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CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------

IEEE International Sympoisum on Secure Software Engineering (ISSSE 2006) http://www.jmu.edu/iiia/issse

McLean, VA, USA (Near Washington, DC) March 13-15, 2006

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Council on Software Engineering, and in Cooperation with the IEEE-CS Task Force on Information Assurance.

Scope and Purpose ----------------- Today, security problems involving computers and software are frequent, widespread, and serious. The number and variety of attacks by persons and malicious software from outside organizations, particularly via the Internet, are increasing rapidly, and the amount and consequences of insider attacks remains serious. Over 90% of security incidents reported to the CERT Coordination Center result from defects in software requirements, design, or code.

Successful software security, however, is fundamentally a software engineering problem – encompassing producing and evaluating secure software. This new Symposium series is an effort to further the professional community's response to this need and reflects the growing interest existing within the commercial, governmental, educational, and research sectors on improving secure software engineering and its supporting knowledgebase to meet this need.

The Symposium covers all aspects of the processes, techniques, technology, people, and knowledgebase that have or need the capability to contribute to producing (more) secure software including their characteristics, interrelationships, creation, sources, transfer, introduction, use, and improvement.

The Symposium series is international in involvement and scope with the 1 st ISSSE having Co-Program Chairs from the US and Europe. Reports on research and experience as well as survey/historical articles will be welcome if they meet the expected professional standards of quality, relevance, importance, and interest; and are not published or submitted elsewhere. Panels, workshop reports, and invited speakers will also occur as well as possibly tutorials.

Topics ------ Technically, software security preserves properties – confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) – and aids security external to the software from threats' capabilities. Security is not just about security functionality; these are emergent systems properties and omnipresent issues throughout the lifecycle. Potential

topics include:

- Threat modeling and analysis of vulnerabilities - Secure architectures & design - Formal specification, designs, policies, and proofs - Model checking for security - Coding practices - Static analysis and other automated support - Processes for producing secure software - Testing of security in software - Certification and accreditation - Relationships among software correctness, reliability, safety, and security - Market and legal forces - Lessons learned - Ethics and human factors - Technology transfer

Panels and Tutorials -------------------- Proposals for panels and tutorials should be sent to Professor Sam Redwine (redwinst@jmu.edu). Please see the conference web page for details.

Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. Papers are not to exceed 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society conference format), and shall be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF formats. All submissions must be sent to: redwinst@jmu.edu

Important Deadlines ------------------- Paper Submission September 13, 2005 Author Notification December 6, 2005 Final Manuscript Due January 6, 2006

Organizing and Program Committees ---------------------------------

General Chair Sam Redwine, James Madison Univ., USA

Program Co-Chairs Anthony Hall, UK Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA

Panels and Tutorials Chair Sam Redwin, James Madison Univ., USA

Publicity Chair Qusay H. Mahmoud, Univ. of Guelph, Canada

Program Committee Members Matt Bishop (US) John Clark (UK) Noopur Davis (US) Andrew Gordon (UK) Cynthia Irvine (US) Jan Jürjens (Germany) Khaled Khan (Australia) Jean-Louis Lanet (France) Gary McGraw (US) Mattia Monga (Italy) Peter Neumann (US) Peter Ryan (UK) John Viega (US) James Whittaker (US) Bart De Win (Belgium)

Further Information ------------------- Please see the conference web site (http://www.jmdu.edu/iiia/issse) or contact Professor Sam Redwine (redwinst@jmu.edu).

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