The 3rd International Symposium on Information Security (IS'08)
                 Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 10 - 11, 2008
                http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf 

Co-chaired by

     Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
     Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
     Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas, USA
     André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal

GOAL

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from the 
academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address 
information security issues. The symposium will provide a forum where 
researchers shall be able to present recent research results and 
describe emerging technologies and new research problems and directions 
related to them. The symposium seeks contributions presenting novel 
research in all aspects of information security.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest may include one or more of the following (but are
not  limited to) themes;

     * Access Control and Authentication
     * Accounting and Audit
     * Biometrics for Security
     * Buffer Overflows
     * Computer Forensics
     * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols
     * Databases and Data Warehouses Security
     * Honey Nets
     * Identity and Trust Management
     * Intrusion Detection and Prevention
     * Information Filtering and Content Management
     * Information Hiding and Watermarking
     * Mobile Code Security
     * Multimedia Security
     * Network Security
     * Privacy and Confidentiality
     * Public-Key Infrastructure
     * Privilege Management Infrastructure
     * Risk Assessment
     * Security Issues in E-Activities
     * Security and Privacy Economics
     * Security in RFID Systems
     * Security and Trustiness in P2P Systems and Grid Computing
     * Security in Web Services
     * Smart Card Technology
     * Software Security
     * Usability of Security Systems and Services
     * Vulnerability Assessment


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers submitted to IS'08 must not have been accepted for publication 
elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers
 will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee,
and  at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice
reports.

All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18
pages in the final camera-ready paper style.

The paper submission site can be found at 
     http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=submit

Failure to comply with formatting instructions for submitted papers
will  lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically 
excludes a paper from the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline 	  	June 8, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline 	June 15, 2008
Acceptance Notification 	August 10, 2008
Camera Ready Due 	August 25, 2008
Registration Due 	August 25, 2008
OTM Conferences 	November 9 - 14, 2008


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Chairs

     * Jong Hyuk Park
       Kyungnam University, Korea
       Email: parkjnghyuk1@hotmail.com 

     * Bart Preneel
       Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
       Email: bart.preneel@esat.kuleuven.be 

     * Ravi Sandhu
       University of Texas, USA
       Email: ravi.sandhu@utsa.edu 

     * Andra Zaquete
       University of Aveiro, Portugal
       Email: andre.zuquete@ua.pt 

Program Committee Members (to be extended)

     * J. H. Abbawajy, Deakin University, Austraila
     * Gail Ahn, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
     * Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
     * Manuel Bernardo Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
     * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
     * Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy
     * Gwena Dorr, University College London, UK
     * Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA
     * Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid,
       Spain
     * Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette Univer sity, USA
     * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
     * Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
     * Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai university, Japan
     * Byoung-soo Koh, Digicaps, Korea
     * Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
     * Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece
     * Sjouke Mauw, Universita' du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
     * Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK
     * Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
     * Nuno Ferreira Neves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
     * Giuseppe Persiano, University of Salerno, Italy
     * Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
     * Bhanu Prasad, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University,
USA
     * Carlos Ribeiro, IST, Portugal
     * Biplab K. Sarker, Innovatia Inc., Canada
     * Diomidis D. Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and 
       Business, Greece
     * Avinash Srinivasan, Florida Atlantic University, USA
     * Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
     * Liudong Xing, University of Massachsetts - Dartmouth, USA
     * Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio
     * Sang-Soo Yeo, Kyushu University, Japan
     * Xinwen Zhang, Samsung Information Systems America, USA
     * Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
       China