CALL FOR PAPERS
10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network  
Security (ACNS 2012)
Singapore -- June 26-29, 2012


The 10th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network
Security (ACNS 2012) will be held in Singapore. The conference seeks
submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel
research on all aspects of applied cryptography as well as network
security and privacy. Papers describing novel paradigms, original
directions, or non-traditional perspectives are also encouraged.
The conference has two tracks: a research track and an industry track.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Access control
- Applied cryptography
- Automated  protocols analysis
- Biometric security and privacy
- Complex systems security
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Cryptographic primitives and protocols
- Data protection
- Database and system security
- Digital rights management
- Email and web security
- Identity management
- Intellectual property protection
- Internet fraud
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Key management
- Malware
- Network security protocols
- Privacy, anonymity, and untraceability
- Privacy-enhancing technology
- Protection for the future Internet
- Secure mobile agents and mobile code
- Security in e-commerce
- Security in P2P systems
- Security in pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- Security and privacy in cloud and grid systems
- Security and privacy in distributed systems
- Security and privacy in smart grids
- Security and privacy in wireless networks
- Security and privacy metrics
- Trust management
- Usability and security


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal
or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be
appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author
names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should
be at most 18 pages for research track and at most 8 pages for
industry track, including the bibliography and well-marked
appendices, and should follow the LNCS style. Submissions are
to be made to the submission web site at
http://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=acns2012.
Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these
guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Papers must be received by the deadline of February 5, 2012
(11:59 p.m. Samoa time). Authors should indicate whether their
submission should be considered for the best student paper award;
any paper co-authored by at least a full time student is eligible.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will
be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for the research
track will be published in proceedings published by Springer's LNCS
and available at the conference. Extended versions of selected best
papers will be invited for a special issue on the Journal of
Computer Security.


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: February 5, 2012 (11:59 p.m. Samoa time)
Notification to authors: April 10, 2012
Camera ready due: April 24, 2012


GENERAL CHAIR
Jianying Zhou
I2R, Singapore


PROGRAM CHAIRS
Feng Bao
I2R, Singapore

Pierangela Samarati
Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy


ORGANIZING CHAIR
Shen-Tat Goh
I2R, Singapore


PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Xinyi Huang
I2R, Singapore

Giovanni Livraga
Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Michel Abdalla, ENS, France
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
Lucas Ballard, Google, USA
Paulo Barreto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA
Carlo Blundo, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Levente Buttyan, Budapest Uni of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Liqun Chen, HP Labs, UK
Chen-Mou Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jung Hee Cheon, Seoul National University, Korea
Sherman Chow, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano,  
Italy
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy
Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Kevin Du, Syracuse University, USA
Wu-Chang Feng, Portland State University, USA
Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Keith Frikken, Miami University, USA
Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research, USA
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dawu Gu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Stanislaw Jarecki, University of California Irvine, USA
Aaron Johnson, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University, USA
Steve Kremer, ENS Cachan, France
Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany
Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Hui Li, Xidian University, China
Zhenkai Liang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Benoit Libert, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA
Michael Locasto, University of Calgary, Canada
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Mark Manulis, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Atsuko Miyaji, JAIST, Japan
Refik Molva, EURECOM, France
Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA
Elisabeth Oswald, University of Bristol, UK
Vincent Rijmen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Matt Robshaw, Orange Labs, France
Radu Sion, Stony Brook University, USA
Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Vrizlynn Thing, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer, Germany
Haining Wang, College of William and Mary, USA
Steve Weis, AppDirect, USA
Duncan Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China
Avishai Wool, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Danfeng Yao, Virginia Tech, USA
Moti Yung, Google, USA
(to be completed)


This call for papers and additional information about the
conference can be found at http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/acns2012

The history and statistics of ACNS can be found at ACNS Home
-- http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/acns_home/