Sixth International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering

In conjunction with ARES 2012
August  2012

Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/

Preliminary Call for Papers
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Software security is about protecting information and ensuring that systems continue to function correctly even when under malicious attack. The traditional approach of securing a system has been to create defensive walls such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls around it, but there are always cracks in these walls, and thus such measures are no longer sufficient by themselves. We need to be able to build better, more robust and more “inherently secure” systems, and we should strive to achieve these qualities in all software systems, not just in the ones that “obviously” need special protection. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned for engineering secure and dependable software.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Secure architecture and design
• Security in agile software development
• Aspect-oriented software development for secure software
• Security requirements
• Risk management in software projects
• Secure implementation
• Secure deployment
• Testing for security
• Quantitative measurement of security properties
• Static and dynamic analysis for security
• Verification and assurance techniques for security properties
• Security and usability
• Design and deployment of secure services
• Secure composition and adaptation of services
• Teaching secure software development
• Lessons learned
• Experience reports on successfully attuning developers to secure software engineering

Important dates:

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers in CPS Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts, and number each page). Please consult the CPS Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

We solicit the submission of academic workshop papers (6 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or if it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews.

Contact author must provide the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Paper registration and submission is done through the ARES 2012 Paper Management System at the following address: https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ares2011

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the ARES conference and present the paper in the workshop. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

Double blind review: SecSE (and ARES) now require anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted paper contains no author names or obvious self-references.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published as ISBN proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), and will be available online through IEEE Xplore (EI indexing).

Journal special issue: Distinguished papers submitted to SecSE will be invited for possible publication in the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (ISSN 1947-3036 - http://www.igi-global.com/ijsse).

Organizing committee:

• Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• Lillian Røstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Riccardo Scandariato, KU Leuven, Belgium

Enquiries to the organizing committee may be sent to:
SecSE “replace with at-character” sislab.no

Program committee 

(to be confirmed)
Rubén Alonso, Visual Tools, Spain
Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College, USA
Ana Cavalli, GET/INT, France
Estibaliz Delgado, Tecnalia, Spain
Zeta Dooly, TSSG, Ireland
Christophe Feltus, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Ivan Flechais, University of Oxford, UK
Khaled M. Khan, Qatar University, Qatar
Andrea Lanzi, Institute Eurecom, France
Gary McGraw, Cigital, USA
Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Khalid Mughal, University of Bergen, Norway
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
Pierre Parrend, Proxiad, France
Holger Peine, FH Hannover, Germany
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Lillian Røstad, NTNU, Norway
Riccardo Scandariato, KU Leuven, Belgium
Christoph Schuba, Sun Microsystems Inc., USA
Nahid Shahmehri, Linköping University, Sweden
Torbjørn Skramstad, NTNU, Norway
Emin Tatli, Daimler TSS, Germany
Panagiotis Trimintzios, ENISA, EU 
Bart De Win, Ascure, Belgium
Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway University of London, UK 
George Yee, Carleton University, Canada
Gansen Zhao, South China Normal University, China
Mohammad Zulkernine, Queens University, Canada