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Call for Papers: Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion Tolerance and reSilience (WRAITS) at DSN 2012

The 6th edition of the Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion Tolerance and reSilience aims to continue the collaborative discourse on the challenges of building intrusion-tolerant systems alongside innovative ideas to address them. As a technical area, Intrusion Tolerance (IT) lies at the intersection of Fault Tolerance and Computer Security. As a practical discipline, it brings in additional topics ranging from software engineering, adaptive system development to reasoning, coordination and control of distributed resources and mechanisms, as well as validation and evaluation of security and survivability claims. Other descriptions used for similar themed research include resilience, survivability, trustworthy systems, byzantine fault tolerance, and autonomic self-healing systems.

More information on the WRAITS workshop is available at http://www.csr.city.ac.uk/people/ilir.gashi/WRAITS2012/ The deadline for paper submission is March 16, 2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit papers to the workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 25-28, 2012. Papers can present ongoing work and/or speculative/futuristic ideas. Experimental results or other forms of validation are especially encouraged. The workshop papers will be published in a supplementary volume of the conference proceedings. Topics of interest related to advances in intrusion-tolerant systems include, but are not limited to:

• Assurance and survivability benefits of hardware and software virtualization
• Assessment and evaluation of intrusion-tolerant systems
• Automatic recovery and response techniques
• Biologically inspired defenses
• Byzantine fault tolerance
• Diversity (software/hardware) and coincident failures
• Defending against botnet herds;
• Effective evaluation of IT systems including red teaming
• Intrusion tolerance in cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures
• Intrusion-tolerant web-scale systems
• Real world case studies
• Security and Resilience of Service Oriented Systems
• Security and resilience issues of large social computing systems (e.g., gmail and Facebook);
• Security and resilience of large interconnected and critical infrastructure systems (e.g., energy grids, telecoms)
• Survivability and information assurance in the Cloud
• Theoretical limits/boundaries of intrusion tolerance
• Threat of botnet herds and surviving them