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 for Security and Privacy 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

• 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). Please submit papers to "IEEE International Workshop on Semantics, Security and Privacy" via Easychair. More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page.

To facilitate intra-disciplinary research, workshop participants will register at a special workshop rate without a full conference registration. Papers accepted by the workshop will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the workshop will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 3rd, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission

June 28th, 2011: Notification Date

July 15th, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alessandro Armando, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Institute

Terry Benzel, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

Alefiya Hussain, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

Hilarie Orman, Purple Streak Software

Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas Dallas

CONTACTS

• TC On Security and Privacy (TCSP), Hilarie Orman, hilarie@purplestreak.com

• TC On Semantic Computing (TCSEM), Phillip C-Y Sheu, psheu@uci.edu