Call for Papers The 9th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC'13) 12-14 May 2013, Lanzhou, China URL: http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ispec2013/ ISPEC is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a confluence of new information security technologies, their applica-tions and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. The previous ISPEC conference series were successfully held in Singapore, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Sydney, Xi'an, Seoul, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou. The 9th ISPEC will be held in the historic city Lanzhou, China, 12-14 May 2012 (right after AsiaCCS 2013, Hangzhou, China, 8-10 May 2013). ISPEC 2013 will be hosted by Lanzhou University of Technology. Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to information security technologies and applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control - Applied cryptography - Availability, resilience, and usability - Cryptanalysis - Database Security - Digital rights management - Information security in vertical applications - Multimedia security - Network security - Privacy and anonymity - Risk evaluation and security certification - Security of smart cards and RFID systems - Security policies - Security protocols - Security systems - Trust model and management - Trusted computing Authors are invited to submit original papers which are not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submissions must be in English and in PDF format. The final camera ready version of an accepted paper will be at most 15 pages in the LNCS style. The manuscript submitted should correspond to what the authors expect to be published without modification. We therefore strongly recommend that authors check whether their paper will fit within the above LNCS space constraints. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow the above submission instructions. The proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper should register and give presentation at the conference. Important Dates Submission Due: 3 December 2012 Acceptance Notification: 4 February 2013 Camera-ready Copy Due: 28 February 2013 Conference dates: 12-14 May 2013 Conference Organization Honorary Chair - Zhanting Yuan, Lanzhou University of Technology, China - Xiaoming Wang, Lanzhou University of Technology, China General Chairs - Feng Bao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore - Jie Cao, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Program Chairs - Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore - Tao Feng, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Organizing Committee - Yong Zhang, Fuqing Zhao, Yong Yu, Mixia Liu, Laicheng Cao, Yixin Liang, Peng Liu, Lanzhou University of Technology, China Contact Information For further information regarding to the conference, please send email to ispec12@hotmail.com or contact the chairs directly.