WISA 2017 https://wisa17.hotcrp.com http://www.wisa.or.kr ============================================================== The 18th World Conference on Information Security Applications August 24-26, 2017, Lotte City Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea http://www.wisa.or.kr General Chair: Donghoon Lee (Korea University, Korea) Orgaizing Committee Chair : JungTaek Seo (Soonchunhyang University, Korea) Prgram Committee Co-Chairs: Brent ByungHoon Kang (KAIST, Korea), Taesoo Kim (Georgia Tech, USA) ============================================================== **** IMPORTANT DATES **** - Paper Submission deadline: June 2, 2017 - Acceptance notification: June 31, 2017 - Pre-proceedings version deadline: July 17, 2017 - WISA 2015 Conference: August 24-26, 2017 - LNCS Proceedings version deadline: September 19, 2017 **** OVERVIEW **** WISA is one of the main security research venues that has been held annually on the beautiful Jeju Island and hosted by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC) and sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), and co-sponsored by the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), and the National Security Research Institute (NSRI). This year, WISA will also be sponsored by ONRG (Office of Naval Research Global) and ITC-PAC, USA. The primary focus of WISA 2017 will be on systems and network security including all other technical and practical aspects of security applications. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: **** The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: **** - Analysis of network and security protocols - Anonymity and censorship-resistant technologies - Applications of cryptographic techniques - Authentication and authorization - Automated tools for source code/binary analysis - Botnet defense - Critical infrastructure security - Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures - Digital forensics - Embedded systems security - Exploit techniques and automation - Hardware and physical security - HCI security and privacy - Intrusion detection and prevention - Malware analysis - Mobile/wireless/cellular system security - Network-based attacks - Network infrastructure security - Operating system security - Practical cryptanalysis (hardware, DRM, etc.) - Security policy - Side channel attacks and countermeasures - Storage and file system security - Techniques for developing secure systems - Trustworthy computing - Vulnerability research - Web Security - Trusted execution environments (Intel SGX, ARM Trustzone, etc.) **** INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS**** WISA will be looking for original research that has not been published before. Authors are invited to submit original papers, and must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to journals or any other conferences that have proceedings. (A few selected papers will be recommended to SCIE journals). In addition, WISA will be accepting papers that report about experiences and recent enhancements of the prior works that had been published at a top security conference venue. In the latter case, the paper is expected to contain new materials more than 30% beyond the prior works. The submission must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, nor obvious references included in the paper. The paper should be prepared according to the "Authors Instruction for LNCS" (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and limited to at most 12 pages in total. The paper submission is accepted only as PDF or Word formats. SCIE JOURNAL RECOMMENDATION OF SELECTED PAPERS Expanded versions of selected papers will be recommended to the international journals indexed in SCIE. SUBMISSION SITE: https://wisa17.hotcrp.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Brent ByungHoon Kang KAIST, Korea Taesoo Kim Georgia Tech, USA E-mail : brentkang@kaist.ac.kr, taesoo@gatech.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol Byoungyoung Lee, Purdue University Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University David Lie, University of Toronto Dooho Choi, ETRI Eul Gyu Im, Hanyang University Gang Tan, Pennsylvania State University Harry Wechsler, George Mason University Howon Kim, Pusan National University Huy Kang Kim, Korea University Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University Ji Sun Shin, Sejong University John Junghwan Rhee, NEC Laboratories America Jong Kim, POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Kevin Butler, University of Florida Long Lu, Stony Brook University Marcus Peinado, Microsoft Research Min Suk Kang, National University of Singapore Sang Kil Cha, KAIST Seong-je Cho, Dankook University Seungwon Shin, KAIST Sooel Son, Google SooHyung Kim, ETRI Ulrich Rührmair, University of Bochum Virgil D. Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University Yinqian Zhang, The Ohio State University