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<h6 align=center style='margin-top:0in;text-align:center'><b><font size=5
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<h6 align=center style='margin-top:0in;text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Workshop on
Information Assurance (WIA 2006)</span></font></b></h6>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><font
size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:maroon'>In conjunction with the 25<sup>th</sup> IEEE International
Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <a href="http://ipccc.org/">http://ipccc.org/</a>
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Phoenix, Arizona, April 10-12, 2006</span></font></p>
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<p align=center style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in;
text-align:center'><b><font size=2 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Keynote Speaker</span></font></b><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>: <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Dr.
Carl E. Landwehr, Program Manager, Advanced Research and Development Agency</span></b></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph'><b><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Scope: </span></font></i></b><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Information Assurance (IA) is defined as
the operations undertaken to protect and defend information and information
systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication,
confidentiality and non-repudiation. Availability implies that networks
and systems must be survivable and fault tolerant – they should possess
redundancies to operate under failures or security breaches. For example,
networks should be designed with sufficient spare and working capacity,
efficient traffic restoration protocols, alarms and network management.
Security encompasses the other aspects of IA, namely integrity, access-control,
authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation as they apply to both
networks and systems.<font color=green><span style='color:green'> </span></font>The
increasing reliance of business-to-business and business-to-consumer
applications on networked information systems dramatically magnifies the
consequence of damages resulting from even simple system faults and intrusions,
making the task of assuring confidentiality, availability and integrity of information
difficult. Although several piecemeal solutions address concerns related to the
security and fault tolerance of various components of such networked
information systems, there is a growing need to leverage the synergy between
security and survivability to provide a higher level of information assurance
in the face of faults and attacks. We seek papers that address theoretical,
experimental, systems-related and work in-progress in the area of Information
Assurance at the network and system levels. We expect to have three types of
sessions - the first related to survivability and fault tolerance, the second
related to security, and the third related to the interactions between security
and survivability. Papers should describe original, previously unpublished
work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.
Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the IPCCC conference
proceedings. The workshop will also include invited papers. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Authorization and
access-control<br>
Web services security</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Database and system
security<br>
Risk analysis and security management<br>
Security verification/validation </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Wireless LAN Security<br>
Network Restoration techniques </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Network Reliability/Availability
</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Digital Rights Management
</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DoS protection for the
Internet<br>
Cryptographic protocols and Key management </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Intrusion Detection
Techniques </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ad hoc sensor network
security<br>
Models and architectures for systems security and survivability </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Security and survivability
in optical networks<br>
E/M-commerce security and survivability architectures </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:9.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Public policy issues for
security and survivability</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Instructions for
authors: </span></font></i></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Papers
reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related
topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality,
originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of
the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be
addressed to the PC co-chairs. Authors are encouraged to submit their papers
electronically. An electronic version (PDF format) of the paper should be
submitted by November 22, 2005 to the workshop website. Manuscripts should be
in English and must not exceed 8 pages (IEEE format) for regular papers and 4
pages (IEEE format) for short papers. Short papers will be included for
presentation in a poster session. A cover page must include a title,
descriptive keywords, all author's names, complete mailing addresses, telephone
numbers, e-mail addresses and an abstract of up to 150 words. Both regular and
short papers accepted for presentation will be published in the IPCCC
conference proceedings. For any further information, please check the workshop
web page at </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~lersais/WIA2006/">http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~lersais/WIA2006/</a></span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> or send e-mail to one of the program
co-chairs. Inviting selected papers for an edited book is being planned</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>General
Chair</span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:.25in'><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>David Tipper <a
href="mailto:%28dtipper@mail.sis.pitt.edu">(dtipper@mail.sis.pitt.edu</a>)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Program
Co-chairs:</span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:.25in'><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt'>James
Joshi </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:%28jjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu"><span lang=FR>(jjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu</span></a></span></font><font
size=2><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt'>)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:.25in'><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt'>Prashant
Krishnamurthy </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="mailto:%28prashant@mail.sis.pitt.edu"><span lang=SV>(prashant@mail.sis.pitt.edu</span></a></span></font><font
size=2><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt'>)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Yi
Qian (<a href="mailto:yqian@ece.uprm.edu">yqian@ece.uprm.edu</a>)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=DE style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Jun Wang (<a href="mailto:wangj@pecos.ncsa.uiuc.edu">wangj@pecos.ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>)
</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>William
Yurcik (<a href="mailto:byurcik@ncsa.uiuc.edu">byurcik@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a>)</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Important
Dates:</span></font></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
Deadlines for Submissions: November 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2005<br>
Notification of Acceptance: January 10<sup>th</sup>, 2006<br>
Camera-Ready Copy Received: January 26<sup>th</sup>, 2006<br>
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