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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">===============================================================</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">===============================================================</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> <A HREF="http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2014/">http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2014/</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> February 26 - 28, 2014, Munich, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">===============================================================</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">IMPORTANT DATES</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Abstract submission: September 6, 2013</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Paper submission: September 13, 2013</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Author notification: November 18, 2013</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Camera-ready: December 8, 2013</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Symposium: February 26-28, 2014</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In cooperation with: ACM SIGSAC and SIGSOFT and IEEE CS (TCSP)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Trustworthy, secure software is a core ingredient of the modern world.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So is the Internet. Hostile, networked environments, like the Internet, can allow vulnerabilities in software to be exploited from anywhere. To address this, high-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">components) are necessary, but insufficient. Indeed, the construction of secure software is challenging because of the complexity of modern applications, the growing sophistication of security requirements, the multitude of available software technologies and the progress of attack vectors. Clearly, a strong need exists for engineering techniques that scale well and that demonstrably improve the software's security properties.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">GOAL AND SETUP</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The goal of this symposium, which will be the sixth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the states of the art and practice in secure software engineering. Being one of the few conference-level events dedicated to this topic, it explicitly aims to bridge the software engineering and security engineering communities, and promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of technical program with keynote presentations by Ross Anderson and Adrian Perrig. In addition to academic papers, the symposium encourages submission of high-quality, informative industrial experience papers about successes and failures in security software engineering and the lessons learned. Furthermore, the symposium also accepts short idea papers that crisply describe a promising direction, approach, or insight.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">TOPICS</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Symposium seeks submissions on subjects related to its goals. This includes a diversity of topics including (but not limited to):</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - scalable techniques for threat modeling and analysis of</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> vulnerabilities</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - specification and management of security requirements and policies</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security architecture and design for software and systems</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - model checking for security</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - specification formalisms for security artifacts</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - verification techniques for security properties</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - systematic support for security best practices</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security testing</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security assurance cases</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - programming paradigms, models and DSL's for security</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - program rewriting techniques</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - processes for the development of secure software and systems</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security-oriented software reconfiguration and evolution</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security measurement</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - automated development</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - trade-off between security and other non-functional requirements</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (in particular economic considerations)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - support for assurance, certification and accreditation</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - empirical secure software engineering</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> - security by design</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">SUBMISSION AND FORMAT</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The proceedings of the symposium are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (<A HREF="http://www.springer.com/lncs">http://www.springer.com/lncs</A>).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submissions should follow the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submitted papers must present original, non-published work of high quality.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">For selected papers, there will be an invitation to submit extended versions to a special issue in the International Journal of Information Security.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Two types of papers will be accepted:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Full papers (max 14 pages without bibliography/appendices) - May describe original technical research with a solid foundation, such as formal analysis or experimental results, with acceptance determined mostly based on novelty and validation. Or, may describe case studies applying existing techniques or analysis methods in industrial settings, with acceptance determined mostly by the general applicability of techniques and the completeness of the technical presentation details.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Idea papers (max 8 pages with bibliography) - May crisply describe a novel idea that is both feasible and interesting, where the idea may range from a variant of an existing technique all the way to a vision for the future of security technology. Idea papers allow authors to introduce ideas to the field and get feedback, while allowing for later publication of complete, fully-developed results. Submissions will be judged primarily on novelty, excitement, and exposition, but feasibility is required, and acceptance will be unlikely without some basic, principled validation (e.g., extrapolation from limited experiments or simple formal analysis).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">In the proceedings, idea papers will clearly identified by means of the "Idea" tag in the title.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Two affiliated workshops also solicit contributions. Further guidelines will appear on the website of the symposium.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">INVITED SPEAKERS</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">STEERING COMMITTEE</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - chair </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Fabio Massacci (Università di Trento) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Gary McGraw (Cigital) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Daniel Wallach (Rice University University)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">General chair: Alexander Pretschner (Technische Universität München, DE) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Program co-chairs: Jan Jürjens (TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, DE), Frank Piessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">eHealth workshop chair: Wouter Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Smart Grid workshop chair: Jorge Cuellar (Siemens AG) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Publication chair: Nataliia Bielova (INRIA Rennes, FR) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Publicity chair: Pieter Philippaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Local arrangements chair: Regina Jourdan (Technische Universität München, DE) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Web chair: Ghita Saevels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Werner Dietl, University of Washington, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">François Dupressoir, IMDEA, Spain </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Eduardo Fernandez-Medina Paton, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Cormac Flanagan, U. C. Santa Cruz, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Arjun Guha, Cornell University, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Christian Hammer, Saarland University, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Maritta Heisel, U. Duisburg Essen, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Peter Herrmann, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Martin Johns, SAP Research, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Haris Mouratidis, University of East London, UK </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Martín Ochoa, Siemens AG, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Jae Park, University of Texas at San Antonio, US </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Erik Poll, RU Nijmegen, The Netherlands </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ketil Stølen, SINTEF, Norway </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania, US</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="nl-be"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Mohammad Zulkernine, Queens University, Canada</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="nl-be"></SPAN></P>
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