Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers

Fifth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

San Francisco, California
November 3-5, 1998
(Tutorials on November 2, 1998)
Sponsored by ACM SIGSAC

Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the Fifth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Papers may present theory, technique, applications, or practical experience on topics including

access control authentication accounting and audit
security for mobile code applied cryptography data/system integrity
cryptographic protocols electronic commerce intrusion detection
key management privacy and anonymity intellectual property protection
information warfare secure networking secure operating systems
viruses and worms security management distributed systems security
database security smart-cards and secure PDAs security verification

Instructions for authors: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with a proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submission instructions for papers, as well as for panel proposals and tutorial proposals, will be posted at http://www.research.att.com/~reiter/ccs5/ and circulated in the final call for papers. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by the ACM in a conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Paper submissions due: April 3, 1998
Acceptance notification: June 5, 1998
Final papers due: July 16, 1998

Steering committee chair: Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University
General chair: Li Gong, JavaSoft
Program chair: Mike Reiter, AT&T Labs--Research
Awards chair: Jacques Stern, ENS/DMI
Publication chair: Stuart Stubblebine, AT&T Labs--Research
Publicity chair: Gene Tsudik, USC ISI

Program committee:
Martin Abadi, DEC SRC David Naccache, Gemplus
Bill Cheswick, Lucent, Bell Labs Hilarie Orman, DARPA/ITO
Carl Ellison, Cybercash Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs--Research
Ed Felten, Princeton University Pierangela Samarati, Universita di Milano
Paul Karger, IBM T.J. Watson Gene Tsudik, USC ISI
Steve Kent, BBN Corporation Paul Van Oorschot, Entrust Technologies
Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich Bennet Yee, UCSD
Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Lab Moti Yung, CertCo