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CALL FOR PAPERS
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY ASSURANCE IN THE CLOUD (IWSAC 2015)
Held in conjunction with the 11st International Conference on Signal Image
Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2015)
One day between November 23-27, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand
Web site: http://sesar.di.unimi.it/IWSAC2015

IWSAC 2015 BACKGROUND AND GOALS
The ongoing merge between Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and the
Cloud computing paradigm provides a new environment fostering the
integration of services located within company boundaries with those in the
Cloud. An increasing number of organizations implement their business
processes and applications via runtime composition of services made
available in the Cloud by external suppliers. This scenario is changing the
traditional view of security introducing new service security risks and
threats, and requires re-thinking of current assurance, development,
testing, and verification methodologies. In particular, security assurance
in the cloud is becoming a pressing need to increase the confidence of the
cloud actors that the cloud and its services are behaving as expected, and
requires novel approaches addressing SOA and cloud peculiarities. IWSAC 2015
is the third edition of the International Workshop on Security Assurance in
the Cloud. It aims to address the security assurance issues related to the
deployment of services in the Cloud, along with evaluating their impact on
traditional security solutions for software and network systems.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel
research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and assurance
of services implemented in the Cloud, as well as experimental studies in
Cloud infrastructures, the implementation of services, and lessons learned.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:  

* Accountability in the cloud
* Authentication and access control in the cloud
* Challenges in moving critical systems to the cloud
* Cloud audit, certification, and compliance
* Cloud transparency, introspection, and outrospection
* Data security and privacy in the Cloud
* Evidence-based assurance of cloud services
* Information assurance and trust management 
* Intrusion detection in the cloud
* Policy compliance
* Security assurance in the cloud 
* Security and assurance protocols in the cloud
* Security and privacy in the cloud
* Service level agreements
* Service procurement in the cloud
* Verification of cloud services

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: September 7, 2015 (11:59 PM American Samoa time)
Notification to authors: October 7, 2015 
Camera-ready due: October 15, 2015
Registration due: October 19, 2015

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published
or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference/workshop
with proceedings. Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total
including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must follow the IEEE
double columns publication format available at 
- [Microsoft Word DOC]
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instructA4x2.doc
- [LaTex Formatting Macros]
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_LatexA4x2.zip

A maximum of 2 extra pages can be purchased for the final version of the
accepted papers. 

Submissions are to be made to the submission web site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2015 by selecting track
"Workshop on Security Assurance in the Cloud". Only pdf files will be
accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. 

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is
required to register with the main conference and present the paper.
Accepted papers at the workshop will be published in the conference
proceedings and in the IEEE digital library.

IWSAC 2015 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS

Program Chairs
* Claudio A. Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Ernesto Damiani, ETISALAT BT Innovation Center, Khalifa University, UAE
* Massimo Felici, HP Labs, UK

Publicity Chair
* Fulvio Frati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Program Committee 
TO BE COMPLETED
* Marco Anisetti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Michele Bezzi, SAP, France
* Valentina Casola, University of Naples Federico II, Italy 
* Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
* Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France
* Alessandra De Benedictis, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
* Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* William Fitzgerald, UTRC, Ireland
* Filippo Gaudenzi, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
* Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
* Meiko Jensen, Southern Denmark University, Denmark
* Mathias Kohler, SAP, Germany
* Jesus Luna, Cloud Security Alliance, UK
* Antonio Mana, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
* Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK
* Julinda Stefa, Sapienza University, Italy


This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be
found at http://sesar.di.unimi.it/IWSAC2015




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