Last Mile, April 20 || CfP: SECURWARE 2012 || August 19-24, 2012 - Rome, Italy

[Cristina Pascual <cris.pascual.gonzalez [at] gmail.com>]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to SECURWARE 2012.

The submission deadline is set to April 20, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== SECURWARE 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SECURWARE 2012: The Sixth International Conference on Emerging Security
Information, Systems and Technologies
August 19-24, 2012 - Rome, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SECURWARE12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPSECURWARE12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitSECURWARE12.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SECURWARE 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

ARCH: Security frameworks, architectures and protocols
   Formal aspects of security; Security analysis methodologies;
Security verification; Security protocols; Security architectures and
formalisms; Security and design vulnerability; Security and privacy
protection; Performance and security; Secure group
communication/multicast; Software design security; Middleware security;
Security for nomadic code; Intrusion detection systems; Static analysis
for software security; Security modeling

METRICS: Security, trust and privacy measurement
   Security, trust and privacy metrics; Security assurance metrics;
Security measurement architectures; Metrics for adaptive security
systems; Taxonomical and ontological support of security metrics;
Experiments and benchmarks for security measurements; Embedding security
measurability in software and service architectures; Risk-driven
assessment of security; Assessment of effectiveness, efficiency and
correctness of security; Mapping security metrics and security assurance
metrics; Mapping security measurements and non-functional requirements

SECMAN: Security management
   Identity management; Security law enforcement; PKI; PKI Key
management; Incident response planning; Intrusion detection and event
correlation; Firewalls; Trust management; Software security assurance

SECTECH: Security technologies
   Secure protocols; Applied cryptography; Smart cards; Biometrics;
Digital rights management; Electronic surveillance; Database security

SYSSEC: System security
   Internet security; Security in wireless; Sensor/cellular network
security; Ad hoc network security; Security in peer-to-peer networks;
Security in wireless multimedia systems; Security in different networks
(mesh, personal, local, metropolitan, GSM, Bluetooth, WiMax, IEEE 802.x,
etc.); Security of emergency services

INFOSEC: Information security
   Information hiding; Anonymity; Authentication; Data Integrity;
Security data mining; Data confidentiality and integrity; Information
flow protection; Trustworthy networks: authentication, privacy and
security models; Secure service discovery; Secure location-based
service; Information survivability

RISK: Risk and security
   Operational risk (opRisk); OpRisk and field studies; Reputation
risk; Risk and security-awareness; Business continuity and disaster
recovery; Privacy-awareness; Security and trust

MALWA: Malware and Anti-malware
   Threat taxonomies and modeling; Security threats; Threats
propagation; Anti-malware technologies; Engineering anti-malware;
Anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing; Malware propagation models;
Profiling security information; Vulnerability analysis and
countermeasures; Denial of service attacks; Measurements and metrics;
Testing samples and techniques; Quarantine/reuse decisions; Anti-malware
tool performance; Anti-malware tool suites; Open-source anti-malware;
Host-based anti-malware; On-line anti-malware scanning

MISUSE: Electronic abuse protection
   Messaging, viruses, spyware; Advanced misuse detection techniques
/machine learning, natural language processing, challenge-response,
etc./; Message filtering, blocking, authentication; Digital signatures;
Generalized spamming /over email, Internet telephony, instant messaging,
mobile phone,  phishing, etc. /; Spam compression and recognition;
Learning misuse patterns; Payment schemes; Economics of generalized
spam; Tracking abuse tactics and patterns; Protecting legitimate use
patterns; Methods for testing protection robustness; Costs and benefits
of messaging use and misuse; Standards for messaging and misuse
reporting; Legal aspects /identity theft, privacy, freedom of speech, etc./

ANTIFO: Anti-forensics
   Advanced anti-forensics mechanisms; Smart anti-forensics;
e-discovery industry and anti-forensics; Overwriting data and metadata;
Data hiding approaches; Detecting forensics analysis; Anti-forensics
tools; Unix-, Windows-, and Linux anti-forensics techniques; Open source
anti-forensics tools; Network anti-forensics tools

PRODAM: Profiling data mining
   User and traffic profiling; Data mining and visualization; Profile
mining and knowledge discovery; Mining lifecycle for profile
collections; Profile warehouse construction; Profile portfolio and
profile discovery; Profiling game users and game traffic; Profiling
transactions; Simpson'd paradox; Real-time profiling mechanisms;
Patterns for information profiling; Profiling engines; Profiling
metrics; Forensics; Profiling applications (banks, on-line shopping,
etc.); Data mining-based user profile prediction

SECHOME: Smart home security
   Fundamentals for SHS; Privacy and protection for SHS; Identify and
location management in SHS; Authentication and authorization in SHS;
Access control and security policies in SHS; Trust and reputation
management; Security context-based interfaces for SHS; SHS for
accessibility and elderly/disabled people; Real-time challenges for SHS
in eHealth environments; Architectures and systems for SHS; Network
technologies and protocols for SHS; Ubiquitous/pervasive platform and
middleware for SHS; Services and applications for SHS; SHS on campuses
and hotels; SHS for mission critical laboratories; Content protection
and digital rights management for SHS; Intelligent devices, sensor
network/RFID for SHS; Intrusion detection and computer forensics for
SHS; SHS and Homeland security; Personal data privacy and protection in
SHS; Emerging standards and technologies for SHS; Commercial and
industrial for SHS; Case studies, prototypes and experience

SECDYN: Security and privacy in dynamic environments

   Fundamentals on highly dynamic environments; Privacy and predefined
access control dilemma; Privacy police, provisions and obligations;
Dependability in dynamic environments; Protection of digital documents
in dynamic environments; On-line activities in high dynamic systems; Law
enforcement in high dynamic systems; Personalization; Privacy and
transparency; Distributed usage control; Privacy compliance; Secure
ambient intelligence; Secure embedded microprocessor architectures;
Secure compilation techniques

ECOSEC: Ecosystem security and trust
   Secure and trusted service compositions in peer-to-peer networks;
Secure data management in collaborative peer-to-peer networks; Security
and reputation models for self-adaptive overlay networks; Identity and
trust management in dynamic, self-organizing environments; Social
institutional-based trust models for self-evolving communities

CRYPTO: Cryptography
   Foundations of cryptography; Applied cryptography; Cryptanalysis;
Signatures schemes and trust models; Cryptographic algorithms;
Electronic payment systems; High-performance encryption methods;
Group-oriented cryptography; Identity-based cryptography; Anonymous
authentication; Cryptography for multi-user environments; Cryptography
and secure localization systems; Attacks on cryptosystems

CYBER-Threat
   e-Crime; Epidemiological models for warware and cyber-crime
propagation; Record and retrieval of cyber-crimes; Cyber-crime
prevention; Cyber-crime vulnerabilities; Cyber-counterattack at source;
Distributed cyber-attacks; Orchestrated cyber-attacks; Recursion
attacks; Cyber-storm attacks; Cyber-pranks, hoaxes; Phishing/Pharming
and anti-phishing; Cyber-terrorism; Online cyber-crime reporting;
Accuracy and security of cyber-reports; Fighting cyber-crimes;
Cyber-crime laws
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