2nd Security in Information Systems Workshop (WOSIS) CFP

2nd WOSIS Call For Papers

http://www.iceis.org/workshops/sis/sis2004-cfp.html


SECOND WORKSHOP ON SECURITY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

April 13-14 2004 Porto, Portugal


To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on
Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2004), www.iceis.org

Universidade Portucalense, 14-17 April 2004 Porto, Portugal


Chairs

Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Dr. Julio César Hernández Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain

Dr. Luis Javier García Villalba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain



Workshop Background and Goals

Information Systems Security is one of the most pressing challenges
facing all kind of organisations today. Although many companies have
discovered how critical information is to the success of their business
or operations, very few have managed to be effective in keeping their
information safe, in avoiding unauthorised access, preventing
intrusions, stopping secret information disclosure, etc.

Nowadays, rapid technological advances are stimulating a greater use of
information systems in organisations world-wide, which handle large
quantities of data, managed by huge databases and datawarehouses. In
addition, information systems quite frequently manage information that
can be considered sensitive, since it is related to certain intimate or
personal aspects of persons (beliefs, medical data, sexual tendencies,
etc.) and which must be specially protected.

Many organisations, including not only companies but also governments of
several countries, are now realising how security problems can affect
both business success and citizen rights, and they are proposing
security policies, security planning, personal data protection laws,
etc.

All of these, including technological, legislative, ethical and
political factors, justifies the importance of secure information
systems, and encourage us to research in new techniques, models and
methodologies, which could aid designers developing and implanting safe
information systems which both protect information and keep within the
law.

This workshop will serve as a forum to gather academics, researchers,
practitioners and students in the field of security in information
systems. The workshop will present new developments, lessons learned
from real world cases, and would provide the exchange of ideas and
discussion on specific areas.


Topics of interest

Methodologies for security information systems development
Access control techniques
Personal data protection
Information systems risk analysis
Security in databases, datawarehouses and web information systems
Secure information systems architectures
Standards for information systems security
Metadata for Web and multimedia security
XML and RDF based metadata for security
Security Engineering
Assessment of security software/hardware
Study, validation and attacks on security protocols
Real world applications analysis
Information hiding: Steganography & Steganalysis
Peer-to-Peer systems
Analysis and design of cryptographic algorithms
Emission security
Attacks on copyright marking systems
Reliability of security systems
Security of clinical information systems
Privacy and freedom issues


Format of the Workshop

The workshop will consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of the
workshop will be published in the form of a book by ICEIS.


Journal Special Issue


The organisers of the Workshop and the publishers of the Information
Systems Security Journal (www.auerbach-publications.com) have agreed to
publish a special issue of the Journal, with extended and revised
versions of some selected papers.


Keynote Speaker


Prof. Yvo Desmedt, Professor of Computer Science at Florida State
University and renowned specialist in Computer Security, will be the
Keynote speaker of the Workshop.

Submission of Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation
in any of the topics listed above. Only full papers in English will be
accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000
words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex
formats) are available in the ICEIS web page. Postscript/RTF versions of
the manuscript should be submitted through ICEIS web-based paper
submission procedure.


Important Dates

Full paper submission: December 15, 2003
Author notification: January 30, 2004
Camera-ready: February 15, 2004

Workshop International Programme Committee

Ian Brown. FIRP & University College London, UK
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati. Università degli Studi di Milano,
Italy
Ernesto Damiani. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ed Dawson. Information Security Research Center, Queensland, Australia
Markus Dichtl. Siemens AG, München, Germany
Csilla Farcas. University of South Carolina, USA
Christian Geuer-Pollmann. European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany
Narayana Jayaram. North London University, London, UK
Willem Jonker. University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mario Piattini. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jean-Jacques Quisquater. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Simon Sheperd. Bradford University, Bradford, UK
José María Sierra. Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain
Jacques Stern. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Robert Tolksdorf. University of Berlin, Germany
Ambrosio Toval. University of Murcia. Spain
Serge Vaudenay. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Swizertland
Duminda Wijesekera. University George Mason, USA

Conference Location

The workshop will be held at the Universidade Portucalense in Porto,
Portugal.

Registration Information

To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iceis.org

Secretariat

ICEIS Secretariat
The Second International Workshop on Security In Information Systems
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2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal
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