Call for Articles
IEEE Software
September 1997 Special Issue on
Security and Privacy Implications for Software Development

The goal of this special issue is to

• advise programmers, practitioners, developers, and managers of the security implications of their development work;
• encourage companies and researchers whose products and technologies have security implications to address those requirements, by giving examples of how others have addressed these requirements and where to go for advice and guidance;
• showcase positive achievements in developing secure applications.

IEEE Software emphasizes current practice and experience and promising new ideas that are likely to be used in the near future. It is directed to the practice of the software profession. Papers pertaining to all aspects of security as part of software development are welcome for this special issue. Possible topics of interest (this list is illustrative and not exclusive) include:

• security engineering to ensure a secure system designed from separate commercial components
• integrating security tools and technologies with existing applications and in existing environments
• determining the security of commercial products and systems
• case studies in which tradeoffs between security and other attributes, such as performance and cost have been balanced
• examples of achieving security in innovative techologies, such as world-wide-web applications, pay-per-use applications, electronic commerce.

Instructions to authors:

Papers must be of high quality, oriignal, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. Authors should submit an abstract of approximately 200-500 words to Charles P. Pfleeger by October 20, 1996, and the complete article by November 15, 1996. Comments will be returned to the authors before the end of February 1997. If at all possible, prospective authors should submit the abstract by e-mail, as this abstract will be used to schedule reviewers (also by e-mail). The complete article can be submitted either electronically (in ASCII, MSWord format, or postscript) or by hardcopy. In the case of hardcopy submissions, 8 copies must be provided.

Guest editors for this special issue are:
Charles P. Pfleeger, Trusted Information Systems Inc., 8000 Westpark Dr.,
Suite 600, McLean, VA 22102-3105,
e-mail pfleeger@tis.com; and
Deborah M. Cooper, D.M. Cooper Co., PO Box 17753, Arlington, VA 22216,
dmcooper@ix.netcom.com.

Complete author guidelines can be obtained at http://www.computer.org/pubs/software/edguide.htm or via email to swoods@computer.org.