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.

The aim of the workshop is to lay the foundation and agenda for further research and development in those areas.

Contact SPRINGL

Elisa Bertino
Computer Science Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
bertino@cs.purdue.edu

Maria Luisa Damiani
University of Milan, Italy
damiani@dico.unimi.it