-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Special issue on Model Based Development for Secure Information Systems - Deadline Extension Datum: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:27:22 +0200 Von: EDUARDO FERNANDEZ-MEDINA PATON Eduardo.FdezMedina@uclm.es Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

Deadline Extension

Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2007 Manuscript Submission Deadline: May 22, 2007 Notification of Final Acceptance: September 15, 2007 Final Version of the Manuscripts: December 1, 2007 Tentative Publication Date: Spring 2008

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Call for Papers Information and Software Technology ================================================

Special Issue on Model Based Development for Secure Information Systems ========================================================================

Information and Software Technology is seeking original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Model Based Development for Secure Information Systems, scheduled for publication in the timeframe of October 2007.

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) has been proposed as a means for supporting the software development process by employing a model-centric approach. Models help us understand a complex problem and its potential solutions through abstraction. Software systems can, therefore, benefit from MDA for their development, improving productivity, quality, and platform independence. MDA can be used to develop high level (platform independent) models that can be transformed into more specific (according to a specific platform) models that in turn can be transformed into code dependent models. This successive model transformation provides a basis for mapping between analysis and design models, and for its traceability. The Software Engineering community is realizing security to be an important requirement of software systems, one that should be considered from the first stages of its development, because its ad hoc integration when the software system has already been developed has a negative impact on the maintainability and security of the system. Unfortunately, current approaches which take security into consideration from the early stages of software development do not take advantage of MDA. Security should definitely be integrated as another element of the high level software system models undergoing transformation until the final code generation, like other components of the models.

This special issue explores current research challenges, ideas and approaches for employing Model Driven Architecture to integrate security into software systems development through an engineering-based approach, avoiding the traditional ad hoc security integration. We encourage papers addressing issues including, but not limited to, the following:

* New approaches for including security in software systems and their components (e.g. databases, data warehouses, information systems, web services-based applications, business process models, etc.). * Profiles and extensions of the most accepted modelling language standards used for the incorporation of security requirements into their models. * Case studies on integrating security into analysis models and on its transformation. * Methodologies, models, languages for developing secure software systems. * Metamodeling for the inclusion of security in models and for its transformation. * Automatic code generation for secure systems.

Authors will need to indicate their intention to submit a paper by forwarding the title of the paper and abstract via email to Eduardo.FdezMedina@uclm.es by May 1, 2007. They will need to submit their papers to one of the Guest Editors by May 22, 2007. Manuscript should adhere to the general submission guidelines for Information and Software Technology guidelines available online. If you have any further questions regarding submission of papers, please feel free to contact the guest editors.

Important Dates Call for Papers published: October 15, 2006 Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2007 Manuscript Submission Deadline: May 22, 2007 Notification of Final Acceptance: September 15, 2007 Final Version of the Manuscripts: December 1, 2007 Tentative Publication Date: Spring 2008

Guest Editors

Eduardo Fernández-Medina University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Eduardo.Fdezmedina@uclm.es

Jan Jurjens The Open University, GB j.jurjens@open.ac.uk

Juan Trujillo University of Alicante, Spain jtrujillo@dlsi.ua.es

Sushil Jajodia George Mason University, USA jajodia@gmu.edu _________________________________________________________________________ Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patón Tfno: +34 926 295300 Ext. 3744 Subdirector de Estudios y Programas Fax: +34 926 295354 Escuela Superior de Informática Departamento de Tecnologías y Sistemas Informáticos Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Paseo de la Universidad, 4 Email: Eduardo.FdezMedina@uclm.es 13071 Ciudad Real (Spain) http://alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/per/efmedina/

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