Call for papers  

                      International workshop on

                        SECURITY AND INTEGRITY  
                    OF DATA INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS

                       in conjunction with the
                  Ninth International Conference on
          Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98)
                  http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98

          to be held in Vienna, Austria, 24-28 August, 1998
             (right before IFIP world computer congress)



GOALS and TOPICS of INTEREST
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Data intensive applications  are  currently one of the fastest growing
and most practically relevant application areas of database and expert
systems  technology. They are  a critical  component  of the  emerging
''distributed information environments'' that will provide people with
universal access to virtually all areas of human knowledge.  Most data
intensive applications share common characteristics: They are based on
large  heterogeneous  information  sources  often  connected  via open
computer networks, they support a large  number of users, they provide
an  infrastructure  that  enables  easy  access to different  kinds of
services, and the  quality of their services  including their security
and integrity is crucial for their success.

Providing security and integrity  of data intensive applications is an
area where we have to  renew the discussion about traditional computer
and  database  security techniques.  We probably will  have to destroy
outdated ideas  and we will have to adjust the existing  techniques to
better  meet  the requirements  of  advanced  applications  that  span
geographical as well as organisational boundaries. This workshop seeks
to  establish the  basis for an ongoing  dialogue between the database
and  expert systems  community, the  security  specialists, and people
involved  in all aspects  of using, implementing  and researching data
intensive  applications. Papers are  solicited describing  advances in
all  areas of  security and  integrity of data intensive applications,
including, but not limited to the areas of:

- heterogeneous information, multi-database systems,
- data mining, data warehousing and legacy systems, 
- multimedia databases, virtual malls, and kiosk systems,
- agent technology, locating services,
- intellectual property, watermarking, notarisation services,
- web documents, digital libraries and publishing environments,
- trading digital goods, electronic negotiation,
- architectures for secure and fair electronic commerce,
- business processes, transactions, and workflow management,
- users, organisational requirements and settings,
- risk, economic security cost and benefit models,
- auditing, intrusion detection, administration tools,
- electronic cash, wallets, pay-per-view systems,
- security paradigm shifts, new definitions of security,
- privacy, anonymity, and trust,
- ...


SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Authors are invited to submit  papers  describing both theoretical and
practical work dealing with the  above or related issues. Papers which
describe  ongoing research or provide an excellent surveying work  are
welcomed as well. Papers should be  in English and may be submitted as
regular papers  (up to 5000 words) or short papers (up to 2500 words).
The  cover  page  should  include  the  name  and  affiliation  of the
author(s), contact address, e-mail, fax and telephone. 

Electronic submission is  preferred. Please send an  e-mail containing
your submission in postscript to:

                    dexa98ws@wi-inf.uni-essen.de

Authors intending to  submit a  paper are invited to send an e-mail of
interest by  March 6, 1998 to pernul@wi-inf.uni-essen.de (with a cc to
mandry@wi-inf.uni-essen.de)  containing  title, authors  and  a  short
abstract (100 words) of the paper.

Alternatively, authors  should  send  4 copies  of  their paper to the
workshop  chair: Prof. Dr. Guenther Pernul,  Department of Information
Systems,  University  of  Essen,  Universitaetsstr. 9,  D-45141 Essen,
Germany. Please note that electronic submission is preferred.

Important dates:

               - E-mail of Interest by:  March, 6
               - Submission Deadline:    March, 15
               - Notification:           May, 20
               - Final Version:          June, 15
               - Workshop:               August, 27/28  

Papers  accepted  for  presentation  will  be  published  by  the IEEE
Computer Society in a volume of proceedings of the  DEXA'98 workshops.

Program Committee:

Elisa Bertino, University of Milano (Italy)
Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University (USA)
Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business
                    (Greece)
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University (USA)
Sokratis Katsikas, University of the Aegean (Greece)
Gustaf Neumann, University of Essen (Germany)
Guenther Pernul (chair), University of Essen (Germany)
Pierangela Samarati, SRI International (USA)
Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University (USA)
Adrian Spalka, University of Bonn (Germany)
Vijay Varadharajan, University of Western Sydney (Australia)


ATTENDANCE
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The workshop will be rather informal and will encourage discussion and
interaction.  Authors  of accepted  papers will be expected to present
their  work  at the  workshop.  All  attendees  must register  for the
DEXA'98 conference.  There will be no additional workshop registration
fee.

See also: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98