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Call for Papers ********************************
Identity in the Information Society (IDIS)
Special Section: Identity Management in
Grid and SOA
Submission guidelines:
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) represents the guiding principle in current aa aaapplications
development, which aims at improving architecture flexibility, integration with
existing applications and data integration. Traditional infrastructure
technologies fail to meet the new needs posed by SOA-compliant applications and
the continuously growing requirements for availability, flexibility and
scalability. In providing infrastructure resources by means of services,
Service Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) can fill the gap and provide a basis for
the realisation of SOA. One approach to SOI is the Grid, which has recently
advanced from supporting high-performance applications to enabling complex
collaborations among various users and systems of different expertise and
differing levels of authorisation.
In addition to the
research community, both commercial and industrial sectors have shown interest
in adopting Grid solutions as a way of improving service provision and business
agility and of increasing profitability. The Grid offers the infrastructure
required for efficiently adopting SOA solutions by aggregating and coordinating
various resources ranging from computing power and storage to applications and
human expertise, serving users with different Quality of Service (QoS)
requirements.
Any collaboration
involves interactions, knowledge sharing and information exchange. In a SOI
environment this collaboration is translated into access and control of
resources that may be heterogeneous, dynamic, geographically dispersed,
self-autonomic, may have complex dependencies, and may belong to various security
domains with different policies governing access control and security.
Given the nature of
business processes and collaborations, security is of paramount importance to
the implementation of SOI. However, the distributed nature of access to
and management of resources raises many concerns in identity management:
confidentiality, data protection and privacy, traceability, non-repudiation,
integrity, access control, trust and policy enforcement. Indeed, considerable
barrier to the adoption of Grid solutions in the public and private sectors
lies in possible breaches of security and privacy and their implications:
social, economic, legal and organizational. Better understanding of these
implications could enable a wider adoption of SOI.
This Call for Papers
seeks research on SOI from all these perspectives.
Topics for this special
issue include, but are not limited to:
• Secure
SOA-based/Grid-based Enterprise Architectures
• Security and
Privacy issues in SOI
• User management
in Grid Portals
• Mobile Identity
Management
•
Privacy-preserving techniques
• Trust Models
and Trust Establishment
• Security as
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Business models
for Grids
• Models for
authentication and privacy management in SOI
•
Identity-related scientific, business, industrial, legal and social
implications of SOI
• Audit and
accountability in SOI
• Futuristic
SOA/Grid Business/Social Scenarios (e.g., law enforcement, supply chain
management, e-Science, e-commerce, etc)
Submission guidelines:
Papers should be between
4,000-6,000 words. An abstract of no more than 250 words should describe in a
clear and concise manner the key issues discussed in the paper. Four key words
or more should follow the abstract. Please submit your paper as a MS word
document using the template and formatting guidelines provided.
The papers should
clearly state how they relate to the special section, what particular problem
and corresponding solution they address, and why it is expected to be relevant
to both the special section and the relevant scientific community.
Important Dates:
Submission of full papers:
12-Dec-08
Feedback from peer review to
authors: 10-Apr-09
Submission of revised papers:
19-Jun-09
Publication in IDIS Journal:
01-Sep-09
Special
section Guest Editor
Prof. Dora Varvarigou (
e-mail: dora@telecom.ntua.gr
Guest
Associate Editor
Vassiliki Andronikou (
e-mail: vandro@telecom.ntua.gr
For more information : http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/journal/12394