PSACE 2006

 From: Noria Foukia <nfoukia@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
To: ps2006 <ps2006@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:15:56 +1300
Subject: PSACE 2006 Call for Papers

Dear All,


Here is the CPF for PSACE 2006. Please could you forward it to any
relevant mailing list of your knowledge.


Thank you,
best regards,

Noria.

		

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* 				The First International Workshop on
* 			Privacy and Security in Agent-based
Collaborative Environments
* 						(PSACE 2006)
* 						May, 9 2006
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http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/
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* 						To be held at AAMAS 2006
* 			Fifth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and
* 						MultiAgent Systems
* 				Future University-Hakodate, Japan May
8-12, 2006
* 					http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/
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[Workshop Description]

PSACE (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) aims to provide a forum to
discuss privacy and legal issues raised by multi-agent systems as well
as to describe research results regarding privacy technology in
distributed collaborative environments. Collaboration is conducted on
the basis of autonomous interactions and information exchange between
agents. When multi-agent systems are deployed in open environments,
privacy becomes a fundamental issue, because agents interact on behalf
of their owners or representatives. Since information exchange in the
form of agent interactions are handled on behalf of the owners, these
owners should know: 

- who holds their private information, 
- who can access it and for which purpose and, 
- how this information is handled (in order to avoid unauthorized
changes or unauthorized transfers).


With agent-oriented technologies playing an increasingly important role
in new distributed computing activities (E-Commerce, Grid Computing,
Pervasive Computing, Semantic Web, etc.), there are increasing risks
that the privacy and integrity of users' information will not be
maintained. 

In light of these developments, a thorough analysis of threats to
privacy and their causes is needed. Issues with respect to the degree of
privacy loss, the release of constraints in terms of protection, and how
they might be assessed need to be addressed. The workshop will attempt
to examine and compare new and different approaches, along with their
technical solutions and practical designs, in open distributed
environments. In addition, the workshop will also attempt to examine the
degree to which legal and organizational compliance for privacy in
multi-agent collaborative environments can or should be achieved. 


[Workshop Objectives]

The objectives and technical issues of the workshop are as follows: 

1. Identification of the essential weaknesses/risks of
multi-agent-based/distributed applications with respect to user's
privacy including legal aspects - specifically in the new emergent field
of Multi-Agent System (MAS) applications. This analysis will help to
have a better understanding of security requirements that arise from
existing agent-based applications by identifying the main problems, the
primary factors, and the principal actors with respect to various
contexts and business cases. The workshop will also focus on specialist
security concerns that arise in agent systems and do not exist in other
systems such as Web Services or Grid Computing, etc.

2. Identification of the limitations and restrictions imposed by
security, privacy including legal and corporate compliance in highly
distributed open MASs.

3. Identification of both malicious and accidental (hidden, indirect)
attempts to exploit private information exchange and storage.

4. Specification of solutions and technical approaches for acceptable
privacy protection (demonstrations of functionalities and implementation
trade-offs with respect to security, privacy level, performance, cost,
etc.). For instance, security implementations and privacy protection
that can be associated with toolkits such as Java Agent DEvelopment
(JADE) framework will be considered.

5. Examination and review of privacy compliance with respect to laws and
corporate requirements as well as proposed solutions for the MAS
context.

6. Clarifying how security protocols could be included within the new
IEEE Foundations of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) specifications.


[Topics of Interest]

The workshop will include multi-disciplinary (for example, technical and
legal) papers from attendees as well as a holistic discussion of issues
related to the key objectives outlined above. The main topics of
interest include but are not limited to:


- Privacy and security for collaboration in distributed environments

- Privacy and security in wireless and ad hoc environments

- Privacy in location-aware and context-aware services

- Security protocols for agent-based collaboration systems

- Assessing impact of distributed collaboration on privacy

- Effect of environment on collaborative strategies

- Effect of negotiation strategies on privacy

- Confidentiality and privacy in critical applications (healthcare
application, business-to-business, etc.)

