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EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 10, 2011 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! ! ! FCS 2011 ! ! Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security ! ! Toronto, Ontario, Canada ! ! June 20, 2011 ! ! http://www.di.ens.fr/~blanchet/fcs11/ ! ! ! ! Affiliated with LICS 2011 ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Extended deadline: April 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2011 Final papers: May 23, 2011 Background, aim and scope ========================= Computer security is an established field of computer science of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in logic-based foundations for various methods in computer security, including the formal specification, analysis and design of security protocols and their applications, the formal definition of various aspects of security such as access control mechanisms, mobile code security and denial-of-service attacks, and the modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The aim of the workshop FCS'11 is to provide a forum for continued activity in different areas of computer security, bringing computer security researchers in closer contact with the LICS community and giving LICS attendees an opportunity to talk to experts in computer security, on the one hand, and contribute to bridging the gap between logical methods and computer security foundations, on the other. We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, as well as in new results on developing and applying automated reasoning techniques and tools for the formal specification and analysis of security protocols. We thus solicit submissions of papers both on mature work and on work in progress. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques Composition issues Formal specification Foundations of verification Information flow analysis Language-based security Logic-based design Program transformation Security models Static analysis Statistical methods Tools Trust management for Access control and resource usage control Authentication Availability and denial of service Covert channels Confidentiality Integrity and privacy Intrusion detection Malicious code Mobile code Mutual distrust Privacy Security policies Security protocols Submission ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (a4paper, 11pt), including references in the Springer LNCS style available at the URL http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The cover page should include title, names of authors, co-ordinates of the corresponding author, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps); please, do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). The only mechanism for paper submissions is via the dedicated EasyChair submission web page: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fcs2011 Please follow the instructions given there. Publication =========== Informal proceedings will be made available in electronic format and they will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Program committee ================= * Bruno Blanchet (INRIA, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, France; co-chair) * Michele Boreale (Università di Firenze, Italy) * Adam Chlipala (Harvard University, USA) * Véronique Cortier (LORIA INRIA-Lorraine, France) * Andrew D. Gordon (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) * Matthew Hennessy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * Alan Jeffrey (Bell Labs, USA; co-chair) * Matteo Maffei (Saarland University, Germany) * Benjamin Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) * Pierangela Samarati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) * David Sands (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, USA) * Bogdan Warinschi (University of Bristol, UK)