In Conjunction with SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS 2011 Conference

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due:
• August 8, 2011
• Notification to the authors:
• August 27, 2011
• Camera ready papers due:
• September 16, 2011
• ACM GIS 2011 Conference:
• November 1-4, 2011
• SPRINGL Workshop:
• November 1, 2011

Organization

• General Co-Chairs
• Elisa Bertino
• Maria Luisa Damiani
• Program Chair
• Gabriel Ghinita
• Web Site Chair
• Mehmet Emrah Durulan

Sponsors

Our society is witnessing a dramatic increase in geospatial data infrastructures, data products and services, location-based collaboration platforms and social networks, etc., which play a key role in information sharing and decision making. 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, natural and industrial disasters, etc. Geospatial infrastructures are being leveraged by organizations to provide a large variety of location-based services (LBS) that are specifically tailored to their users.

However, with the increasing amount of publicly accessible geospatial information, important challenges arise with respect to the security of geospatial information systems (GIS) and LBS. Privacy is also of increasing concern given the sensitivity of personally-identifiable location information. Location trustworthiness is essential in decision-making applications that require high assurance of geospatial data. Given these pressing needs for securing GIS and LBS as well as assuring privacy and trustworthiness, it is compelling to investigate these aspects as they relate to the management of geospatial data and the development of both emerging LBS and mission-critical geographic applications. SPRINGL 2011 is the fourth workshop in the SPRINGL workshop series that aims at bringing together researchers working on the foundations of the field and on novel applications bridging spatio-temporal data management and security, privacy and trust.

Topics

• 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
• Location-aware access control
• Location-aware digital identity management
• Digital rights management for geospatial data
• High assurance integrity for geospatial data
• Identity management in mobile applications
• Information hiding in geospatial data
• Interdisciplinary approaches and studies (e.g., law)
• Privacy ontologies
• Privacy-preserving analysis of spatio-temporal data
• Security and privacy policies for geo-social networks
• 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
• Trustworthiness assessment for 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:

• Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original research results or significant case studies. They should be at most 8 pages.
• Position Papers: these papers should report novel research directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4 pages.

Manuscripts (both research and position papers) should be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be electronically submitted at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=springl2011. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. The workshop proceedings will also be part of the ACM Digital Library.

The best regular papers from SPRINGL 2011 will be invited for publication in the Transactions on Data Privacy journal (http://www.tdp.cat/). Also, the best student paper will receive an award of 500 USD provided by the MODAP (Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy) EU project (www.modap.org). For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.

Organization

• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy

• Gabriel Ghinita, Purdue University
  Web Site Chair
• Mehmet Emrah Durulan, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Program Committee

• Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
• Patrick Capolsini, Universite de la Polynesie Francaise
• Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
• Chi-Yin Chow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
• Sebastien Gambs, IRISA, France
• Michael Gertz, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Ali Inan, Isik University, Turkey
• James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Herve Martin, University of Grenoble, France
• Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
• Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Vicenc Torra, IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain
• Luigi Troiano, University of Sannio, Italy
• Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA
• Man Lung Yiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Honk Kong
• Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia, China