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                            ETFA'2003
               9th IEEE International Conference on
           Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
             September 16-19, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal
                 http://www.uninova.pt/etfa2003/

                       Special session on 
                 IT Security for Automation Systems

Due to the increased interconnection between plant-floor systems and 
enterprise-level computer systems up to and including public networks 
like the Internet, and based on Internet protocols (HTTP/TCP/IP), 
IT security issues and concerns have also reached  the domains of 
automation IT systems and automation communication networks. 

IT security needs, constraints, and mechanisms for automation systems 
are in various ways different from those of the office computing environment, 
which creates the necessity, but also the opportunity, for novel approaches.

For this special session papers are solicited which are concerned with: 

- Specific security needs of automation systems, e.g. with respect to 
  security objectives, usage scenarios, system topologies/architectures 
  or operating environment.
- Specific security mechanisms, devices, processes, protocols and 
  architectures for automation systems. 
- IT security audits for automation devices and systems.

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The ETFA conference series is the largest IEEE event dedicated to 
Industrial and Factory  Automation, with the focus on the newly emerging
areas of technology, and  actual and potential applications.

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MAJOR ETFA TOPICS:
- Information Technology in Industrial and Factory Automation
- Industrial and Factory Communication Systems
- Real-Time and (Networked) Embedded Systems
- Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks
- Automated Manufacturing Systems and Development Methodology
- Automation Systems and Control
- Computational Intelligence in Industrial and Factory Automation
- Intelligent Robots & Systems
- Information Technology in Enterprise Integration

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AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE:

Authors should contact the Special Session Organizer

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SESSION ORGANIZER
Martin Naedele, ABB Corporate Research (martin.naedele@ch.abb.com)