SecCo'04

The 2nd International Workshop on Security Issues in Coordination Models, Languages, and Systems follows the success of SecCo'03 (held in conjunction with ICALP'03). New networking technologies require the definition of models and languages adequate for the design and management of new classes of applications. Innovations are moving in two directions: on the one hand, the Internet which supports wide area applications, on the other hand, smaller networks of mobile and portable devices which support applications based on a dynamically reconfigurable communication structure. In both cases, the challenge is to develop applications while at design time there is no knowledge of the availability and/or location of the involved entities. Coordination models, languages and middlewares, which advocate a distinct separation between the internal behaviour of the entities and their interaction, represent a promising approach. However, due to the openness of these systems, new critical aspects come into play, such as the need to deal with malicious components or with a hostile environment. Current research on network security issues (e.g. secrecy, authentication, etc.) usually focuses on opening cryptographic point-to-point tunnels. Therefore, the proposed solutions in this area are not always exploitable to support the end-to-end secure interaction between entities whose availability or location is not known beforehand.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

• authentication • integrity • privacy • confidentiality • access control • denial of service • service availability • safety aspects • fault tolerance

in:

• coordination models • open-distributed systems • mobile ad-hoc networks • agent-based infrastructures • peer-to-peer systems • global computing • context-aware computing • component-based systems • ubiquitous computing