Fifth International Conference
"Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures
for Computer Networks Security"
(MMM-ACNS-2010)
and
First International Workshop
"Scientific Analysis and Policy Support for Cyber Security"
(SA&PS4CS-2010)
September 8-11, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia
http://comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns10/
http://www.comsec.spb.ru/saps4cs10/
Sponsors
1. European Office of Aerospace Research and Development USAF, USA
2. Office of Naval Research Global, USA
3. Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Organizers
* Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg
Institute for Informatics and Automation of RAS (SPIIRAS)
* St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
* Binghamton University (State University of New York)
Title and scope
The previous International Conferences "Mathematical Methods,
Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security"
(MMM-ACNS-2001 (http://space.iias.spb.su/mmm2001/main.jsp),
MMM-ACNS-2003 (http://space.iias.spb.su/mmm-acns03/index.jsp),
MMM-ACNS-2005 (http://space.iias.spb.su/mmm-acns05/index.jsp)) and
MMM-ACNS-2007 (http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns07/ ) organized by
St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation,
Binghamton University (SUNY) and supported by the European Office
of Aerospace Research and Development USAF, Office of Naval
Research Global, and Russian Foundation for Basic Research were
successful. These conferences demonstrated the high interest of
the international scientific community to the theoretical and
practical aspects of the computer network and information
security.
The goals of MMM-ACNS-2010 Conference
(http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns10/) to bring together leading
researchers from academia and governmental organizations as well
as practitioners to advance the states of the art and practice in
the area of computer networks and information security with a
focus on novel theoretical aspects of computer network security,
facilitate personal interactions and discussions on various
aspects of information technologies in conjunction with computer
network and information security problems arising in large-scale
computer networks.
The MMM-ACNS-2010 Conference will be carried out together with the
First International Workshop "Scientific Analysis and Policy
Support for Cyber Security" (SA&PS4CS-2010)
(http://www.comsec.spb.ru/saps4cs10/) dedicated to the methods of
scientific analysis and policy support for response to cyber
intrusions and attacks.
Topics of interest
Papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical
aspects of the computer network and information security are
solicited for submission for MMM-ACNS-2010. Papers may present
theory, technique, and applications on topics including but not
restricted to:
* Adaptive security
* Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, prevention
* Anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud, anti-botnet techniques
* Authentication, Authorization and Access Control
* Computer and network forensics
* Covert channels
* Critical infrastructure protection
* Data and application security
* Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security
* Deception systems and honeypots
* Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
* Digital Rights Management
* eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment security
* Formal analysis of security properties
* Information warfare
* Internet and web security
* Intrusion prevention, detection, and response
* Language-based security
* Network survivability
* New ideas and paradigms for security
* Operating system security
* Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Security event processing and predictive security monitoring
* Security for cloud computing
* Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures
* Security of emerging technologies: sensor, wireless/mobile,
peer-to-peer and overlay networks
* Security of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
* Security modeling and simulation
* Security policies
* Security protocols
* Security verification
* Self-protecting and healing
* Software protection
* Trusted computing
* Trust and reputation management
* Vulnerability assessment, risk analysis and risk management
The main topics of the SA&PS4CS'2010 are detection,
discrimination, and attribution of various activities of
malefactors and response to cyber intrusions and attacks including
national level information operations as well as identifying
emergent cyber technologies supporting social and political
activity management and trans-national distributed computing
management.
Objectives of the MMM-ACNS-2010 Conference
The main objectives of the MMM-ACNS-2010 Conference are to discuss
state-of-the-art in mathematical methods and models for computer
networks and information security to promote a better
understanding of recent achievements and trends in the computer
network security, as well as making use of recent achievements in
the area of advanced information technologies for computer network
and information assurance.
Security assurance of resident information and computer networks'
software is one of the important problems of the modern computer
science and information technology. The problem importance is
confirmed by ever increasing multiplicity and diversity of threads
and vulnerabilities of computer networks, permanently increasing
significance and value of information itself, and by potentially
devastating consequences of successful attacks on integrity,
resource availability and information
confidentiality. Unauthorized access to computer network
facilities and network resources, especially in global networks
participating in real-time control operations, may be truly
disastrous.
