Aims and Scope

Ubiquity of the internet and its global use by billions of people put the privacy aspects of the web into a sharp focus. Even though many well known initiatives concerning privacy, e.g. P3P, EPAL, APPEL, etc. are now more than ten years old, privacy still attracts substantial research around the world.

Concerns with privacy issues in our everyday life and in the usage of the web grow constantly. One inevitably asks what ensures that the web respects our privacy? Here are some of the basic privacy questions we may face daily on the web:

* when we read information on a web site, how can we ensure that our privacy is preserved?
* when we chat on the web, how can we ensure that people we are talking to will preserve our privacy?
* when we search for information with a search engine, how can we ensure that traces of our searches will not be used for purposes outside our control?
* when we register on a website, how can we ensure that private data will not be disseminated on the web to other parties we do not trust?
* when a service is required by a software component or user, how one ensure the web service or the software agent will only use the data as promised and will respect the privacy of our data?
* when we register with a social network, how do we trust that the network and its participants will respect the privacy of the data we make available?

The goal of this technical track is to investigate methods, techniques and tools that might help to provide some answers to questions such as those stated above, in the field of privacy on the web. The web is understood quite generally, i.e. we invite research in the fields of distributed systems, multi-agent systems, web services, web servers, etc.
Topics

A non exhaustive list of issues addressed by this technical track in the context of privacy on the Web is:
Theories Logics Proof
Languages Rules Specifications
Measures Reasoning Management
Machine learning Data mining Web mining
Text mining Preferences Policies
Personalization Query languages XML
Role Based Access Control Traceability Watermarking
Ontologies Semantic Web Tools
Web services Multi-agent systems Case Studies


Technical Track Chairs

Olivier Boissier - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France)
François Jacquenet (Lead Track Chair) - University of Saint-Etienne (France)
Stan Matwin - University of Ottawa (Canada)
Program committee

* Gildas Avoine, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
* Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Claudio Bettini, Università di Milano (Italy)
* Vania Bogorny, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
* Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo! Research Barcelona (Spain)
* Laurent Bussard, European Microsoft Innovation Center (Germany)
* Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs (USA)
* Marco Casassa-Mont, HP Labs (UK)
* Frédéric Cuppens, ENST Bretagne (France)
* Georges Danezis, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
* Bart De Decker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Claudia Diaz, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
* Roger Dingledine, The Tor project (USA)
* Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia)
* David Evans, University of Virginia (USA)
* Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Sara Foresti, Università di Milano (Italy)
* Benjamin Fung, Concordia University (Canada)
* Keith Frikken, Miami University (USA)
* Tyrone Grandison, IBM Almaden Research Center (USA)
* Shyam Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology (India)
* Kirstie Hawkey, University of British Columbia (Canada)
* Silke Holtmanns, Nokia Research Center (Finland)
* Apu Kapadia, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (USA)
* Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
* Florian Kerschbaum, SAP (Germany)
* Kun Liu, IBM Almaden Research Center (USA)
* Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University (USA)
* Bart Moelans, Hasselt University (Belgium)
* Martin S. Olivier, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
* Daniel Olmedilla, Telefónica Research & Development (Spain)
* Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies (Switzerland)
* Helen Paik, University of New South Wales (Australia)
* Siani Pearson, HP Labs (UK)
* Andreas Pfitzmann, Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany)
* Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (France)
* Giovanni Russello, CREATE-NET (Italy)
* Yücel Saygin, Sabanci University (Turkey)
* Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
* Angelos Stavrou, George Mason University (USA)
* Paul Syverson, Naval Research Laboratory (USA)
* Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo (Canada)
* Patrick Valduriez, INRIA (France)
* Laurent Vercouter, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France)
* Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly (Greece)
* Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
* George Yee, Carleton University (Canada)
* Elena Zheleva, University of Maryland (USA)
* Alf Zugenmaier, DoCoMo labs (Germany)
* More names soon...