In Conjunction with SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS 2008 Conference

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due:
• July 30, 2008 (extended!)
• Notification to the authors:
• September 15, 2008
• Camera ready papers due:
• September 30, 2008
• ACM GIS 2008 Conference:
• November 5-7, 2008
• SPRINGL Workshop:
• November 4, 2008

Organization

• Program Co-chairs
• Elisa Bertino
• Maria Luisa Damiani
• Web Site Chair
• Chenyun Dai
• Proceedings Editor
• Ashish Kamra

Sponsors

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• Privacy and Security Policy Management Project

Our society is witnessing a dramatic increase in geospatial data infrastructures, data products, and services, many of them playing a key role in decision making in organizations. There are currently major national and international efforts in the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data in several application contexts including homeland security, environmental crises, and natural and industrial disasters. Geospatial infrastructures are being leveraged by companies to provide a large variety of location-based services (LBS) able to tailor services to users. However, despite the increase of publicly accessible geospatial information only little attention is being paid on how to secure geospatial information systems (GIS) and LBS. Privacy is also of increasing concern given the sensitivity of personally-identifiable location information. This is despite major advancements that have been made in secure computing infrastructures and the secure and privacy-preserving management of traditional (relational) data in particular. Given these pressing needs for securing GIS and LBS as well as assuring privacy, it is compelling to investigate security and privacy aspects as they relate to the management of geospatial data and the development of both emerging LBS and mission-critical geographic applications.

Access control for spatio-temporal databases
Access control for moving object databases
Administration of security and privacy policies
Anonymization techniques for LBS
Application of encryption techniques to LBS
Convergence of physical and logical security
Context-aware access control
Context-aware digital identity management
Context-aware location privacy
Digital rights management for geospatial data
High assurance integrity for geospatial data
Information hiding in geospatial data
Location and movement-aware security
Mobile identities
Obfuscation of sensitive geospatial information
Privacy policies for LBS
Secure localization
Secure outsourcing of geospatial data
Security and privacy for RFID systems
Security and privacy for streaming data
Security for spatial data infrastructures (SDI)
Service-based access control to geospatial data
Usability of security and privacy services for LBS
Usage control for LBS and mobile users

Submission Instructions:
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of two types:

1. Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be at most 10 pages.
2. Position Papers: these papers should report novel research directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 5 pages.

Each submission should start with: the title, abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission (research paper or position paper). Papers should use at least 11-point font and reasonable margins on A4 or US letter-size paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch). Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF format at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=springl2008.

All papers must be received by the deadline of July 15, 2008. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a CERIAS report. A special issue including the best workshop papers will be organized for publication in the Transactions on Data Privacy (http://www.tdp.cat/).

Important Dates:
Paper submissions due:           July 30, 2008 (extended!)
Notification to the authors:      September 15, 2008
Camera ready papers due:      September 30, 2008
ACM GIS 2008 Conference:      November 5-7, 2008
SPRINGL Workshop:                 November 4, 2008

Program Co-chairs:                                                             
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA                                                       
Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy

Web Site Chair: 
Chenyun Dai, Purdue University, USA 

Proceedings Editor:
Ashish Kamra, Purdue University, USA

Program Committee:
Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
Walid Aref, Purdue, USA
Rafae Bhatti, Oracle, USA
Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lorrie Cranor, CMU, USA
Michael Gertz, UC Davis, USA
Fosca Giannotti, ISTI Pisa, Italy
James Joshi, Pittsburg University, USA
Panos Kalnis, NUS, Singapore
Ling Liu, Georgia Tech., USA
Jorge Lobo, IBM, USA
Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA
Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA
Moahmed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Kenji Takahashi, NTT, Japan
Yufei Tao, The Chinese University of Honk Kong
Bhavani Thuraisingham, UT Dallas, USA
Vicenc Torra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain