*********************************************************************** First International Workshop on Advances in Policy Enforcement (APE'08) Collocated with the 3rd ARES 2008 Barcelona, Catalonia, March 4-7 2008 <http://www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de/ape> *********************************************************************** The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on innovative methods for security and privacy policy enforcement and its a posteriori audit. The focus of the workshop is primarily technological, yet it encourages papers with a multidisciplinary character, encompassing for instance economic, legal, and sociological aspects, as well as papers more purely focused on information technology. Submission topics include, but are not limited to: . A posteriori policy enforcement . Complementing a priori and a posteriori approaches to enforcement . Usage control . Audit strategies . Forensics and legal issues . Provable enforcement . Accountability and liability . Secure logging mechanisms . Expression of security and privacy requirements . Monitoring techniques . Implementation experiences IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission: November 20th 2007 Notification: December 10th 2007 Camera-ready version: January 2nd 2008 Workshop: March 4th-7th 2008 FORMATTING GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages and describe completed research as well as work in progress. They should be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10pt fonts and numbering each page). The author guidelines and toolkit for manuscript preparation can be found at <http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm>. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition. Submitted manuscripts must not substantially overlap manuscripts that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The papers should be submitted electronically via ARES 2008 website <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/>. To this end, you first create an account at ConfDriver and then submit you manuscript by logging in and selecting the APE workshop. If there is any problem during submission, please contact the workshop organizers or the conference chair <anjomshoaa@ifs.tuwien.ac.at> Proceedings of the APE will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and also be made available online by IEEE Xplore. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Rafael Accorsi (U Freiburg) Sandro Etalle (U Twente and TU Eindhoven) William H. Winsborough (U of Texas San Antonio) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg-Harburg) Andy Gordon (MS Research Cambridge) Erin Kenneally (U California San Diego) Volkmar Lotz (SAP Research Sofia Antipolis) Fabio Martinelli (CNR Pisa) Fabio Massacci (U of Trento) Daniel le Metayer (INRIA) John Mitchell (Stanford U) Judie Mulholland (Florida State U) Guenter Mueller (U Freiburg) Alexander Pretschner (ETH Zurich) Simon Shiu (HP Bristol) Luca Vigano (U of Verona) Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT)