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Call for Participation for the 2008 Secure Knowledge Management Workshop

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate to the Third Secure
Knowledge Management Workshop, held at Richardson, TX, November 3-4, 2008.
The workshop is partially supported by the National Science Foundation
and the University of Texas at Dallas.

The workshop features 2 keynotes, by Dr. Nabil Adam, a DHS Science &
Technology Fellow and Professor at Rutgers University, and by Tom Hill,
the Director of EDS’ Fellows and Distinguished Engineering Programs for
EDS (an HP company). There will also be a panel on Issues Facing Women
Cybersecurity Researchers, with renowned experts in the field. The main
program consists of 15 papers ranging on diverse topics from the Economics
of Secure Knowledge Management, Architectures for Secure Knowledge
Management, to Private Knowledge Management. We hope that you are able to
come and look forward to seeing you there.

More details, including the registration and accommodation information can
be found at http://cs.utdallas.edu/skm2008/

The detailed program is as follows:

Nov 3th, 2008

07:30-08:30- Registration
08:30-08:45- Welcome
08:45-09:45- Prof. Nabil Adam’s Keynote Talk
09:45-10:15- Coffee Break
10:15-12:00- Panel: Issues Facing Women CyberSecurity Researchers
              Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham: UT Dallas (Moderator)
                      Prof. Elisa Bertino: Purdue University
                      Prof. Marianne Winslett: UIUC
                      Prof. Csilla Farkas: University of South Carolina
                      Prof. Anna Squicciarini: Penn State University
12:00-13:00- Lunch
13:00-14:45- Economics of Secure Knowledge Management.

• "Firm-level Resource Allocation to Information Security in the Presence of Financial Distress" Bin Srinidhi, Jia Yan, and Giri Kumar Tayi.
• "Impact of Competition on Firms' Decisions to Outsource IT Security" Asunur Cezar, Huseyin Cavusoglu and Srinivasan Raghunathan.
• "Structure of Cybercrime in Developing Economies" Nir Kshetri

14:45-15:15- Coffee Break
15:15-17:00- Secure Knowledge Management Architectures

• "A Framework for Secure Knowledge Management in Pervasive Computing" Sheetal Gupta, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin.
• "Ontology Driven Resource Management for Emergency Response" Basit Shafiq, Jaideep Vaidya, Vijay Atluri, Nabil Adam, Soon Ae Chun, and Aaron Lieb.
• "Query Floods Analysis and Protection in Database Systems" Anna squicciarini, Elisa Bertino and Ashish Kamra.
• "A Secure Face Recognition System for Mobile-devices without The Need of Decryption" Shibnath Mukherjee, Zhiyuan Chen, Aryya Gangopadhyay and Stephen Russell.

Nov 4th 2008
08:30-09:30- Tom Hill Keynote Talk
09:30-10:00- Coffee Break
10:00-11:45- Economics of Secure Knowledge Management: Two.

• "Trust and Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation of Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing Practices" Sangmi Chai, Sanjukta Smith and Raghav Rao.
• “Managing Information Security in the Presence of Variable Attack Rates and Information Dissemination: A Differential Game Approach" Vijay Mookerjee, Radha Mookerjee, Alain Bensoussan and Wei Yue.
• “The Mediating Effect of Information Assurance on Information Infrastructure Performance" Insu park, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao and Shambhu Upadhyaya.
• "Optimal Configuration of Information Security Systems: The Case of Dynamic Attackers" Metin Cakanyildirim and Wei Yue.

11:45-13:00- Lunch
13:00-14:45- Private Knowledge Management

• "A holistic approach to privacy-preserving data analysis" Jaideep Vaidya.
• "What You Gonna Do? - A study of online customers' response to a publicized hacking incident" MinJae Lee and JinKyu Lee. We've Lost Your Private Information.
• "Plausibly Deniable Search" Mummoorthy Murugesan and Chris Clifton.
• "A Privacy Preserving Credentialing System for Health Care" Ahmet Erhan Nergiz and Chris Clifton.

14:45-15:15- Coffee Break
15:15-16:15- Other Issues in Secure Knowledge Management.

• "Analysis of the Impact of User Profiling for Security: Who Really Benefits from Profiling?" Huseyin Cavusoglu, Byungwan Koh and Srinivasan Raghunathan.
• "An Exploratory Study of Women Cybersecurity Professionals: Motivation, Skills and Barriers" Sangmi Chai, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Raghav Rao and Shambhu Upadhyaya.