Call-for-paper and conference announcement: Trust in E-Systems and the Grid

[Ezio Corso]

Conference title:
CS- Tegrid 2007
Trust in E-Systems and the Grid - Workshop )
In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Conceptual 
Structures (ICCS 2007) and ICOS 2007 (International Conference in 
Organisational Semiotics)
July 22nd, 2007, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Conference web site:
http://www.iccs.info/cstegrid2007.php

Overview:
Grid, and E-Systems technology make resources available to authorised 
users that may not be owned by that user. Essentially the owner of the 
resource has to be certain that that resource, or at least that a 
resource of that quality) will be available and in a usable state for 
them when they want to use it. Despite security, authorisation and 
authentication consumers and providers of e-services have to have a 
degree of mutual trust in order to be able to co-exist in a shared 
E-Space. Criminal abuse of trust within B2C contexts has become 
commonplace knowledge. Abuse of trust may lead to E-Service and Grid 
provider reputations being at risk, And consumers of Grid and E-Services 
may be exposing themselves to risk through their consumption of these 
services. The aim of this workshop is to explicate E-Service trust 
issues through the adoption of conceptual modelling approaches, as well 
as new paradigms, and hence seek to develop better ways in which to 
articulate, model and manage trust issues within E-Service contexts of 
service delivery and consumption. Many tools have been developed in the 
conceptual structures community to model, represent and reason about 
conceptual structures like Conceptual Graphs, Formal Concepts, and 
related formalisms. However, such tools in isolation are not sufficient 
to build comprehensive, effective knowledge systems useful to 
communities and organizations. The workshop provides an opportunity for 
those within the Grid and E-Systems community of to consider and debate 
how to best utilise the expressive power of various tools and/or novel 
paradigms so as to address trust issues within from fresh and 
complementary perspectives. Wherever possible authors are encouraged to 
address Grid and E-Service trust issues using approaches reveal new 
insights of relevance to both academics and practitioners alike. Thus, 
papers that adopt a novel theoretic or conceptual modelling approach 
should, for example, demonstrate pragmatic outcomes within 'real' 
E-Service industrial, commercial or scientific application environments. 
The intended audience for the Workshop should be seen as encompassing 
industrial and scientific developers and users of E-Services, as well as 
academics. Papers that address Grid services will be particularly 
welcome, but any E-Service area will be considered.

Topics:
Topics to be addressed in the submissions, include, but are not limited 
to the following:

  * Conceptual Modelling and logic
  * Multi-agent trust models and solutions
  * Semiotic and cognitive approaches
  * Trusted E-Service agreements and policy management
  * Organisational trust issues (including Virtual Organisational trust)
  * Tangible trust issues: authentication, protocols, PKI architectures
  * Legal aspects, standards and compliance issues
  * Trust and mistrust propagation across social networks and on-line 
communities
  * Credibility, and reputation management
  * Incident reporting, evidence preservation and related forensic issues
  * Trusted Computing initiative
  * Use and abuse of trust for criminal intent (countermeasures)
  * Trusted service discovery, composition and execution
  * Cross-cultural and trans-national organisational trust
  * Cryptographic methods
  * Mobile and ubiquitous service support