USENIX: CSET '11 Call for Papers
http://www.usenix.org/events/cset11/cfp/
4th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '11)
August 8, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
CSET '11 will be co-located with the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX
Security '11), which will take place August 10-12, 2011.
Important Dates
Submissions due: April 18, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Notification to authors: June 1, 2011
Final paper files due: June 30, 2011
Workshop Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
Sean Peisert, University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Stephen Schwab, Cobham, PLC
Program Committee
Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis
Elie Bursztein, Stanford University
Ron Dodge, U.S. Military Academy
Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Cynthia Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School
Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University
Christian Kreibich, International Computer Science Institute
Patrick Lardieri, Lockheed Martin ATL
Ulf Lindqvist, SRI International
Mark Matties, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Sean Smith, Dartmouth University
Jessica Staddon, Google, Inc.
Ed Talbot, Sandia National Laboratory
Robert Watson, University of Cambridge Computing Laboratory
Steering Committee
Terry V. Benzel, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Jelena Mirkovic, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Overview
The focus of CSET is on the science of cyber security evaluation, as well as
experimentation, measurement, metrics, data, and simulations as those subjects
relate to computer and network security. The science of cyber security is
challenging for a number of reasons:
- Data: There is an absence of data usable by the community. Moreover, there is
no clear understanding of what good data would look like if it was obtained,
and how the value of data changes over time.
- Realism: Experiments must faithfully recreate the relevant features of the
phenomena they investigate in order to obtain correct results, yet data about
threats and the Internet landscape is sparse, modeling humans is hard, and
issues of scaling (up or down) are not well understood. Hence careful reasoning
about "realism" is required.
- Rigor: Repeatability and correctness must be ensured in any scientific
experimentation. These can be extremely hard to achieve.
- Risk: Cyber security experiments naturally carry significant risk if not
properly contained and controlled. At the same time, these experiments may well
require some degree of interaction with the larger world to be useful.
Meeting these challenges requires transformational advance in understanding of
the relationship between scientific method and cyber security evaluation, as
well as transformational advance in capability of the underlying resources and
infrastructure and usability of the data. The 4th Workshop on Cyber Security
Experimentation and Test (CSET '11) invites submissions on the science, design,
architecture, construction, operation, and use of cyber security data and
experiments.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Science of cyber security, e.g., experiences with and discussions of
experimental methodologies
- Measurement and metrics, e.g., what are useful or valid metrics? how do we
know? how does measurement interact with (or interfere with) evaluation?
- Data sets, e.g., what makes good data sets? how do we know? how do we compare
data sets? how do we generate new ones? how do they hold up over time? how well
do teaming or capture-the-flag exercises generate data sets?
- Simulations and emulations, e.g., what makes good ones? how do they scale (up
or down)?
- Testbeds and experimental infrastructure, e.g., usage techniques, support for
experimentation in emerging security topics (cyber-physical systems and
wireless)
- Experiences with cyber security education, e.g., capture-the-flag exercises,
novel experimentation techniques used in education, novel ways to teach
hands-on cyber security
Workshop Format
Because of the complex and open nature of the subject matter, CSET '11 is
designed to be a workshop in the traditional sense. Presentations are expected
to be interactive, 45 minutes long, with the expectation that a substantial
amount of this time may be given to questions and audience discussion.
Similarly themed papers and extended abstracts may be grouped together for
discussion. Papers and presentations should be conducive to discussion, and the
audience is encouraged to participate. To ensure a productive workshop
environment, attendance will be limited to 80 participants.
Submissions
Position papers, research papers, and extended abstracts are welcome as
submissions.
Position papers, particularly those that are critiques of past work, should
make certain to also include detailed, proposed solutions.
Research papers should have a separate section labeled "Methodology" in which
the paper clearly identifies the research hypothesis and experiments designed
to be proven or disproven. Submissions that recount experiences (e.g., from
experiments or teaching) should have a section labeled "Lessons Learned" that
discusses conclusions drawn from experience and generalized to other
environments.
In addition to full-length position and research papers, the program committee
also solicits extended abstracts focused on espousing positions or presenting
critiques that challenge currently accepted consensus. Authors of abstracts may
be invited to participate as presenters and/or champions of a viewpoint in
interactive, moderated, topic-focused discussions.
Full position and research submissions must be 6-8 pages long including tables,
figures, and references. Extended abstracts must be 2-4 pages long. Text should
be formatted in two columns on 8.5" x 11" paper using 10 point type on 12 point
leading ("single-spaced"), with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by
9" deep. Text outside the 6.5" x 9" block will be ignored.
Submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted via the Web submission form on
the Call for Papers Web site,http://www.usenix.org/events/cset11/cfp/
All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the
workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event,
please notify [email protected]. The papers will be available online to
everyone beginning on the day of the workshop, August 8, 2011.
At least one author from every accepted paper must plan to attend the workshop
and present.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of
previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud.
USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits
these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.
See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy
athttp://www.usenix.org/events/submissionspolicy.html for details. Questions?
Contact your program co-chairs,[email protected], or the USENIX office,
[email protected].
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered.
Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on
the USENIX CSET '11 Web site, http://www.usenix.org/events/cset11/; rejected
submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
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