RACIS 2012 - The First International Workshop on Risk Analysis in Complex Information Systems

Today’s modern enterprises no matter small or big have huge dependence on complex information systems (CIS’s). No one can neglect the risks (internal or external) like threats and vulnerabilities associated to applications in information systems.
The importance of risk analysis and management is well recognized in today’s complex information systems. This area is emerging as a critical and challenging aspect of research and innovation. In last few years, it has increased dramatically due to evolution of service oriented architectures and cloud computing.
In this age of outsourcing, it is inevitable that enterprises need to develop such tools and methods that could help them to design and assess processes for the potential threats and vulnerabilities.
This workshop will provide a forum for researchers from diverse backgrounds to contribute in the form of new and extended methods that address the unique challenges in today’s evolving complex information systems. Industry papers are also encouraged at this workshop.
Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to:
? Security metrics for risk analysis in CIS’s
? ICT-enabled risk management
? Visualization and simulation of risk in process models
? Compliance, risk and tolerance metrics
? Data provenance issues and challenges in CIS’s
? Violation detection
? Intelligent security audit log analysis for CIS’s
? Applications, case studies and use cases
? Risk analysis and modeling for CIS’s
? Petri nets and security analysis
? Policy definition and enforcement in CIS’s
? Game theoretic techniques for modeling
? Threat analysis and modeling in CIS’s
? Smart auditing
? Scalability issues in audit log analysis
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2012
Author Notification: May 1st, 2012
Author Registration: May 18th, 2012
Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012
Conference: August 20th-24th, 2012
Submission Guidelines:
The submission guidelines valid for the RACIS workshop are the same as for the ARES conference.
Workshop Chairs:
Mansoor Ahmed (Chair)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
mansoor[at]comsats.edu.pk
Abid Khan (Co-Chair)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
abidkhan[at]comsats.edu.pk
Program Committee: (To be Announced Soon)
Contact: If you have any questions, please feel free to contact via email: mansoor[at]comsats.edu.pk