Organizers of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS) have issued a call for participation in the workshop, to be held 31 October 2008 in Fairfax, VA, USA in conjunction with the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-15). The SWS workshop will explore basic security protocols for Web Services, such as XML Security, the WS-* series of proposals, SAML, and XACML. The workshop will provide a forum for presenting research results, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in web services security.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Web services and GRID computing security
XML Security
• Authentication and authorization
• Frameworks for managing, establishing and assessing inter-organizational trust relationships
• Web services exploitation of Trusted Computing
• Semantics-aware Web service security and Semantic Web Secure orchestration of Web services
• Privacy and digital identities support