Message from the TSP-08 Workshop Co-Chairs

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You are welcome to join the 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP-08), which is to be held in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-08) during 17-20 December 2008. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on trust, security, privacy, and related issues such as technical, social and cultural implications for pervasive devices, services, networks, applications and systems, and providing a forum for them to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in this highly challenging research area.While TSP-08 is in its first year, we got 139 high-quality papers. Each paper has been carefully reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the program committee members and we selected around 60 papers for presentation. We congratulate the authors of accepted papers and we regret that a lot of high quality submissions could not be included in the proceedings for publication.On behalf of the organizers and the program committee members of TSP-08, we appreciate all the authors who have submitted their papers to this symposium. We are grateful that Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA), accepted our invitation for the keynote speech entitled "Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs". We would like to thank the program committee members for their great efforts in reviewing the papers. We would also like to thank Prof. Robert C. H. Hsu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan) and Prof. Keqiu Li (Dalian University of Technology, China), who took the role of publicity co-chairs and distributed the Call for Papers widely and frequently.