There are several reasons for the complexity of the problem under
study. The growing size of the network, its interconnectivity,
large number of users, increasing number of vulnerable targets
within the network (communication protocols, operating systems,
servers, applications, etc.), and the appearance of effective and
previously unknown types of attacks are among them.
An additional objective of the conference is to bring together
researchers and developers from academia, industry and
governmental organizations to exchange ideas in a broad range of
topics among researchers, security system developers and users
from research and commercial perspective.
Since the scope of the conference covers areas presenting specific
interest for basic and applied research organizations, information
about the conference will be distributed among the corresponding
organizations in Russia and worldwide. So far preliminary
agreement to participate in the conference is received from
leading Russian Institutions doing basic and applied research in
Computer Science, Telecommunication and Computer Security and from
companies developing relevant industrial
applications. MMM-ACNS-2010 program and agenda will be finalized
after paper reviewing and selecting procedure by May 23, 2010.
Objectives of the SA&PS4CS-2010 Workshop
Cyber security is receiving a significant international attention
given recent network attacks involving Russia, Estonia, USA, China
and many other countries.
The Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
involved in multiple disciplines concerning scientific analysis
and policy support for cyber security to exchange ideas and to
learn the latest developments in this important field.
We are planning to invite researchers from the Human Behavior,
Network Security, Artificial Intelligence (mainly in the fields of
intelligent data analysis, adversarial planning and game theory)
and Autonomous Agents communities (mainly software agent
technology) to integrate their respective technologies and develop
a research agenda to detect and analyze attacks by Cyber Militias,
detect and analyze the mechanisms used by Bot Armies, detect and
block intrusions.
This Workshop could promote internationally shared understanding
of the technically supportable indications and warnings for
various types of intrusions and attacks, from the isolated to the
highly coordinated, and from the forensic to strategic.
The Workshop is planned on the last day of MMM-ACNS-2010.
Submitting a paper
The MMM-ACNS-2010 welcomes original papers from academic,
government, and industry contributors on mathematical approaches
and models, state-of-the-art techniques, and novel applications in
the above proposed areas. All submissions will be subjected to a
thorough review by at least three reviewers.
Draft versions of original full papers up to 12 A4 pages in
English using at least 11-point fonts with reasonable margins,
including abstract (up to 300 words) and keywords (5 to 8), should
be submitted by
March 7, 2010
or sooner through the upload facilities at the MMM-ACNS-2010 web site
http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns10/ .
Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.
Authors must also indicate the conference track to which the paper is submitted.
The Program Committee will make the final selection based on peer reviewers' evaluation.
The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished
research, case studies and implementation experiences.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be disseminated by May 2, 2010.
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers (see below) are due May 23, 2010.
The speakers of the SA&PS4CS-2010 Workshop will be personally
invited. Camera ready papers for the SA&PS4CS-2010 should be
submitted by June 13, 2010.
Invited Speakers
* Herve Debar (Institut Telecom - Telecom SudParis, France)
* Dieter Gollmann (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
* Greg Morrisett (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA)
* Bart Preneel (Electrical Engineering Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
* Ravi Sandhu (University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute for Cyber Security, USA)
Proceedings
Program Committee plans to publish the MMM-ACNS-2010 Proceedings
in Springer series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS). The
final decision will be made by Springer after finalizing the
reviewing process. Instructions for authors will be provided at
the MMM-ACNS-2010 web site (http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns10/).
Camera ready paper submission can be uploaded through the
MMM-ACNS-2010 web site at http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns10/.
The Proceeding of the SA&PS4CS-2010 Workshop also will be prepared.
Conference Languages
The working language of MMM-ACNS-2010 is English.
The working languages of SA&PS4CS-2010 Workshop are English and
Russian. Presentations will be simultaneously translated.
