Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems

 

As part of The 2008 International Conference High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS’08)
and in Conjunction With The 22st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2008)

 

Nicosia, Cyprus

June 3 - 6, 2008

 

 

 

(Submission Deadline: February 21, 2008)

(Submission Deadline Extended: February 26, 2008)

 

 

 

 

Brief Description:

Providing high performance computing and security is a challenging task.  Internet, operating systems and distributed environments currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common attacks.  Adding security measures typically degrade performance.  This workshop addresses relationships between security and high performance systems in three directions.  First, it considers how to add security properties (authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, access control) to high performance computing systems.  In this case, safety properties can also be addressed, such as availability and fault tolerance for high performance computing systems.  Second, it covers how to use high performance computing systems to solve security problems.  For instance, a grid computation can break an encryption code, or a cluster can support high performance intrusion detection.  More generally, this topic addresses every efficient use of a high performance computing system to improve security.  Third, it investigates the tradeoffs between maintaining high performance and achieving security in computing systems and solutions to balance the two objectives.  In all these directions, various performance analyses or monitoring techniques can be conducted to show the efficiency of a security infrastructure.

 

The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer and network security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences.  Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. 

 

This workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:

·        Access Control

·        Accounting and Audit

·        Anonymity

·        Applied Cryptography

·        Authentication

·        Commercial and Industry Security

·        Cryptographic Protocols

·        Data and Application Security

·        Data/System Integrity

·        Database Security

·        Digital Rights Management

·        Formal Verification of Secure Systems

·        Identity Management

·        Inference/Controlled Disclosure

·        Information Warfare

·        Intellectual Property Protection

·        Intrusion and Attack Detection

·        Intrusion and Attack Response

·        Key Management

·        Privacy-Enhancing Technology

·        Secure Networking

·        Secure System Design

·        Security Management

·        Security for Mobile Code

·        Security for Specific Domains (e.g., E-Government, E-Business, P2P)

·        Security in IT Outsourcing

·        Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks

·        Security in Operating Systems

·        Security Location Services

·        Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures

·        Smartcards

·        Trust Management Policies

·        Trust Models

 

 

Paper Submissions:

Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.  Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 350 words.  The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional pages will be charged additional fee.  Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.  All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names, affiliations, or obvious citations).  Please, submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript using the conference web site submission link at:   http://www.diiga.univpm.it/~spalazzi/nicosia/submission/ . 

 

Only PDF files will be accepted.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop.  Accepted papers will be published by ECMS in the conference proceedings which will be available at the time of the meeting. 

 

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the organizers. 

 

 

Important Dates:

Paper Submissions:  ----------------------------------------         February 21, 2008

Acceptance Notification:  -------------------------------------        March 21, 2008

Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due:  -------------       April 17, 2008

 

 

Workshop Organizers:

Ratan Kumar Guha

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

University of Central Florida,

4000 Central Florida Blvd.,

Orlando, FL 32816, USA

Phone:     +1 (407) 823 2956

Fax:         +1 (407) 823 5419

Email:      guha@eecs.ucf.edu

 

Luca Spalazzi

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell'Automazione

Universitŕ Politecnica delle Marche

Via Brecce Bianche

I-60131 Ancona, ITALY, EU

Phone:     +39 071 2204829

Fax:         +39 071 2204474

Email:      spalazzi@diiga.univpm.it

 

 

Workshop Program Committee:

Jemal H. Abawajy                       Deakin University, Australia

Akshai Aggarwal                         University of Windsor, Canada

Bharat Bhargava                          Purdue University, U.S.A.

Mathieu Blanc                             Commissariat ŕ l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France

Gianluca Capuzzi                         Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Egidio Cardinale                          Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Bernard Cousin                           IRISA, Université de Rennes, France

Stephen Farrell                            Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Dieter Hutter                               DFKI GmbH, Germany

Martin G. Jaatun                          SINTEF ICT, Norway

Jean-Francois Lalande                 LIFO, Université d'Orleans, France

Pil Joong Lee                              Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Tech (POSTECH), S. Korea

Mark Manulis                              Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Jose A. Onieva                           Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Alexander Pretschner                  ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Waleed W. Smari                        University of Dayton, USA

Willy Susilo                                 University of Wollongong, Australia

Toshihiro Tabata                         Okayama University, Japan

Simone Tacconi                           Polizia di Stato, Italy

Carolyn Talcott                           SRI International, USA

Soon Tee Teoh                           University of California, Davis, USA

Christian Toinard,                        LIFO, Universite d'Orleans, France

Luis Javier Garcia Villalba            Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Zonghua Zhang                            INRIA, IRCICA, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

 

 

If you have any questions about conference paper submission, please contact Conference Program Chair:  Waleed W. Smari, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA,  Voice: (937) 229-2795,  Fax: (937) 229-4529,  Email: Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu or consult the conference web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/08/. 

 

For information about the ECMS conference in general, please contact the General Conference Chairs: Loucas S. Louca (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, email: lslouca@ucy.ac.cy) and Khalid Al-Begain (University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK, email:  kbegain@glam.ac.uk). The Multi Conference web site is at http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2008/.