[DMANET] CFP - Workshop on Active Security through Multi-Agent Systems 2014

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        CALL  FOR  CONTRIBUTIONS

Workshop on Active Security through Multi-Agent Systems
                   (WASMAS 2014)

              in Conjunction with
The 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems  (PAAMS 2014)
                 4 - 6 June 2014
                Salamanca, Spain
     http://www.paams.net/wasmas14


***** IMPORTANT DATES *****
20th January 2014:  Works submission
24th February 2014:  Acceptance notification
10th March 2014:  Camera-ready papers
4-6 June 2014:  Conference dates


***** PUBLICATION *****

ALL accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2014 Proceedings,
published in CCIS Series of Springer.

Format, extension and submission of contributions are the same
specified for PAAMS main track (http://www.paams.net/).


***** SCOPE  *****

Security is an essential issue to be covered by current information and
communication technologies, as services provided both to systems and
users must be reliable. However, most available security related
solutions mainly rely on the deployment of prevention and/or detection
schemes. This in some sense passivity of the defense system limits in
several aspects its capabilities and thus those of the overall
environment.

Given the increasing complexity of networking and communication systems
at present, proactive security solutions offer a number of benefits with
respect to passive security solutions. As such, novel and effective
proactive security related approaches are highly encouraged. Adoption of
these new technologies and methodologies will contribute to increase the
robustness of the environment by leveraging concepts such as response,
collaboration, tolerance, auto-configuration and adaptability, etc.

In this context, the goal of the WASMAS workshop is to contribute new
advances and trends in the use and deployment of agent-like security
related systems, that is schemes composed of pro-active elements with
acting capacities. It is expected that this kind of systems will be of
indubitable help for developing next generation networks, services and
systems.


***** TOPICS *****

Several main topics in the field of security and protection of
services, users, systems and infrastructures, but not limited to them,
are:

- Anti-spoofing robust solutions
- Self-protection and adaptive systems
- Collaborative authentication
- Localization and position-based security
- Non-legitimate events active detection
- Tolerance and survivability
- Auto-configurable environments
- Mobility and pro-active security
- Robust access control
- Active defenses and hacking back strategies
- Resilience against maliciousness
- Collaborative and distributed systems for security
- Defenses against collusion attacks
- Agent-based systems and RoQ
- Cybercrime prosecution schemes
- Response/Reaction mechanisms
- New proposals against DDoS events
- Low-cost security related procedures
- Active security in the cloud
- Privacy-enhanced technologies
- Strategic applications


**** TECHNICAL COMMITTEE *****

Aleksandar Kuzmanovic - University of Northwestern, IL (USA)
Barbara Kordy - University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Danilo Mauro Bruschi - University of Milan (Italy)
David W. Chadwick - University of Kent (UK)
Davide Balzarotti - Eurecom (France)
Federica Paci - University of Trento (Italy)
Flavio Lombardi - Roma Tre University of Roma (Italy)
Gabriel Maciá Fernández - University of Granada (Spain)
Jesús E. Díaz Verdejo - University of Granada (Spain)
José Camacho Páez - University of Granada (Spain)
Juan Manuel Estévez Tapiador - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Krzysztof  Szczypiorski - Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Lorenzo Cavallaro - Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Matt Bishop - University of California, Davis, CA (USA)
Miguel Soriano Ibáñez - Polytechnic University of Catalunya (Spain)
Nicola Dragoni- Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Nils Aschenbruck - University of Osnabrück (Germany)
Simone Fischer-Hübner - Karlstad University (Sweden)
Tarek M. Sobh - University of Bridgeport, CT (USA)


*** CONTACT *****

Pedro García Teodoro (pgteodor@ugr.es)
Network Engineering & Security Group (NESG; http://nesg.ugr.es)
Dpt. Signal Theory, Telematics and Communications
Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications
University of Granada
C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n
18071 - Granada, Spain






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