[agents] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2018) - Call for Papers

[Barbara Kordy]

The Fifth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security
Oxford, UK - July 8, 2018

http://gramsec.uni.lu
Co-located with CSF 2018
In conjunction with FLoC 2018

SCOPE
The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the 
security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the 
last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as 
well as security professionals from the industry and government, have 
proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. 
Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and 
address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated 
defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and 
verification. For example, attack graphs, attack trees, attack–defence 
trees, and attack countermeasure trees represent possible ways of 
attacking and defending a system while misuse cases and mal-activity 
diagrams capture threats and abusive behaviour of users.

TOPICS
This year, we are particularly keen to encourage excellent submissions 
related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings:
• Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools 
for describing and reasoning about security
• Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and 
reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security
• Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data 
and machine learning in security operations
• Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism 
networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and 
transportation)
• Risk analysis and management: models of risk management in business 
and organizational architectures
• Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network 
analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry.

Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality 
debate at the Workshop.

PAPER SUBMISSION
We solicit two types of submissions:
• Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and 
well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within 
the scope of the workshop.
• Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and 
well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in 
progress.

The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers 
should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared 
using the LNCS style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular 
and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. 
The GraMSec 2018 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be 
made using the GraMSec 2018 EasyChair website: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2018

IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission deadline: Sunday, April 15, 2018
• Acceptance notification: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
• Workshop: Sunday, July 8, 2018

INVITED SPEAKER
Mike Fisk, Chief Information Officer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
NM, USA
Invited talk: Intrusion Tolerance in Complex Cyber Systems

PROGRAM CHAIRS
• George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
• David J. Pym, UCL, UK

GENERAL CHAIR
• Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR

PC MEMBERS
Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, France
Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy
Tristan Caulfield, University College London, UK
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France
Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA
Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Guy McCusker, University of Bath, UK
Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway
Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA
Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France
Sophie Pinchinat, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK
Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia