The Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)

             Workshop held in association with the
  10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
              October 27th, 2003   Washington D.C.


                      Call for Papers


In the last several years, Internet-wide infectious epidemics have emerged
as one of the leading threats to information security and service
availability.  The vehicle for these outbreaks, malicious codes called
"worms", leverage the combination of software monocultures and the
uncontrolled Internet communication model to quickly compromise large
numbers of hosts.  Current operational practices have not been able to
manage these threats effectively and the research community is only now
beginning to address this area. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together ideas, understanding and experience bearing on the worm problem
from a wide range of communities including academia, industry and the
government.  We are soliciting papers from researchers and practitioners on
subjects including, but not limited to:

    Modeling and analysis of propagation dynamics
    Automatic detection, characterization, and prediction
    Analysis of worm construction, current & future
    Propagation strategies (fast & obvious vs slow and stealthy)
    Reactive countermeasures
    Proactive defenses
    Threat assessment
    Forensic methods of attribution
    Significant operational experiences


Important Dates
Paper submissions due: July 1st, 2003
Acceptance notification: August 14th
Camera ready copy for accepted papers: August 29th
Workshop: October 27th

Submissions
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference
with proceedings.  Papers should be at most 10 conference-style pages
(double column) using a numbered citation style. The first page of each
paper should include the title, abstract, authors and contact information.
Further submission instructions will be posted at
http://pisa.ucsd.edu/worm03/ in a timely matter.

Conference Organization
General Chair: Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
Publicity Chair: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab
Program Committee Chair: Stefan Savage, UC San Diego
Program Committee Members: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab
                            Anup Ghosh, DARPA
                            David Moore, CAIDA/UC San Diego
                            Carey Nachenberg, Symantec
                            Vern Paxson, ICIR/LBL
                            Phil Porras, SRI
                            Jeff Rowe, UC Davis
                            Mike Skroch, Sandia
                            Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
                            Don Towsley, UMass Amherst