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            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

     IEEE International Symposium on Policies for
     Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2011)

		6-8 June 2011
		  Pisa, Italy
	http://ieee-policy.org

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REGISTRATION

Registration Site is now open. Early registration is until May 15th, 2011.
(http://www.policy-workshop.org/register.html)

STUDENTS GRANTS

Some student grants are now available for PhD students and Master students.
For information, please contact the the General Chairs.


SYMPOSIUM SCOPE

The symposium brings together researchers and
practitioners working on policy-based systems
across a wide range of application domains
including policy-based networking, privacy, trust
and security management, autonomic computing,
pervasive systems and enterprise systems. POLICY
2011 is the 12th in a series of successful events,
which have provided a forum for discussion and
collaboration between researchers, developers and
users of policy-based systems. In addition to the
areas mentioned above, we specifically encourage
this year contributions on policy-based techniques
in support of Cloud computing and Enterprise
Service Oriented applications as well as the use
of reasoning, verification and learning techniques
in policy-based systems.


CO-LOCATED EVENT

International Workshop on Policies for Future Internet,
June 9th 2011, National Research Council, Pisa.
(http://wwwold.iit.cnr.it/staff/marinella.petrocchi/pofi11/PoFI11.html)


KEYNOTE TALKS

* Pierangela Samarati, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy: "Policy Specification and Enforcement in Emerging Scenarios"
* Jeffrey Kephart, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA: "The Utility of Utility: Policies for Self-Managing Systems"
* Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany: "Data-Centric Usage Control Enforcement"


PANEL

   The program includes a panel session entitle "The Policy Decade - has it delivered?". The panel members
   are Fabio Massacci, Arosha Bandara, Jeffrey Kephart and Morris Sloman who will also chair it.


PROGRAMME

The programme includes 14 full papers and 14 short papers covering a range of topics that include Policy Languages, Policy Applications, Policy Analysis and Verifications, Security Management, Systems and Tools. The programme also includes an afternoon posters/demo session with 9 demos. The full programme can be seen @http://ieee-policy.org/program.html.


DATES

Early-bird Registration Deadline: 15 May 2011.
Symposium Dates: 6-8 June 2011.


LOCATION

The symposium will be held in Pisa, at the Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda. Further information on the venue and accommodation options can be found @http://ieee-policy.org/location.html


SPONSORS

* IEEE Computer Society
* IEEE Communications Society
* CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
* IBM Research


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy

Program Co-Chairs:
Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica R&D Spain
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Publicity Chair:
Ryan Wishart, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Local Organising Committee:

Committee Chair
Adriana Lazzaroni, IIT-CNR

Members
Patrizia Andronico, IIT-CNR
Raffaella Casarosa, IIT-CNR
Gabriele Costa, IIT-CNR
Marinella Petrocchi, IIT-CNR


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