Workshop on Trust, Risk and Security Assessments for Network Dependability in Digital Ecosystems (TRSDE) to be held in conjunction with

The 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (scheduled to be held at Indianapolis, USA, on Aug. 19 (Wed.) to 21 (Fri.), 2009)


Call for Papers:
In order to take advantage of the ease with which interactions are facilitated as a result of the constant development and advancement of Digital Ecosystems technologies, users are inevitably adopting it in their lifestyle as a medium to achieve their objectives. At the same time, approaches needs to be proposed that would allow the users to totally ‘depend’ on those technologies and maximise their interaction experience through this medium, when they utilize it. Those technologies should help the users to mitigate or alleviate the possible threats and provide different avenues by which they can decide and choose one in order to achieve their objectives. In this context analysing concepts like Trust, Reliability, Security, Privacy and Risk would help the users to make informed judgements of what their level of dependability should be on the digital ecosystem application. To achieve this, this workshop is organized into 3 special tracks:
• Trust and Reliability
• Security and Privacy
• Risk Assessment and Management
The main objectives of this workshop are to bring such ideas together from different researchers from academia and industry, to discuss and identify the various assessment techniques of Trust, Reliability, Security, Privacy and Risk in the domain of Digital Ecosystems. We solicit papers in the area of trust, reliability, security and privacy assessment that help to facilitate dependability in the domain of Digital Ecosystems. The workshop seeks original contributions in all relevant areas but is not limited to:
• Methodologies for trustworthiness prediction
• Trust management system design and implementation
• Trust Assessment for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Reputation Assessment for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Risk Assessment for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Methodologies for Risk Mitigation in Digital Ecosystems
• Risk Quantification and Management methods for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Information Security and Authentication for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Security Assessment for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Privacy Preservation and Policy Administration for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Privacy Assurance and Privacy Risk Assessment for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems
• Data Mining techniques for assessment of Trust, Privacy, Security and Risk for Dependability in Digital Ecosystems

Paper Submission Guidelines:

Prospective authors of the workshop are invited to electronically submit a full paper (8 pages) of their original work following the IEEE instructions available on the website of the NBiS conference. Each paper will undergo a rigorous peer review process involving at least two reviewers. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors of accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting their final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the workshop. The paper submission site is located at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=trsde09.

Important Dates:
• Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March 2009
• Author Notification: 5th May 2009
• Author Registration Due: 1st June 2009
Workshop: 19th August 2009