Call for Papers
Security in Distributed Computing
Special Track of
Sunday July 13th - Wednesday July 16th,
2003
Boston, Massachusetts
Security and Distributed Computing are highly
related. The goal of the Security in Distributed Computing special track
of PODC is to increase cooperation and
interactions between the distributed computing community and the security
and cryptography communities, and to provide a forum for original research
related to security in distributed computing and systems. In addition to
regular presentations and brief announcements, we will have three stimulating
key note lectures reviewing important, challenging and controversial issues
in security and distributed computing, by:
The special track is an integral part of PODC; see
http://www.podc.org/podc2003/
for additional information. We solicit two kinds of submissions:
Regular presentations
of approximately 25 minutes accompanied by papers of up to 10 pages in
the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting
on original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. A
selection of the papers will be published by Springer-Verlag's journal
Distributed
Computing, continuing with a past collaboration.
Brief announcements
of approximately 10 minutes accompanied by one-page abstracts in the proceedings.
This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published
in other conferences. Longer versions expanding the brief announcements
will be collected at a web site.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Submission deadline: |
January 31, 2003 February
6, 2003 |
| Acceptance notification: |
April 2, 2003 |
| Camera-ready copy due: |
April 22, 2003 |
SCOPE of the Security Track:
We are soliciting research contributions on the design,
specification, implementation, application and theory of secure distributed
computing. We
welcome submissions on any topic in the intersection of security and distributed
computing, including but not limited to:
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Secure multiparty and two-party computations
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Secret sharing and verifiable secret sharing
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Resiliency to corruptions: distributed, forward and
proactive security
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Security, privacy and anonymity in the Internet and
in mobile communication systems
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Secure/security protocols and distributed algorithms
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Secure multicast and broadcast
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Denial of service (clogging) and its prevention
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Non-repudiation, certification and timestamping protocols
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Distribution of intellectual property and its (copyright)
protection
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Secure distributed marketplaces, auctions, and gambling
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Cryptographic protocols, including: authentication,
key management, and others
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Secure electronic commerce, banking and payment protocols
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Security for Peer to Peer computing
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Secure bandwidth reservation and QOS
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Distributed access control and trust management
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Secure mobile agents and mobile code
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Security for Storage Area Networks
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Marcos Aguilera |
HP Labs |
| Lorenzo
Alvisi |
U. Texas Austin |
| James
Aspnes |
Yale |
| Cynthia Dwork |
Microsoft |
| Juan
Garay |
Bell Labs |
| Vassos
Hadzilacos |
U. of Toronto, Canada |
| Amir
Herzberg |
Bar-Ilan U., Security
Track Chair |
| Gene Itkis |
Boston U. |
| Markus
Jakobsson |
RSA |
| Miroslaw
Kutylowski |
Wroclaw U. & Signet, Poland |
| Dahlia
Malkhi |
Hebrew U., Israel |
| Boaz
Patt-Shamir |
Tel-Aviv U., Israel |
| Erez
Petrank |
Technion, Israel |
| Rajmohan
Rajaraman |
Northeastern U. |
| Sergio
Rajsbaum |
UNAM, Chair |
| Antony
Rowstron |
Microsoft, Cambridge, UK |
| Roberto
Segala |
U. Verona, Italy |
| Amin
M. Vahdat |
Duke U. |
HOW TO SUBMIT
Electronic submissions are encouraged:
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Regular presentations only can be submitted by going to http://www.matem.unam.mx/podc/html/.
Do not submit brief announcements using this link!!!
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Brief announcements should be submitted by email to rajsbaum@math.unam.mx.
Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair,
Sergio Rajsbaum, by email,
rajsbaum@math.unam.mx,
to receive instructions.
SUBMISSIONS FORMAT
All electronic submissions must be in postscript or PDF format, and capable
of being previewed by ghostview (see hints
on creating them by Amir Herzberg). The cover page should include
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title,
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authors and affiliation,
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postal and e-mail address of the contact author,
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a brief abstract describing the work, and
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at the bottom of the brief abstract, in boldface, an indication
of non-student or student status, and
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an indication if this is a regular presentation or brief announcement.
It is recommended that each submission begin with a succinct statement
of the problem, summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of
their significance, all suitable for a non-specialist. Technical
development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow.
A submission for the REGULAR PRESENTATION
format should be no longer than 4,500 words (10 pages on letter-size paper
using at least 11-point font). Additional necessary details
may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion
of the program committee.
A submission for the BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT format
should be no longer than 3 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11-point
font. Authors of accepted brief announcements will have the option
of placing a link to a full version of their work on the conference web
site.
If requested by the authors, a submission that is not selected for a
regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement
format. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper
for a regular presentation.
Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines will be rejected
without consideration of their merits. Late papers will not be read
or considered.
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
A prize will be given to the best student paper. A paper is eligible
if at least one author is a full-time student at the time of submission.
This must be noted on the cover page. The program committee may decline
to make the award or split it.
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Last modified February 24, 2003