Conference Co-Chairmen
* Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Prof. R.M. Yusupov, Director of the Institution of the Russian
Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and
Automation of RAS (SPIIRAS)
* Dr. Robert L. Herklotz, Program Manager: Information Operations and
Security, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Program Committee
Co-Chairmen:
* Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia)
* Victor Skormin (Binghamton University, USA)
Program Committee members:
* Mikhail Atallah (USA)
* Fabrizio Baiardi (Italy)
* Cataldo Basile (Italy)
* Konstantin Beznosov (Canada)
* Julien Bourgeois (France)
* Mariano Ceccato (Italy)
* David Chadwick (UK)
* Shiu-Kai Chin (USA)
* Howard Chivers (UK)
* Christian Collberg (USA)
* Miguel Correia (Portugal)
* Frederic Cuppens (France)
* Dipankar Dasgupta (USA)
* Herve Debar (France)
* Changyu Dong (UK)
* Dennis Gamayunov (Russia)
* Dieter Gollmann (Germany)
* Stefanos Gritzalis (Greece)
* Alexander Grusho (Russia)
* Amir Herzberg (Israel)
* Ming-Yuh Huang (USA)
* Sushil Jajodia (USA)
* Angelos Keromytis (USA)
* Victor Korneev (Russia)
* Klaus-Peter Kossakowski (Germany)
* Pavel Laskov (Germany)
* Javier Lopez (Spain)
* Antonio Mana (Spain)
* Fabio Martinelli (Italy)
* Gregorio Martinez (Spain)
* Catherine Meadows (USA)
* Ann Miller (USA)
* Nickolay Moldovian (Russia)
* Wojciech Molisz (Poland)
* Monika Oit (Estonia)
* Vladimir Oleshchuk (Norway)
* Slobodan Petrovic (Norway)
* Neeli Prasad (Denmark)
* Bart Preneel (Belgium)
* Roland Rieke (Germany)
* Peter Ryan (Luxembourg)
* Andrei Sabelfeld (Sweden)
* Igor Saenko (Russia)
* Ravi Sandhu (USA)
* Michael Smirnov (Germany)
* Artem Tishkov (Russia)
* Bill Tsoumas (Greece)
* Shambhu Upadhyaya (USA)
* Vijay Varadharajaran (Australia)
* Alfonso Valdes (USA)
* Valery Vasenin (Russia)
* Paulo Verissimo (Portugal)
* Peter Zegzhda (Russia)
* Cliff Zou (USA)
Local Organizing Committee
Chairman
R.M. Yusupov, Director of the Institution of the Russian Academy of
Sciences St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of RAS
(SPIIRAS)
Organizing Committee members:
* A.Tkatch (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Vice Chairman)
* D.Bakuradze (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* I.Podnozova (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* A.Chechulin (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* V.Desnitsky (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* E.Doynikova (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* D.Komashinskiy (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* A.Konovalov (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* O.Polubelova (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* S.Reznik (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* A.Shorov (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* E.Sidelnikova (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* M.Stepashkin (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
* Y.Zozula (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
Location of the Conference and Workshop
According to the preliminary agreement, the MMM-ACNS-2010
conference and the SA&PS4CS-2010 Workshop will take place in the
historical building "Palace of Grand Prince Vladimir Romanov," now
"House of Scientists," located in the heart of St. Petersburg,
address: 26, Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia.
This venue allows the conference organizers to arrange for the
conference itself, as well as for the associated events (informal
discussions, reception, breaks, etc.).
Contact us
Program Committee Co-Chairman
Prof. Igor Kotenko (MMM-ACNS-2010 PC Co-chairman)
Head of Research Laboratory of Computer Security Problems
Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences
St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of RAS (SPIIRAS)
39, 14th Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia
Telephone: +7-(812)-328-2642
Fax: +7-(812)-328-4450
E-mail: mmmacns[AT]comsec[DOT]spb[DOT]ru
Local contact person
Irina Podnozova
Assistant of Director for International Research Cooperation
Phone: 7-(812)-328-4446
Fax: +7(812)-328-06-85
E-mail: ipp[AT]mail[DOT]iias[DOT]spb[DOT]su