended)
April 7, 2009      Decision notification (electronic)
April 30, 2009    Camera-ready due

 

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the SPTPA 2009 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 three 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 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

Program Co-Chairs

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Dept. of Math, Statistics, and Computer Science,

Marquette University,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA

Email: iq@mscs.mu.edu

 

Mohammad Zulkernine

School of Computing,

Queen's University,

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Email: mzulker@cs.queensu.ca

 

Program Committee

John Buford, Avaya lab, USA
Weifeng Chen, California University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Philip Fong, University of Regina, Canada
Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary, Canada
Raquel Hill, Indiana University, USA
Andreas Holzinger, University of Graz, Austria
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Khaled M. Khan, Qatar University, Qatar
Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain
Daniele Quercia, University College London, UK
Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Boris Taratine, Bell Canada
George Yee, NRC Canada
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA
Issa Traroe University of Victoria, Canada
Mattia Monga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

 

GENERAL INQUIRIES

FFor updated information, please contact the Program Co-Chairs:
iq@mscs.mu.edu or mzulker@cs.queensu.ca
For COMPSAC, please visit http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2009/