2004 ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS) - Call for papers

CALLS FOR PAPERS

2004 ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services
(SWS)

Date: October 29th, 2004 

Place: George W. Johnson Center at George
Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA 

(Held in conjunction with the Eleventh
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-11))

Web page: http://ra.crema.unimi.it/SWS/index.htm

Important Dates:

Paper submissions due: July 30, 2004

Acceptance notifications: August 31,
2004 

Camera-ready papers due: September 30,
2004 

The main security protocols for Web
Services, such as XML Security, WS Security, SAML, and XACML are now available
or close to completion. Soon, we will have a basic set of building blocks
for securing Web services and GRID computing. However, a number of challenges
are still to be met for Web services and GRID nodes to be fully secured
and trusted.  Also, the trend toward representing Web services semantics
via Semantic Web standards such as RDFS and OWL is fostering the evolution
of current security models and languages to deal with secure and trusted
Web services orchestration. The SWS workshop explores these challenges,
ranging from the advancement and best practices of building block technologies
such as XML and Web services security protocols to higher level issues
such as advanced metadata, trust establishment, risk management, and service
assurance. This workshop continues the successful series of XML Security
Workshop. 

Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, the following: 

- Web services and GRID computing security

- Authentication and authorization 

- Trust establishment and management

- Semantics-aware Web service security
and Semantic Web 

- Secure orchestration of Web services

- Privacy-and digital identities support

- Security ontologies 

- Platform trust (Web services exploitation
of Trusted Computing) 

Program Committee (to be completed):

Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University,
Australia

Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università
di Milano, Italy

Tharam Dillon,University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia

Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Universitad
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina,
USA

Willem Jonker, Philips Research and
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Pierangela Samarati, Università di Milano,
Italy

Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University,
USA

Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research

Selim Aissi of Intel

Raghavan N. Srinivas of Sun

Mario Jeckle, University of Applied
Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany

General Chair 

Vijay Atluri

Rutgers University, USA

Program Chairs

Ernesto Damiani

Computer Technology Department

University of Milan, Italy

Hiroshi Maruyama

IBM Tokyo Research, Japan

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Web Services Security

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