INTRICATE-SEC 2016 - 4-th International Workshop on the Theories and Intricacies of Information Security problems (INTRICATE-SEC 2016)

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are ubiquitous in critical infrastructures such as electrical power generation, transmission, and distribution networks, water management, and transportation, but also in both industrial and home automation. For flexibility, convenience, and efficiency, CPS are increasingly supported by commodity hardware and software components that are deliberately interconnected using open standard general purpose information and communication technology (ICT).
The long life-cycles of CPS and increasingly incremental changes to these systems require novel approaches to the composition and inter-operability of services provided. The paradigm of service-oriented architectures (SoA) has successfully been used in similar long-lived and heterogeneous software systems. However, adapting the SoA paradigm to the CPS domain requires maintaining the security, reliability and privacy properties not only of the individual components but also, for complex interactions and service orchestrations that may not even exist during the initial design and deployment of an architecture.
An important consideration therefore is the design and analysis of security mechanisms and architectures able to handle cross domain inter-operability over multiple domains involving components with highly heterogeneous capabilities.
Topics of Interest
This edition of the INTRICATE-SEC workshop aims to provide a platform for academics, industry, and government professionals to communicate and exchange ideas on provisioning secure CPS and services over resource constrained and low power lossy networks. In addition to invited talks, we seek novel theoretical and application-centered contributions focused on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
Security and Privacy for CPS
Anonymity and Pseudonymity
Authentication and Authorization
Trust & Identity Management
Privacy
Malware
Secure Service Platforms for CPS
Smart Grids
Demand Management
Scheduling
Energy Managment Models
Mobile Web Services and Middleware
Secure Architectures for CPS
Data Modeling
Home Energy Management
Scalability, Reliability, and Safety
Resource Constrained and Low Power Lossy Networks
Unconventional/Biologically Inspired Models