Workshop on

Metadata for Security

 

International Federated Conferences (OTM '03)
 

 November  3-7, 2003 

Catania, Sicily, Italy

 

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RDF-based metadata have become the cornerstone of intelligent Web-based environments, including knowledge management, e-learning and content management systems. Web-based applications increasingly rely on metadata expressing properties like structure, nature and purpose of network resources, as well as of the users requesting them, in terms of domain ontologies. Also, metadata are playing an important role in semantics-aware multimedia processing. A number of security issues around metadata management still need to be addressed.

First of all, innovative techniques are needed aimed at protecting metadata from being disclosed or tampered with, especially in mobile computing environments, while preserving efficiency. Secondly, a new generation of security and privacy models and languages is needed, capable to fully exploit semantics representations.

This workshop is aimed at offering to the international research community working on these and related issues a forum where research results can be presented, fostering multidisciplinary discussion on the role of metadata in security research.

A special issue of the Special Issue of Computer Systems, Science and Engineering on this topic is planned. Authors of the best papers accepted for the WMS will be invited to participate in the special issue.