[agents] GraMSec 2018 Call for Papers (apologies for cross-postings)

[Pym, David]

GraMSec 2018 Call for Papers

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

http://gramsec.uni.lu
Co-located with CSF 2017
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, attackñdefence 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  describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop.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  describing original and unpublished work in progress.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, TÈlÈcom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, France
Stefano Bistarelli, Universit‡ 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
RenÈ Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Guy McCusker, University of Bath, UK
Per HÂkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway
Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA
StÈphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France
Sophie Pinchinat, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France
Saöa Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK
MariÎlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia