The Seventh Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST2009) will take place in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, August 25-27, 2009. The PST conference provides a forum for researchers world-wide to report their latest research and engage in meaningful discussions and networking. PST 2009 will continue to feature high-quality research papers in the three theme areas: (1) Privacy, (2), Security, (3) Trust. Papers submitted to each of these themes will undergo rigorous peer review by an international panel of experts. PST 2009 will once again be held in cooperation with the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. The conference is also affiliated with the IFIP Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems -Working Group 11.11 on Trust Management. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE in hard copy and online.
Privacy Theme
Privacy concerns the operational policies, procedures and regulations implemented within an information system to control for the unauthorized use of, access to, or release of personal information held in any format. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):
- privacy preserving/enhancing technologies
- identity management and biometrics
- privacy and ubiquitous computing, e.g. RFIDs
- reputation, privacy and communities
- e-health and privacy
- anonymity and medical research
- employee privacy and network administration
- privacy and location-based technologies and services
- privacy and traceability
- spyware and stalking
- anonymity, pseudonimity and accountability
- responding to hate speech, flaming and trolls
- privacy and emergency management policies and technologies
- vulnerable online users and privacy sensitization
- evolving nature of lawful surveillance
- smart cards and privacy
- identity theft and management
- privacy audits and risk analysis
- evolving role of privacy officers
Privacy Theme Chair:
David Townsend, University of New Brunswick, Canada, townsend@unb.ca
Security Theme
Security addresses the various components of an information system that safeguard the data and associated infrastructure from unauthorized activity. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):
- adaptive security and system management
- analysis of network and security protocols
- applications of cryptographic techniques
- attacks against networks and machines
- authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
- botnets
- critical infrastructure security
- firewall technologies
- forensics and diagnostics for security
- intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
- malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware
- network infrastructure security
- operating system security
- public safety and emergency management
- security architectures
- security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments
- techniques for developing secure systems
- Web security
- wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security
Security Theme Chair:
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada, zincir@cs.dal.ca
Trust Theme
Trust is a fundamental human behavior. It is necessary for people to function in social groups, and it forms the foundation for many of our organizations and relationships. The conference solicits original papers on any topic related to the personal, social, and economic aspects of trust. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):
- trust models
- components and dimensions of trust
- game theory and trusting behaviors
- trust and risk
- trust, regret, and forgiveness
- perceptions of trustworthiness
- trust management
- automating trust decisions
- attacks on trust
- trust influences on security and privacy
- economic drivers for trustworthy systems
- cross-cultural differences
- computing about trust
- applications of trust
- trust and economics
- trust in e-commerce
- reputation systems
Trust Theme Chair:
Andrew Patrick, National Research Council, Canada, Andrew.Patrick@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Submission Details
High-quality papers not under review or previously accepted or published elsewhere are solicited. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. Submissions are encouraged as long papers (8-12 pages), short papers (4-5 pages) and posters. Paper submissions should be in the IEEE format, with the first page bearing authors’ affiliations, names, and contact details.
Submission Deadline: April 3, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2009
Final Manuscript Due: July 3, 2009
Conference: August 25-27, 2009
2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business
We are pleased to announce that the annual World Congress on the Management of e-Business conference organized by McMaster University’s eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) and the annual Privacy, Security and Trust conference (PST) organized by the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) are coming together in 2009 to host a joint conference August 25-27, 2009, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. This joint event will operate as the 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business. We will publish joint proceedings in cooperation with IEEE under this name.
The 2009 joint conference will be the 9th annual World Congress on the Management of e-Business and the 7th annual PST conference. The 2009 event will feature seven theme areas:
- Privacy (program chair: David Townsend, University of New Brunswick)
- Security (program chair: Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University)
- Trust (program chair: Andrew Patrick, NRC Institute for Information Technology)
- eHealth (program chair: Norm Archer, McMaster University)
- HCI (program chair: Milena Head, McMaster University)
- eInnovation: (program chair: Michael Bliemel, Dalhousie University)
- eGovernment (program chair: Bill McIver, NRC Institute for Information Technology
By combining forces we are able to offer attendees a much richer experience for a single registration fee. The 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business will include workshops, tutorials, panel discussions, keynote speakers, research papers, a graduate student symposium, a public safety / critical infrastructure summit and social events.
More information is available on the following Web site:
http://pstnet.unb.ca/congress2009
