********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 3rd International Workshop on Security ( IWSEC 2008 ) http://www.iwsec.org November 25-27, 2008 Kagawa International Conference Hall, Kagawa, JAPAN Jointly organized by ISEC and CSEC ********************************************************************* ===================================================================== !!! Submission of papers : April 18, 2008 23:59 JST (GMT + 9hr) !!! ===================================================================== CONFERENCE SCOPE The aim of IWSEC2008 is to contribute to security research and development addressing the topics from traditional theory and tools on security to other up-to-date issues. Topics include but are not limited to: - Cryptography - Authorization and Access Control - Biometrics - Information Hiding - Quantum Security - Network and Distributed Systems Security - Privacy Enhancing Technology - Security Issues in Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing - Security Management - Software and System Security - Protection of Critical Infrastructure - Digital Forensics - Economics and Other Scientific Approaches for Security PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be written in English and be fully anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements or obvious references. They should be at most 16 pages long in total, in standard LNCS format (except for author names and affiliations). Papers should be enough intelligible and self contained without appendices so that PC members can review papers without them. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the workshop and present the paper. The conference proceedings is planned to be published in a special volume of Springer LNCS. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers : April 18, 2008 23:59 JST (GMT + 9hr) Notification to authors : June 27, 2008 JST (GMT + 9hr) Camera-ready due : July 28, 2008 JST (GMT + 9hr) COMMITTEES General co-Chairs Masato Terada, Hitachi Ltd., Japan Kazuo Ohta, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Program Committee co-Chairs Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo, Japan Eiichiro Fujisaki, NTT Corporation, Japan ISEC is a technical group on Information SECurity, in ESS, Engineering Sciences Society, of IEICE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan. CSEC is a special interest group on Computer SECurity, of IPSJ, Information Processing Society of Japan.