COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS

3rd IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY, TRUST, AND PRIVACY FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS (STPSA 2008)

GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP

THEME 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.

As most systems now are Internet-based, the number of attackers is increased dramatically and threat scenarios have changed. Traditional security measures do not fit well for the software of pervasive applications. Since location and contexts are key attributes of pervasive applications, the privacy issues need to be handled in a novel manner than traditional software applications. The devices in pervasive computing leave and join in ad hoc manner in the pervasive network. These create a need for new trust models for pervasive computing applications. In this workshop, we will also welcome papers on the challenges and requirements of security, privacy, and trust for pervasive software applications.

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

• 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

PARTICIPATION

We will have two invited speakers depending on the number of sessions and their timings. The paper authors, some of the PC members and COMPSAC participants will register for the workshops.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
John Buford, Panasonic, USA
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, 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
Patrick Hung, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech., Canada
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Khaled M. Khan, Qatar University, Qatar
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain
Jong Hyuk Park , Kyungnam University, Korea
Daniele Quercia, University College London, UK
Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University, USA
George Roussos, University of London, UK
Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA
Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Boris Taratine, Bell Canada
Miroslav Velev, Consultant, USA
George Yee, NRC Canada
Wang Yu, Auburn University, USA
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Stephen Weis, MIT, USA
Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the STPSA2008 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 32ndt IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008) 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