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CALL FOR PAPERS - SAC 2009



The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

March 8 - 12, 2009, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/



Fifth ACM SAC Trust, Reputation, Evidence and other Collaboration
Know-how (TRECK) Track


For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers
from around the world.

SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied
Computing. Its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form
and CD-ROM; they are also available on the Web through the ACM Digital
Library. More information about SIGAPP and past editions of SAC can be
found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp. The best papers may also be
published in a Journal Special Issue.

Aims and scope of the TRECK track:

Computational models of trust and online reputation mechanisms have
been gaining momentum. The ACM SAC 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 TRECK
tracks attracted researchers from both academia and industry who have
joined an online group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/trustcomp/

The goal of the ACM SAC 2009 TRECK track remains to review the set of
applications that benefit from the use of computational trust and
online reputation. Computational trust has been used in reputation
systems, risk management, collaborative filtering, social/business
networking services, dynamic coalitions, virtual organisations and
even combined with trusted computing hardware modules. The TRECK track
covers all computational trust/reputation applications, especially
those used in real-world applications.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Recommender and reputation systems
* Trust management, reputation management and identity management
* Pervasive computational trust and use of context-awareness
* Mobile trust, context-aware trust
* Web 2.0 reputation and trust
* Trust-based collaborative applications
* Automated collaboration and trust negotiation
* Trade-off between privacy and trust
* Trust/risk-based security frameworks
* Combined computational trust and trusted computing
* Tangible guarantees given by formal models of trust and risk
* Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis
* Trust in peer-to-peer and open source systems
* Technical trust evaluation and certification
* Impacts of social networks on computational trust
* Evidence gathering and management
* Real-world applications, running prototypes and advanced simulations
* Applicability in large-scale, open and decentralised environments
* Legal and economic aspects related to the use of trust and
reputation engines
* User-studies and user interfaces of computational trust and
online reputation applications

Submission guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit full papers about original and
unpublished research. We would like to encourage the submission of
industrial experience reports and reports of innovative computing
applications.

Parallel submission to other conferences, other tracks of SAC 2009 or
any other publications is forbidden. Papers submitted should not have
been previously published and should not be subsequently published in
the same form elsewhere.

Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind
reviewing: papers being submitted should not list the authors,
affiliations or addresses on the first page and authors are also
encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimise
references that may reveal the identity of the authors or institution.
The body of each paper should not exceed 5,000 words. Papers failing
to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection.

At least three reviewers will be assigned to each submission to the
TRECK track. Accepted papers are published by ACM in both printed form
and CD-ROM; they are also available on the Web through the ACM Digital
Library. Once accepted, papers must fit within five (5) two column
pages (please check the author kit on the main SAC website: the format
is usually the format used in the ACM templates), with the option (at
additional expense) to add three (3) more pages. A second set of
selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be
accepted as posters and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts
in the symposium proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must be
prepared to sign a copyright statement and must guarantee that their
paper will be presented at the conference.

Submission of the full paper (PDF only) will be accepted until 23.59
PM GMT, August 16th, 2008. No more papers will be accepted after that
time.

Please register and submit your abstract and paper via the link called
"online paper management system" on the "Paper Submission" page of the
Web site http://www.trustcomp.org/treck/