Workshop On
Web Privacy and Trust (WPT’2009)
To be held in conjunction with
The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
September 15-18, 2009, Milan, Italy
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/
Purpose and Motivations
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in Web Intelligence (WI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to discuss the latest advanced technologies in the Internet field with focus on Web security, integrity, privacy, and trust.
The Web has tremendously revolutionized the way we gather, process, and use information. At the same time, it had redefined the meanings of several aspects related to day-to-day businesses such as marketing, finance, education, etc. This workshop is expected to stimulate discussions about the future development of appropriate models, methods, and tools for building a variety of Web-based intelligent information systems. However these models, methods, and tools need to take into account security, integrity, privacy, and trust challenges that are put on these systems.
High quality papers in Web Privacy and Trust are solicited. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Workshop Theme and Topics
Use of artificial intelligence techniques in Web Privacy
Trust and negotiation for Web users and Web agents
Privacy-preserving Web mining
Privacy-preservation in Web applications
Deception and intent detection on the Web
Web integrity analysis
Web Service trust management
Trust for composite applications
Trust models, formalization, specification, analysis and reasoning
Trust management frameworks for secure collaborations
Trust and privacy for service oriented architectures
Privacy and identity management in e-services
Distributed trust and reputation management systems
Applications of trust and reputation management in e-services
Workshop Objectives
The objective of the proposed WPT’09 workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas, developments, and experiences on the issues related to WI and AI. Discussions will focus on where the state of the art is, where the challenges lie, and what practices are needed to enable and sustain a bright future. The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess and discuss the approaches and evaluate critically the next steps in pursuing the topics in this area. There is a great opportunity of creating the core of a consortium for future R&D projects that academia and industry bodies could initiate. Furthermore, the results of this workshop will contribute significantly in recognizing the importance of how WI and AI could foster the development of other fields such as Web services. Because the workshop addresses an emerging and important area, a good number of submissions (15 to 20) and participants (about 30) are expected.
Paper Submission and Publication
Submissions describing original research are categorized as follows.
- full
papers (up to 8 pages)
- position
papers (up to 4 pages)
- posters
(2-page extended abstracts or final posters)
In addition to the above, hands-on
demonstrations (2-page descriptions of the demo) are welcome. All types
(including hands-on demonstrations) of submissions will be reviewed by at least
two reviewers. Accepted full papers must demonstrate technical quality,
relevance to the workshop topic, and proper quality of writing. Workshop
proceedings will be made available for the workshop in electric form via CD and
the workshop Web page. Full papers will be published in the IEEE CEC
proceedings.
Important Dates
Abstract Due: April 15, 2009
Paper submission deadline:
April 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2009
Camera ready papers due: June 30, 2009
Workshop: September 15, 2009
Submission Guidelines
Full paper submissions should follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. Submissions should be submitted electronically as PDF documents before the submission deadline of April 30 to the workshop chair fahim.akhter@zu.ac.ae
Organizers
Dr. Fahim Akhter
Zayed University
College of Information Technology
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Shiguo Lian
France Telecom R&D Beijing Center
China
shiguo.lian@orange-ftgroup.com
Program Committee
Jorge Gardoso EST-Setubal,
Portugal
Kamel Rouibah Kuwait
University, Kuwait
Barkhi, Reza American
University of Sharjah, UAEUAE
Jorge Cardoso University
of Madeira, Portugal
Yu Huang Peking
University, China
Fahim Akhter Zayed
University, UAE
Lami Kaya University
of Sharjah, UAE
Aboul Ella Hassanien Cairo
University - Egypt
Nasser Nassiri Dubai
Women's College, UAE
Brian Blake Georgetown
University, USA
Philippe Thiran University
of Namur
Leandro Krug Wives Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Huwida Said Zayed University, Dubai –
UAE
Andreas Pfitzmann, Dresden
University of Technology, Germany
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Marquette University, USA
Shiguo Lian France
Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China
Yu Chen State
University of New York - Binghamton, USA
Mario Guimaraes Zayed
University, UAE