17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2009)

February 18-20, 2009
Weimar, Germany
http://www.pdp2009.org

Special Session on "Security in Networked and Distributed Systems (SNDS 2009)"

http://www.comsec.spb.ru/snds09/

Security has become a vital issue in networked and distributed systems. While attack tools, such as worms, viruses, DDoS, spyware, botnets, etc. have become more powerful and easy-to-use, interest has greatly increased in the field of building distributed, adaptive, active and intelligent defense systems. Finding effective ways to protect networked and distributed systems and data is a very challenging research problem.

Special Session on «Security in Networked and Distributed Systems» aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems.

Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive security
• Applied cryptography
• Authentication, authorization and access control
• Computer and network forensics
• Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security
• Deception systems and honeypots
• Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
• Digital rights management
• Internet and web security
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Malware
• Multimedia security
• Risk analysis and risk management
• Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing
• Security evaluation
• Security for grid computing
• Security of emerging technologies (sensor, wireless, peer-to-peer networks)
• Security modeling and simulation
• Security policies
• Security protocols
• Software security
• Survivability
• Trust management

Session Chair

Program Committee

Important dates

Submission guidelines

Paper Submission for Workshops/Special Sessions

Papers submitted for the workshops or special sessions must be submitted through the conference submission system (http://www.pdp2009.org/submission.html) with an indication of the name of the workshop/special session. Papers must adhere to the formatting rules of the conference and will undergo the same review process as other papers submitted to the conference.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present the paper at the Workshop. Papers must also be addressed to the session chair: