CFP:TSWSS'04: Technical Session on Web Services Security

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                       CALL FOR PAPERS                
 

   1st Technical Session on Web Services Security (TSWSS'2004) 
  Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 21-24, 2004)
            http://alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/tswss2004/

            To be held in conjunction with The 2004 
    International Symposium on Web Services and Applications 
      (ISWS'04: June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) 
            http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


Background and Goals

Web Services represent tremendous benefits in terms of productivity, 
efficiency, and accuracy. But, while they offer attractive advantages, 
Web Services also present important risks relating to privacy and 
security. Web Services provide a way of exposing valuable data, 
applications, and systems to a variety of external threats. 
Although Web Services encourage the activity of new promising 
business, appropriate protection is a requirement for the success of 
these businesses. Terms such as Confidentiality, Integrity, 
Accountability, Availability, Authentication, Authorization, etc., 
assume a crucial role in the context of Web Services. 

This technical session will provide a forum to discuss the current 
state of the art and the practice in the field of web services 
security. A blend of researchers and practitioners from industry and 
academia is expected to share recent advances in the field, success 
or failure stories, lessons learned from actual world cases, and will 
seek out as yet unidentified fundamental problems arising in this 
field that will have chances to become good research opportunities.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to 

    Secure Web Services Architectures 
    Security and Privacy Issues in Web Services Applications 
    Web Services Security Standards  
    Metadata for Web Services Security
    Secure SOAP Messaging 
    Secure UDDI Management 
    XML Encryption and Digital Signatures 
    Secure Web Services Orchestration 
    Web Services Security Risk Management and Evaluation 
    Actual Case Studies in Web Services Security  
    Future Research Trends 


Format

TSWSS'2004 aims to shed some light on recent research results and 
to point out future research directions that might interest not 
only the academic community but also industry. We consider two 
categories of papers:

    Regular Papers: 7-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.
    Short Papers: 4-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings.

All accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings 
to be distributed to the participants.


Journal Special Issue

The organisers of the technical session and the editor-in-chief of 
the Journal of Internet Security (http://www.addsecure.net/JiSec/) 
have agreed to publish an special issue of the Journal, with 
extended and revised versions of some selected papers of this 
technical session.


Rules for attending

Potential attendees must submit papers in English. All submitted 
papers will be formally reviewed by the technical session organizers 
for originality, relevance, quality and clarity. All authors of 
accepted submissions will be invited to participate in the technical 
session. We especially encourage the submission of new ideas, even 
if not supported by validated research. All submissions must include 
the author(s) name, affiliation, phone, fax and e-mail address. 

Submission address: eduardo.fdezmedina-XqXSWs7ty5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Important Dates

- Abstract Submission due date (paper submission intention): 
                 As soon as possible. 
- Paper Submission due date: 
                 March 12, 2004 
- Notification of acceptance: 
                 March 22, 2004
- TSWSS'2004 Technical Session on Web Services Security: 
                 June 21-24, 2004


Constraints about number of attendees

Minimum number of attendees: 10
Maximum number of attendees: 50


Contact info and affiliation of the organizers

Eduardo Fernández-Medina. 
Paseo de la Universidad, nº 4.
Alarcos Research Group. 
Escuela Superior de Informática. 
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 
Ciudad Real. Spain.
Phone: (34) 926 295300 Ext. (3744)
Fax: (34) 926 295354
E-mail: eduardo.fdezmedina-XqXSWs7ty5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mario Piattini.
Paseo de la Universidad, nº 4.
Alarcos Research Group. 
Escuela Superior de Informática. 
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 
Ciudad Real. Spain.
Phone: (34) 926 295300 Ext. (3715)
Fax: (34) 926 295354
E-mail: Mario.Piattini-XqXSWs7ty5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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