- Applications of privacy in distributed collaborative environments

- Individual privacy retention during collaboration and individual
privacy among agent societies and   institutions

- Infrastructural support for privacy in distributed collaborative
environments: architectures, mechanisms, models/frameworks and
implementation

- Privacy issues for agent societies and institutions considered as a
group

- Impact of security on the openness and usability of the agent
architecture

- Privacy and other socio-legal aspects of collaborative MAS

- Integration of security and privacy mechanisms across multiple agent
platforms

- Multi-agent systems and rights management systems for tracking of
intellectual property and workflow

- Privacy in pervasive computing

- Privacy and provenance and dissemination

- Privacy in relation to varying degrees of trust and reliability

- Operational schemes and workflows for managing rights and intellectual
property

- Agent coalition and privacy preserving

- Privacy preserving distributed data mining


[Target Audience]

The workshop invites submissions from academia and industry presenting
novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of privacy
issues related to agent-based collaborative environments. 
We also encourage submissions from other communities such as law and
business that present these communities' perspectives on technological
issues. 


[Important Dates]

Paper submission:				January 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:		February 19, 2006
Camera-Ready Version:			March 12, 2006
Date of workshop:				May 9, 2006


[Paper Submission]

We call for two types of paper submission: 

- Long papers for innovative technical contributions in any of the
workshop topic areas: limited to 10 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS
Proceedings Author Guidelines (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

- Short papers describing implementation experiences, requirements or
giving position statements relevant to the workshop topics: from 2 to 4
pages. Authors of short papers will be given 5 minutes presentation to
introduce their work.


[Submission Instructions]

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published
nor submitted in parallel to any other publication for conference,
workshop or journal. Papers should be limited to 10 pages in the
Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings Author Guidelines (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for detail) for long
papers and 4 pages for short papers, including title page, figures and
bibliography. Each contribution must be formatted in PostScript or PDF. 


[Review Procedure]

Paper evaluation will be through electronic submission followed by peer
review by three reviewers and final decision by workshop chair. The
selection criteria will be relevance to the workshop themes, technical
merit, originality and significance of research and quality of
presentation.
Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to
interesting and fruitful discussions at the discussion session of the
workshop.


[Publication]

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will
also be made available in electronic format before the day of the
workshop. Proceedings of the workshop should also be published as
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. 


[Registration]

Workshop registration will be handled by AAMAS 2006 conference
organization along with the main conference registration. Workshop
participants must register for the workshop by following the
instructions at: http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/


[Workshop Organization]

General Workshop Chair:
- Noria Foukia, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Program Co-Chairs:
- Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Martin Purvis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand


[Program Committee]

- Martin Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand
- Stephen Cranefield, Otago University, New Zealand
- Maryam Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand
- Ali Ghorbani, Faculty of Computer Science, (UNB), Canada
- Jaco Aizenman, The University of Costa Rica, (UCR), Costa Rica
- Omer Rana, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK
- Luc Moreau, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK
- Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary College, London, UK
- Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu, Otago University, New Zealand 
- Herve Debar, France Telecom R&D, France
- Larry Korba, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for
Information Technology, Canada
- Stephen Marsh, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for
Information Technology, Canada
- Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Informatics & Mathematical Modelling
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 
- Tobias Mahler, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the
University of Oslo, Norway
- Karvalics Laszlo, Information Society Research Institute (ITTK),
AgentLab, Hungary
- Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs, Espace Technologique St Aubin,
France
- Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in
Barcelona, Spain
- Arkady Zaslavsky, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monash University, Australia
- Gianluca Moro, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
- Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany
- Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Zuerich, Switzerland
- John J. Borking, Borking Consultancy (Wassenaar), The Netherlands
- Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna a Cesena, Italy
- Noria Foukia, Otago University, New Zealand

See the workshop web site (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) for
any updates.

For further information, please contact members of the organizing
committee at: ORps2006@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
or the workshop chair at: nfoukia@infoscience.otago.ac.nz