Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about two security-related events: the STM2008 and IFIPTM2008 conferences that take place later this year in Europe (Norway). I apologise in advance to those subscribers that do not have interest in the contents of this email. Please find enclosed the initial call for papers for STM 2008. The annual event on security and trust management sponsored by ERCIM - a pan-European consortium of Research and Innovation Institutes. This year, the STM event takes place in conjunction with IFIP-TM 2008, IFIP's official Trust Management conference. The proceedings of STM2008 will be published as a part of the ENTCS series (Elsevier). Furthermore, selected papers will be published in a special edition of the Wiley's Journal on Security and Communication Networks. Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the ERCIM STM Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management. Please encourage suitable recent postdoctoral or Ph.D. students finishing their degree, to apply. (The deadline to enter the competition is February 20th). Regards, Theo Dimitrakos, PhD Technical Group Leader, SOA Security Research, BT Group Chief Technology Office ________________________________________________________ [Apologies for multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS STM 2008 4th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management URL: http://http://www.isac.uma.es/stm08 To be held in conjunction with IFIP TM 2008 June 16-17th, 2008 Trondheim, Norway _____________________________________________________________ GENERAL DESCRIPTION STM08 is the fourth international workshop under the auspices of the Security and Trust Management working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2008 has at least the following aims: * To investigate the foundations and applications of security and trust in ICT. * To study the deep interplay between trust management and common security issues such as confidentiality, integrity and availability. * To identify and promote new areas of research connected with security management, e.g. dynamic and mobile coalition management (e.g., P2P, MANETs, Web/GRID services). * To identify and promote new areas of research connected with trust management, e.g. reputation, recommendation, collaboration etc. * To provide a platform for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Semantics and computational models for security and trust. * Security and trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies. * Networked systems security. * Privacy and anonymity. * Identity management. * ICT for securing digital as well as physical assets. * Cryptography. The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions discussing the application and deployment of security technologies in practice. During STM08 there will be the ERCIM STM Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management (http://www.iit.cnr.it/STM-WG/best-thesis.pdf). PAPER SUBMISSION: 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 must have authors' affiliation and contact information on the first page. Papers are limited to 12 pages in ENTCS style format (using the ENTCS instructions available at http://www.entcs.org). Excessively long papers will be returned without review. As for the previous editions, accepted papers will be published in a post-workshop ENTCS volume. To submit a paper, please visit http://www.easychair.org/STM08/. A special issues on a journal for the best papers accepted is also planned. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 2, 2008 Paper submission deadline : April 9, 2008 Authors notification : May 10, 2008 Camera ready due : June 1, 2008 COMMITTEE General chair: Javier Lopez, (University of Malaga, Spain) Program chairs: Theo Dimitrakos (BT, UK) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Program committee: Vijay Atluri (Rutgers University, USA) Luciano Bononi, (University of Bologna, Italy) Levente Buttyan (BUTE, Hungary) Joris Claessens (Microsoft EMIC, Germany) Jim Clarke (WIT, Ireland) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Christian Damsgaard Jensen (DTU, Denmark) Maria Carmen Fernandez-Gago (University of Malaga, Spain) Stefania Gnesi (CNR, Italy) Peter Herrmann (NTNU, Norway) Guenter Karjoth (IBM Research, Switzerland) Sami Lehtonen (VTT, Finland) Ninghui Li (Purdue University, USA) Luigi Logrippo (University of Ottawa, Canada) Volkmar Lotz (SAP Research, France) Sjouke Mauw (University of Luxemburg, LU) Stig F. Mjoelsnes (NTNU, Norway) Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University, USA) David von Oheimb (Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany) Daniele Quercia (University College London, UK) Jean-Jacques Quisquater (University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Michel Riguidel (ENST, France) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) Jean-Marc Seigneur (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Ketil Stoelen (SINTEF, Norway) Makoto Takizawa (Tokyo Denki University, Japan) Walter Thomas (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany) Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Will Winsborough, (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)