[ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please pass it on to your colleagues and students who might be interested in contributing. ] Ninth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust ------------------------------------------------------ July 19-21, 2011 Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/pst2011 Call for Papers --------------- The PST2011 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) is being held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 19-21, 2011. PST2011 is the ninth such annual conference focusing on PST technologies. PST2011 provides a forum for researchers world-wide to unveil their latest work in privacy, security and trust and to show how this research can be used to enable innovation. EasyChair submission link of PST 2011: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pst2011. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Submission Deadline: March 20, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: May 9, 2011 Final Manuscript Due: May 22, 2011 PST2011 will include an Innovation Day featuring workshops and tutorials followed by two days of high-quality research papers whose topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following: * Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies * Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy * Critical Infrastructure Protection * Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation * Network and Wireless Security * Digital Rights Management * Operating Systems Security * Identity and Trust management * Intrusion Detection Technologies * PST and Cloud Computing * Secure Software Development and Architecture * Human Computer Interaction and PST * PST Challenges in e-Services, e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce * Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance * Network Enabled Operations * Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft * Digital forensics * PST and Web Services / SOA * Information Filtering, Data Mining & Knowledge from Data * Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity * National Security and Public Safety * Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments * Security Metrics * Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability * Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies * Access Control and Capability Delegation * Continuous Authentication * Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems High-quality papers in all PST related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publications elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will either be accepted as regular papers up to 8 pages and with oral presentations, or short papers of up to 2 pages with poster presentations. Up to 2 additional pages will be allowed in each category with over-length charges. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submissions. A copy of the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX and additional information about paper submission and conference topics and events can be found at the conference web site. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and by IEEE and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented. Some travel grants to students who are presenting their work in the conference will also be made available. Organizing Committee -------------------- Honorary Conference Chair: Andrew Vallerand, Director S&T Public Security, National Defense, Canada General Co-Chairs: Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada Amr M. Youssef, Concordia University, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Frederic Cuppens (Privacy), ENST-Bretagne, France Natalia Stakhanova (Security), University of South Alabama, USA Jianying Zhou (Trust), Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Workshop & Tutorial Chair: Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Poster Session Chair: Franois Cosquer, Alcatel Lucent, France Publication & Publicity Chair: Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa, Canada PST Steering Committee Chair: Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Conference Manager: Greg Sprague, National Research Council, Canada Local Arrangements: Benjamin Fung, Concordia University, Canada Webmaster: Ilia Goldfarb, National Research Council, Canada Finance and Registration: Linda Vienneau, National Research Council, Canada Privacy Theme ------------- Privacy concerns the operational policies, procedures and regulations implemented within an information system to control for the unauthorized use of, access to, or release of personal information held in any format. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to): * privacy preserving/enhancing technologies * identity management and biometrics * privacy and ubiquitous computing, e.g. RFIDs * reputation, privacy and communities * e-health and privacy * anonymity and medical research * employee privacy and network administration * privacy and location-based technologies and services * privacy and traceability * spyware and stalking * anonymity, pseudonimity and accountability * responding to hate speech, flaming and trolls * privacy and emergency management policies and technologies * vulnerable online users and privacy sensitization * evolving nature of lawful surveillance * smart cards and privacy * identity theft and management * privacy audits and risk analysis * evolving role of privacy officers Privacy Theme Chair: Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Privace Theme Committee: Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Alban Gabillon, Universit de la Polynsie Franaise, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Ernesto Damiani, Universit degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal Norm Archer, McMaster University Debra Grant, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada Steve Johnston, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University Teresa Scassa, University of Ottawa Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva Lisa Singh, Georgetown University Traian Truta, Northern Kentucky University Jens Weber, University of Victoria Security Theme -------------- Security addresses the various components of an information system that safeguard the data and associated infrastructure from unauthorized activity. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to): * access control * adaptive security and system management * analysis of network and security protocols * applications of cryptographic techniques * attacks against networks and machines * authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications * botnets * critical infrastructure security * firewall technologies * forensics and diagnostics for security * intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention * malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware * network infrastructure security * operating system security * public safety and emergency management * security architectures * security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments * techniques for developing secure systems * web security * wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security Security Theme Chair: Natalia Stakhanova, University of South Alabama, USA Security Theme Committee: Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Mike Burmester, Florida State University, US Alvaro A. Cardenas, Fujitsu Laboratories, US Anton Chuvakin, Security Warrior Consulting, US Mathieu Couture, CRC, Canada Jos M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Mohammed Houssaini Sqalli, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia H. Gunes Kayacik, Carleton University, Canada David Lie, University of Toronto, Canada Wei Lu, Keene State College, US Xinming Ou, Kansas State University, US Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, UK Nadia Tawbi, Universit Laval, Canada Julie Thorpe, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada Trust Theme ----------- Trust is a fundamental human behavior. It is necessary for people to function in social groups, and it forms the foundation for many of our organizations and relationships. The conference solicits original papers on any topic related to the personal, social, and economic aspects of trust. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to): * trust models * components and dimensions of trust * game theory and trusting behaviors * trust and risk * trust, regret, and forgiveness * perceptions of trustworthiness * trust management * automating trust decisions * attacks on trust * trust influences on security and privacy * economic drivers for trustworthy systems * cross-cultural differences * computing about trust * applications of trust * trust and economics * trust in e-commerce * reputation systems Trust Theme Chair: Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Trust Theme Committee: Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Universit degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Jordi Forne, UPC, Spain Xinyi Huang, I2R, Singapore Steve Kremer, INRIA, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Hui Li, Xidian University, China Joseph Liu, I2R, Singapore Sangjae Moon, Kyungpook National University, Korea Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Jose Onieva, University of Malaga, Spain Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Gunther Pernul, Universitt Regensburg, Germany Pierangela Samarati, Universit degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Yunlei Zhao, Fudan University, China Partners / Sponsors ------------------- * NRC-CNRC Canada * University of New Brunswick, Canada * Information Security Center of eXcellence (ISCX) * Concordia University, Montreal, Canada * National Cyberforensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), Canada PST'11