SERE 2012 - Sixth International Conference on Sofware Security and Reliability SERE 2012

In 2006, the IEEE Reliability Society made a strategic decision to launch an annual conference focusing on security and reliability. This resulted in the establishment of an International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI). This year, the steering committee made another landmark decision to change the name to International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE), with SE representing SEcurity and RE for REliability, so that the focus of the conference can be more easily recognized by the community.

SERE 2012 is the sixth annual conference which brings together a wide range of researchers and practitioners to present their on-going ideas, experiences, and outcomes of most recent research, and to exchange their best-of-breed practices for developing reliable, secure, and trustworthy software systems in a more effective and efficient way. It not only allows the academic community to gain an increased awareness of the areas that are vital to the software industry, but it also grants practitioners an opportunity to express their needs. The conference will be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland which is less than one hour from Washington D.C.

The conference has three major tracks: research papers, fast abstracts and the student doctoral program. Additional workshops with more focused topics will also be held concurrently.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Security, Reliability, Availability, and Safety of Software Systems

Fault Tolerance for Software Reliability Improvement

Modeling, Prediction, Simulation, and Evaluation

Validation, Verification, and Testing

Metrics, Measurements, and Analysis

Secure and Reliable Storage

Software Penetration and Protection

Software Vulunerabilities

Malware Detection and Analysis

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Operating System Security and Reliability

Mobile and Cloud Computing

Theory and Practice

Benchmark and Empirical Studies