CALL FOR PAPERS [PDF]

The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating the latest research results in information and systems security. ICISS 2008 is the fourth in the series, following earlier conferences held at Kolkata (1st and 2nd) and Delhi (3rd). The acceptance ratio of the first three conferences has averaged less than 30%, and the proceedings have been published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The ICISS 2008 encourages submissions from academia, industry and government addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Application Security
Authentication and Access Control
Biometric Security
Data Security
Digital Forensics and Diagnostics
Digital Rights Management
Distributed System Security 		Formal Methods in Security
Intrusion Detection, Prevention and Response
Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery
Key Management and Cryptographic Protocols
Language-based Security
Malware Analysis and Mitigation
Network Security 		Operating System Security
Privacy and Anonymity
Security in P2P, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
Software Security
Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation
Web Security

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Aditya Bagchi, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Kevin Butler, Penn State University
Chakravarthy Bhagvati, University of Hyderabad
Lorenzo Cavallaro, University of Milan/UCSB
Hao Chen, University of California, Davis
Shuo Chen, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Marc Dacier, Symantec Research Labs
Saumya Debray, University of Arizona
Subrat Kumar Dash, University of Hyderabad
Vinod Ganapathy, Rutgers University
Jonathon Giffin, Georgia Institute of Technology
S K Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University
Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Shrikant Ojha, DRDO, Government of India
Engin Kirda, Technical University of Vienna
P. Radha Krishna, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
G. Vijaya Kumari, JNTU, Hyderabad
Zhenkai Liang, Carnegie Mellon University 		Arun K. Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Anish Mathuria, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
Chandan Mazumdar, Jadhavpur University, Kolkata
Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University
Atul Prakash, University of Michigan
R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Sanjay Rawat, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan
Amitabh Saxena, University of Trento
Radu Sion, Stony Brook University
Anil Somayaji, Carleton University
Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL
Gaurav Tandon, Florida Institute of Technology
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University
V.N. Venkatakrishnan, University of Illinois, Chicago
Poorvi Vora, George Washington University
Xiaofeng Wang, Indiana University
Wei Xu, VMware Inc.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission (Full Paper): 19 July 2008
Tutorial Proposal Submission: 26 July 2008   4 Aug 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 08 Sep 2008
Submission of Camera-Ready Manuscript: 22 Sep 2008

Paper Submission

Submissions must be made to the submission web site, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss08 by the deadline of July 19, 2008. Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages in length, including the bibliography. Detailed submission instructions can be found at the conference web site. One of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format. Camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted in LaTex.

Dual Submission Policy: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

Proceedings: Conference Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.

Ongoing Research Reports

There will be two sessions to present reports on the current research projects. One session will be for academic institutions and the other for industrial establishments. The research reports should be submitted in the same way as the technical papers. A report should be maximum of 4 pages.

Tutorial Proposals

There will be tutorial program for two days (16-17 December 2008). At most four three-hour tutorials will be offered. Proposals are invited for tutorials of duration three hours on relevant topics of current interest. A tutorial proposal should include the extended abstract of the tutorial and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Please mail your proposal to the Tutorial Chairs (vineetcs(AT)uohyd.ernet.in and venkat(AT)cs.uic.edu) by 4th Aug 2008. The speaker(s) of the accepted proposals need to submit their final presentation one month before the conference to the Tutorial Chairs.