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                               SSO'2013
         The International Workshop on Secure Smart Objects
            co-located with IEEE iThings/CPSCom/GreenCom 2013
                           August 19-22, 2013
                           Beijing, China

             SUBMISSION DEADLINE : April 28, 2013

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         Web site: http://www.china-iot.net/Workshops/SSO.htm
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With the emergence of new information and communication technologies, 
smart objects combined with communication infrastructures such as 
Internet and mobile networks enable accessing to things anywhere 
anytime, and collecting data secretly. To avoid emergence of a Big 
Brother world, stringent control on the applications involving this kind 
of objects is highly required with the need for objects to support 
security functions. The challenging issue is that smart objects are 
extremely constrained in terms of energy, computational power and 
memory, so support of strong security is made arduous.
Smart cards, crypto-keys, mobile telephony, RFID and NFC, TPM or TEE are 
examples of these devices where complex hardware and software are 
designed to solve major constraints of security, safety, reliability, 
efficiency, quality of service, and price. Many applications with high 
social and business impact are part of IoT/SSO domain, including 
personal healthcare, intelligent transportation, home automation, mobile 
payment, e-passport, surveillance, etc. The most important challenges are:
i) the definition of architectures, protocols and algorithms to secure 
smart objects and their connection to the information system on the 
Internet/Cloud;
and ii) the creation of platforms and services that are open, secure, 
and interoperable to interconnect things/smart objects.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and 
researchers from both academia  and industry in order to have a forum 
for discussion and technical presentations on the recent
advances in theory, application and implementation of the SSO concept: 
technologies, protocols,algorithms, applications and services, 
standardisation initiatives, user experience.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- RF & hardware for the IoT/SSO
- System architectures for the IoT/SSO
- Communication protocols for the IoT/SSO
- Security and Testing for the IoT/SSO
- New applications, services and their deployment for the IoT/SSO
- Mobility management for the IoT/SSO
- Experimental prototypes for the IoT/SSO
- Performance evaluation for the IoT/SSO

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: April 28, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: May, 31, 2013
Camera-ready due: June 30, 2013
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

All submissions must be original work not under review at any other 
workshop, conference, or journal.
The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as 
work-in-progress. Authors are invited to submit Full Papers (up to 8 
pages) or Short Papers (up to 4 pages) including figures, tables, and 
references. Papers should be written according to the IEEE Computer 
Society format:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

The submission deadline is April 28th, 2013. The PDF file of your paper 
must be submitted on line using the following link: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sso2013.
For any question, send an email to samia.bouzefrane@cnam.fr 
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Workshop proceedings will be published in the proceedings of iThings'13 
by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected 
papers will be considered for publication
in several SCI-index international journals.
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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Samia Bouzefrane, CNAM, Paris, France
Jean-Louis Lanet, University of Limoges, France
Maryline Laurent, Telecom SudParis, Evry, France
Li Li, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Gildas Avoine, Univ. catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Pascal Berthomé, ENSI de Bourges, Bourges, France
Patrick Biget, Trusted Logic, France
Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, Paris, France
Aiguo Chen, Univ. of Electronic Science & Technology, Chengdu, China
Lee Ming Cheng,  City University, Hong Kong
Boutheina Chetali, Trusted Labs, France
Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France
Xiaolin Gui, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Chuanhe Huang, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA
Michael Hutter, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Jean-François Lalande, ENSI de Bourges, Bourges, France
Hongbin Liang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Jun Ma, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Andrew Philip Martin, University of Oxford, UK
Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, Paris, France
Weijun Qin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Nguyen Quang-Huy , Trusted Labs, France
Hang Tu, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Zheng Yan, Aalto Univ., Finland and Xidian Univ., China
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China