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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on Security and Trust
in Decentralized/Distributed Data Structures (STD3S)
in conjunction with the
22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06),
April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA
General Information
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Decentralized/distributed data structures (D3S) have recently received a lot
of attention with the successful introduction of peer-to-peer systems, Web
services, Grids, and ubiquitous computing systems as specific examples of D3S.
The "persuasive" arguments in favor of these systems are that they try to avoid
centralization as a performance bottleneck, to decrease infrastructure costs
and to increase performance by using available distributed resources, and are
relatively easy to deploy and maintain due to inherent self-organization properties.
Distribution, decentralization and self-organization as the basic underlying
concepts to enable these advantages, however, introduce new problems in terms
of security and trust into these systems. Most existing approaches perform well
in cooperative scenarios, but are doomed if this assumption does not hold. Also,
the large number of participants in these systems raises new questions, such as
whom to trust and cooperate with or how to ensure basic security properties such
as confidentiality, authenticity or non-repudiation, and how to support these
functionalities without introducing centralization again for being able to meet
these requirements.
In this workshop we put the focus specifically on the issues of security (attacks,
confidentiality, access control, authentication, etc.) and trust (trust assessment,
reputation management, etc.) in the context of D3S to identify new problems,
discuss possible solutions for existing problems and raise awareness for these
issues as they constitute a major success factor in practical settings.
Topics
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We encourage submissions in the areas of peer-to-peer systems, Web services,
Grids, and ubiquitous computing systems which address security and trust problems
in D3S. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Attacks to D3S and their prevention
* Supporting trust and security in D3S
* Providing trust and security by the application of D3S
* Privacy, traceability, and anonymity in D3S
* High data availability in D3S
* Trust and reputation in self-organizing environments
* Anonymity in (self-organizing) D3S data stores
* Anonymity and privacy vs. accountability
* Access control and capability delegation in D3S
* Self-organization vs. security and trust
* Consistency of D3S data stores
* Statistical models for trust in D3S
* Case studies
Format of the Workshop
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The workshop solicits formal papers that address security and trust problems
specific to D3S. Additionally, position papers outlining interesting new research
domains and approaches are welcome. The selection of papers is based primarily on
their potential to influence future research. This influence can be exercised in
many ways, exemplified by but not limited to the following:
* Articulating a new perspective on security and trust problems specific to D3S
* Describing new problems regarding security and trust that arise from the
specific domain of D3S environments and how to address them
* Describing a novel approach to an existing problem that promises to influence
future research specifically
* Describing a new problem that requires our attention
* Debunking an old perspective about security and trust
Paper Submission
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Papers should not exceed 8 pages double column including figures and tables and
MUST be formatted according to standard IEEE format (LaTex formatting macros).
Papers have to present original, English-language research contributions not
concurrently submitted elsewhere must be submitted electronically in printable
PDF format (other formats will be rejected). The paper abstract should contain
title, author name(s), and keywords. Papers have to be submitted electronically
via the submission web page (http://www.easychair.org/STD3S/submit/).
Abstract submission is mandatory.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission: October 28, 2005
Paper submission: November 4, 2005
Paper notification: December 16, 2005
Camera-ready papers: January 11, 2006
Workshop Date: April 2 or 8, 2006
Committees
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Program Chairs
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Program Committee
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Sonja Buchegger, UC Berkeley, USA
Germano Caronni, Sun Microsystems Laboratory, USA
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Anwitaman Datta, EPFL, Switzerland
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italiy
Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Italy
Willem Jonker, Philips Research, The Nertherlands
Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA
Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Pierangela Samarati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Andreas Schaad, SAP Labs, France
Anna Squicciarini, University of Milan, Italy
Can Türker, ETHZ, Switzerland
Lingyu Wang, George Mason University, USA