---------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2009) CALL FOR PAPERS 20-22 July 2009 Imperial College London, UK http://ieee-policy.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2009 has grown out of a highly successful series of workshops and this is recognized by the elevation of the event to an IEEE symposium. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of privacy and security management, including the policy life-cycle, detection and resolution of inconsistency, refining policies from users' requirements, and usability issues. In addition to the main technical programme, POLICY 2009 will feature a special session devoted to the demonstrations of innovative policy based systems. POLICY 2009 invites novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based management. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Privacy and Security - Policy Models and Languages - Policy Applications For a complete description of the topics of interest, please see http://ieee-policy.org/cfp.html. System demonstration submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. Of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Those interested in demonstrating a system / application should submit a description following the instructions in the System Submission Section. Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are not appropriate. Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Registration deadline: 23 February 2009 Paper submission deadline: 02 March 2009 Author notification: 11 May 2009 System demonstration submission deadline: 06 April 2009 System demonstrator notification: 11 May 2009 Camera ready copy due (for both technical papers and demos): 08 June 2009 Workshop dates: 20-22 July 2009 Paper Submission Information ---------------------------------------------------------------- Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2009. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society and submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings format (see http://ieee-formats.notlong.com). Policy 2009 invites contributions in the form of either: - Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). - Short position papers describing preliminary experimental results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new applications or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages) - System Demonstration proposal describing the proposed demonstration Descriptions of accepted demonstrations will be included in the workshop proceedings (max. length 2 pages, not including references) We particularly encourage contributions from industry in the form of long or short papers. Sincerely, Arosha Bandara and Ritu Chadha IEEE POLICY 2009 TPC Co-Chairs