UCS 2016 - Workshop on User centric security, privacy and interoperability in the context of Internet of Things and Smart Cities

Internet of Things (IoT) enables close interactions between humans and machines. As the boundary between machines and humans gets blurry, more focus is needed in order to provide security and privacy solutions that could be used by users and IoT devices in a holistic way. IoT technologies, if they are not designed and applied in a secure and safe way, can be vulnerable to many types of attacks, which can cause serious problems in the physical world. Since IoT devices are not only monitoring, e.g., through sensors, but also controlling physical objects, e.g., through actuators, the impact of security attacks can be devastating including serious safety impacts, as in the case of connected vehicles and smart healthcare. Thus, the IoT brings new challenges regarding security, privacy and mainly “trust” in case of smart cities. Having a large number of devices installed in homes, offices, busses, on the street, etc., monitoring the everyday activities of citizens raises issues regarding the privacy of the citizens and the access to sensitive information.
Moreover, Trust in the IoT world is also a challenging issue that only recently has attracted the attention of the research community. There are many open questions regarding “how trustworthy are the IoT systems in smart cities?”, “why should I trust a smart city application?”, “are the devices providing reliable information?”, “when I need to get some information from a smart city application, and how can I be ensured that this information is timely and accurate?”, “will my private information be openly distributed to anyone without my consent?”. It can be easily seen that citizens may be reluctant to use smart city systems because they do not trust them. Thus, IoT-based systems have to prove their trustworthiness to the citizens and provide the citizens clear and visible indicators of trust. In addition, which design approaches should be proposed and adopted to enhance the secure interoperability and trust among the many different systems and services, which compose a smart city?
Securing IoT devices and communication is nevertheless challenging due to the tangled involvement of human factors and interoperability issues. Together they create a unique and challenging problem space. In this workshop, we intend to discuss the security issues in IoT, particularly taking into account user centric solutions, involving usability and interoperability.
This workshop aims to encourage innovative cross-domain studies that address the challenges of secure IoT networks and applications in the presence of non-security-savvy users and devices with diverse capacities. We encourage papers that identify, model, or address the complex interplay between security, privacy, usability, and interoperability in the context of Internet of Things.
The technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Security and privacy challenges of interoperable and usable IoT
Lightweight IoT security protocols and architectures
Privacy enhancing and anonymization techniques in IoT
Trust and identity management in IoT
Identity Management and IoT
Privacy data protection in Smart Cities applications
Secure discovery and authentication in IoT
IoT Security Life cycle
Data Governance on IoT
Security and Privacy Framework for IoT Platforms
Access control for shared data and IoT devices
Case studies of new or existing IoT security technology
Novel architectures, protocols, or applications that achieve both security and interoperability (usability)
Testbeds, and experimental results in IoT domains
This workshop is supported by EU projects SMARTIE, RERUM, ARMOUR and the IEEE CSIM SIG on “Optimization of Networking Technologies for the Internet of Things”
Organizing Committee
Workshop General Chairs:
Dr. Antonio Skarmeta Univ. Murcia, SMARTIE skarmeta-AT-um.es
Dr. Elias Tragos FORTH-ICS, RERUM , etragos-AT-ics.forth.gr
Dr. Hsu-Chun Hsiao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, hchsiao-AT-csie.ntu.edu.tw
Workshop cochairs:
Adam Kapovits Eurescom, RERUM kapovits-AT-eurescom.eu
Dr. Gianmarco Baldini, JRC, ARMOUR , gianmarco.baldini-AT-jrc.ec.europa.eu
Dr. Tooska Dargahi, CNIT/University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, tooska.dargahi-AT-cnit.it
Dr. Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, HRL Laboratories, USA, hjkim-AT-hrl.com
Publicity co-chair:
Dr. Shin-Ming Cheng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan smcheng-AT-mail.ntust.edu.tw
Publication co-chair:
Dr. Chia-Mu Yu, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, chiamuyu-AT-saturn.yzu.edu.tw
Technical Program Committee
Dr. Vangelis Angelakis, Linkoping University, Sweden
Henrich C. Poehls, University of Passau, Germany
George Oikonomou, University of Bristol, UK
Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dr. Mirko Presser, Alexandra Institute, Denmark.
Dr. Ernoe Kovacs , NEC Europe
Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda , CREATE-NET.
Dr. Domenico Rotondi. Fincons Group
Dr. Pedro Malo Uninova.
Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, Italy
Di Yuan, Linkoping University, Sweden,
Ilaria Malancini, Alcatel Lucent, Germany,
Marios Kountouris, Huawei Technologies, France,
Michal Pioro, Lund University, Sweden,
Panagiotis Vlacheas, University of Piraeus, Greece,
Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens SRL, Romania,
Dr. Tao Ban, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Cristina Basescu, ETH, Switzerland
Dr. Lin Chen, University of Paris.Sud 11, France
Pin-Yu Chen, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Cheng-Kang Chu, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore
Dr. Chun-Ying Huang, National Chiao Tung University
Dr. Yue-Hsun Lin, Samsung Research America, USA
Dr. Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University, Japan
Dr. Pawel Szałachowski, ETH, Switzerland
Dr. Wenbo Shen, Samsung Research America, USA
Dr. Lei Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Hao Wu, UIUC, USA
Dr. Shusen Yang, University of Liverpool, UK
Dr. Ejaz Ahmed, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Dr. Fernando Terroso-Saenz, University of Murcia, Spain.
Jose L. Hernandez-Ramos, University of Murcia, Spain.