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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                         ---  POLICY 2008  ---

           2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies
               for Distributed Systems and Networks

                         2-4 June 2008
                    Palisades, NY, USA

               http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008


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The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and 
practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of 
application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and 
security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems.

POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which 
since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration 
between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. 
This year, in addition to the latest research results from the 
communities working in any area of policy-based management and 
computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in 
support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: 
cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc.

POLICY 2008 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of 
policy-based management. This year, as part of the technical program 
we also plan a special session devoted to the demonstrations of 
innovative 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:


POLICY MODELS AND LANGUAGES:

* Abstract models and languages for policy specification
* Representing policies in XML, RDF, and OWL
* Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning
* Policy standards, their extensions and refinements
* Formal semantics of policies
* Relationships between policies in IT processes and devices
   or across multiple applications
* Methodologies/tools for discovering, specifying, analyzing,
   refining, evaluating and visualizing policy
* Models of policy negotiation
* Representation of belief, trust, and risk in policies


POLICY APPLICATIONS:

* Application of policies for autonomic computing, QoS adaptation,
   and security
* Application of policies for identity and privacy management
* Business rules and organizational modeling
* Identity management
* Personalization
* Risk adaptive policy systems
* Database policies
* Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing
* Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration
* Case studies of applying policy-based management


POLICIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS:

* Service management in mobile ad hoc networks
* Policy systems for small devices
* Policy-based spectrum management
* Privacy and security
* Policies in location based services
* Context-aware policies in pervasive and mobile computing


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PAPER or DEMO SUBMISSION
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Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2008. Paper or
demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and
novelty. For System Demo, of particular interest are systems that illustrate
research contributions and innovative applications of policy based
technologies.

Policy 2008 invites contributions in the form of either:
  * Technical papers (max. length 8 pages).
  * Short position papers describing preliminary systems or experimental
results (max. length 4 pages).

Please check out http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 for details.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration deadline: 15 December  2007
Paper submission deadline: 21 December 2007
Author notification: 5 March 2008
System demonstration submission deadline:  3 March 2008
System demonstrator notification: 17 March 2008


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POLICY 2008 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS


Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University (ehab "AT" cs.depaul.edu)
Lalana Kagal, MIT (lkagal "AT" csail.mit.edu)
Jorge Lobo, IBM Research (jlobo "AT" us.ibm.com)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Akhil Sahai              		HP Laboratories
Alva Couch               		Tufts University
Andrea Westerinen        	Microsoft Corp
Andreas Schaad           	SAP
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini 	Purdue University
Arcot Rajasekar          		University of California at San Diego
Arosha Bandara           	Open University
Babak Sadighi            		Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Bhavani Thuraisingham    	The University of Texas at Dallas
Bruno Crispo             		Vrije Universiteit
Carl Gunter              		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christian Jensen         		University of Denmark
Duminda Wijesekera       	GMI
Elisa Bertino            		Purdue University
Emil Lupu                		Imperial College
Filip Perich             		Shared Spectrum
Francisco Garcia         	Agilent
Gail Ahn                 		UNC Charlotte
Gregory Cirincione       	Army Research Lab
Hanan Lutfiyya           		University of Western Ontario
Helge Janicke            		De Montfort University
Hong Li                  		Intel Corporation
John Strassner           		Motorola Labs
Ken Moody                		Cambridge University
Lisandro Z. Granville    		UFRGS
Manish Dave              		Intel Corporation
Marco Casassa Mont       	Hewlett-Packard Labs
Marianne Winslett        	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Morris Sloman            		Imperial College London
Nahid Shahmehri 		Linkopings University, Sweden
Naranker Dulay           		Imperial College London
Olivier Festor           		LORIA - INRIA Lorraine
Pierangela Samarati      	University of Milan
Rebecca Montanari        	University of Bologna
Ritu Chadha              		Telcordia
Sanjai Narain            		Telcordia
Seraphin Calo            		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Sushil Jajodia           		George Mason University
William Winsborough      	University of Texas at San Antonio
Yuri Demchenko           	University of Amsterdam