>Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:45:59 +0900 (JST) From: Masahiro Mambo To: orman@darpa.mil Subject: ISW'99 CFP Information Security Workshop 

                               CALL FOR PAPERS
                 1999 Information Security Workshop (ISW'99)
                  6-7 November, 1999, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ISW'99, the second workshop in the international workshop series on
information security, will be held in Monash University's Sunway Campus
which is about 20km to the south west of downtown Kuala Lumpur.
ISW'99 will seek a different goal from its predecessor ISW'97 held
in Ishikawa, Japan.  More specifically, the focus of ISW'99 will be
on the following emerging areas of importance in information security:

        - multimedia watermarking
        - electronic cash
        - secure software components and mobile agents
        - protection of software

ISW'99 will be co-located with the 6th ACM Conference on Computer
and Communications Security, 1-4, November, 1999, and Asiacrypt'99, 15-18,
November 1999. Both the ACM conference and Asiacrypt will be held in
Singapore which is only a short distance to the venue of ISW'99.


Instructions for authors:

Original research papers pertaining to all aspects of 
digital watermarking, digital cash and electronic commerce,
security issues in software components and mobile agents,
and software copyright protection are solicited.
All correspondences, including submissions, will be made through e-mail.
Submissions will be blind-refereed. In lodging a submission, please send
two separate e-mail messages to

          isw99-sbm@ecip.tohoku.ac.jp 

The first message must be in ASCII format. It should include information on

  1. the title of the submission,
  2. the names and affiliations of authors, and
  3. the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the contact author.

The second message should contain the submission itself:

  1. The first page should contain the title of the submission, but must not
     contain the names or affiliations of the authors.
  2. The submission should be prepared using 11-point font or larger, with
     at most 15 A4/US-letter pages including bibliographies and appendices.
     (Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e in preparing
     submissions, which would facilitate the production of the final
     proceedings, especially the electronic version of the proceedings.),
  3. The preferred page format for submissions is PostScript (obtained using
     such converters as "dvips").
  4. The file may be compressed using "compress", "gzip" or "zip", and then
     encoded using "uuencode".



Important Dates:


 Submission deadline:          2  July,   1999 (Friday, Tokyo time)
 Acceptance notification:     30  July,   1999 (Friday)
 Proceedings version:         27  August, 1999 (Friday)
 Workshop:                    6-7 November, 1999 (Friday-Sunday)


Proceedings:

The proceedings of ISW'99 are planned to be published by Springer Verlag,
and distributed to the workshop participants. For an accepted paper to be
included into the proceedings, the authors of the paper must guarantee
that at least one of the co-authors will attend the workshop and
deliver the talk.


General Organizing Committee:

 Eiji Okamoto,  General Co-chair (JAIST, Japan) 
 Robin Pollard, General Co-chair (Monash University, Australia)
 (other members to be advised) 


Program Committee:

 Masahiro Mambo, Co-chair  (Tohoku University, Japan)
 Yuliang Zheng,  Co-chair  (Monash University, Australia)
 (other members to be advised)


Workshop URL, e-mail and contact address:

The WWW homepage of ISW'99 is:

           http://www.musm.edu.my/BusIT/isw99 

It contains general information related to the workshop, including
venue, weather, transport, accommodation, registration, and so on.

General inquiries: 
          isw99-gen@musm.edu.my 
Submissions:
          isw99-sbm@ecip.tohoku.ac.jp