Call For Papers

The 2008 Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems

(http://www.diiga.univpm.it/~spalazzi/nicosia/)

As part of The 2008 International Conference

High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS?08)

and in conjunction with

The 22nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2008)

Nicosia, Cyprus

June 3 - 6, 2008

(Submission Deadline: February 21, 2008)

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Brief Description:

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Providing high performance computing and security is a challenging

task. Internet, operating systems and distributed environments

currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common

attacks. Adding security measures typically degrade performance.

This workshop addresses relationships between security and high

performance systems in three directions. First, it considers how to

add security properties (authentication, confidentiality, integrity,

non-repudiation, access control) to high performance computing systems.

In this case, safety properties can also be addressed, such as

availability and fault tolerance for high performance computing systems.

Second, it covers how to use high performance computing systems to solve

security problems. For instance, a grid computation can break an

encryption code, or a cluster can support high performance intrusion

detection. More generally, this topic addresses every efficient use of a

high performance computing system to improve security. Third, it

investigates the tradeoffs between maintaining high performance and

achieving security in computing systems and solutions to balance the two

objectives. In all these directions, various performance analyses or

monitoring techniques can be conducted to show the efficiency of a

security infrastructure.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting

novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer

and network security, as well as case studies and implementation

experiences. Papers should have practical relevance to the

construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems.

This workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:

Access Control

Accounting and Audit

Anonymity

Applied Cryptography

Authentication

Commercial and Industry Security

Cryptographic Protocols

Data and Application Security

Data/System Integrity

Database Security

Digital Rights Management

Formal Verification of Secure Systems

Identity Management

Inference/Controlled Disclosure

Information Warfare

Intellectual Property Protection

Intrusion and Attack Detection

Intrusion and Attack Response

Key Management

Privacy-Enhancing Technology

Secure Networking

Secure System Design

Security Management

Security for Mobile Code

Security for Specific Domains (e.g., E-Government, E-Business, P2P)

Security in IT Outsourcing

Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks

Security in Operating Systems

Security Location Services

Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures

Smartcards

Trust Management Policies

Trust Models

Paper Submissions:

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Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously

submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with

authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers,

and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding

author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an

abstract of no more than 350 words. The full manuscript should be

at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages

will be charged additional fee. Please include page numbers on all

submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful

comments. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e.,

papers should not contain author names, affiliations, or obvious

citations). Please, submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript using

the conference web site submission link at:

http://www.diiga.univpm.it/~spalazzi/nicosia/submission/ .

Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum

of three reviews. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that

their papers will be presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will

be published by ECMS in the conference proceedings which will be

available at the time of the meeting.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop,

please contact the organizers.

Important Dates:

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Paper Submissions: ------------------------------ February 21, 2008

Acceptance Notification: --------------------------- March 21, 2008

Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ---------- April 17, 2008

Workshop Organizers:

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Ratan Kumar Guha

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

University of Central Florida,

4000 Central Florida Blvd.,

Orlando, FL 32816, USA

Phone: +1 (407) 823 2956

Fax: +1 (407) 823 5419

Email: guha (at) eecs.ucf (dot) edu [email concealed]

Luca Spalazzi

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell'Automazione

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Via Brecce Bianche

I-60131 Ancona, ITALY, EU

Phone: +39 071 2204829

Fax: +39 071 2204474

Email: spalazzi (at) diiga.univpm (dot) it [email concealed]

Workshop Program Committee:

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Jemal H. Abawajy Deakin University, Australia

Akshai Aggarwal University of Windsor, Canada

Bharat Bhargava Purdue University, U.S.A.

Mathieu Blanc Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France

Gianluca Capuzzi Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Egidio Cardinale Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Bernard Cousin IRISA, Université de Rennes, France

Stephen Farrell Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Dieter Hutter DFKI GmbH, Germany

Martin G. Jaatun SINTEF ICT, Norway

Jean-Francois Lalande LIFO, Université d'Orleans, France

Pil Joong Lee Chungnam National University, South Korea

Mark Manulis Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Jose Antonio Onieva González Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Alexander Pretschner ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Waleed W. Smari University of Dayton, USA

Willy Susilo University of Wollongong, Australia

Toshihiro Tabata Okayama University, Japan

Simone Tacconi Polizia di Stato, Italy

Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA

Soon Tee Teoh University of California, Davis, USA

Christian Toinard LIFO, Universite d'Orleans, France

Luis Javier Garcia Villalba Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Zonghua Zhang INRIA, IRCICA, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

If you have any questions about conference paper submission, please

contact Conference Program Chair:

Waleed W. Smari, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA,

Voice: (937) 229-2795, Fax: (937) 229-4529, Email:

Waleed.Smari (at) notes.udayton (dot) edu [email concealed] or consult the conference web site at

http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/08/.

For information about the ECMS conference in general, please contact

the General Conference Chairs:

Loucas S. Louca

(University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, email: lslouca (at) ucy.ac (dot) cy [email concealed]) and

Khalid Al-Begain

(University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK, email:

kbegain (at) glam.ac (dot) uk [email concealed]). The Multi Conference web site is at

http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2008/.

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