The First International Workshop on Rapid Internet Attacks

(WORIA 2005)
(http://www.woria.org)
(WORIA, the initials for the workshop, should pronounce as WARRIOR)

 to be held in conjunction with
The First International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing
(IEEE CollaborateCom 2005)
(http://www.collaboratecom.org/)

Jointly sponsored by Create-Net and
the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST)

Double Tree Hotel San Jose
December 19, 2005

Internet-wide attacks can quickly compromise large numbers of hosts and bring down the network infrastructure rapidly. The examples of attacks include malicious code (viruses, worms), infrastructure attacks (domain name system, routing), and denial of service attacks. These emerging attacks cannot be managed effectively by current networking practices and current isolated defense practices.

On-line submission site is working now

Scope

This workshop provides a collaborative forum for academic, industry and government professionals to discuss recent progress in this new research area on rapid, large-scale Internet attacks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Defenses and countermeasures
• Detection and characterization
• Propagation modelling and analysis
• Case studies
• Risk and vulnerability assessment
• Commercial and industrial experiences
• Analysis of attack construction, current & future
• Testbed and evaluation
• Trust management
• Software and system security
• Network security
• Forensics

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline:	Extended to October 7, 2005
Notification of Acceptance:	October 20, 2005 (Thursday)
Revised versions due:	October 31, 2005 (Monday)
Workshop Date:	December 19, 2005 (Monday)

Submission and Publication

The paper should be a maximum of six pages (including references and figures) in IEEE double column format. All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE CollaborateCom 2005 conference proceedings.

All submissions should be in pdf format via the cocus web site. In order to submit a paper to the conference, you should first register on the conference management system: http://cocus.create-net.it:8080/confsys/loadRegister.do?act=completeReg Shortly after completing the registration, you will get by e-mail a password. Then you can go to here http://cocus.create-net.it/confsys/login/loadSubmission.do?idConf=31&page=sub to submit a paper.

We are steadily getting more relevant information on our web pages. Check the news page to get an overview of the latest conference events and new information on the IEEE CollaborateCom 2005 conference web site.

On the web pages, you will also find information about the workshop hotel and venue and some travel and tourist information which will enable you to start planning for an exciting WORIA 2005 experience. We look forward to being your hosts at WORIA 2005 in San Jose.