Subject: [Mipshop] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems

From: "Moustafa Youssef" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:48:30 -0400

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                   Call for Papers
       Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in
                    Sensor Networks and Systems
                            (DSSNS'2006)
                        http://www.dssns.org
                        In conjunction with
              2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week
        30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006)
            Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use
of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments, 
disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security 
surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that 
networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances 
the quality of these applications, recent research results have 
encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor 
networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive 
applications. Therefore to realize their potential, necessary 
dependability and security (D&S) measures have to be 
incorporated in the design and during the operation of SN&S. 
Dependability is usually specified using attributes like reliability, 
survivability, safety, maintainability, and availability in presence 
of failure, while security is specified by attributes like integrity, 
authenticity, confidentiality, and availability in presence of 
attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and
failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S 
services may span the deployed sensors to command nodes 
and likely beyond. It also involves D&S support at, and 
cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers from physical to 
application.

Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require 
non-conventional mechanisms due to many factors including: 
(1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of 
available resources such as energy, storage and computation; 
(2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers 
in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor 
networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical
protection, and (4) localization of impact is complicated due 
to the un-tethered nature of SN&S and of the potential 
attackers. In addition, D&S requirements may vary according
to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such 
as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of 
application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode 
of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), 
and time.

This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting 
recent research results on dependability and security in SN&S. 
Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following:

- Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational
models 
- Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data
- D&S architectures, protocols and tools
- Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
- Monitoring and evaluation techniques
- Robust clustering techniques
- Self-awareness and context-awareness 
- Resilient virtual infrastructures
- Autonomic and adaptive D&S support.
- Formal representation and verification of D&S properties
- Network inference support for D&S
- Quality of service provisioning
- Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S
- Privacy-aware D&S services
- Testbeds, simulation and visualization 
- Agent-based D&S management 
- SN&S support for D&S in larger information grids
- SN&S application development environments

Submission Guidelines
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For guidelines regarding paper submission, please refer to the
workshop’s 
website (http://www.dssns.org). Papers should contain original material 
and not be previously published, or currently submitted for
consideration 
elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column
double-space 
pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger. The first page should
include 
title, authors' contact information, abstract and five keywords. 

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:	November 7, 2005
Decision notification:	December 20, 2005
Final manuscript due:	January 20, 2006

The accepted papers will appear in a proceedings published by IEEE.
The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to

a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. 

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Mohamed Eltoweissy
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 

Mohamed Younis
University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Denis Gracanin
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: [email-masked]

Moustafa Youssef
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
E-mail: [email-masked] 

Program Committee
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Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA
David Carman, Johns Hopkins U.– Applied Physics Lab, USA
Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA
M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U., Egypt
Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA
Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA
Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA
Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA
David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France
Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California – Los Angeles, USA
John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA
Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA
Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany
Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia

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