Call for Papers

The Web services technology has attracted significant momentum in both academia and industry in the recent years, and has been changing the Internet from a repository of data into a repository of services. However, the extensive adoption of Web services technology has been largely hindered by its security issues, among others. Although basic security protocols for Web services, such as the WS-* series of proposals, SAML, and XACML, have been established, a number of fundamental security problems remain unsolved. Additional models and mechanisms are needed to enable the specification of high-level security policies, the automatic derivation and setting of security policies, semantics-aware security management, inter-organizational trust establishment, and so on.

This workshop aims to provide an international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services security control and management. Special focus is put on the issues of security (attacks, confidentiality, access control, authentication, etc.) and trust (trust assessment, reputation management, etc.) related to Web services.

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

•    Trust and reputation management in Web services
•    Integrity management in Web Services
•    Context-/Situation-/Semantics-aware Web services security
•    Security assessment and threat analysis in Web services
•    Privacy and digital identity in Web Services
•    Trust models and negotiation in Web services
•    Secure and privacy-preserving Web service discovery and composition
•    Inter-organizational trust relationship establishment
•    Access control in Web services
•    Security policy languages, reasoning and enforcement techniques for Web services
•    Statistical models for trust in Web services
•    Cyber situation awareness in service systems
•    Trust/risk-based security frameworks for Web services
•    Tradeoffs of security and other QoS
•    Case studies, prototypes and experiences in Web services security control

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). You can download the paper template in word format here.

Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using the online submission and review system. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the SERVICES 2009 by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: March 16, 2009
Decision Notification (Electronic): no later than April 2, 2009
Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration: April 17, 2009

Organization

Workshop Co-chairs and Co-organizers
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA