Workshop Call for Papers
W2SP 2010: Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2010
Thursday, May 20The Claremont Resort, Oakland, California
Previous W2SP Workshops: 2009, 2008, 2007
The goal of this one day workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Web 2.0 security and privacy issues, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Web 2.0 is about connecting people and amplifying the power of working together. An ongoing explosion of new technology is powering increasingly complex social and business interactions as well as enabling an unprecedented level of unmediated information exchange and horizontal organization. These interactions rely on composition of content and services from multiple sources, commonly called mash-ups, leading to systems with complex trust boundaries. This trend is likely to continue because individuals, businesses, and other organizations desire the simplicity, efficiency, and utility these technologies offer.
Though these technologies have had many positive effects, they raise issues about management of identities, personal safety, reputation, privacy, anonymity, transient and long-term relationships, and composition of function and content, both on the server and on the client side (web browsers and mobile platforms). Although many of the underlying security and privacy issues are not new, the use of these technologies by very large and disparate populations raises new questions. This workshop is intended to discuss the limitations of current technologies and explore alternatives.
The scope of W2SP 2010 includes, but is not limited to:
- Trustworthy cloud-based services
- Usable security and privacy
- Security and privacy as a service
- Security for the mobile web
- Identity management and psuedonymity
- Web services/feeds/mashups
- Security and privacy policies for composible content
- Next-generation browser technology
- Secure extensions and plug-ins
- Advertisement and affiliate fraud
Potential workshop participants should submit a paper on topics relevant to Web 2.0 security and privacy issues. We are seeking both short position papers (2–4 pages) and refereed papers (a maximum of 8 pages, including references and appendices). Papers longer than 8 pages may be automatically rejected by the chair or workshop committee. From the submissions, the program committee will strive to balance participation between academia and industry and across topics. Selected papers will appear on the workshop web site; W2SP has no formal published proceedings.
Workshop Co-Chairs
- Larry Koved (IBM Research)
- Dan S. Wallach (Rice University)
Program Chair
- Collin Jackson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Program Committee
- Ben Adida (Harvard University)
- Dirk Balfanz (Google)
- Adam Barth (UC Berkeley)
- Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov (University of British Columbia)
- Suresh Chari (IBM Research)
- Hao Chen (UC Davis)
- Collin Jackson (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Martin Johns (SAP Research)
- Rob Johnson (Stony Brook University)
- Engin Kirda (Institute Eurecom)
- Larry Koved (IBM Research)
- Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University)
- John C. Mitchell (Stanford University)
- Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)
- Dan S. Wallach (Rice University)
- Helen Wang (Microsoft Research)
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (11:59pm US-Eastern)
Workshop acceptance notification date: April 11, 2010
Workshop date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Workshop paper submission web site: http://submissions.w2spconf.com/
Registration: Workshop registration is available on-site.