SAW 2014 - The International Software Assurance Workshop to be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2014 – http://www.ares-conference.eu)

8th – 12th September 2014
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Fribourg, Switzerland

Software security is drawing more attention from the software engineering community, in part due to the many highly publicized attacks exploiting software vulnerabilities. Software increasingly affects our daily lives: our social networks, our automobiles, our smart home systems, our smart phones, and our financial well-being.

Although many attempts have been made to improve software security over the years, the focus of these efforts has traditionally been limited to just a few tools and techniques such as static analysis, penetration testing, and secure coding.

We believe that the scope of software security is much wider than those heavily studied research areas and would like to invite researchers to explore other facets of software security, which have not been as thoroughly studied.

******** Topics ********
Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to:

* Software safety and its relationship to security
* Secure software design/architecture
* Security frameworks and their adoption
* Security analysis tools and methods
* Software security metrics
* Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and software security Secure software development process
* Software security risk management
* IT auditing and its relationship to secure software engineering
* Business continuity planning and its relationship to secure software engineering
* Malware detection/intrusion detection
* Obfuscation and software security

******** Important Dates ********

Submission Deadline April 7th, 2014
Author Notification May 19th, 2014
Author Registration June 10th, 2014
Proceedings Version June 20th, 2014
Conference September 8th – 12th, 2014

******** Workshop Chairs ********
Rick Kazman
University of Hawaii/Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA
Jungwoo Ryoo
Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Simon Tjoa
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

******** Program Committee ********
Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii/Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA
Dae-Kyoo Kim, Oakland University, USA
Suntae Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sebastian Schrittwieser, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Paul Tavolato, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Eunjee Song, Baylor University, USA
Moussa Ouedraogo, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

******** Submission ********
The submission guidelines valid for the SAW workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. For further details we kindly refer to http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/conference/submission/