Selected best papers will also be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA). JNCA, formerly known as Journal of Microcomputer Applications, is published by Academic Press of Elsevier. The special issue will be published in late 2005 or early 2006.
We strongly encourage authors to submit papers electronically in PDF format via EDAS.
Under certain circumstances, you may submit paper in PDF format as an e-mail attachment to zbo@cs.uccs.edu.
Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted,
at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.
Each submitted paper will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.
The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings
as other workshops and the IPDPS 2005 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.
Scope
The proliferation of Internet services and applications is bringing systems and network security issues to the fore.
The past few years have seen significant increase in cyber attacks on the Internet, resulting in degraded confidence
and trusts in the use of Internet and computer systems. There is an increasing demand for measures to guarantee the
privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in distributed systems, such as Grid and P2P systems. The attacks,
including DDoS, email virus, and worms, are getting more sophisticated, spreading faster,
and causing more damages. The attacks originally exploited the weakness of the individual protocols and operating
systems, but now also have started to attack the basic infrastructure of the Internet.
There is a consensus that a key contributing factor leading to cyber threats is the lack of integrated and cohesive
strategies that extend beyond the network level, to protect the applications and devices at system level as well.
Many techniques, algorithms, protocols and tools have been developed in the different aspects of cybersecurity,
namely, authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality and non-repudiation as
they apply to both networks and systems.
This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of network
and distributed system security. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities
in security-related subjects. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals
working in this area.
Topics of interest
The workshop seeks papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress in the area of
cybersecurity at the system and network levels. Topics covered by the workshop will include,
but are not limited to, the following:
Important Dates
Papers due: November 15th, 2004 (hard deadline, no extension) Author notification: December 20th, 2004 Camera-ready final papers due: January 21st, 2005 Workshop (and IPDPS): (April 4th -) April 8th, 2005
Submission Guidelines and Publication
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments
in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address
of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be 6 to 10 double-column single-spaced pages
including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 10 point font in
IEEE Proceedings Style. Final versions will be restricted to 6-8 pages.
Organizing Committees
Workshop Co-Chairs
Technical Program Committee
Bill Ayen Network Information and Space Security Center, USA Terry Boult University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA David Chadwick University of Salford, UK Shigang Chen University of Florida, USA John Ioannidis Columbia University, USA Zhen Jiang West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA Jason Kim Drexel University, USA Francis Lau The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CHINA Qun Li College of William and Mary, USA Patrick McDaniel Penn State University, USA Geyong Min University of Bradford, UK Vassilis Prevelakis Drexel University, USA Nabil Sarhan Wayne State University, USA Sanjeev Setia George Mason University, USA Weisong Shi Wayne State University, USA Sean W. Smith Dartmouth College, USA Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA S. Felix Wu University of California at Davis, USA Li Xiao Michigan State University, USA David K.Y. Yau Purdue University, USA Sheng Zhong State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Advisory Committee
Kai Hwang University of Southern California, USA George Cybenko Dartmouth College, USA Xiaodong Zhang College of William and Mary, USA C. Edward Chow University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA