CALL FOR PAPERS

			The 5th ACM Workshop on

 Formal Methods in Security Engineering: From Specifications to Code

                held in conjunction with the ACM CCS'07

            November 2, 2007, George Mason University, USA

         [http://www.fmis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/fmse07/]

Information security has become a crucial concern for the commercial
deployment of almost all applications and middleware. Although this is
commonly recognized, the incorporation of security requirements in the
software development process is not yet well understood. The
deployment of security mechanisms is often ad hoc, without a formal
security specification or analysis, and practically always without a
formal security validation of the final product. Progress is being
made, but there remains a wide gap between high-level security models
and actual code development.

We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from both the
security and the software engineering communities, from academia and
industry, who are working on applying formal methods to the design and
validation of large-scale systems.

We seek original research papers addressing foundational issues in
formal methods in security engineering.  Topics covered include, but
are not limited to:

+ security requirements and risk analysis
+ access control models, information flow models, and trust models
+ specification and analysis of security properties
+ stepwise development by refinement and composition
+ computationally sound abstraction
+ program logics and type systems for security
+ other techniques for verification and static analysis
+ tool support for the development and analysis of security-critical 
  systems
+ design and analysis of security protocols
+ security aspects of operating systems and middleware
+ case studies

All submissions will be peer-reviewed.  Authors of accepted papers
must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.
Final proceedings will be published by the ACM.  

Submissions must be received by Sunday June 10, 2007 to be considered.
For submitting a paper, follow the guidelines on the FMSE'07 webpage
at http://www.fmis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/fmse07/ .

Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings.  The article must list all authors and
their affiliations.  It should begin with a title, a short abstract,
and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the
contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist
reader.  The submitted paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the
bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 15 pages in
total, using at least 11-point font, reasonable margins, and page
numbers on each page.  Committee members are not required to read
appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them.  The
document must be in Acrobat PDF format, and must be legible after
printing on standard grayscale printers, both those that use A4 and
those that use 8-1/2x11" paper.  Submissions not meeting these
guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages
in total using the ACM conference style.

Program Chairs
  Virgil D. Gligor   (University of Maryland, USA)
  Heiko Mantel       (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Program Committee 
   Michael Backes    (Saarland University, Germany)
   Gilles Barthe     (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
   Véronique Cortier (CNRS & LORIA Nancy, France)
   Anupam Datta      (CMU, USA)
   Amy Felty         (University of Ottawa, Canada)
   Andy Gordon       (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
   Joshua Guttman    (MITRE, USA)
   Peeter Laud       (Tartu University, Estonia)
   Fabio Martinelli  (IIT Pisa, Italy)
   Cathy Meadows     (NRL, USA)
   Jon Millen        (MITRE, USA)
   David Naumann     (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
   Vitaly Shmatikov  (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
   Luca Viganò       (University of Verona, Italy)

Important dates:
  Submission deadline:         June 10, 2007 
  Notification of acceptance:  July 25, 2007
  Final version (firm):        August 22, 2007
  Workshop:                    November 2, 2007

Workshop webpage: 
  http://www.fmis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/fmse07/