The 2nd International Symposium on

Information Security (IS'07)

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26-27, 2007
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf
Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS

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'07 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.Authors instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The paper submission site is located at:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/is/2007/papers

Failure to comply with the above 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 14, 2007 Extended until June 21, 2007
Paper Submission DeadlineJune 21, 2007 Extended until June 27, 2007
Acceptance Notification August 22, 2007 August 25, 2007
Camera Ready Due September 10, 2007
Registration Due September 10, 2007
OTM Conferences November 25 - 30, 2007


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Chairs

  • Mário Freire
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Beira Interior
    Portugal
    Email: mario@di.ubi.pt

  • Simão Melo de Sousa
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Beira Interior
    Portugal
    Email: desousa@di.ubi.pt

  • Vitor Santos
    Microsoft
    Lisbon, Portugal
    Email: vitors@microsoft.com

  • Jong Hyuk Park
    Kyungnam University Korea
    Email: parkjonghyuk@gmail.com

Program Committee Members

  • J. H. Abbawajy, Deakin University, Austraila
  • André Adelsbach, Telindus Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France
  • José Carlos Bacelar, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Manuel Bernardo Barbosa, University of Minho, Porugal
  • João Barros, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Carlo Blundo, Universita' di Salerno, Italy
  • Phillip G. Bradford, The University of Alabama, USA
  • Thierry Brouard, Université de Tours, France
  • Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan
  • Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
  • Ilyoung Chong, HUFS, Korea
  • Stelvio Cimato, University of Milan, Italy
  • Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK
  • Miguel P. Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Cas Cremers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Gwenaël Doërr, University College London, UK
  • Paul Dowland, University of Plymouth, UK
  • Mahmoud T. El-Hadidi, Cairo University, Egypt
  • Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA
  • Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
  • Michael Gertz, University of California, Davies, USA
  • Swapna S. Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA
  • Vesna Hassler, European Patent Office, Austria
  • Lech J. Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Wipul Jayawickrama, Infoshield Consulting, Australia
  • Vasilis Katos, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Hyun-KooK Kahng, Korea University, Korea
  • Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai university, Japan
  • Paris Kitsos, Hellenic Open University, Greece
  • Kwok-Yan Lam, Tsinghua University, China
  • Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
  • Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Henrique S. Mamede, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
  • Evangelos Markatos, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Greece
  • Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Paulo Mateus, IT/IST, Portugal
  • Sjouke Mauw, Eindhoven university of Luxembourg
  • Natalie Miloslavskaya, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia
  • Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia
  • José Luís Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Nuno Ferreira Neves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, UK
  • Manuela Pereira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
  • Hartmut Pohl, ISIS - InStitut für InformationsSicherheit, Germany
  • Christian Rechberger, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • Carlos Ribeiro, IST, Portugal
  • Vincent Rijmen, Technical University of Graz, Austria
  • José Ruela, INESC Porto/University of Porto, Portugal
  • Henrique Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Biplab K. Sarker, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
  • Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
  • Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
  • Paulo Simões, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Filipe de Sá Soares, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Basie von Solms, University of Johannesburg, South-Africa
  • Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  • Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
  • Jozef Vyskoc, VaF, Slovak Republic
  • Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, Brazil
  • Liudong Xing, University of Massachsetts - Dartmouth, USA
  • Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
  • Jeong Hyun Yi, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
  • Wang Yufeng, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  • Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal