[Tccc] Call for Chapters: Security, Privacy and Trust...

Mukaddim Pathan al_mukaddimatyahoo.com.au
Sat Oct 6 05:36:27 EDT 2012



 Dear Colleagues,
  

Please consider contributing to the book: Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud 
Systems, to be published by Springer, USA. The call for book 
chapter can be found later in this email. Interested contributors are 
requested to visit the book website 
(http://www.cloudserviceresearch.com/security-book) and check the tentative 
table of 
contents before submitting a chapter proposal.


Best regards,
Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia

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Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud Systems

Dr. Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Dr. Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia

Publisher: Springer, New York, USA
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Introduction
============

Cloud computing provides a new paradigm to enable on-demand delivery of 
computing resources such as infrastructure, platform, and software to customers 
as utilities. Despite what cloud computing promises, it is not secure by 
nature. Commercial enterprises often do not want to store their data in the 
cloud due to the lack of trust and the risk of exposing their data in an 
untrusted environment. The data in the cloud must be properly encrypted both in 
motion and at rest. This calls for hybrid cloud environments, where part of
 the application/data is hosted in a public cloud and commercial sensitive data 
is hosted on premises. In this context, a key challenge is the provisioning of 
a secure and trusted application/data that can be operated in a hybrid cloud 
environment. This book aims at compiling technologies for enhancing and 
provisioning security, privacy and trust in Cloud systems based on QoS 
requirements.

Book Website
=============

URL: http://www.cloudserviceresearch.com/security-book
Email: cloudsec2... at easychair.org

Objectives
==========

This book will be a timely contribution to a field that is gaining considerable 
research interest, momentum, and is expected to be of increasing interest to 
academic researchers and commercial developers. It will provide a comprehensive 
coverage of technologies related to cloud security, privacy and trust. In
 particular, it will offer:

- Cloud security fundamentals and related technologies to-date, with a 
comprehensive coverage of evolution, current landscape, and future roadmap.
- A smooth organization with introductory, advanced and specialist content, 
i.e. from basics of security, privacy and trust in cloud systems, to advanced 
cartographic techniques, case studies covering both social and technological 
aspects, and advanced platforms.
- A few special features, including:
 * Case studies written by professionals and/or industrial researchers.
 * Inclusion of a section on Cloud security and eGovernance tutorial that can 
be used for knowledge transfer and teaching purpose.
 * Identification of open research issues to help practitioners and 
researchers.

Topics of Interest
===================

Topics for potential chapters include, but are not limited to:

*
 Cloud Computing Fundamentals
* Secure information sharing and data protection in the cloud
* Intra and inter-cloud security, privacy and trust
* Cloud-based eGovernance
* Cloud security architecture and protocol
* Autonomic security in cloud systems
* Cryptography and crypto-protocols for cloud systems
* QoS-based trust model and QoS monitoring mechanism
* Enterprise cloud security case study
* Open research issues in cloud security and future roadmap

Important Dates
===============

Chapter Proposal Due: October 15, 2012 (You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages 
proposal describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the 
chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final manuscript and 
brief biography of authors. Early submission is highly appreciated)

Notification of Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: November 1, 2012
Full Chapter Due:
 January 05, 2013
Notification of Chapter Acceptance/Rejection: February 05, 2013
Final Chapter Due: March 15, 2013
Manuscript Delivery to Publisher: March 31, 2013

Target Audience
================

The theme of the proposed book is a timely topic for readers, including 
practicing engineers and academics, in the domains related to the engineering, 
science, and art of building networks and networked applications. Specifically, 
upon reading this book, audiences will perceive the following benefits:

- Learn the state-of-the-art in research and development on cloud security, 
privacy and trust.
- Obtain a future roadmap by learning open research issues.
- Gather the background knowledge to tackle key problems, whose solutions will 
enhance the evolution of next-generation secure cloud systems.
- Use the book as a valuable reference for a technical professional in a related
 industry.
- Use the book as a text book in the graduate and postgraduate level to prepare 
students who intend to perform research in the field or intend to be employed 
in a related industry.

Submission Instructions
=======================

Proposal Submission: Proposal should not exceed three A4 pages and must include 
title, authors, chapter organization and proposed content in each section. 
Proposals should be submitted using the EasyChair Submission System 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudsec2013) or by email to the 
editors.

Final manuscript submission: Each accepted chapter must not exceed 25 A4 pages. 
Please use at least 11 point Times New Roman fonts, with single spacing and 
1-inch margin at top-bottom-left-right of the page. Please note that there is 
no specific template for the chapter as the publisher would like to receive 
structured text without any specific
 layout. This is to allow the book to be available electronically to all future 
devices, including IPad, Kindle etc. Typesetting and data preparation will be 
done by the publisher.

We expect to receive significant, high quality, and innovative contributions 
that are not yet fully published (at least 30% new content) or that are not 
currently under review elsewhere. To make the book accessible to larger 
audience, contributions from the authors can also be based on the concepts 
learned from previously published works. The book is intended to be used as 
graduate level courseware. Therefore, each chapter should be written as 
tutorial type, rather than as a conference paper. Each chapter should include 
the following mandatory sections (with exact heading) among others of choice of 
the authors: keywords (at least 5, not more than 10), introduction, 
background/related work, visionary thoughts for practitioners, future research 
directions, conclusion, and
 references. Submission of a chapter for review would imply the readiness of 
the author(s) to publish the chapter in the book. Early submission is highly 
appreciated as the editors would like to have progressive dialogue and work 
with prospective authors to bring out a book of wide appeal. Authors of 
accepted chapters would be required to sign an agreement of copyright transfer 
and an originality statement to the publisher.

Editors Contact Details
========================

Dr. Surya Nepal
Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO ICT Centre
Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Roads
Marsfield, NSW 2122, Australia
Email: surya.ne... at csiro.au

Dr. Mukaddim Pathan
Technology Specialist - Content Delivery Networks
Telstra Corporation Limited
21/35 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
Email: mukaddim.pat... at team.telstra.com;
 al.mukad... at gmail.com

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Dr. Mukaddim Pathan
Technology Specialist - Content Delivery Networks
Telstra Corporation Limited

21/35 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Contact: +61-3-8647 9662 (Office)
E-mail: mukaddim.pat... at team.telstra.com
Web: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~mukaddim.pathan
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