WSCS : Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security (WSCS)
       http://ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2012/wscs-website/wscs.php

CALL FOR PAPERS
An event of The IEEE Computer Society's Security and Privacy Workshops
http://ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2012/workshops.php
co-located with the Security and Privacy Symposium
May 24, 2012, The Westin Hotel, San Francisco, CA USA

Sponsored by
The IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committees:
    * Security and Privacy (TCSP)
    * Semantic Computing (TCSEM)

This workshop follows the successful September 2011 workshop (WSCSP)
at the International Semantic Computing Symposium. This new workshop
will explore additional topics and allow semantic computing
researchers to have more opportunity to interact with security
researchers.

Semantic Computing technologies derive and use semantics from content,
where "content" is wide-ranging: video, audio, text, conversation,
software, devices, actions, behavior, etc. Security technology
encompasses the specification of secure behavior as well as the
detection of insecure behavior over computer networks. The two
disciplines come together in this new and interesting combination, in
a synergy-seeking, cutting-edge workshop. The delimited notions of
semantics used within Security and Privacy provide a well-defined and
as yet unstudied domain for semantic modeling, automated semantic
interpretation, and inference, with clear practical uses and
opportunities for novel and imaginative research.

The workshop on Semantic Computing and Security addresses:
    * deriving semantics from data used for security and privacy research;
    * semantic verification of network activity; and
    * inferring the semantics of malicious free-form data, such as
      email and web pages.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
    * Network dataset curation through semantic derivation
    * Semantic MediaWiki for vulnerability sharing and detecting
      emergent security properties
    * Network security semantics, dynamic classification
    * Inferred semantics of malicious code
    * Semantic verification of network operations
    * Semantic specification and analysis of security experiment design
    * Semantic analysis of access control policies
    * Semantics of data acquisition and computation provenance
    * Semantic analysis of malware communication
    * Semantics-aware trust management

SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION

Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (maximum 8 pages) or
Short Papers (maximum 4 pages) using EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wscs12). Regular papers
will be evaluated according to normal research conference criteria
with respect to relevance, originality, and quality of the methodology
and writing. Work that is highly novel, controversial, or preliminary
can be submitted as a short paper.  Papers accepted by the workshop
will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Electronic media
with the proceedings will be distributed to attendees.

IMPORTANT DATES
    * Regular & Short Paper Submission deadline: February 28, 2012 (by 11:59
      PM, Pacific Standard time)
    * Notification to authors: March 31, 2012
    * Camera-Ready copy due: April 15, 2012
    * Registration opens: early March, 2012
    * Workshop: May 24, 2012

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
    * Alessandro Armando, University of Genova & Fondazione Bruno Kessler
    * Hilarie Orman, Purple Streak

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    * Alessandro Armando (co-chair), University of Genova & Fondazione Bruno
      Kessler
    * Terry Benzel, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
      California
    * L. Jean Camp, Indiana University
    * Bruno Crispo, University of Trento
    * Grik Denker, SRI International (pending)
    * Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
      California
    * Alefiya Hussain, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
      California
    * Hilarie Orman (co-chair), Purple Streak
    * Lalana Kagal, CSAIL, MIT
    * Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano

CONTACT
Hilarie Orman (hilarie @ purplestreak.com) & Alessandro Armando (armando @ fbk.eu)