The 3rd International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN2007)

held in conjunction with

March 26-30, 2007, Long Beach, California, USA

[Advanced Program] [General Information] [Scope] [Topics of Interest] [Important Dates] [Submission and Publication] [Organizing Committees]

General Information

The SSN workshop will occupy one full day of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2007. There will be no separate registration for the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops and the IPDPS 2007 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and the IEEE online library.

Scope

The proliferation of Internet services and applications is bringing systems and network security issues to the fore. The past few years have seen significant increase in cyber attacks on the Internet, resulting in degraded confidence and trusts in the use of Internet and computer systems. There is an increasing demand for measures to guarantee the privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in distributed systems, such as Grid and P2P systems. The attacks, including DDoS, email virus, and worms, are getting more sophisticated, spreading faster, and causing more damages. The attacks originally exploited the weakness of the individual protocols and operating systems, but now also have started to attack the basic infrastructure of the Internet. There is a consensus that a key contributing factor leading to cyber threats is the lack of integrated and cohesive strategies that extend beyond the network level, to protect the applications and devices at system level as well. Many techniques, algorithms, protocols and tools have been developed in the different aspects of cybersecurity, namely, authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality and non-repudiation as they apply to both networks and systems.

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of network and distributed system security. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in security-related subjects. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area.

Topics of interest

The workshop seeks papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress in the area of cybersecurity at the system and network levels. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Ad hoc and sensor network security
Cryptographic algorithms and distributed digital signatures
Distributed denial of service attacks
Distributed intrusion detection and protection systems
Firewall and distributed access control
Grid computing security
Key management
Network security issues and protocols
Mobile codes security and Internet Worms
Security in e-commerce
Security in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
Security in mobile and pervasive computing
Security architectures in distributed and parallel systems
Security theory and tools in distributed and parallel systems
Video surveillance and monitoring systems
Information hiding and multimedia watermarking in distributed systems
Web content secrecy and integrity

Important Dates

Papers due:	November 29, 2006
Author notification:	January 7, 2007
Camera-ready final papers due:	January 22, 2007
Workshop (and IPDPS):	(March 26th -) March 30th, 2007

Submission Guidelines and Publication

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be 6 to 8 double-column single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 10 point font in IEEE Proceedings Style. Final versions will be restricted to 6-8 pages.

We strongly encourage authors to submit papers electronically in PDF format via EDAS. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Each submitted paper will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops and the IPDPS 2007 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.

Organizing Committees

Workshop General Co-Chairs

Cheng-Zhong Xu	Wayne State University, USA
Xiaobo Zhou	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

Workshop Program Chair

Li Xiao Michigan State University, USA

Technical Program Committee

Kevin Butler	Pennsylvania State University, USA
David Chadwick	University of Salford, UK
Songqing Chen	George Mason University, USA
Wenliang Du	Syracuse University, USA
Yong Guan	Iowa State University, USA
Minaxi Gupta	Indiana University, USA
Anca Ivan	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
James B. D. Joshi	University of Pittsburgh, USA
Alex X. Liu	Michigan State University, USA
Donggang Liu	University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Geyong Min	University of Bradford, UK
Vassilis Prevelakis	Drexel University, USA
Jian Ren	Michigan State University, USA
Chik How Tan	Gjovik University College, Norway
Wietse Venema	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Haining Wang	College of William and Mary, USA
Jianbin Wei	South Dakota School of Mines, USA
Greg B. White	The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
S. Felix Wu	University of California at Davis, USA
Ye Xia	University of Florida, USA
Bin Xiao	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dongyan Xu	Purdue University, USA
Dong Xuan	The Ohio State University, USA
Ossama Younis	University of Arizona, USA
Sheng Zhong	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Sencun Zhu	Pennsylvania State University, USA

Advisory Committee

Kai Hwang	University of Southern California, USA
George Cybenko	Dartmouth College, USA
Xiaodong Zhang	The Ohio State University, USA
C. Edward Chow	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA