2004 ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS)

October 29th, 2004
George W. Johnson Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Held in conjunction with the Eleventh ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-11)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The main security protocols for Web Services, such as XML Security, WS Security, SAML, and XACML
are now available or close to completion. Soon, we will have a basic set of building blocks for
securing Web services and GRID computing. However, a number of challenges are still to be met for Web
services and GRID nodes to be fully secured and trusted. Also, the trend toward representing Web
services semantics via Semantic Web standards such as RDFS and OWL is fostering the evolution of
current security models and languages to deal with secure and trusted Web services orchestration.
The SWS workshop explores these challenges, ranging from the advancement and best practices of
building block technologies such as XML and Web services security protocols to higher level issues such
as advanced metadata, trust establishment, risk management, and service assurance. This workshop
continues the successful series of XML Security Workshop.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Web services and GRID computing security
- Authentication and authorization
- Trust establishment and management
- Semantics-aware Web service security and Semantic Web
- Secure orchestration of Web services
- Privacy-and digital identities support
- Security ontologies
- Platform trust (Web services exploitation of Trusted Computing)

Important Dates

Paper submissions due:
August 20th, 2004 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

Acceptance notifications:
August 31, 2004

Camera-ready papers due:
September 30, 2004

Program Committee

• Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University, Australia
• Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universit?di Milano, Italy
• Tharam Dillon,University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, Universitad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA
• Willem Jonker, Philips Research and University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Pierangela Samarati, Universit?di Milano, Italy
• Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
• Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research
• Selim Aissi, Intel
• Raghavan N. Srinivas, Sun
• Mario Jeckle, University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany

Submission instructions

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them.
Papers should have a cover page with the title, authors, abstract and contact information.
To submit a paper, send to maruyama@jp.ibm.com a plain ASCII text email containing the title and abstract of your paper, the authors' names, email and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and identification of the contact author. To the same message, attach your submission (as a MIME attachment) in PDF or portable Postscript format. Please do NOT send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files).
Papers must be received by the deadline of July 30, 2004. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the authors no later than August 31, 2004, and authors will have an opportunity to revise their work for preproceedings version by September 30, 2004.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
During the workshop, preproceedings will be made available.
It is planned to publish selected revised full papers in an edited collection after the workshop.
Final versions are not due until after the workshop, giving the authors the opportunity to revise their papers based on discussions during the meeting.

General Chair

Vijay Atluri
Rutgers University, USA
Program Chairs
Ernesto Damiani
Computer Technology Department
University of Milan, Italy
email: damiani@dti.unimi.it
phone: 0373-898064
fax 0373-898010

Hiroshi Maruyama
IBM Tokyo Research, Japan
email: maruyama@jp.ibm.com
phone: 46-215-4576
fax: 46-273-7428

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