ESPRE23: The 10th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, September 4-8, 2023

10th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE 2023)

co-located with the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

4th September - 8th September 2023 

Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany

https://cybersecurity.bournemouth.ac.uk/espre2023

Introduction

When specifying a system, security and privacy needs to be addressed as early as possible. Unfortunately, many people find doing so difficult in the face of conflicting priorities. When these concerns are addressed, we discover how intrinsically difficult specifying security and privacy can be, and the blurred distinction between requirements and security and privacy concepts. 

The Evolving Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE) Workshop is a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop. It brings together practitioners and researchers interested in security and privacy requirements. ESPRE probes the interfaces between Requirements Engineering and Security & Privacy, and aims to evolve security and privacy requirements engineering to meet the needs of stakeholders; these range from business analysts and security engineers, to technology entrepreneurs and privacy advocates.

ESPRE Topics

Topics addressed by ESPRE are those which will promote discussion about advancing Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering. These include, but are not limited to:

• Security and Privacy requirements elicitation and analysis
• Identification and management of all stakeholders (including attackers)
• Modelling multilateral stakeholder perspectives on Security and Privacy
• Scalability of Security RE approaches
• Modelling of domain knowledge for Security and Privacy requirements
• Ontologies for Security and Privacy RE
• Security and Privacy RE processes
• Evolution of Security and Privacy requirements
• Security requirements-based testing
• Consideration of legal compliance during RE
• Use of RE to create Security and Privacy standard-compliant software
• Modelling of Trust, Reputation, and Risk
• Validation and verification of Security and Privacy requirements
• Positive (and especially negative) lessons learned applying Security and RE in practice
• AI for Security
• Green Cybersecurity
• Blockchain for Cybersecurity
• Accessibility and Inclusivity in Cybersecurity

Submission Guidelines

We invite research and position papers that address any of the workshop topics. Please use the IEEE trans template for submissions.

Papers should be no more than 6 pages (including references), and be submitted electronically in PDF format to EasyChair. Submit papers using: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espre23

All submissions to EasyChair should be submitted by the relevant due date by 23:59:59 AoE.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. These are made available via IEEE Xplore. A selection of best papers from the ESPRE workshop will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of the journal of Software and Information Technology published by Elsevier.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: June 9th, 2023
• Notifications: July 7th, 2023
• Camera-ready papers due: July 14th, 2023
• ESPRE Workshop: To be confirmed - 4th or 5th September, 2023

Committees

Programme Committee

• Duncan Ki-Aries (Bournemouth University, UK)
• Seok-Won Lee (Ajou University, South Korea)
• Mattia Salnitri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Organising Committee

• Raian Ali (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qata)
• Andrea Atzeni (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
• Travis Breaux (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Shamal Faily (Bournemouth University, UK)
• Robin Gandhi (The University of Nebraska, USA)
• Sepideh Ghanavati (University of Maine, USA)
• Jane Henrikson-Bulmer (Bournemouth University, UK)
• Christos Kalloniatis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
• Vasilis Katos (Bournemouth University, UK)
• Tong Li (Beijing University of Technology, China)
• Raimundas Matulevicius (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Nancy Mead (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Martín Ochoa (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
• Federica Paci (University of Verona, Italy)
• Jaehong Park (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
• Elda Padja (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Aljosa Pasic (ATOS, Spain)
• Holger Schmidt (Hochschule Dusseldorf, Germany)
• Rocky Slavin (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
• Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Venue

The ESPRE workshop is co-located with the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 4th September - 8th September 2023, at the Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany.

More Information

ESPRE 2023 Website: https://cybersecurity.bournemouth.ac.uk/espre2023/

RE 2023 Website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/RE-2023