Workshop on Metadata for Security - CFP

Federated Conference -- DOA, CoopIS, ODBASE 2003
Sicily, Italy
November 3-7 2003
WORKSHOP ON 
METADATA FOR SECURITY
 

Introduction
RDF-based metadata have become the cornerstone of intelligent Web-based 
environments, including knowledge management, e-learning and content management 
systems. Web-based applications increasingly rely on metadata expressing 
properties like structure, nature and purpose of network resources, as well as 
of the users requesting them, in terms of domain ontologies. Also, metadata are 
playing an important role in semantics-aware multimedia processing. A number of 
security issues around metadata management still need to be addressed. 
First of all, innovative techniques are needed aimed at protecting metadata 
from being disclosed or tampered with, especially in mobile computing 
environments, while preserving efficiency. Secondly, a new generation of 
security and privacy models and languages is needed, capable to fully exploit 
semantics representations. 
This workshop is aimed at offering to the international research community 
working on these and related issues a forum where research results can be 
presented, fostering multidisciplinary discussion on the role of metadata in 
security research. 
 
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
 
§       XML- and RDF-based metadata formats for security and identity management
§       Semantics representation in access policy models and languages
§       Semantics representation in digital rights management
§       Semantics-aware policy enforcement 
§       Metadata for mobile agents security
§       Metadata for Web services security
§       Metadata for multimedia security
§       Security and privacy ontologies
§       Ambient content access
§       Secure metadata processing
 
Submissions

Papers presenting research results, of 5-15 pages in length, including figures, 
should be submitted in electronic format (PostScript or PDF) to the Workshop 
Chair  at the address damiani-s2dqJKy1HM8+s48VBgLKIw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Accepted workshop contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag as a part 
of the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Distributed Objects 
and Applications (DOA).

Important dates

June 15, 2003 : Deadline for submission of papers 
August 1, 2003 : Notification of acceptance 
August 20, 2003 : Deadline for manuscripts of accepted papers 


Workshop Chair
 
Ernesto Damiani
Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Università di Milano - Polo di Crema, Italy
 

Program Committee
 
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università di Milano, Italy
Tharam Dillon, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Universitad Castilla-LA Mancha, Spain
Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA
Christian Geuer-Pollmann, University of Siegen, Germany
Phillip Hallam-Baker, Verisign, USA
Willem Jonker, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michiharu Kudo, IBM Research Labs, Tokyo, Japan
Pierangela Samarati, Università di Milano, Italy
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany 
Xin Wang, ContentGuard, USA
Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA

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