CALL FOR PAPERS
               FIFTH ACM WORKSHOP ON ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL
                           Date: July 26-28, 2000
                    Place: Technical University of Berlin
                               Berlin, Germany
              Web page: http://www.acm.org/sigsac/rbac2000.html

     Sponsored By: ACM SIGSAC, Hosted By: Technical University of Berlin

The essence of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is that permissions are
assigned to roles rather than to individual users. Users acquire these
permissions by virtue of being authorized to act in these roles. The driving
motivation for RBAC is to simplify security policy administration while
facilitating the definition of flexible, customized policies. Basic RBAC
models have been successfully applied since the mainframe era, but emerging
systems, which have greater numbers of users, roles, and systems, challenge
the expressive power of these traditional models.

The ACM workshops on RBAC bring together researchers, developers, and
practitioners to discuss the application of RBAC to both traditional and
emerging systems and the development of new modeling paradigms for future
applications. The workshop invites participation from the database, network,
distributed systems, operating systems, security and application
communities.

Users, developers and researchers are invited to submit their papers (in
English and limited to 6000 words), and the title and abstract of their
papers to the Program Chair at the address given below by their respective
due dates. Abstracts should be sent by email in plain ASCII format.
Electronic submission of papers is encouraged. Please send the manuscript in
Postscript or PDF format. Papers must be original and should not be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. Copyrights for accepted papers must
be transferable to ACM (except for Government work). Outstanding papers will
be considered for publication in ACM's new Transactions on Information and
Systems Security (TISSEC).

Proposals for panels and group discussions should be sent, preferably by
email, to the Panels Chair David Ferraiolo (at dferraiolo@nist.gov) with a
copy to Klaus Rebensburg (at klaus@prz.tu-berlin.de).

Paper Submissions should be sent to:
Vijay Atluri, Program Committee Chair
MSIS Department
Rutgers University
180 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
USA
Email: atluri@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Phone/Fax: 973-353-1642/5003

SCHEDULE:
Abstracts of the Papers Due: February 23, 2000
Papers and Panel Proposals Due: March 1, 2000
Notification of acceptance and advance program: March 30, 2000
Deadline for final version of papers: May 1, 2000
Workshop: July 26-28, 2000

Steering Committee Chair: Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University
General Conference Chairs: Klaus Rebensburg, Technical University of Berlin
and Charles Youman, George Mason University
Program Committee Chair: Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Local Arrangement Chair: Thomas Hildmann, Technical University of Berlin
Panels Chair: David Ferraiolo, National Institute of Standards and
Technology and Klaus Rebensburg, Technical University of Berlin
Proceedings Chair: Sylvia Osborn, The University of Western Ontario
Publicity Chair: Trent Jaeger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Dave Ferraiolo, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Luigi Giuri, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Trent Jaeger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Carl Landwehr, Mitretek Systems, Inc.
Emil Lupu, Imperial College
Sylvia Osborn, The University of Western Ontario
Klaus Rebensburg, Technical University of Berlin
Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University
Richard Simon, EMC
Roshan Thomas, TIS Labs
Dan Thomsen, Secure Computing Corp.
Dan Wallach, Rice University

REGISTRATION:
Information on registration and accommodations will be provided. There will
be a registration fee for all participants to cover meeting costs.