[SEM-GRD] Call for papers : Identity Management in Grid and SOA @ IDIS journal special issue

[Vassiliki Andronikou]

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Identity in the Information Society (IDIS)

 

Special Section: Identity Management in Grid and SOA

 

 

Submission guidelines:

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents the guiding principle in
current aa aaapplications development, which aims at improving architecture
flexibility, integration with existing applications and data integration.
Traditional infrastructure technologies fail to meet the new needs posed by
SOA-compliant applications and the continuously growing requirements for
availability, flexibility and scalability. In providing infrastructure
resources by means of services, Service Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) can
fill the gap and provide a basis for the realisation of SOA. One approach to
SOI is the Grid, which has recently advanced from supporting
high-performance applications to enabling complex collaborations among
various users and systems of different expertise and differing levels of
authorisation. 

 

In addition to the research community, both commercial and industrial
sectors have shown interest in adopting Grid solutions as a way of improving
service provision and business agility and of increasing profitability. The
Grid offers the infrastructure required for efficiently adopting SOA
solutions by aggregating and coordinating various resources ranging from
computing power and storage to applications and human expertise, serving
users with different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. 

 

Any collaboration involves interactions, knowledge sharing and information
exchange. In a SOI environment this collaboration is translated into access
and control of resources that may be heterogeneous, dynamic, geographically
dispersed, self-autonomic, may have complex dependencies, and may belong to
various security domains with different policies governing access control
and security. 

 

Given the nature of business processes and collaborations, security is of
paramount importance to the implementation of SOI.  However, the distributed
nature of access to and management of resources raises many concerns in
identity management: confidentiality, data protection and privacy,
traceability, non-repudiation, integrity, access control, trust and policy
enforcement. Indeed, considerable barrier to the adoption of Grid solutions
in the public and private sectors lies in possible breaches of security and
privacy and their implications: social, economic, legal and organizational.
Better understanding of these implications could enable a wider adoption of
SOI.

 

This Call for Papers seeks research on SOI from all these perspectives.

 

Topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

. Secure SOA-based/Grid-based Enterprise Architectures

. Security and Privacy issues in SOI

. User management in Grid Portals

. Mobile Identity Management 

. Privacy-preserving techniques

. Trust Models and Trust Establishment

. Security as Quality of Service (QoS)

. Business models for Grids

. Models for authentication and privacy management in SOI

. Identity-related scientific, business, industrial, legal and social
implications of SOI

. Audit and accountability in SOI

. Futuristic SOA/Grid Business/Social Scenarios (e.g., law enforcement,
supply chain management, e-Science, e-commerce, etc) 

 

 

Submission guidelines:

 

Papers should be between 4,000-6,000 words. An abstract of no more than 250
words should describe in a clear and concise manner the key issues discussed
in the paper. Four key words or more should follow the abstract. Please
submit your paper as a MS word document using the template and formatting
guidelines provided.

The papers should clearly state how they relate to the special section, what
particular problem and corresponding solution they address, and why it is
expected to be relevant to both the special section and the relevant
scientific community. 

 

 

Important Dates: 


Submission of full papers:                            12-Dec-08
Feedback from peer review to authors:          10-Apr-09
Submission of revised papers:                      19-Jun-09
 Publication in IDIS Journal:                          01-Sep-09

 

Special section Guest Editor

Prof. Dora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens)

e-mail:  <mailto:dora at telecom.ntua.gr> dora at telecom.ntua.gr

 

Guest Associate Editor 

Vassiliki Andronikou (National Technical University of Athens)

e-mail:  <mailto:vandro at telecom.ntua.gr> vandro at telecom.ntua.gr

 

For more information :
http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/journal/12394

 

 

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