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*                     In Bio We Trust 2009                   
*        Intl. Workshop on Bio-Inspired Trust Management      
*                    for Information Systems                 
*                    http://inbiowetrust.org                 
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*                co-located with Bionetics 2009              
*               December 9-11, 2009, Avignon, France         
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers deadline:      15 July 2009
Notification:             1 September 2009 
Camera Ready:       20 September 2009

SCOPE 
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Traditional security mechanisms fall short of what new information systems need. To fix this problem, two research communities have recently proposed new security mechanisms. One of those communities is called "bio-inspired systems" and is increasingly borrowing ideas from nature to make information systems more effective and robust. The other is called "trust management systems" and has been proposing and scrutinizing algorithms for information systems that mimic how people manage trust in society. Increasingly the two communities are working on similar research problems but, alas, they are doing so separately.

Although there is an enormous number of potentially useful bio-inspired mechanisms that can be exploited in trust management, it comes as a surprise that bio-inspired trust management has not received any attention at all. Clearly, the dialog between researchers in bio-inspired systems and in trust management should widen. 

The workshop seeks to bring together the world's experts in both communities, and to stimulate and disseminate interesting research ideas and results.
 
WORKSHOP TOPICS 
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Contributions are solicited in all aspects of bio-inspired and trust management systems, including:
 
- Bio-inspired models for managing trust in any information systems:
  -- virtual organizations, 
  -- grid and cloud computing, 
  -- mobile-ad-hoc/opportunistic/delay-tolerant networks, 
  -- service oriented architectures, 
  -- self-organizing networks and communities,
  -- mobile cooperative systems, 
  -- mobile platforms, 
  -- recommender systems.
- Fixed and mobile architectures and protocols for distributed trust management. 
- Identity management in trust models. 
- Attacks to trust systems and defenses. 
- Incorporation of bio-inspired algorithms into communication protocols and computing architectures. 
- Descriptions of pilot programs, case studies, applications, work-in-progress, surveys, and experiments integrating biological designs or trust aspects into information systems.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alfarez Abdul-Rahman, RedKey Digital, UK
Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy
Neal Lathia, University College London, UK
Gabriele Lenzini, Novay, NL
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Daniel Schreckling, University of Passau, Germany
Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel, CH
Christian Wallenta, Oxford University, UK

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Interested authors are encouraged to submit full papers of up to 8 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages. 

All papers will be peer reviewed by members of the Program Committee, and will be judged on novelty, technical soundness, comparison to related work, validation aspects, etc.

Please visit our web page to read submission conditions and guidelines.

PROCEEDINGS
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series.

ORGANIZERS
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Marinella Petrocchi	 (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Daniele Quercia         (UCL, UK)