[agents] POLICY 2011 Final Call for Papers

[Wishart, Ryan]

(apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  
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IEEE International Symposium on 
POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (POLICY 2011)
6-8 June 2011
Pisa, Italy

http://ieee-policy.org 
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INVITED SPEAKERS, PANEL AND STUDENT GRANTS 

We are delighted to announce: 

* three distinguished invited speakers:


- Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre.

- Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

- Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano



* A panel discussion on the second day led by Morris Sloman 
from Imperial College London. 

* Some student grants will be available to encourage attendance by PhD and 
masters students.
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INTRODUCTION



The symposium brings together researchers and

practitioners working on policy-based systems

across a wide range of application domains

including policy-based networking, privacy, trust

and security management, autonomic computing,

pervasive systems and enterprise systems. 



POLICY 2011 is the 12th in a series of successful events,

which have provided a forum for discussion and

collaboration between researchers, developers and

users of policy-based systems. 



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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS


POLICY 2011 invites unpublished novel

contributions on all aspects of policy-based

systems. This year we specifically encourage contributions 

on policy-based techniques in support of Cloud computing 

and Enterprise Service Oriented applications as well as 

the use of reasoning, verification and learning techniques

in policy-based systems.



Papers must describe original work and

must not have been accepted or submitted for

publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be

evaluated for technical contribution, originality,

and significance. Topics of interest include, but

are not limited to the following:





Privacy and Security:

 - Frameworks and tools for managing the privacy

   and the security policy life-cycle

 - Architectures for deployment and enforcement of

   privacy and security policies 

 - Refinement of high-level privacy/security requirements

   into policies 

 - Detection and resolution of inconsistencies in privacy 

   and security policies

 - Usability of policy-based privacy and security

   management tools





Policy Models and Languages:

 - Abstract models and languages for policy specification

 - Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning 

 - Policy standards, their extensions and refinements

 - Formal semantics of policies

 - NLP and policy specification

 - Methodologies and tools for specifying, analyzing, 

   refining, and evaluating policies

 - Detection and resolution of policy conflicts

 - Policy negotiation models and techniques

 - Representation of belief, trust, and risk and their 

   use in conjunction with policy-based systems

 - Systems and tools for the management of policies

 - Policy visualization

 - Usability of policy languages and representations 





Policy Applications:

 - Federated policy management in heterogeneous 

   organisational contexts and control domains

 - Case studies of applying policy-based management in 

   different application domains

 - Application of policies for resource allocation, 

   autonomic computing, systems management, 

   QoS adaptation and security

 - Policy-based systems for cloud computing, and service 

   oriented applications

 - Policy-based networking, including collaborative security, 

   pervasive computing, and mobile systems

 - Policy-based Semantic Web applications

 - Business rules and organizational modelling

 - Policy Metrics: evaluation of the effectiveness of policies

 - Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing

 - Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration

 - Cross-domain policy coordination and negotiation

 - Scalability of policy-based management 

 - Architectures of policy-based management systems 

 - Policy Learning and automated policy generation





System demonstration submissions will be evaluated

on the basis of their technical merit and novelty.

Of particular interest are systems that illustrate

research contributions and innovative applications

of policy-based technologies. Those interested in

demonstrating a system/application should submit a

description following the instructions in the

submission information section. Commercial

products are eligible, but sales and marketing

activities are not appropriate.



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IMPORTANT DATE

Paper Registration deadline:                      8  December 2010 

Paper submission deadline:                      15 December 2010

Author notification:                                      18 February 2011



System demonstration submission deadline:       20 January  2011 

System demonstrator notification:                           18 February 2011 



Camera ready copy due:                                         18 March 2011

(for both technical papers and demos)	 



Symposium dates:                                                  6-8 June 2011

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SUBMISSION DETAILS



Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be

submitted to Policy 2011. Proceedings from the

Symposium will be published by IEEE Computer

Society; submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings

2-Column format (http://ieeeformats.notlong.com),

and must satisfy the following page limits:



Policy 2011 invites contributions in the form of either:

 - Technical papers (max. length 8 pages).

 - Short position papers describing preliminary experimental 

   results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new applications 

   or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages)

 - System demonstration descriptions illustrating innovative 

   applications of policy-based technologies 

   (max length 2 pages, not including references).



We particularly encourage contributions from industry 

in the form of long or short papers.


Technical papers, short papers and demonstration descriptions should be 
submitted via EasyChair ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=policy2011 )

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:

Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy
 
Program Chairs:


Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica R&D Spain
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Publicity Chair:


Ryan Wishart, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Benzeka Abdelmalik, IRIT
Dakshi Agrawal, IBM Research
Gail-J. Ahn, Arizona State University
Arosha Bandara,	Open University
Moritz Becker, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Claudio Bertolini, HP Labs
Piero Bonatti, Universita' di Napoli Federico II
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition 
Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria
Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs
Ritu Chadha, Telcordia
Marinos Charalambides, University College London 
Gregory Cirincione, Army Research Lab
Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam
Grit Denker, SRI
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London 
Sandro Etalle, Technical University of Eindhoven
David Eyers, Cambridge University
Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
Weili Han, Fudan University
Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London 
Shinichi Honiden, National Institute for Informatics 
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University
Helge Janicke, De Montfort University
Lalana Kagal, MIT CSAIL
Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh 
Kang-won Lee, IBM Research
Ninghui Li, Purdue University
Peter Linington, University of Kent 
Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, US
Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania 
Emil Lupu, Imperial College London 
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario
Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University
Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK
Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prasad Naldurg, Microsoft Research India
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham 
Babak Sadighi, Axiomatics
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan
Andreas Schaad, SAP
Constantin Serban, Rutgers University
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London
Angelos Stavrou, GMU
Roshan Thomas, Sparta
Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo
Mahesh Tripunitaria, University of Waterloo 
Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul