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13th IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2018)
In conjunction with COMPSAC 2018
Tokyo, Japan, July 23-27, 2018
STPSA 2018 workshop will bring researchers from academia and industry to discuss methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals of both pervasive and non-pervasive
software applications. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned with respect to the state of art for the security, trust, and privacy aspects of both pervasive and non-pervasive software applications along with some open issues.
Information security has become a major concern for software and applications. Software systems must be engineered with reliable protection mechanisms with respect to security, privacy, and trust, while still delivering the expected value of the software to
their customers. The traditional approaches to secure a system (e.g., IDS, firewalls) are no longer sufficient to address many security, trust, and privacy (STP) issues. These issues should be addressed by building more effective STP-aware software applications.
The principal obstacle in developing STP-aware software is that current software specification, design, implementation, and testing practices do not include adequate methods and tools to achieve security, trust, and privacy goals. Further, emerging techniques
such as blockchain bring on new challenges to adopt them into developing STP-aware software and applications.
As most systems now are Internet-based, the number of attackers is increased dramatically and threat scenarios have changed. Traditional security measures do not fit well for the software of pervasive applications. Since location and contexts are key attributes
of pervasive applications, the privacy issues need to be handled in a novel manner than traditional software applications. The devices in pervasive computing leave and join in ad hoc manner in the pervasive network. These create a need for new trust models
for pervasive computing applications. In this workshop, we will also welcome papers on the challenges and requirements of security, privacy, and trust for pervasive software applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Security, trust, and privacy specific software development practices
- Security, trust, and privacy requirements elicitation and specification
- Models and languages for STP-aware software specification and design
- Architecture for STP-aware software development
- STP challenges for pervasive software applications
- Testing security, trust, and privacy properties of both pervasive and non-pervasive software
- STP management and usability issues in software applications
- User interfaces for STP-aware pervasive and non-pervasive software
- Software reengineering for security, trust, and privacy for both pervasive and non-pervasive applications
- Tradeoffs among security, privacy, trust, and other criteria
- STP challenges in e-services, e.g. e-health, e-government, e-banking, e-commerce, e-marketing and other web-based and pervasive applications
- STP challenges in mobile software applications
- STP issues in sensor-based software applications
- User interfaces for secure and privacy-aware pervasive computing applications
- STP-aware service discovery mechanisms for pervasive computing environments
- Models for ensuring security, trust, and privacy in pervasive software applications
- STP issues for handheld device software applications such as healthcare
- Teaching, innovative course or curriculum for STP-aware software development
- Experience reports on developing STP-aware software
- Offensive security and attacks on software applications and mitigation techniques
- Application of blockchain technologies for STP-aware software development
- Ethical issues in STP-aware software and application development
IMPORTANT DATES
April 10, 2018 Deadline for paper submission
May 10, 2018 Notification of acceptance
May 17, 2018 Camera-ready due
SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted electronically via the SPTSA 2018 Submission Page(http://stpsa.compsac.info/).
The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will depend on reviewer
feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 42ndIEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2018) by the IEEE CS
Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper or fast abstract must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper or fast abstract published in the proceedings.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
General Co-Chairs:
Program Co-Chairs:
GENERAL INQUIRIES
For updated information, please contact the Program Co-Chairs
