CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** 23rd International Information Security Conference (SEC 2008) co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress 2008 Milan, Italy - September 8-10, 2008 http://sec2008.dti.unimi.it *********************************************************************** The conference seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - accounting and audit - anonymity - applied cryptography - authentication - computer forensics - cryptographic protocols - database security - data protection - data/system integrity - digital rights management - electronic frauds - identity management - information warfare - intrusion detection - key management - law and ethics - peer-to-peer security - privacy-enhancing technology - secure location services - secure networking - security education - security management - smartcards - commercial and industry security - data and application security - inference/controlled disclosure - risk analysis and risk management - intellectual property protection - security in IT outsourcing - security for mobile code - trust management - trust models PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and should be in single-column format. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sec2008. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of January 17, 2008 (extended, firm). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a conference proceedings. The camera-ready version of the accepted papers must follow Springer guidelines for the IFIP Series available at http://www.springer.com/series/6102 (see Manuscript Preparation in LaTeX for contributed books under the link "Author Templates"). A Latex source file will be required. GENERAL CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Giulio Occhini AICA, Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Sushil Jajodia George Mason University, USA Pierangela Samarati Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: January 17, 2008 (extended, firm) Acceptance notification: March 23, 2008 Final papers due: April 18, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Claudio Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Tuomas Aura, Microsoft Research, UK Aditya Bagchi, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jan Camenisch, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Marco Casassa Mont, HP Laboratories, UK Yves Deswarte, LAAS-CNRS, France Bart DeDecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Kevin Du, Syracuse University, USA Jan Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Michael Gertz, University of California at Davis, USA Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Dieter Gollmann, Technische Universitat Hamburg, Germany Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University, USA Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota, USA Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom, France Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' di Bergamo, Italy Philippos Peleties, Universal Bank Public Ltd, Cyprus Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Sihan Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, USA Cristina Serban, AT&T, USA Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jozef Vyskoc, VaF, Slovak Republic LingYu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia Louise Yngstrom, SU/KTH, Sweden This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://sec2008.dti.unimi.it