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

[Barbara KORDY]

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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 at ugr.es<mailto:pgteodor at 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