SecRelCRC 2013 - Call for Book Chapters: Methods and Tools for Secure and Reliable Software

Call for Book Chapters: Methods and Tools for Secure and Reliable Software
A book to be published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Editors:
Dr. Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA.
Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada.
Inquiry/Contact:
hshahria-AT-kennesaw.edu
Introduction:
Security and reliability have emerged as two fundamental aspects of software systems that have received huge attention from the research community and practitioners. Numerous security breach mitigations and reliability improvement techniques have emerged. These techniques are devised based on not only the complexity of software system, but also the underlying requirements, designs, implementation, and operational environments. We are also experiencing the evolution in the design and development of secure and reliable software based on object-oriented programming, component-based software, and aspect-oriented programming. Similarly, software deployment paradigms have been evolving considerably over the last few decades ranging from the desktop, distributed, web, ubiquitous, and cloud.
Objective:
This book is intended to compile the recent methods and tools in designing, developing, deploying secure and reliable software. It is also intended to cover a broader range of technical issues that make software more secure and reliable.
Topics of interests:
We welcome submissions that are relevant to software security and reliability issues. A set of topics (non-exhaustive) for the book are as follows.
- Software security
- Software reliability
- Requirement specification for software security and reliability
- Secure and reliable programming practices
- Secure and reliable software architecture design
- Software security and reliability testing
- Metrics, measurements, and analysis for software security and reliability
- Operational environments and monitoring for secure and reliable software
- Maintaining reliability and security of software systems
- Auditing techniques for software security and reliability
- Mitigating software security vulnerabilities and faults
- Security and reliability assurance and certification
- Software security and reliability for emerging paradigms (mobile, cloud, ubiquitous)
- Supporting tools and automation for security and reliability
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit your proposal in 600-800 words by briefly discussing an overview and the structure of the chapter as well as relevant references. Authors should provide brief biography sketches including the affiliation, research interest, and contact information. All submissions must be written in English and formatted as single/double columns with font size of at least 11 points, and in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=SecRelC....
The proposal submission deadline is December 15, 2012 . If a chapter proposal is approved, the authors have to submit the full chapter by February 15, 2013. The formatting instructions of the full chapter is available at http://cs.kennesaw.edu/hshahria/SecRelCRC2013/Auth...
Important Dates:
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 December 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 30 December 2012
Full Chapter Submission: 15 February 2013
Review Results Returned: 30 March 2013
Camera-ready Submission: 30 April 2013
Book publication date: Aug 31, 2013