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|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| ( ( ) SESOC 2010 ) ( ( ) International Workshop on ) ( SECurity and SOCial Networking ( ) ) ( March 29 / April 2 2010 ( ) Mannheim, Germany ) ( (as part of IEEE PerCom 2010) ( ) ) ( http://www.sesoc.org ( ) ) |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=|

Future pervasive communication systems aim at supporting social and collaborative communications: the evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. New emerging technologies that use information on the social characteristics of their participants raise entirely new privacy concerns and require new reflections on security problems such as trust establishment, cooperation enforcement or key management.

The aim of this workshop is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in pervasive communication systems, integrating the social structure of the network as well.

============================= Topics of Interest =============================

- new aspects of trust - privacy concerns - availability and resilience - community based secure communication - data confidentiality, data integrity - anonymity, pseudonymity - key management - secure bootstrapping - security issues in forwarding, routing - security aspects regarding cooperation - new reputation systems - new attack paradigms - new requirements for software security - malware

The key note: “Threats to the Social Web”, will be given by Ryan McGeehan [1] of facebook Inc. It deals with real world threats against the social web and highlights the perspective of the provider of one of the largest online social networks of today.

============================= Important Dates =============================

Submission deadline: October 18, 2009 Notification date: December 21, 2010 Camera ready submission: January 29, 2010

============================= Submission instructions =============================

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The link for the templates and further guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript are available on the workshop website. All papers are managed electronically through easychair, the submission website is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sesoc2010 Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous and double-blind review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Authors' names must not appear in the paper.

All accepted papers need to have a full registration to the PerCom 2010 Conference (There is no workshop only registration). Moreover, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers not being included in the IEEE Digital Library.

============================= Committee =============================

General Chairs: Refik Molva EURECOM, France Gene Tsudik University of California Irvine, USA

Organizing Chairs: Melek Önen EURECOM, France Thorsten Strufe Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Technical Program Committee: Imad Aad Nokia, Switzerland Davide Balzarotti EURECOM, France Erik-Oliver Blass EURECOM, France Jens-Matthias Bohli NEC Europe, Germany Michael Brinkmeier TU Ilmenau, Germany Sonja Buchegger Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Levente Buttyán BUTE, Hungary Claude Castelluccia INRIA, France Lorenzo Cavallaro UCSB, USA Ahmet Çamtepe TU Berlin, Germany Mauro Conti Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Jon Crowcroft Computer Lab Cambridge University, UK Marc Dacier Symantec Europe, France Anwitaman Datta NTU, Singapore Roberto Di Pietro Università di Roma, La Sapenzia, Italy Alexander Eichhorn Simula, Norway Stephen Farrell NewBay Software, Ireland Artur Hecker Telecom ParisTech, France Sotiris Ioannidis FORTH, Greece Stefan Katzenbeisser CASED, Germany Albert Levi Sabanci University, Turkey Mark Manulis CASED, Germany Jörn Müller-Quade Uni Karlsruhe, Germany Guevara Noubir North Eastern University, USA Christian Rohner Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Günter Schäfer TU Ilmenau, Germany Dirk Westhoff NEC Europe, Germany

[1] Bio: Ryan McGeehan is the Security Manager for Incident Response at Facebook. He has been at Facebook since early 2007 (~40 million users), and is responsible for research and response into threats to Facebook. He is also involved with the Honeynet Project with research around web application threats and honeypot development.