WRAITS 2011 - 5th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS)

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Deadline: March 15, 2011 | Date: June 27, 2011

Venue/Country: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Updated: 2011-01-11 23:38:08 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

In conjunction with The 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Dependable Systems and Networks - DSN 2011

June 27, 2011

Hong Kong, China

http://wraits11.di.fc.ul.pt/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 15, 2011

Author notification: April 15, 2011

Final version: May 1, 2011 (hard)

OVERVIEW

The 5th edition of the Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant

Systems aims to continue the collaborative discourse on the challenges of

building intrusion-tolerant systems and innovative ideas to address them.

Intrusion Tolerance combines theoretical aspects of Fault

Tolerance and Security with the practical aspects of Systems and Software

Engineering distributed (networked) computing systems.

Researchers and practitioners now agree that "intrusion free" or

"unattackable" systems that are of any practical use are infeasible. As

recent events such as April 2010 BGP Hijacking and Stuxnet indicate,

networked computer based systems are increasingly susceptible to security

incidents-- be it accidentally or maliciously induced. We need systems that

can withstand, recover from and continue to provide meaningful service

despite such incidents. This year's workshop will focus on all aspects of

security and dependability that facilitate prevention or minimization of

the impact of such events on computing systems, and enable recovery and

continued function even if the events succeed in causing some damage.

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to

present designs, algorithms and architectures for intrusion tolerance,

new security mechanisms or novel use of existing mechanisms,

recent results, discuss open problems that still need research, and

challenging survivability problems in specific application and

domain areas.

Authors are invited to submit papers to the workshop, which will be held

in conjunction with the 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 27-30, 2011. Papers can

present ongoing work and/or speculative/futuristic ideas. Experimental

results or other forms of validation are especially encouraged. The

workshop papers will be published in a supplementary volume of the

conference proceedings.

TOPICS

Topics of interest related to advances in intrusion-tolerant systems

include, but are not limited to:

* Adaptive security and adaptation for intrusion tolerance

* Assessment and evaluation of intrusion-tolerant systems

* Assurance and survivability benefits of hardware and software

virtualization

* Automatic recovery and response techniques

* Biologically inspired defenses

* Byzantine fault tolerance

* Diversity and failure independence

* Intrusion tolerance in cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures

* Intrusion-tolerant web-scale systems

* Survivability and information assurance in the Cloud

* Theoretical limits/boundaries of intrusion tolerance

* Threat of botnet herds and surviving them

* Real world case studies

More information about the workshop can be obtained by emailing to

wraits11_AT_di.fc.ul.pt

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The workshop will accept two formats of papers: regular papers (maximum 6

pages) and position papers (maximum 2 pages). Position papers allow

researchers to present more speculative/futuristic ideas to stimulate

discussion and further work. Papers have to adhere to the IEEE Computer

Society camera-ready 8.5”x11” two-column camera-ready format, like regular

DSN papers. Instructions about how to submit papers can be found on the

web site http://wraits11.di.fc.ul.pt/ . More information about the

workshop can be obtained by email to the same address.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference

and present the paper at the workshop.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Partha Pal, BBN Technologies, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Byung-Gon Chun, Intel Labs Berkeley, USA

Miguel Correia, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Manuel Costa, Microsoft Research, UK

Todashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan

Ilir Gashi, City University of London, UK

Rüdiger Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Patrick Kreidl, MIT, USA

Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA

Marco Serafini, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Arun Sood, George Mason University, USA

Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Yu-Sung Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Saman Zonouz, University of Illinois, USA