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Position Papers for the
1998 Information Survivability Workshop - ISW '98
October 28-30, 1998
Wyndham Safari Resort
Orlando, Florida USA
Web Edition
Organized by the Software Engineering Institute, Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Copyright © 1998 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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Organizing Committee
Howard F. Lipson
CERT® Coordination Center
General ChairJohn C. Knight
University of Virginia
Program ChairMario R. Barbacci
Software Engineering Institute
Finance ChairProgram Committee
Mario Barbacci, Software Engineering Institute
David Fisher, CERT Coordination Center
Joe Giordano, Rome Labs
Cliff Kahn, EMC2 Corporation
Tom Longstaff, CERT Coordination Center
Terry Mayfield, Institute for Defense Analyses
Gary McGraw, Reliable Software Technologies
Peter Neumann, SRI International
Rick Schlichting, University of Arizona
Jim Settle, Settle Services in Technology, LLC
Gene Spafford, Purdue University
Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia
WelcomeWelcome to the 1998 Information Survivability Workshop (ISW'98). This is the second ISW - the first was held in February 1997, in San Diego, California. The goal of this workshop is to build on the results of ISW'97 and begin to develop solid technical directions in survivability. A primary focus of the workshop is the survivability of critical infrastructures and critical applications that rely on highly distributed, networked systems.
Attendees at this workshop represent critical application domains, government agencies, academia, business, and the military. The organizing and program committees felt that a valuable direction for ISW'98 would be to foster communication between these different groups. The format of ISW'98 is, therefore, different from typical workshops in which there are often breakout groups dedicated to discussing very specific topics. All of the sessions at ISW'98 will be for all attendees, and the format is heavily oriented towards communication between the various groups interested in survivability.
We have a set of five presentations by invited speakers at the workshop itself plus an invited presentation at the banquet. In addition, there are two panels on important topics: government policy and military issues. Finally, we have selected some of the submitted position papers for presentation, so that a wide range of research material will be discussed. Time precluded the presentation of all the position papers, but they are available in the proceedings, and all of the authors have made a valuable contribution to the workshop.
Hearing about important topics such as application details or research projects is valuable, but so is the discussion of those topics. The ISW'98 sessions are arranged so that there is a 30-minute discussion period at the end of each session. These discussion periods provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the session material.
The activities at ISW'98 will be documented to the extent possible by two University of Virginia doctoral students (Chenxi Wang and Matt Elder) who will do their best to capture the content of discussions and the wording of questions. Their notes of the workshop will be transcribed into a record of the meeting that will be included in the final proceedings.
We hope that you enjoy the workshop and find it professionally valuable.
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the assistance of Tonya Horsley and Mary-Kate Rada, of the IEEE Computer Society Staff, for their help with advance registrations and local arrangements. Tracey Tamules of the SEI staff is assisting with on-site registrations. We extend our thanks and gratitude to the members of the ISW'98 program committee, and to our finance chair, Mario Barbacci. Mark Firth, at Carnegie Mellon University, continues to do a superlative job as webmaster for our workshops. Most of the funding needed to make this workshop happen was provided by the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Program at the Software Engineering Institute. Additional funding was provided by the University of Virginia.
Howard F. Lipson
General ChairJohn C. Knight
Program Chair
Last updated: July 25, 2006
