1st IEEE Workshop on Security Aspects of Process and Services Engineering
SAPSE 2009
Seattle,Washington, July 20 - July 24, 2009
In conjunction with the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer
Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC 2009 co-located with
IPSJ/IEEE SAINT 2009

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http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2009/workshops/SAPSE2009.html

http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2009/



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PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE **** March 1st, 2009 ****
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New challenges arise in the area of processes and services engineering,
where research is devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented
applications and the goal is to provide effective solutions to the
development, deployment and management of the resulting software systems.
Security plays a fundamental role, since the resulting applications are
expected to function correctly and resist also to malicious attacks in
different and changing threat scenarios. Service integrators, software developers,
and service providers need to create novel methodologies, tools, and techniques
to take into account the security issues related to the development and use of
dependable services and service oriented applications. Even if recently many
standards providing basic properties and protocols for the secure composition
of business processes and services have appeared, many security problems need
to be addressed. The engineering of complex processes and service oriented
software still lacks powerful, effective methods and tools to build better,
more robust and more secure systems.

The SAPSE workshop is intended to provide a forum for presentation and discussion
of a wide range of topics related to the security aspects of software processes
and services engineering. Researchers from both academia and industry, working
in the areas of process engineering, service-oriented computing, and security
are invited to discuss state of the art solutions, novel issues, recent developments,
applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the
development and use of secure service oriented systems.

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

* Trust, security, and privacy in service oriented systems
* Secure business process composition
* Service dependability, survivability, and reliability
* Design and development of secure service oriented systems
* Security specification of service oriented systems
* Certification of service oriented systems
* Verification, validation and testing of security properties of service oriented systems

IMPORTANT DATES

March 1, 2009 Deadline for paper submission
April 10, 2009 Decision notification (electronic)
April 30, 2009 Camera-ready due

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the Electronic Submission Page.
The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference
proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Papers can be submitted as regular papers (six pages), and the acceptance will
depend on reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2009) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted
paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published
in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by an author.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

PC Chair

Stelvio Cimato
Department of Information Technology
University of Milan,
26013 Crema (CR), Italy
cimato@dti.unimi.it

Program Committee

Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
Carlo Blundo, University of Salerno, Italy
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Isao Echizen,National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain
Sigrid Guergens, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
George Spanoudakis, City University, UK

(to be completed)