CFP: The Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)

Mon Mar 31 21:41:33 UTC 2003

[forwarded in consideration that some NANOGers might have some interesting
 perspectives on worms that would otherwised be missed]

            The Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)
             Workshop held in association with the
 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
             October 27th, 2003   Washington D.C.

                     Call for Papers

In the last several years, Internet-wide infectious epidemics have 
emerged as one of the leading threats to information security and 
service availability.  The vehicle for these outbreaks, malicious 
codes called "worms", leverage the combination of software 
monocultures and the uncontrolled Internet communication model to 
quickly compromise large numbers of hosts.  Current operational 
practices have not been able to manage these threats effectively and 
the research community is only now beginning to address this area. The 
goal of this workshop is to bring together ideas, understanding and 
experience bearing on the worm problem from a wide range of 
communities including academia, industry and the government.  We are 
soliciting papers from researchers and practitioners on subjects 
including, but not limited to:
   Modeling and analysis of propagation dynamics
   Automatic detection, characterization, and prediction
   Analysis of worm construction, current & future
   Propagation strategies (fast & obvious vs slow and stealthy)
   Reactive countermeasures
   Proactive defenses
   Threat assessment
   Forensic methods of attribution
   Significant operational experiences

Important Dates
Paper submissions due: July 1st, 2003
Acceptance notification: August 14th
Camera ready copy for accepted papers: August 29th
Workshop: October 27th

Submissions
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been 
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or 
conference with proceedings.  Papers should be at most 10 
conference-style pages (double column) using a numbered citation 
style, 11 point font, and reasonable margins on letter-sized paper.  
The first page of each paper should include the title, abstract, 
authors and contact information. Further submission instructions will 
be posted at http://pisa.ucsd.edu/worm03/ in a timely matter.

Conference Organization
General Chair: Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
Publicity Chair: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab
Program Committee Chair: Stefan Savage, UC San Diego
Program Committee Members: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Lab
                           Anup Ghosh, DARPA
                           David Moore, CAIDA/UC San Diego
                           Carey Nachenberg, Symantec
                           Vern Paxson, ICIR/LBL
                           Phil Porras, SRI
                           Jeff Rowe, UC Davis
                           Mike Skroch, Sandia
                           Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
                           Don Towsley, UMass Amherst