Workshop on Security in Information Systems (2nd edition)

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                       CALL FOR PAPERS                

 SECOND WORKSHOP ON SECURITY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS (WOSIS 2004)
               April 13-14 2004 Porto, Portugal
       http://www.iceis.org/workshops/sis/sis2004-cfp.html


To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on
Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), www.iceis.org. Universidade 
Portucalense, 14-17 April 2004 Porto, Portugal




Chairs

Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Medina [Eduardo.FdezMedina-XqXSWs7ty5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Dr. Julio César Hernández Castro 
[jcesar-UfCaASi3Y6wxAGwisGp4zA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain

Dr. Luis Javier García Villalba 
[javiergv-TdJaJO1KUsTe5aOfsHch1g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain



Workshop Background and Goals

Information Systems Security is one of the most pressing challenges facing
all kind of organisations today. Although many companies have discovered how
critical information is to the success of their business or operations, very
few have managed to be effective in keeping their information safe, in
avoiding unauthorised access, preventing intrusions, stopping secret
information disclosure, etc.

Nowadays, rapid technological advances are stimulating a greater use of
information systems in organisations world-wide, which handle large
quantities of data, managed by huge databases and datawarehouses. In
addition, information systems quite frequently manage information that can
be considered sensitive, since it is related to certain intimate or personal
aspects of persons (beliefs, medical data, sexual tendencies, etc.) and
which must be specially protected.

Many organisations, including not only companies but also governments of
several countries, are now realising how security problems can affect both
business success and citizen rights, and they are proposing security
policies, security planning, personal data protection laws, etc.

All of these, including technological, legislative, ethical and political
factors, justifies the importance of secure information systems, and
encourage us to research in new techniques, models and methodologies, which
could aid designers developing and implanting safe information systems which
both protect information and keep within the law.

This workshop will serve as a forum to gather academics, researchers,
practitioners and students in the field of security in information systems.
The workshop will present new developments, lessons learned from real world
cases, and would provide the exchange of ideas and discussion on specific
areas.



Topics of interest

Methodologies for security information systems development
Access control techniques
Personal data protection
Information systems risk analysis
Security in databases, datawarehouses and web information systems
Secure information systems architectures
Standards for information systems security
Metadata for Web and multimedia security
XML and RDF based metadata for security
Security Engineering
Assessment of security software/hardware
Study, validation and attacks on security protocols
Real world applications analysis
Information hiding: Steganography & Steganalysis
Peer-to-Peer systems
Analysis and design of cryptographic algorithms
Emission security
Attacks on copyright marking systems
Reliability of security systems
Security of clinical information systems
Privacy and freedom issues



Format of the Workshop

The workshop will consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of the
workshop will be published in the form of a book by ICEIS.



Journal Special Issue

The organisers of the Workshop and the publishers of the Information Systems
Security Journal (www.auerbach-publications.com) have agreed to publish a
special issue of the Journal, with extended and revised versions of some
selected papers.



Keynote Speaker

Prof. Yvo Desmedt, Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University
and renowned specialist in Computer Security, will be the Keynote speaker of
the Workshop.



Submission of Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in
any of the topics listed above. Only full papers in English will be
accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000
words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex
formats) are available in the ICEIS web page. Postscript/RTF versions of the
manuscript should be submitted through ICEIS web-based paper submission
procedure.



Important Dates

Full paper submission: December 15, 2003
Author notification: January 30, 2004
Camera-ready: February 15, 2004



Workshop International Programme Committee

Claudia Barenco. University of Brazilia, Brazil
Ian Brown. FIRP & University College London, UK
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ernesto Damiani. Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ed Dawson. Information Security Research Center, Queensland, Australia
Markus Dichtl. Siemens AG, München, Germany
Csilla Farkas. University of South Carolina, USA
Christian Geuer-Pollmann. European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany
Narayana Jayaram. North London University, London, UK
Willem Jonker. University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mario Piattini. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jean-Jacques Quisquater. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Mohamed Salim Bouhlel. National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia
Simon Sheperd. Bradford University, Bradford, UK
José María Sierra. Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain
Jacques Stern. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Robert Tolksdorf. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Ambrosio Toval. University of Murcia. Spain
Serge Vaudenay. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Swizertland
Duminda Wijesekera. University George Mason, USA



Conference Location

The workshop will be held at the Universidade Portucalense in Porto,
Portugal.



Registration Information

To attend the workshop you need to register at http://www.iceis.org



Secretariat

ICEIS Secretariat
The Second International Workshop on Security In Information Systems
Rua Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal
Fax: +351 265 721 869 Tel: +351 265 790 000
E-mail: workshops-7evW/5PWwybYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web site: www.iceis.org


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