2nd CFP: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems

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                   Second Call for Papers
       Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in
                    Sensor Networks and Systems
                            (DSSNS'2006)
                        http://www.dssns.org
                        In conjunction with
              2nd NASA/IEEE Systems and Software Week
        30th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW'2006)
            Columbia, Maryland, USA ~ April 24-28, 2006

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the potential use
of networked sensors in applications such as smart environments, 
disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, and security 
surveillance. While the initial view of the community was that 
networked sensors will play a complementary role that enhances 
the quality of these applications, recent research results have 
encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor 
networks and systems (SN&S) in such critical and sensitive applications.

Therefore to realize their potential, necessary dependability and 
security (D&S) measures have to be incorporated in the design and 
during the operation of SN&S. Dependability is usually specified 
using attributes like reliability, survivability, safety,
maintainability, 
and availability in presence of failure, while security is specified by 
attributes like integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and
availability 
in presence of attacks. D&S services accomplish tasks for attack and
failure prevention, detection and response. The scope of D&S services
may
span the deployed sensors to command nodes and likely beyond. It also 
involves D&S support at, and cross-cutting, the protocol stack layers 
from physical to application.

Achieving dependability and security in SN&S will require
non-conventional 
mechanisms due to many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly
constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage

and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large 
numbers in normal as well as harsh/hostile environments; (3) sensor 
networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical
protection, 
and (4) localization of impact is complicated due to the un-tethered
nature 
of SN&S and of the potential attackers. In addition, D&S requirements
may 
vary according to mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such

as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of 
application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of 
operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time.

This workshop will foster a forum for discussing and presenting recent 
research results on dependability and security in SN&S. Topics of
interest 
include, although not limited to, the following:

- Fault and intrusion-tolerant architectures, middleware and operational
models 
- Robust routing, storage, and processing of sensed data
- D&S architectures, protocols and tools
- Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
- Monitoring and evaluation techniques
- Robust clustering techniques
- Self-awareness and context-awareness 
- Resilient virtual infrastructures
- Autonomic and adaptive D&S support.
- Formal representation and verification of D&S properties
- Network inference support for D&S
- Quality of service provisioning
- Models, metrics, and measurements for D&S
- Privacy-aware D&S services
- Testbeds, simulation and visualization 
- Agent-based D&S management 
- SN&S  support for D&S in  larger information grids
- SN&S application development environments


Submission Guidelines
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For guidelines regarding paper submission, please refer to the
workshop’s 
website (http://www.dssns.org). Papers should contain original material 
and not be previously published, or currently submitted for
consideration 
elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 single-column
double-space 
pages in PDF format, font size 11 or larger. The first page should
include 
title, authors' contact information, abstract and five keywords. 

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:	November 7, 2005
Decision notification:	December 20, 2005
Final manuscript due:	January 20, 2006


The best paper will be recognized and selected papers will be invited to

a Special Issue of the Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. 

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Mohamed Eltoweissy
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: [email protected] 

Mohamed Younis
University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
E-mail: [email protected] 

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Denis Gracanin
Virginia Tech, USA
E-mail: [email protected]

Moustafa Youssef
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
E-mail: [email protected] 

Program Committee
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Farooq Anjum, Telcordia & U. of Penn, USA
David Carman, Johns Hopkins U.– Applied Physics Lab, USA
Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA
M. Nazih Elderini, Alexandria U, Egypt
Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Lab and U. of Idaho, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA
Shivakant Mishra, U. of Colorado, USA
Peng Ning, North Carolina State U., USA
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue U., USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion U., USA
David Simplot-Ryl, U. Lille, INRIA Futurs, France
Mani B. Srivastava, U. of California – Los Angeles, USA
John A. Stankovic, U. of Virginia, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Gene Tsudik, U. of California-Irvine, USA
Cliff Wang, Army Research Office, USA
Stephen D. Wolthusen, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany
Albert Zomaya, U. of Sydney, Australia