The 2nd International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN2006)

General Information

The SSN workshop will occupy one full day of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2006. 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 2006 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and the IEEE online library.

Selected best papers will also be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. The special issue will be published in Later 2006.

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 22, 2005 (Extended)
Author notification:	December 27th, 2005
Camera-ready final papers due:	January 21st, 2006
Workshop (and IPDPS):	(April 25th -) April 29th, 2006

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 2006 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.

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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

Technical Program Committee

Bill Ayen	Network Information and Space Security Center, USA
Terry Boult	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
David Chadwick	University of Salford, UK
Shigang Chen	University of Florida, USA
Huirong Fu	Oakland University, USA
Yong Guan	Iowa State University, USA
Minaxi Gupta	Indiana University, USA
John Ioannidis	Columbia University, USA
Anca Ivan	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
James B. D. Joshi	University of Pittsburgh, USA
Donggang Liu	Univeristy of Texas at Arlington, USA
Jianfeng Ma	Xidian University, China
Daniel Massey	Colorado State University, USA
Patrick McDaniel	Penn State University, USA
Geyong Min	University of Bradford, UK
Bernhard Plattner	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Vassilis Prevelakis	Drexel University, USA
Sanjeev Setia	George Mason University, USA
Sean W. Smith	Dartmouth College, USA
Wietse Venema	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
S. Felix Wu	University of California at Davis, USA
David K.Y. Yau	Purdue University, USA
Bin Xiao	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yunquan Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sheng Zhong	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Advisory Committee

Kai Hwang	University of Southern California, USA
George Cybenko	Dartmouth College, USA
Xiaodong Zhang	College of William and Mary, USA
C. Edward Chow	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA