CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011) Xi'an, China -- 26-29 October, 2011 http://ste.xidian.edu.cn/isc2011/ ********************************************************************** The 14th Information Security Conference (ISC 2011) will be held in Xi'an, China. It will be sponsored by China Computer Federation (CCF) and co-organized by Xidian University. The conference website is http://ste.xidian.edu.cn/isc2011/. The Information Security Conference (ISC) is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of Information Security. ISC aims to attract high quality papers in all technical aspects of information security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government that present novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of Information Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - accountability - anonymity and pseudonymity - applied cryptography - authentication - biometrics - computer forensics - cryptographic protocols - database security - data protection - data/system integrity - digital right management - economics of security and privacy - electronic frauds - formal methods in security - identity management - information dissemination control - information hiding and watermarking - intrusion detection - network security - peer-to-peer security - privacy - secure group communications - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security in information flow - security in IT outsourcing - security for mobile code - secure cloud computing - security of eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment - security in location services - security modeling and architectures - security models for ambient intelligence environments - security in social networks - trust models and trust management policies - embedded security INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions are limited to 16 pages in the llncs style, including bibliography and any appendices; each submission must be intelligible and self-contained within this length. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be made at the web page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc2011. Only pdf submissions will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. There will be a best paper award and a best student paper award. Any paper co-authored by a full-time student is eligible for both the best student paper award and the best paper award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their ISC'11 papers to a Special Issue of the ISI-ranked International Journal of Information Security (IJIS). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011 Proceedings version deadline: August 5, 2011 HONORARY CHAIR Du Zide CCF, China GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Li Pizheng CCF TCCOMM, China Hui Li Xidian University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Xuejia Lai Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jianying Zhou I2R, Singapore PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michel Abdalla, ENS, France Joonsang Baek, I2R, Singapore Feng Bao, I2R, Singapore Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ee-Chien Chang, NUS, Singapore Liqun Chen, HP Laboratories, Bristol,UK Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Chen-Mou Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Sherman Chow, University of Waterloo, Canada Vanesa Daza, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Roberto Di Pietro, University of Roma Tre, Italy Claudia Diaz, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Xuhua Ding, SMU, Singapore Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University,Florida, USA Josep Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Guang Gong, University of Waterloo, Canada Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Dawu Gu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University, USA Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Zhenkai Liang, NUS, Singapore Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Emmanouil Magkos, University of the Ionian, Greece Masahiro Mambo, University of Tsukuba, Japan Mark Manulis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK Atsuko Miyaji, JAIST, Japan Yi Mu, UoW, Australia David Naccache, ENS, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Raphael Phan, Loughborough University, UK Vincent Rijmen, TU Graz, Austria Matt Robshaw, Orange Labs, France Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Gokay Saldamli, Bogazici University, Turkey Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain Rainer Steinwandt, CCIS, USA Willy Susilo, UoW, Australia Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, College of William and Mary, USA Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jian Weng, Jinan University, China Duncan Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China Shouhuai Xu, UT San Antonio, USA Jeff Yan, Newcastle University, UK Yanjiang Yang, I2R, Singapore Sencun Zhu, Penn State University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Masahiro Mambo University of Tsukuba, Japan STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ed Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hui Li, Xidian University, China Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Spyros Magliveras, CCIS, Florida Atlantic University, USA Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Susan Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yuliang Zheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pei Qingqi, Xidian University, China Zuo Yuanyuan, Xidian University, China Zhu Xiaoyan, Xidian University, China Shi Yun, CCF TCCOMM, China CONTACT Email: xyzhu@xidian.edu.cn; lihui@mail.xidian.edu.cn Phone: +86-29-88204749