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Babak Sadighi


I am the leader of the Security, Policy and Trust Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.

I have a Ph.D. degree from Department of Computing, Imperial College, London.

Research Interests

The research topics I am interested in are:
  1. Access Control Models
  2. Models for Trust Management
  3. Policy and Contract Management
  4. Physical Security

Software

Delegent - SICS Authorisation Server is a software developed by my colleague Erik Rissanen based on our collaborative research.

Academic Activities

I am serving as a member of the steering committee of the International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks.

I, in collaboration with Prof. Dieter Gollamnn from Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, organised the First International Workshop on IT-solutions for Physical Security in Stockholm on 31st March 2006.

I was the general chair of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks that was held in June 2005 in Stockholm.

I am a member of the steering committee of ERCIM's working group on Security and Trust Management.

I am a program committee member of the following workshops and conferences:
  1. Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, 1998 and 1999.
  2. Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  3. International Conference on Trust Management, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  4. IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  5. Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages, 2004, 2005, 2006.
  6. Semantic Web and Policy Workshop (SWPW) 2005.
  7. International Workshop on Security and Trust Management , 2005, 2006.
  8. The 1st International Workshop on Interoperability Solutions to Trust, Security, Policies and QoS
    for Enhanced Enterprise Systems IS-TSPQ 2006.
  9. The 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2006.
  10. IEEE Workshop on Web Services Security 2006.

Publications

You find the list of my publications on the SPOT Laboratory publication site.