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      Date: Apr 11, 2012
     Title: Announcement of TIFS Special Issue on Privacy and Trust Management in Cloud and Distributed Systems
The IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security has announced a Call for Papers that invites researchers to contribute original articles that cover a broad range of topics related to privacy preservation and trust management in cloud and distributed systems, with a focus on emerging networking contexts such as social media, cloud computing, and power grid systems.

With the increasing drive towards availability of data and services anytime anywhere, privacy risks have significantly increased. Unauthorized disclosure, modification, usage, or uncontrolled access to privacy-sensitive data may result in high human and financial costs. In the distributed computing environments, trust plays a crucial role in mitigating the privacy risk by guaranteeing meaningful interactions, data sharing, and communications. Trust management is a key enabling technology for security and privacy enhancement. While privacy preservation and trust management are already challenging problems, it is imperative to explore how privacy-oriented and trust- oriented approaches can integrate to bring new solutions in safeguarding information sharing and protecting critical cyber infrastructure. Furthermore, there are questions about whether existing trust models and privacy preserving schemes are robust against attacks. This Call for Papers invites researchers to contribute original articles that cover a broad range of topics related to privacy preservation and trust management in cloud and distributed systems, with a focus on emerging networking contexts such as social media, cloud computing, and power grid systems.

Example topics include but are not limited to:

  • Privacy Enhanced Technology: Privacy preserving data mining, publishing, and disclosure; access control, anonymity, audit, and authentication; applied cryptography, cryptanalysis, and digital signatures in PET; abuse cases and threat modeling; theoretical models and formal methods; application of physical security for privacy enhancement.
  • Trust and Reputation Management: Trust management architectures and trust models; quantitative metrics and computation; security of trust management protocols/systems; evaluation and test bed; trust related privacy enhancement solutions.
  • Privacy and Trust in Emerging Complex Systems: Social networking; cloud computing; power grid systems; sensor networks; Internet of Things; multimedia surveillance networks.
  • Other Related Topics: Trust and privacy policies; human factors and usability; censorship; economics of trust and privacy; behavior modeling.


    Submission Procedure: Manuscripts are to be submitted according to the Information for Authors at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/forensics/forensics-authors-info/ using the IEEE online manuscript system, Manuscript Central. Papers must not have appeared or be under review elsewhere.

    Guest Editors Affiliation Email Address
    Karl Aberer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland karl.aberer@epfl.ch
    Sen-ching Samson Cheung University of Kentucky, USA cheung@engr.uky.edu
    Jayant Haritsa Indian Institute of Science, India jharitsa@gmail.com
    Bill Horne Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA william.horne@hp.com
    Kai Hwang University of Southern California, USA kaihwang@usc.edu
    Yan (Lindsay) Sun University of Rhode Island, USA yansun@ele.uri.edu

    Schedule:

    Submission Deadline May 31, 2012
    First Review September 12, 2012
    Revisions Due October 31, 2012
    Final Decision January 15, 2013
    Final Manuscript Due February 20, 2013
    Tentative Publication June 1, 2013