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                           Second Call For Papers

                            IFIP CARDIS 2000
     FOURTH SMART CARD RESEARCH AND ADVANCED APPLICATION CONFERENCE

                  September 20-22, 2000, HP Labs, Bristol, UK 


AIMS AND GOALS

Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information processing 
purposes. The portability and processing power of IC cards allow for highly 
secure conditional access and reliable distributed  information systems. IC 
cards are already available that can perform highly sophisticated cryptographic
computations. The applicability of  IC cards is currently limited mainly by 
our imagination; the information processing power that can be gained by using 
IC cards remains as yet mostly untapped and is not well understood. Here 
lies a vast uncovered research area which we are only beginning to assess, 
and  which will have great impact on the eventual success of the technology. 
The research challenges range from electrical engineering on the hardware 
side to tailor-made cryptographic applications on the software side, and their 
synergies.  

Many currently existing events are mainly devoted to commercial and  
application aspects of IC cards. In contrast, the CARDIS conferences aim 
to bring together researchers who are active in all aspects of design of IC 
cards and related devices and environment, such as to stimulate synergy between 
different research communities and to offer a platform for presenting the 
latest research advances.  

CARDIS 1994, sponsored by the International Federation for Information 
Processing (IFIP) and held in November 1994 in Lille, France, successfully 
brought together representatives from leading IC research centers from all 
over the world. CARDIS 1996 was the second occasion for the IC card community 
in this permanent activity. CARDIS 1996 was organized jointly by the Centre 
for Mathematics and Computer Science at Amsterdam (CWI) and the Department of 
Computer Systems of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). CARDIS 1998, organized 
by UCL and held at Louvain-la-Neuve, again gathered participants from all over 
the world.  

IFIP CARDIS 2000 is being  organized as an IFIP Working Conference and will be 
partially supported by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol, UK).     


ORGANIZATION


Program Chair:   
    Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain)   
    Anthony Watson  (Edith Cowan Univ., Australia)     

Program Committee:

    Yves Deswarte (LAAS-CNRS and INRIA, France)   
    Dieter Gollmann (Microsoft Research, UK)
    Louis Guillou (CNET, France)
    Pieter Hartel (Southampton, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Peter Honeyman (Michigan Univ., USA)
    Eduard de Jong (Sun Microsystems, USA)
    Mark Looi (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia)
    Bernd Meyer (Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Germany)
    Tatsuaki Okamoto (NTT, Japan)
    Pierre Paradinas (Gemplus Research Lab, France)
    Holger Petersen (ENTRUST Europe, Switzerland)
    Jacques Patarin (BULL CP8, France)
    Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
    Josep Rifa-Coma (Univ. Aut. Barcelona, Spain)
    Bruno Struif (GMD, Germany)
    Antonio Valverde (SERMEPA, Spain)
    Michael Waidner (IBM, Switzerland)   

Steering Committee Chair:
    Vincent Cordonnier (Rd2p, Lille, France)   

General Chair:
    David Chan (HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK)


SUBMISSIONS


All correspondences, including submissions, will be made through e-mail. The 
program committee invites both original technical contributions and high 
quality surveys. A submission should be clearly marked either as an original 
paper or a survey. All submissions will be blind-refereed. In lodging a 
submission, please send two separate e-mail messages to 

        submission@cardis.org  

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

    1. whether the submission is a survey or an original contribution,
    2. the title of the submission,
    3. the names and affiliations of authors, and
    4. 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 the Kluwer LaTeX2e style file 
or the Kluwer Word template. The basic LaTeX2e style files are zipped and
available at ftp://vneumann.etse.urv.es/pub/cardis/latex2e.zip. 
The basic Word95 templates can be uncompressed by downloading 
ftp://vneumann.etse.urv.es/pub/cardis/kap8dots.exe and running it under MS-DOS.
For both LaTeX2e and Word additional optional files are available at 
http://www.wkap.com/ifip.

    3. Submissions should have at most 20 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.).

    4. The preferred page format for submissions is PostScript (obtained using 
such converters as "dvips").    

    5. The file may be compressed using "compress", "gzip" or "zip", and then  
encoded using "uuencode".


PROCEEDINGS


Proceedings will be available at the conference and they will be published 
through Kluwer Academic Publishers, the principal publisher to IFIP.
Authors of accepted papers may be expected to sign a copyright release form.

NEW!!! The authors of selected papers may be invited to prepare and 
submit a new paper on a specific topic to a special issue of the journal
"Computer Networks" on smart cards.


IMPORTANT DATES      


  Submission deadline           February 14, 2000   
  Acceptance notification       April 14, 2000   
  Proceedings version due       May 22, 2000   
  Conference                    September 20-22, 2000    


THEMES   


    Technology/hardware

   1    IC architecture and techniques
   2    Memories and processor design
   3    Read/Write unit engineering
   4    Specific co-processors for cryptography
   5    Biometry
   6    Communication technologies
   7    Interfaces with the user, the service suppliers
   8    Reliability and fault tolerance
   9    Special devices 
   10   Standards

    Software

  11    The operating system, Java...
  12    Models of data management
  13    Communication protocols   

    IC Card design

  14    Tools for internal or external software production
  15    Validation and verification
  16    Methodology for application design

     Electronic commerce

  17    Road pricing
  18    Electronic payment systems
  19    Copyright protection

     Algorithms

  20    Formal specification and validation
  21    Identification
  22    Authentication
  23    Cryptographic protocols for IC cards
  24    Complexity

     Security

  25    Models and schemes of security
  26    Security interfaces
  27    Hardware and software implementation
  28    Security of information systems including cards
  29    Formal verification of transaction sets
  30    Protocol verification

    IC Cards, individuals and the society

  31    IC cards and privacy
  32    Owner access of data
  33    IC cards: political and economical aspects
  34    Is the IC card going to change legislation?
  35    Patents, copyrights  

    Future of IC cards

  36    Innovative technologies
  37    Moving towards the pocket intelligence
  38    Convergence with portable PCs, laptops etc ... 
  39    PCMCIA

     Innovative applications

  40    Design methodology of applications
  41    IC cards and information systems
  42    Examples of new applications
  43    Requirements for innovative cards

    Standards

  44    Emerging standards
  45    Compliance and approval


FOR MORE INFORMATION


  CARDIS 2000 Home Page:        http://www.cardis.org