CFP: Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments

[Sozo INOUE <sozo [at] c.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp>]

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* 				The First International Workshop on
* 			Privacy and Security in Agent-based
Collaborative Environments
* 						(PSACE 2006)
* 						May, 9 2006
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http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/
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* 						To be held at AAMAS 2006
* 			Fifth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and
* 						MultiAgent Systems
* 				Future University-Hakodate, Japan May
8-12, 2006
* 					http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/
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[Workshop Description]

PSACE (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) aims to provide a forum to
discuss privacy and legal issues raised by multi-agent systems as well as to
describe research results regarding privacy technology in distributed
collaborative environments. Collaboration is conducted on the basis of
autonomous interactions and information exchange between agents. When
multi-agent systems are deployed in open environments, privacy becomes a
fundamental issue, because agents interact on behalf of their owners or
representatives. Since information exchange in the form of agent
interactions are handled on behalf of the owners, these owners should know: 

- who holds their private information, 
- who can access it and for which purpose and, 
- how this information is handled (in order to avoid unauthorized changes or
unauthorized transfers).


With agent-oriented technologies playing an increasingly important role in
new distributed computing activities (E-Commerce, Grid Computing, Pervasive
Computing, Semantic Web, etc.), there are increasing risks that the privacy
and integrity of users' information will not be maintained. 

In light of these developments, a thorough analysis of threats to privacy
and their causes is needed. Issues with respect to the degree of privacy
loss, the release of constraints in terms of protection, and how they might
be assessed need to be addressed. The workshop will attempt to examine and
compare new and different approaches, along with their technical solutions
and practical designs, in open distributed environments. In addition, the
workshop will also attempt to examine the degree to which legal and
organizational compliance for privacy in multi-agent collaborative
environments can or should be achieved. 


[Workshop Objectives]

The objectives and technical issues of the workshop are as follows: 

1. Identification of the essential weaknesses/risks of
multi-agent-based/distributed applications with respect to user's privacy
including legal aspects - specifically in the new emergent field of
Multi-Agent System (MAS) applications. This analysis will help to have a
better understanding of security requirements that arise from existing
agent-based applications by identifying the main problems, the primary
factors, and the principal actors with respect to various contexts and
business cases. The workshop will also focus on specialist security concerns
that arise in agent systems and do not exist in other systems such as Web
Services or Grid Computing, etc.

2. Identification of the limitations and restrictions imposed by security,
privacy including legal and corporate compliance in highly distributed open
MASs.

3. Identification of both malicious and accidental (hidden, indirect)
attempts to exploit private information exchange and storage.

4. Specification of solutions and technical approaches for acceptable
privacy protection (demonstrations of functionalities and implementation
trade-offs with respect to security, privacy level, performance, cost,
etc.). For instance, security implementations and privacy protection that
can be associated with toolkits such as Java Agent DEvelopment
(JADE) framework will be considered.

5. Examination and review of privacy compliance with respect to laws and
corporate requirements as well as proposed solutions for the MAS context.

6. Clarifying how security protocols could be included within the new IEEE
Foundations of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) specifications.


[Topics of Interest]

The workshop will include multi-disciplinary (for example, technical and
legal) papers from attendees as well as a holistic discussion of issues
related to the key objectives outlined above. The main topics of interest
include but are not limited to:


- Privacy and security for collaboration in distributed environments

- Privacy and security in wireless and ad hoc environments

- Privacy in location-aware and context-aware services

- Security protocols for agent-based collaboration systems

- Assessing impact of distributed collaboration on privacy

- Effect of environment on collaborative strategies

- Effect of negotiation strategies on privacy

- Confidentiality and privacy in critical applications (healthcare
application, business-to-business, etc.)

- Applications of privacy in distributed collaborative environments

- Individual privacy retention during collaboration and individual
privacy among agent societies and   institutions

- Infrastructural support for privacy in distributed collaborative
environments: architectures, mechanisms, models/frameworks and
implementation

- Privacy issues for agent societies and institutions considered as a group

- Impact of security on the openness and usability of the agent architecture

- Privacy and other socio-legal aspects of collaborative MAS

- Integration of security and privacy mechanisms across multiple agent
platforms

- Multi-agent systems and rights management systems for tracking of
intellectual property and workflow

- Privacy in pervasive computing

- Privacy and provenance and dissemination

- Privacy in relation to varying degrees of trust and reliability

- Operational schemes and workflows for managing rights and intellectual
property

- Agent coalition and privacy preserving

- Privacy preserving distributed data mining


[Target Audience]

The workshop invites submissions from academia and industry presenting novel
research on all theoretical and practical aspects of privacy issues related
to agent-based collaborative environments. 
We also encourage submissions from other communities such as law and
business that present these communities' perspectives on technological
issues. 


[Important Dates]

Paper submission:				January 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:		February 19, 2006
Camera-Ready Version:			March 12, 2006
Date of workshop:				May 9, 2006


[Paper Submission]

We call for two types of paper submission: 

- Long papers for innovative technical contributions in any of the workshop
topic areas: limited to 10 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings
Author Guidelines (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

- Short papers describing implementation experiences, requirements or giving
position statements relevant to the workshop topics: from 2 to 4 pages.
Authors of short papers will be given 5 minutes presentation to introduce
their work.


[Submission Instructions]

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor
submitted in parallel to any other publication for conference, workshop or
journal. Papers should be limited to 10 pages in the Springer-Verlag LNCS
Proceedings Author Guidelines (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for detail) for long papers
and 4 pages for short papers, including title page, figures and
bibliography. Each contribution must be formatted in PostScript or PDF. 


[Review Procedure]

Paper evaluation will be through electronic submission followed by peer
review by three reviewers and final decision by workshop chair. The
selection criteria will be relevance to the workshop themes, technical
merit, originality and significance of research and quality of presentation.
Papers will also be selected by the likelihood that they will lead to
interesting and fruitful discussions at the discussion session of the
workshop.


[Publication]

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will also
be made available in electronic format before the day of the workshop.
Proceedings of the workshop should also be published as Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. 


[Registration]

Workshop registration will be handled by AAMAS 2006 conference organization
along with the main conference registration. Workshop participants must
register for the workshop by following the instructions at:
http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/


[Workshop Organization]

General Workshop Chair:
- Noria Foukia, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Program Co-Chairs:
- Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Martin Purvis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand


[Program Committee]

- Martin Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand
- Stephen Cranefield, Otago University, New Zealand
- Maryam Purvis, Otago University, New Zealand
- Ali Ghorbani, Faculty of Computer Science, (UNB), Canada
- Jaco Aizenman, The University of Costa Rica, (UCR), Costa Rica
- Omer Rana, School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK
- Luc Moreau, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK
- Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary College, London, UK
- Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu, Otago University, New Zealand 
- Herve Debar, France Telecom R&D, France
- Larry Korba, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for
Information Technology, Canada
- Stephen Marsh, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for
Information Technology, Canada
- Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Informatics & Mathematical Modelling Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark 
- Tobias Mahler, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the
University of Oslo, Norway
- Karvalics Laszlo, Information Society Research Institute (ITTK), AgentLab,
Hungary
- Patricia Charlton, Motorola Labs, Espace Technologique St Aubin, France
- Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona,
Spain
- Arkady Zaslavsky, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monash University, Australia
- Gianluca Moro, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
- Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany
- Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Zuerich, Switzerland
- John J. Borking, Borking Consultancy (Wassenaar), The Netherlands
- Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna a Cesena, Italy
- Noria Foukia, Otago University, New Zealand

See the workshop web site (http://secml.otago.ac.nz/privacy2006/) for any
updates.