[ecoop-info] CFP: Mini-Track on Cyber Physical Systems in HICSS'08

[Shangping Ren]

 ============ Apologies for multiple announcements ==============

Mini-track on Cyber Physical Systems affiliated with HICSS'08
( http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_41/apahome41.html )


Cyber physical systems (CPS) integrate cyber security with physical
security. This integration is driven by the increasingly common trend of
having physical security devices be computer-enabled. Through
networking, the status of physical security devices can be quickly
collected and transmitted to a centralized database for rapid analysis
and assessment. The networking capability of physical security devices
also allows them to communicate with each other ? oftentimes wirelessly.
However, the move towards open distributed federated networked CPS leads
to big security and certification challenges.


Physical security information traversing these networks--and its
processing by computers--must be protected from physical or cyber
compromise. Managing physical and cyber security together can result in
more efficient use of budgets and staff time. Combining the two,
however, is not without challenges: an outcome of the integration of
computational and physical processes is that they exhibit complicated
behavior that may not be accounted for by computational or physical
models alone. CPS also transcend traditional computer-controlled systems
because of their scale, dependence on man-machine interaction and their
rich communication infrastructure enabled by the Internet.

The main purpose of the mini-track is to bring together members of the
research community and practitioners from industry to present new
results, approaches and cyber technologies to support a new generation
of CPS. This mini-track will offer a focused forum to discuss the
on-going research in the area of CPS. Papers are solicited on cyber
physical topics pertaining to the promising innovations and abstractions
for building future high-confidence software or hardware or both for
cyber-physical systems. Topics of interest include, but is not limited to:

High assurance architectures
Software monitoring
Tools for detecting cyber physical attacks
Authentication, confidentiality related to cyber physical security
Adaptation of SCADA security to cyber physical platforms
Fault tolerance for cyber physical security protection
Real time processing of cyber physical security data
Topology management
Attack detectors
Power-aware information assurance
Security policies for CPS
Economics of CPS

Accepted papers will be published in the conference's proceedings.

Important Dates
Full Papers due: June 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: Aug. 15, 2007
Camera-ready Manuscript due: Sept. 15, 2007


Organizers
Shangping Ren (ren at iit.edu), Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Kevin A. Kwiat (Kevin.Kwiat at rl.af.mil), Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Nadeem Jamali (jamali at cs.usask.ca), University of Saskatchewan, Canada


Program Committee
Atef(Steve) Bader, Alcatel-Lucent , USA
Mattox Beckman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Zhilin Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Ying Lu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Michael Macalik, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jerzy Nogiec, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Limin Shen, Yanshan University,China
Carolyn Talcott, SRI, USA
Jeffery Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Shengquan Wang, Univesity of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

 

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Dr. Shangping Ren
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 W. 31st Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone (312) 567-5215
Fax  (312) 567-5067
Web www.cs.iit.edu/~ren
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