The CARDIS '02 program committee seeks papers describing the design, application, and validation of smart card technologies. We encourage submissions across a broad range of smart card development phases, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical application and deployment of smart card technology. The following topics are of particular interest to the program committee: * Application loading * Smart card operating systems * Virtual machines * Integrated development environments * High-speed, small-footprint encryption * Cryptographic accelerators * On-card data sharing schemes * Smart cards in the Internet * Automatic mask generation * Emerging opportunities for standardization * Smart tokens and other competing technologies * Alternative form factors for smart card chips * Smart card application program interfaces * Trends in smart card hardware * Research in tamper-resistance * Hardware and software certification * Security validation and benchmarks * Biometrics involving smart cards Submissions are due on June 24, 2002. For more details on the submission process, authors are encouraged to consult the detailed author guidelines at: http://www.usenix.org/events/cardis02/ We look forward to receiving your submissions. Sincerely, Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan CARDIS '02 Program Chair Fifth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS '02) November 20-22, 2002 Hyatt Ste. Claire, San Jose, California, USA CARDIS '02, the joint IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, will bring together researchers and practitioners in the development and deployment of smart card systems and technologies. Unlike events devoted to commercial and application aspects of smart cards, the CARDIS conference brings together researchers who are active in all aspects of the design, validation, and application of smart cards. The breadth of smart card research stimulates a synergy among disparate research communities, making CARDIS '02 an ideal opportunity to present the latest research advances