Secure data management : 8th VLDB workshop, SDM 2011 Seattle, WA, USA, September 2, 2011 : proceedings

Preface. This year was the eighth edition of the VLDB Secure Data Management Workshop. The topic of data security remains an important area of research especially due to the steady growing proliferation of emerging data services such as cloud computing, location-based services, and health-related services. Confidentiality is the main driver for the research that covers topics such as privacy-enhancing technologies, access control, and search in encrypted data. We received 19 submissions of which the Program Committee selected 10 papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the proceedings (approx. 50% acceptance rate).We hope the papers collected in this volume will stimulate your research in this area. The regular papers in the proceedings are grouped into three sections. The first section focuses on privacy. The papers in this section present a study in privacy violations followed by application-driven work on algorithms. The second section focuses on data security in networks. The papers address issues related to management of confidential data that are stored in cloud and sensor networks. The third section groups a collection of more basic secure data management techniques that can find their way toward many different application settings. We wish to thank all the authors of submitted papers for their high-quality submissions. We would also like to thank the Program Committee members as well as additional referees for doing an excellent review job. Finally, let us acknowledge Luan Ibraimi who helped in the technical preparation of the proceedings