The 2nd International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in
Pervasive Environments

July 21-25, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
http://www.na.icar.cnr.it/smpe08/

In Conjunction wih MOBIQUITOUS 2008
http://www.mobiquitous.org/

Scope
Pervasive computing environments present specific peculiarities with
respect to aspects like security and multimodality. As a matter of fact,
the accessibility level of a virtual environment can definitively be
improved by natural interfaces and multimodal interaction systems, which
offer users the freedom to select from multiple modes of interaction
with services and permit to break down barriers about human-computer
interaction making communication intuitive and spontaneous. On the other
hand, while enlarging and easing the ways to access to the environment,
security threads arise and the environment must be properly equipped in
order to protect itself from malicious attacks and/or from wrong actions
performed by inexpert users.
SMPE-08 will be held in conjunction with Mobiquitous 2008, in Dublin,
Ireland, July 21-25, 2008. As for SMPE-07, best papers will be proposed
for the publication in a journal special issue (pending)

Topics
- Trust and reputation management in UE
- Security applications and services in pervasive computing
- Security model for pervasive computing
- Intelligent multimedia security services in pervasive computing
- Key management and authentication in pervasive computing
- Network security issues and protocols in pervasive computing
- Access control and privacy protection in pervasive computing
- Security Standard for next pervasive computing
- Security in Human Centred Environments
- Natural interfaces security issues
- Advanced multimodal interfaces
- Human oriented interfaces
- Multimodal mobile and ubiquitous services
- Methods for multimodal integration
- Middleware services for multimodal and pervasive applications
- Context-Awareness in multimodal applications
- Multimodal analysis and recognition of contex
- Next ubiquitous and immersive environments
- Virtual reality and ubiquitous computing
- Usability and accessibility in ubiquitous applications
- Applications and scenarios
- Others: Commercial or Industrial Issue in pervasive computing

Paper Submission
Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare
an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed
10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text,
figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Please
visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and
procedures.

Contact:
For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission,
please contact

Program Chairs
- Dr. Antonio Coronato (coronato.a@na.ica.cnr.it)
- Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis (sgritz@aegean.gr)
- Prof.Sajid Hussain (Sajid.Hussain@acadiau.ca)

Important dates
- Paper Submission: March 15, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2008
- Camera-ready Version: May 18, 2008

Co-Organizers
- Prof. Jong Hyuk Park
Kyungnam University, Korea
- Dr. Antonio Coronato
ICAR-CNR, Italy

Organization Steering Co-chairs:
- Jong Hyuk Park
Kyungnam University, Korea
- Giuseppe De Pietro
ICAR-CNR, Italy

General Co-Chairs
- George Roussos
University of London, UK
- Javier Lopez
University of Malaga, Spain

Program Co-Chiars
- Antonio Coronato
ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Stefanos Gritzalis
University of the Aegean, Greece
- Sajid Hussain
Acadia University, Canada

International Advisory Committee
- Laurence T. Yang St Francis Xavier
University, Canada
- Hsiao-Hwa Chen National Sun Yat-Sen
University, Taiwan
- Belur V. Dasarathy
Information Fusion Technologies Consultant, USA
- Daqing Zhang
GET/INT - Institut National des Telecommunications, France
- Simon Dobson
UCD, Dublin, Ireland
- Tai-hoon Kim
Hannam University, Korea

Publicity Co-Chairs
- Yan Zhang
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
- Damien Sauveron
Universite de Limoges/CNRS, France
- Sang Soo Yeo
Kyushu University, Japan

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Damien Sauveron