SPRINGL 2011 - 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL) 2011

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