POLICY 2011 Deadline Extension

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS


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IEEE International Symposium on


POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (POLICY 2011)


6-8 June 2011


Pisa, Italy



http://ieee-policy.org<http://ieee-policy.org/>


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IMPORTANT DATES


Paper Registration deadline:                                   20 December 2010  (EXTENDED)

Paper submission deadline:                                    22 December 2010  (EXTENDED)

Author notification:                                                     18 February 2011

System demonstration submission deadline:       20 January  2011

System demonstrator notification:                           18 February 2011

Camera ready copy due:                                          18 March 2011

(for both technical papers and demos)

Symposium dates:                                                   6-8 June 2011

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INVITED SPEAKERS, PANEL AND STUDENT GRANTS


We are delighted to announce:

* three distinguished invited speakers:

- Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre
- Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano

* A panel discussion on the second day led by Morris Sloman
from Imperial College London.

* Some student grants will be available to encourage attendance by PhD and
masters students.

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INTRODUCTION

The symposium brings together researchers and
practitioners working on policy-based systems
across a wide range of application domains
including policy-based networking, privacy, trust
and security management, autonomic computing,
pervasive systems and enterprise systems.


POLICY 2011 is the 12th in a series of successful events,
which have provided a forum for discussion and
collaboration between researchers, developers and
users of policy-based systems.

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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

POLICY 2011 invites unpublished novel
contributions on all aspects of policy-based
systems. This year we specifically encourage contributions
on policy-based techniques in support of Cloud computing
and Enterprise Service Oriented applications as well as
the use of reasoning, verification and learning techniques
in policy-based systems.


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 the following:


Privacy and Security:

- Frameworks and tools for managing the privacy
  and the security policy life-cycle

- Architectures for deployment and enforcement of
  privacy and security policies

- Refinement of high-level privacy/security requirements
  into policies

- Detection and resolution of inconsistencies in privacy
  and security policies

- Usability of policy-based privacy and security
  management tools


Policy Models and Languages:

- Abstract models and languages for policy specification

- Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning

- Policy standards, their extensions and refinements

- Formal semantics of policies

- NLP and policy specification

- Methodologies and tools for specifying, analyzing,
  refining, and evaluating policies

- Detection and resolution of policy conflicts

- Policy negotiation models and techniques

- Representation of belief, trust, and risk and their
  use in conjunction with policy-based systems

- Systems and tools for the management of policies

- Policy visualization

- Usability of policy languages and representations


Policy Applications:

- Federated policy management in heterogeneous
  organisational contexts and control domains

- Case studies of applying policy-based management in
  different application domains

- Application of policies for resource allocation,
  autonomic computing, systems management,


QoS adaptation and security

- Policy-based systems for cloud computing, and service
  oriented applications

- Policy-based networking, including collaborative security,
  pervasive computing, and mobile systems

- Policy-based Semantic Web applications

- Business rules and organizational modelling

- Policy Metrics: evaluation of the effectiveness of policies

- Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing

- Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration

- Cross-domain policy coordination and negotiation

- Scalability of policy-based management

- Architectures of policy-based management systems

- Policy Learning and automated policy generation


System demonstration submissions will be evaluated
on the basis of their technical merit and novelty.
Of particular interest are systems that illustrate
research contributions and innovative applications
of policy-based technologies. Those interested in
demonstrating a system/application should submit a
description following the instructions in the
submission information section. Commercial
products are eligible, but sales and marketing
activities are not appropriate.


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NEW IMPORTANT DATES


Paper Registration deadline:                                    20 December 2010

Paper submission deadline:                                     22 December 2010

Author notification:                                                      18 February 2011

System demonstration submission deadline:       20 January  2011

System demonstrator notification:                           18 February 2011

Camera ready copy due:                                          18 March 2011

(for both technical papers and demos)

Symposium dates:                                                   6-8 June 2011

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SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be
submitted to Policy 2011. Proceedings from the
Symposium will be published by IEEE Computer
Society; submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings
2-Column format (http://ieeeformats.notlong.com<http://ieeeformats.notlong.com/>),
and must satisfy the following page limits:

Policy 2011 invites contributions in the form of either:

- Technical papers (max. length 8 pages).

- Short position papers describing preliminary experimental
  results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new applications
  or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages)

- System demonstration descriptions illustrating innovative
  applications of policy-based technologies
  (max length 2 pages, not including references).


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

Technical papers, short papers and demonstration descriptions should be
submitted via EasyChair ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=policy2011 )


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


General Chair:

Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy

Program Chairs:

Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica R&D Spain
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Publicity Chair:

Ryan Wishart, Imperial College London, United Kingdom


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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


Benzeka Abdelmalik, IRIT
Dakshi Agrawal, IBM Research
Gail-J. Ahn, Arizona State University
Arosha Bandara, Open University
Moritz Becker, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Claudio Bertolini, HP Labs
Piero Bonatti, Universita' di Napoli Federico II
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria
Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs
Ritu Chadha, Telcordia
Marinos Charalambides, University College London
Gregory Cirincione, Army Research Lab
Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam
Grit Denker, SRI
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London
Sandro Etalle, Technical University of Eindhoven
David Eyers, Cambridge University
Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
Weili Han, Fudan University
Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London
Shinichi Honiden, National Institute for Informatics
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University
Helge Janicke, De Montfort University
Lalana Kagal, MIT CSAIL
Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Kang-won Lee, IBM Research
Ninghui Li, Purdue University
Peter Linington, University of Kent
Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, US
Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania
Emil Lupu, Imperial College London
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario
Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University
Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK
Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Prasad Naldurg, Microsoft Research India
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham
Babak Sadighi, Axiomatics
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan
Andreas Schaad, SAP
Constantin Serban, Rutgers University
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London
Angelos Stavrou, GMU
Roshan Thomas, Sparta
Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo
Mahesh Tripunitaria, University of Waterloo
Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Received on Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:55:55 UTC