ACM CCS2009 DIM Workshop

This workshop will explore critical issues concerning identity management technologies for the information society. Identity management is an endeavor for maintaining the integrity of identities through their life cycle. It aims at making the identities available to services in a secure and privacy protected manner. Digital identities play an increasingly important role as the society depends more and more on services provided over Internet. For example, solid identity management practices are essential for implementing social welfare (e.g., healthcare and e-government), enabling secure service offering (e.g., cloud computing and Software as a Service), personalizing users’ experiences (e.g., e-commerce and entertainment), and connecting people over networks (e.g., social networking and mobile communications).

Digital identity management must strike the best balance between usability, security, and privacy. A number of identity solutions are being proposed, each taking different approaches with different goals. Existing solutions are not necessarily interoperable or complementary, and sometimes overlap. Thus it is critical to lay foundations for a holistic understanding of problem areas and synergetic approaches to innovative solutions, such as guidelines, methodologies, and tools.

The workshop seeks submissions from diverse communities, such as social networking, open source projects, standardization fora, governments, system & security administrators, software engineers, and corporate & academic researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Identity life cycle
Networking social networks
Identity data portability
Identity assurance compatibility
Identity in cloud computing
Identity management for software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Identity Governance
IDM for mobile and ubiquitous computing
Novel approach to identity management interoperability
Privacy enhancement
Trust negotiation
Comparative analysis of RESTful vs SOAP approaches
Identity solutions for specific areas (e.g., healthcare, government, and education)

Reputation management
Attribute aggregation
Identity discovery
Identity theft prevention
Mash-up security
Identity metasystem
User experience integrity
Gap analysis of different IDM technologies
Standards harmonization
Experience reports on identity management practices
Case studies and lessons from large scale deployment
Vulnerabilities, threat analysis & risk assessment of IDM solutions
Identity Analytics: analysis, modeling & simulation applied to IDM
IDM for critical infrastructure

The goal of this workshop is to share the latest findings, identify key challenges, inspire debates, and foster collaboration between industries and academia towards interoperable identity service infrastructures.

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. Papers should be at most 10 pages, using at least 10.5-point font and reasonable margins on A4 or US letter-size paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so submissions should be intelligible without them. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors. The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the electronic submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim20090 and must be received by the deadline of June 19, 2009.

Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
James Backhouse, London School of Economics, UK
Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, Intel, USA
Hu Bin, Motorola, USA
Doug Blough, Georgia Tech, USA
Jan Camenisch, IBM Research, Switzerland
Feng Cao, China Mobile USA Research Center, USA
Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs, UK
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Chihung Chi, Tsinghua University, China
Rachna Dhamija, Harvard University, USA
Hidehito Gomi, Yahoo! Japan Research, Japan
Weili Han, Fudan University, China
Seung-Hyun Kim, ETRI, Korea

Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research, USA
Hyung-Jin Lim, Financial Security Agency, Korea
Howard Lipson, CERT, USA
Paul Madsen, NTT, Canada
Eve Maler, PayPal, USA
Toshihiko Matsuo, NTT Data, Japan
Piotr Pacyna, AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland
Andreas Pfitzmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems, USA
Amardeo Sarma, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Jorg Schenk, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Diana Smetters, PARC, USA
Anna C. Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Future University - Hakodate, Japan

For further information: Write to dim2009-chairs_at_lab.ntt.co.jp or visit www2.pflab.ecl.ntt.co.jp/dim2009/