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Security in e-Science

Chair:
Professor Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow

Abstract

Submission details can be found below

In recent years, e-Science and e-Research more generally, has grown considerably and the scope of application now covers research domains from science and engineering through to the arts and humanities and the social sciences. For many disciplines e-Science/e-Research is not simply supporting access to and use of high performance computing (HPC) clusters for larger scale simulations. Instead many disciplines require user-oriented support for finer-grained security-driven collaborative models. This in turn requires addressing amongst other things, issues such as user-oriented authentication, authorization, trust, privacy and policy management. Many e-Science and e-Research projects have developed distinctive security analyses, requirements, and technical solutions for a variety of applications. The aim of this workshop is to capture the best practice and state of the art in e-Science and e-Research security. We are particularly interested in security models that address inter-disciplinary e-Research.

This workshop intends to provide a forum for researchers, developers and users working on security issues associated with e-Science and e-Research to exchange ideas and share experiences. The workshop will be a blend of invited talks, presentations of research papers, and discussions about the current status, emergent areas, and trends on security-related issues in e-Science and e-Research.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Elicitation and analysis of security requirements for e-Science and e-Research applications,
  • Analysis of security challenges, threats, risk and issues in e-Science and e-Research,
  • Security architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for e-Science and e-Research,
  • Trusted computing and its application to e-Science and e-Research
  • Models and techniques for authentication and identity management in e-Science and e-Research,
  • Models and techniques for authorization and access control in e-Science and e-Research,
  • Trust models and management for e-Science and e-Research,
  • Privacy mechanisms and management for e-Science and e-Research,
  • Policy models and policy management in e-Science and e-Research,
  • Information assurance for e-Science and e-Research applications
  • Security issues and solutions for data providers and data users,
  • Model and frameworks for security-driven workflows,
  • Supporting end-end security solutions for e-Science and e-Research,
  • User-driven security models for e-Science and e-Research,
  • Software engineering best practice in the development of security software,
  • Security models and analysis for emerging paradigms including Clouds and Web 2.0 based solutions

We especially welcome experiences and case studies on the practical application of e-Science and e-Security security models and solutions.

The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Paper should be submitted in PDF format to the IEEE e-Science conference submission system.

The proceedings of this workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper.

Submission Deadlines

Short contributions (up to four pages), which may state a position or describe a development or research outcome are invited, using the normal IEEE paper formatting guidelines.

First drafts: 25th September 2009

Notification of acceptance: 2nd October 2009

Final papers due: October 14th 2009.

All papers should be sent to Prof Richard O. Sinnott (r.sinnott@nesc.gla.ac.uk)

Please note that these are 'hard' deadlines, and it will unfortunately not be possible to grant any extensions.

 

 

Programme Committee

Prof. Richard Sinnott (National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Dr. John Watt (National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Jipu Jiang (National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Anthony Stell (National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Gordon Stewart (National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Christopher Bayliss ((National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow)
Prof. David Chadwick, University of Kent
Dr. Mike Jones (University of Manchester)