Dear Colleague, We are pleased that announce that SECURECOMM 2005 is now co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and will be called IEEE/CreateNet SECURECOMM henceforth. In addition, the deadline for IEEE/CreateNet SECURECOMM 2005 paper submission has now been extended to March 18th, 11.50PM PDT. Authors interested in submitting are encouraged to register their papers as soon as possible. The EDAS paper submission link is: http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4470 For complete information, please visit: http://www.securecomm.org/ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. Best regards, IEEE/CreateNet SECURECOMM 2005 Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/CreateNet SECURECOMM 2005 First IEEE/CreateNet International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks Sept. 5-9, 2005 Location: Athens, Greece http://www.securecomm.org CO-SPONSORED BY: IEEE Communications Society (http://www.comsoc.org) CreateNet (http://www.create-net.it) ICST (http://www.icst.org) & U.S. National Science Foundation (Travel Grants) In Cooperation with: In Cooperation With the IEEE TC on Security and Privacy (http://www.ieee-security.org) In Cooperation with ACM (SIGSAC) - Pending PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 18, 2005, 11.50 PM PST ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: The focus of this conference is two-fold: 1. Security and Privacy in wireless, mobile, ad hoc, sensor, personal-area and RFID networks 2. Security and Privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing The conference aims to bring together academic, industrial and government researchers, practitioners, standards developers and policy makers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Wireless Network Security (WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia and others) * Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security * Security of GSM/GPRS/UMTS systems * RFID security and privacy * Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems, tolerance and recovery * Firewalls and Application gateways for wireless/mobile networks and pervasive/ubiquitous computing * Public key infrastructures for wireless/mobile networks and pervasive/ubiquitous computing * Web Security, Authentication and Authorization in wireless/mobile networks and pervasive/ubiquitous computing * Privacy/Anonymity Preserving Design in wireless/mobile networks and pervasive/ubiquitous computing * E-commerce protocols and micropayment schemes * Secure Localization systems * Security in hybrid (e.g., wireline/wireless) networks PAPERS: Technical papers describing original unpublished research are solicited. Submissions must not be concurrently under review by a conference, journal or any other venue that has proceedings. All submissions will be refereed by the program committee. Papers that have a student as the primary author or first co-author will be considered for a best student paper award. Accepted papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of Springer International Journal of Information Security. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Authors should prepare a PostScript or PDF version of their full paper. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages in IEEE conference style, two-column format. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper or in the PostScript or PDF file. Complete paper submission instructions will be available at the conference website. The paper submission deadline is March 18, 2005, 11.50PM PST. PANELS: Panels that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest are solicited. Panel proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should submit proposals to the Panels Co-Chairs by March 18, 2005. WORKSHOPS: Workshop proposals on topics related to the broader theme of the conference are solicited. Workshop proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the main organizers. Potential workshop organizers should submit proposals to the Workshops Co-Chairs by January 22, 2005. RESEARCH DEMOS: Informal proposals for research demos are solicited. Proposals will be reviewed and selection will be made based on the perceived value to the research community and interest level for the conference attendees. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should include: the focus area, technologies involved, specific equipment to be used, demo layout and space required. Please submit proposals to the Research Demos Chair(s) by March 18, 2005. Travel grants, sponsored by NSF, are available to partially support travel expenses for demo teams from US-based institutions. Student Travel Grants: Student Travel Grants, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, are available for graduate students studying at US universities. Details will be made available shortly. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- TECHNICAL Paper submissions due: March 18, 2005 NOTIFICATION date: May 15, 2005 Camera-ready version due: June 10, 2005 Conference Dates: Sep. 5-9, 2005 For information regarding the conference, please visit http://www.securecomm.org or contact one of the Chairs below. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs ----------------- Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Institute, imrich.chlamtac@create-net.it Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), krishna@umbc.edu General Vice-Chair ------------------ Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands, crispo@few.vu.nl Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, diego@tu-harburg.de Li Gong, Sun Microsystems, Li.Gong@Sun.COM Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine, gts@ics.uci.edu Workshops Chair --------------- G. Manimaran, Iowa State University, gmani@iastate.edu Panels Co-Chairs ---------------- Peng Liu, Penn State University, pliu@ist.psu.edu Fabio Massacci, Univ. of Trento, fabio.massacci@unitn.it Research Demos/Exhibits Chair ----------------------------- John Hale, Univ. of Tulsa, john.hale@utulsa.edu Costa Cristina, Univ. of Trento, costac@dit.unitn.it Sponsorships Chair ------------------ Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Tech., fanjum@telcordia.com Effie Makri, Demokritos Greece, effie.makri@iit.demokritos.gr Local Arrangements Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Tassos Dimitriou, Athens Information Technology, tdim@ait.edu.gr Antonis Kalis, Athens Information Technology, akal@ait.edu.gr Publicity Co-Chairs ------------------- Haim Bar, ATC-NYCorp, haim@atc-nycorp.com Richard Han, Univ of Colorado, richard.han@colorado.edu Dimitrios Serpanos, Univ. of Patras, Greece, serpanos@ee.upatras.gr Publication Chair ----------------- Radha Poovendran, Univ. of Washington, radha@ee.washington.edu Student Travel Awards Chair --------------------------- Dapeng Wu, Univ. of Florida, wu@ece.ufl.edu Steering Committee Co-Chairs: ------------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Institute Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Members ------- N. Asokan, Nokia Research Center Giuseppe Ateniese, The Johns Hopkins University Tuomas Aura, Microsoft Research Ltd Dirk Balfanz, PARC Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Claude Castelluccia, INRIA Robert Deng, Singapore Management University Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg (TPC Co-Chair) Li Gong, Sun Microsystems (TPC Co-Chair) Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland Roberto Gorrieri, Universit� di Bologna Tom Karygiannis, NIST Steve Kent, BBN Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota Kwok-Yan Lam, Tsinghua University Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology Ninghui Li, Purdue University Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University Luigi Mancini, University of Rome, "La Sapienza" Pietro Michiardi, Institut EURECOM Refik Molva, Insitut Eurecom Pekka Nikander, Ericsson Research Nomadiclab Radha Poovendran, University of Washington Shiuh-Pyng Shieh, National Chiao Tung University Dawn Song, CMU Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine (TPC Co-Chair) Giovanni Vigna, University of California Santa Barbara Avishai Wool, Tel Aviv University Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research