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******** Call for Papers - Workshop PSPAE 2009******
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1st Workshop on Privacy and Security in Pervasive
e-Health and Assistive Environments (PSPAE 2009)

****** Proceedings published by ACM (electronic) *****

(in conjunction with 2nd International Conference on PErvasive
Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) 2009)
****** June 13, Corfu, GREECE **********

*** SPECIAL ISSUE Wiley's Security and Communication Networks****

* Selected papers from the Workshop will be invited to be considered for publication in
a special issue of Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, InterScience
*** http://www.interscience.wiley.com/security ****

** Workshop Web Site http://www.petrae.org/workshop.htm (please select PSPAE) **

** / Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:** /
* Policies and practices for access, authentication, authorization and auditing for health information systems
* Policies for sharing / exchange of patientʼs sensitive information
* Legislation issues related to handling of protected health information in pervasive e-health environments.
* Secure data access in e-health environments.
* Trust and privacy issues in e-health and assistive environments.
* Sensor network security for e-health environments.
* RFID, sensor networks and biometrics to enable security in e-health and assistive environments.
* Encryption, cryptographic techniques to ensure privacy and security in e-health.
* Case studies in respect to privacy and security in e-health environments
* Developing secure e-health and assistive infrastructures
* Interoperability of pervasive e-health and assistive environments with health organizations (e.g. hospitals).

******/ Conference Proceedings: /*********
ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and workshops and
the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings
Series (electronic) in the ACM Digital Library.. Authors should *use the ACM Word or LaTeX
style templates to prepare their articles. See: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms.
The Classification Scheme can be found at: http://www..acm.org/class/1998/

Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages.
Papers may be accepted either as full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages).
At least one author, of each accepted paper, is required to register and present the paper.


*******Important dates:************
*Paper Submission Deadline: */March 1, 2009 /*
*Notifications of Acceptance: */March 15, 2009/*

*WORKSHOP DATE: */JUNE 13, 2009/*

* Submission information:*

Interested authors should submit their contribution at the conference site (please goto www.petrae.org then --) choose workshops and select --) PSPAE.

At the end of the page under Submission Information please follow the link to the submission system)


***Workshop Chairs***
Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece

Petros Belsis, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece

*Workshop Program Committee*

*Matt Bishop (Keynote Speaker), University of California, Davis, USA
*Denise Anthony, Dartmouth College, USA
*Petros Belsis, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece
*Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
*Richard G. Golden, University of New Orleans, USA
*Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Aegean, Greece
*M. Eric Johnson, Dartmouth College, USA
*Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
*Zhengyi Le, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
*Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
*Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece
*Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
*Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
*Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
*Alexander Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
*Chistos Skourlas, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece
*Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington, USA