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The 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SeceS'11)
In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr and ACM SIGAPP (pending)
Antonine University-Lebanon
June 9-10, 2011
http://seces.upa.edu.lb



Description
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Recently information technologies have invaded almost every aspect of our modern life.
The effects of the World Wide Web and more recently Web 2.0, computers, and telecommunications on societies
have emerged to cover new form of social cyberspace as reference to digital society or e-Society.
In fact, the e-Society is the result of an emerging era of digitalizing different forms of multimedia information
making time and space compression a constant evolving task.
E-Society represents a revolutionary change in the way people interact with each others’ beyond countries
boundaries. It provides individuals, such as end-users and organizations,
the ability to easily share and publish corporate data, visions, and strategies.
Nonetheless, with this emerging social interaction and the wide range of shared data,
several privacy and confidentiality concerns arise. Mechanisms used to harvest social information represent
a privacy threat for users in many situations and such concerns fall beyond security administrators’ duties
and target end-users in their daily tasks.
Approaches proposed in the literature to provide safe data publishing have several drawbacks related,
on one hand, to the heterogeneous types of data addressed, and, on the other hand, to complexity in
specifying privacy and security rules.


Topics
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The aim of the 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies is to pin down
the latest techniques, studies, and approaches related to security and privacy preserving in the
digital society in the following (but not limited) topics:

* Access control
* Content protection
* Data protection
* Database security
* Data association detection
* Data integrity
* Information hiding
* Inference detection
* Inference elimination
* Knowledge discovery and privacy
* Multimedia mining threats
* Multimedia security
* Multimedia privacy
* Multimedia hiding
* Network security
* Network intrusion detection
* Quantifying threat
* Social networks security
* Social networks privacy preserving
* Security and privacy policies
* Security metrics
* Secure cloud computing
* Watermarking and steganography
* Wireless and mobile security

Accepted papers will be published by ACM and fully indexed by ACM Digital Library and DBLP (pending).

Important Dates
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Full Papers Submission: March 31, 2011
Notification of Paper Acceptance: April 30, 2011
Camera Ready Papers: May 15, 2011


Submissions
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Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the conference website.
Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics.
At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

Keynotes (to be completed)
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Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Alban Gabillon, Université de la Polynésie Française, France


Workshop Chairs
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Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Bechara AL Bouna, Antonine University, Lebanon

International Program Committee (to be completed)
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Claudio A. Ardagna, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Wolter Pieters, University of Twente, Netherlands
Kouchi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University, USA
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Steve Barker, King’s College London, UK
Stefano Paraboshi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy