Semantic Web Policy Workshop at ISWC 2006, Nov '06

SEMANTIC WEB POLICY WORKSHOP (SWPW'06)
Workshop at ISWC'06, Athens, GA, USA, Nov 2006
http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/2006/SWPW06/

WORKSHOP MOTIVATION. Policies are pervasive in web
applications. They play crucial roles in enhancing security,
privacy and usability of distributed services, and indeed
may determine the success (or failure) of a web
service. However, users will not be able to benefit from
these protection mechanisms unless they understand and are
able to personalize policies applied in such contexts. For
web services this includes policies for access control,
privacy and business rules, among others. There has been
extensive research in the area, including the Semantic Web
community, but several aspects still exist that prevent
policy frameworks from widespread adoption and real world
application like for example:

  *  Adoption of a broad notion of policy, encompassing not
     only access control policies, but also privacy policies,
     business rules, quality of service, and others.
  *  Strong and lightweight evidence: Policies make decisions
     based on properties of the peers interacting with the
     system. These properties may be strongly certified by
     cryptographic techniques, or may be reliable to some
     intermediate degree with lightweight evidence gathering
     and validation.
  *  Policy-driven negotiations may be one of the main
     ingredients that can be used to make heterogeneous peers
     effectively interoperate.
  *  Lightweight knowledge representation and reasoning
     should also reduce the effort to specialize general
     frameworks to specific application domains
  *  Solutions like controlled natural language syntax for
     policy rules, to be translated by a parser into the
     internal logical format, will definitively ease the
     adoption of any policy language.
  *  Cooperative policy enforcement: A secure cooperative
     system should (almost) never say no. Whenever
     prerequisites for accessing a service are not met, web
     applications should explain what is missing and help the
     user in obtaining the required permissions.
  *  Advanced explanation mechanisms are necessary to help
     users in understanding policy decisions and obtaining
     the permission to access a desired service.

This workshop will bring together researchers interested in
the field in order to discuss and analyze important
requirements and open research issues in this context,
focusing on policies in general and their integration into
trust management frameworks, as well as on approaches to
increase system cooperation, usability and user-awareness of
policy issues.

TOPICS. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:

     * Rule-based Policy Specifications
     * Natural-language and visual interfaces for policy languages
     * Policy specifications and business rules
     * Broad notion of policy
     * Privacy
     * Trust & Reputation Management
     * Policy-Driven negotiations
     * Ontologies for policies
     * Policies & Semantic Grid
     * Agents and policies
     * Personalization
     * User-awareness
     * Explanations
     * Strong and lightweight evidence
     * Conflict detection
     * Validation & Verification
     * Policy enforcement
     * Digital Rights Management

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PAPER SUBMISSION. As well as full
research papers describing completed research, we welcome
position papers describing proposed research, as long as
they are well-argued, fully-justified and contain some
preliminary results. We also seek demonstration papers
outlining practical work in this field.

Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Springer's Author
Instructions. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages for full
(research) papers and 8 pages for demo, short or position
papers, including all text, references, appendices, and
figures. Submissions must be in Portable Document Format
(PDF). Papers should be submitted electronically via the
SWPW EasyChair page

IMPORTANT DATES

     * Submission deadline: August 11, 2006 (midnight GMT + 1)
     * Notification for acceptance: September 10, 2006
     * Camera ready due: September 20, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

     * Piero A. Bonatti, University of Naples
     * Li Ding, Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford
     * Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
     * Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center & Hanover University

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

     * Anne Anderson, Sun Microsystems
     * Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
     * Chris Bizer, FU Berlin
     * Piero Bonatti, University of Naples
     * Li Ding, Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford University
     * Naranker Dulay, Imperial College
     * Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
     * Lalana Kagal, MIT
     * Jiangtao Li, Purdue University
     * Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft
     * Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council - C.N.R.
     * Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna
     * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hanover
     * Daniel Olmedilla, L3S and University of Hanover
     * Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
     * Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano
     * Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University
     * William Winsborough, University of Texas at San Antonio

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