MeSSa 2018: 5th International Workshop on Measurability of Security in Software Architectures Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.vttresearch.com/media/events/messa-2018 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=messa2018 |
CALL FOR PAPERS
MeSSa 2018
5th International Workshop on Measurability of Security in Software Architectures
http://www.vttresearch.com/media/events/messa-2018
Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2018
Co-located with The 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018) (http://eventos.upm.es/go/ecsa2018)
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TOPICS
Our society depends more and more on cyber-physical systems. In the near future, integrated use of Internet-of-Things, cloud services, 5G technologies, and novel Artificial Intelligence techniques enable massive and timely use of data in various new services. This trend increases demands for evidence-driven built-in systematic cybersecurity approaches for software architectures. Early evidence of cyber risks, attacks and vulnerabilities enables efficient and effective security solutions.
Security measurement of software architectures is needed to produce sufficient evidence of security level as early as in the design phase. Design-time security measuring should support "security by design" approach. Moreover, software architectures have to support runtime security measurement to obtain up-to-date security information from an online software system, service or product. Security metrics and measurements are exploited in situational awareness monitoring and self-adaptive security solutions. The area of security metrics and security assurance metrics research is evolving, but still lacks widely accepted metrics definitions and applicable measuring techniques. Strong collaboration between security experts, software architects, and system developers is needed.
The workshop will provide a forum for dissemination, demonstration and discussion of original scientific and experimental results of security measurement topics.
MeSSa 2018 solicits security-enhancing contributions on the following issues, especially with relevance to software architectures (but not limited to):
- Security, trust and privacy metrics
- Measurement systems and associated data gathering
- Metrics for adaptive security
- Artificial Intelligence
- Internet of Things
- Measurability-increasing mechanisms for software architectures
- Security trade-off analysis
- Situational awareness and threat intelligence
- Internet of Things security
- Cloud security
- Software Defined Networks
- Evolutionary techniques
- Forensics and data analytics
- Visualization approaches for security measurements
- Empirical case studies and experimental results from security measurements
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 25, 2018
Notification to authors: July 10, 2018
Camera-ready papers: July 19, 2018
SUBMISSION
The MeSSa 2018 invites submissions to following tracks:
* Regular papers that describe novel contributions to the MeSSa 2018 scope, maximum length 7 pages.
* Short papers that describe novel contributions, research and industry ideas, and demonstrations, maximum length 4 pages.
Submissions must follow the ACM format and submission guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/)
Submissions have to be made via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=messa2018
Accepted papers will be published in ACM Digital Library.
ORGANISERS
Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Centre (Norway)
Teemu Kanstrén, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Antti Evesti, KPMG (Finland)
Ali Dehghantanha, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Marco Hoffmann, Nokia Bell Labs (Germany)
Wafa Jaballah, Thales Group (France)
Jarno Limnéll, Aalto University (Finland)
Toktam Ramezanifarkhani, University of Oslo (Norway)
Juha Röning, University of Oulu (Finland)
Pekka Savolainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Denis Trcek, Institut Jozef Stefan (Slovenia)
Lorenzo Blas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Italy)