Call for Papers

As in the previous three years the policy workshop will be co-located with SACMAT 2005.

POLICY 2005 invites contributions on all aspects of policy-based computing. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Policy Definition and Models:
- abstractions and languages for policy specification processes
- methodologies, and tools for discovering, specifying, reasoning about, and refining policy
- extensions and refinements of policy standards
- relationships between policies, e.g. hierarchies

Policy Mechanisms:
- implementation and enforcement techniques
- integrating policies into existing systems and environments
- policy management in the large: peer-to-peer, grid and web-based services, utility environments
- interoperability

Policy Applications:
- policy models for access-control, resource allocation, systems management, QoS adaptation, intrusion detection
and privacy
- policy based networking, including active networks, mobile systems and e-commerce
- business rules and organizational modelling
- trust models and trust management policies
- policies for pervasive computing
- case studies of applying policy-based technologies
- policy-based autonomic computing
- policy-based utility computing
- SLA/contract based Management
- policy based collaboration

Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 10 December 2004
Author notification: 21 February 2005
Camera ready copy due: 21 March 2005
Workshop dates: 6-8 June 2005

Submission Information:
Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2005.

The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society and submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings format (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm).

Policy 2005 invites contributions in the form of either:
- Technical papers (max. length 10 pages).
- Short position papers describing preliminary experimental results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new
applications or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages)

We particularly encourage contributions from industry in the form of long or short papers.

Organizing Committee:
General Chairs: Babak Sadighi Firozabadi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Program Chairs: William Winsborough (Center for Secure Information System, George Mason University)
and Akhil Sahai (HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA)
Finance Chair: Charlotta Jörsäter (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Web Chair: Tomas Olsson (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Publicity Chair: Arosha Bandara (Imperial College London)

Program Committee
Anne Anderson, SUN, USA
Artur Andrzejak , Zuse Instuitue of Berlin, Germany
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK
Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK
Claudio Bartolini, HP, USA
Elisa Bertino, CERIAS Purdue University, USA
Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany
Mark Burgess, University College, Oslo, Norway
Seraphin Calo, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Ritu Chadha, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Asit Dan, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Murthy Devarakonda, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London, UK
Paulo Ferreira, INESC, Portugal
Francisco Garcia, Agilent, UK
Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, USA
Boyd Hays, SUN Microsystems Inc., USA
Heinz-Gerd Hegering, LMU, Germany
Christian Jensen, Technical University of Demark, Denmark
Lalana Kagal, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Eser Kandogan, IBM, USA
Jeff Kephard, IBM, USA
Madhur Kohli, Levanta,Inc, USA
Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA
Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK
Jorge Lobo, IBM, USA
Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Ian Marshall, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, UK
Bret Michael, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University, USA
Jonathan Moffett, University of York, UK
Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy
Ken Moody , Cambridge University, UK
Clifford Neuman, ISI, USA
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster , Ireland
George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK
Lionel Sacks, University College London, UK
Pierangela Samarati , University of Milan, Italy
Andreas Schaad, SAP, France
Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, USA
Joan Serrat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
John Strassner, MDAPCE, USA
Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK
Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK
Dinesh Verma, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK
Andrea Westerinen, Cisco, USA
Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
Handong Wu, McAfee Research, USA