####  IWSEC 2018 Call for Papers  ####
  The 13th International Workshop on Security
  September 3-5, 2018 (Mon-Wed)
  Tohoku University Sakura Hall, Sendai, Japan

  Web page: http://www.iwsec.org/2018/
  Co-organized by CSEC of IPSJ, Japan, and ISEC of IEICE, Japan

** Important Dates **

   Submission of paper:         March 23, 2018 (Fri) 23:59 UTC
   Notification of decision:    May 23 (Wed) 23:59 UTC
   Final version due:           June 13 (Fri) 23:59 UTC
   IWSEC 2018 Workshop:         September 3 (Mon)-September 5 (Wed), 2018

Original papers on the research and development of various security
topics, as well as case studies and implementation experiences, are
solicited for submission to IWSEC 2018. Topics of interest for IWSEC
2018 include all theory and practice of cryptography, information
security, and network security, as in previous IWSEC workshops. In
particular, we encourage the following topics in this year:

        Big Data Analysis for Security     Machine Learning for Security
        Critical Infrastructure Security   Malware Countermeasures
        Cryptanalysis                      Measurements for Cybersecurity
        Cryptographic Protocols            Multiparty Computation
        Cybersecurity Economics            Post Quantum Cryptography
        Digital Forensics                  Privacy Preserving
        Enriched Cryptography              Rational Cryptography
        Financial Security                 Real World Cryptography
        Formal Methods                     Security Management
        Information Law and Ethics         Visualization for Security
        IoT Security

** Best Paper Award **

  Prizes will be awarded to the authors of the best paper(s) and the
  best student paper(s).

** Journal Recommendation **

  It is planned that Program Co-Chairs will recommend that the authors
  of best papers submit their full versions to either of the CSEC or
  ISEC journals after consultation between Program Co-Chairs and the
  authors.

** Proceedings **

  The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes
  in Computer Science series.

** Committees **

General co-Chairs
  Atsushi Fujioka (Kanagawa University, Japan)
  Masayuki Terada (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan)

Program co-Chairs
  Atsuo Inomata (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
  Kan Yasuda (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)

Poster Chair:
  Takeshi Yagi (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)

Local Organizing Committees:
  Hiroaki Anada (University of Nagasaki, Japan)
  Nuttapong Attrapadung (National Institute of 
       Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
  Keita Emura (National Institute of 
       Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
  Takuya Hayashi (Kobe University, Japan)
  Makoto Iguchi (Kii Corporation, Japan)
  Shuji Isobe (Tohoku University, Japan)
  Satoru Izumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
  Ryo Kikuchi (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)
  Takaaki Mizuki (Tohoku University, Japan)
  Shiho Moriai (National Institute of 
        Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
  Ken Naganuma (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
  Yoshitaka Nakamura (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
  Tetsushi Ohki (Shizuoka University, Japan)
  Yuji Suga (Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Japan)
  Nobuyuki Sugio (NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan)
  Keisuke Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Yohei Watanabe (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  Sven Wohlgemuth (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
  Takeshi Yagi (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)
  Dai Yamamoto (Fujitsu Limited, Japan)
  Toshihiro Yamauchi (Okayama University, Japan)

Program Committees (To be added):
  Mohamed Abid (University of Gabes, Tunisia)
  Mitsuaki Akiyama (NTT, Japan)
  Nuttapong Attrapadung (AIST, Japan)
  Gregory Blanc (Telecom SudParis, France)
  Olivier Blazy (Universite de Limoges, France)
  Yue Chen (Florida State University, USA)
  Céline Chevalier (Universite Pantheon-Assas, France)
  Hervé Debar (Telecom SudParis, France)
  Itai Dinur (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
  Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
  Florian Hahn (SAP, Germany)
  Chung-Huang Yang (National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan)
  Atsuo Inomata (Tokyo Denki University, Japan) ** Chair **
  Akira Kanaoka (Toho University, Japan)
  Yuichi Komano (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
  Noboru Kunihiro (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Maryline Laurent (Telecom SudParis, France)
  Zhou Li (RSA Labs., USA)
  Atul Luykx (Visa Inc., USA)
  Frédéric Majorczyk (DGA-MI/CentraleSupelec, France)
  Florian Mendel (Infineon Technologies, Germany)
  Bart Mennink (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
  Kirill Morozov (University of North Texas, USA)
  Ivica Nikolic (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  Yin Minn Pa Pa (Yokohama National University, Japan)
  Reza Reyhanitabar (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  Yusuke Sakai (National Institute of 
       Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
  Yannick Seurin (Agence Nationale 
       de la Securite des Systemes d'Information, France)
  Willy Susilo (University of Wollongong, Australia)
  Katsuyuki Takashima (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
  Mehdi Tibouchi (NTT, Japan)
  Giorgos Vasiliadis (Qatar Computing Research Institute HBKU, Greece)
  Sven Wohlgemuth (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
  Takeshi Yagi (NTT, Japan)
  Kan Yasuda (NTT, Japan) ** Chair **
  Rui Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

(Last Update: February 16, 2018)