PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
1998 IEEE Symposium on May 3-6, 1998
Security and Privacy Oakland, California
sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
in cooperation with
The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
The Symposium on Security and Privacy has, for 18 years, been the
premier forum for the presentation of developments in computer
security and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in
the field. Last year, we began to re-emphasize work on engineering
and applications while maintaining our interest in theoretical
advances.
We continue to seek to broaden the scope of the Symposium. We want to
hear not only about new theoretical results, but also about the design
and implementation of secure systems in specific application areas and
about policies relating to system security. We are particularly
interested in papers on policy and technical issues relating to
privacy in the context of the information infrastructure, papers that
relate software and system engineering technology to the design of
secure systems and papers on hardware and architectural support for
secure systems. Papers or Panels which discuss the application of
theory to practice which describe not only the successes but the
failures and the lessons learned are of special interest.
Topics on which papers and panel sessions proposals are invited
include, but are not limited to, the following:
Commercial and Industrial Security,
Security and other Critical System Properties,
Secure Systems,
Distributed Systems,
Network Security,
Database Security,
Data Integrity,
Access Controls,
Information Flow,
Security Verification,
Viruses and Worms,
Security Protocols,
Authentication,
Biometrics,
Smartcards,
Auditing,
Intrusion Detection,
Privacy Issues,
Policy Modeling
A continuing feature of the symposium will be a session of 5-minute
talks. We want to hear from people who are advancing the field in the
areas of system design and implementation, but may lack the resources
needed to prepare a full paper. Abstracts of these talks will be
distributed at the Symposium.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Last year, we experimented with "electronic" submission of papers for
the refereeing process. What we found was that the lack of real
standards for PostScript resulted in a few submitted papers being
totally lost and significantly increasing the workload of the volunteer
program co-chairs. As a result, we shall return to the old-fashioned
way of submitting papers in hard copy form, both for reviewing and for
final publication.
Papers should be submitted by mail or the various express carriers.
Papers will NOT be accepted by fax. Papers should include an
abstract, must not exceed 7500 words, and must report original work
that has not been published previously and is not under consideration
for publication elsewhere. The names and affiliations of authors
should appear on a separate cover page only, as "blind" refereeing is
used. If authors remove bibliographic citations for "blind"
refereeing, those citations should also be included on the separate
cover page only, so that the program co-chairs can verify the
citations, without compromising the "blind" refereeing by the program
committee members.
Authors must certify prior to December 29, 1997 that all necessary
clearances for publication have been obtained. The committee strongly
encourages authors to include archival sources as references (books,
journal articles, etc.) and to include references to "WEB" or other
"NET" sources only if they can be backed up by some archival
source. In this way, we can ensure that people who read the paper 5
years from now will have access to the information used as background
and justification of the arguments presented.
Panel proposals should include a title, an abstract which describes
the topic(s) to be discussed, the names of all proposed participants
and assurances that the participants agree to serve on the panel, a
proposed length and format for the panel and any other information
that the panel proposer thinks would support their proposal. We will
publish the Panel Abstract in the Proceedings as well as any position
papers submitted by the panelists in support of the panel proposal.
Those submitting papers via "hard copy" should send six copies of
their paper or panel proposal to:
Paul A. Karger, Program Co-Chair
IBM Corporation
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
USA
Please mark the envelope "IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium."
The title, abstract, authors names, and any blinded citations should
be on a separate cover page so that we can support the "blind
refereeing process." We would also like to have an electronic, ascii
text version of the abstract sent seperately to
secprv98@watson.ibm.com. The electronic version of the abstract should
include the title and the abstract as it appears in the paper.
Papers and panel proposals must be received (however sent) by 6:00
P.M. (EST) on Monday, November 24, 1997. Authors will be notified by
mid-January about the status of their papers.
Authors who submit an abstract for a 5-minute talk should include a
title, all authors names and their affiliations, where appropriate,
and text. The whole should fit easily on one 8.5" by 11" page.
Abstracts for 5-minute talks should be sent to Paul A. Karger at the
above U.S. Postal address to be received no later than Friday, April
10, 1998 at 6:00 P.M (EST). We will review abstracts and accept as
many as we can. Please mark the envelope
"IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium - 5 minute Abstracts"
If you have questions about the submission procedures, please contact
Paul Karger by electronic mail at secprv98@watson.ibm.com or by
telephone at +1 (914) 784-7294.
Summary of Important Dates:
Papers and panel proposals due: November 24, 1997
Certification of public release
approval: December 29, 1997
Author notification: mid-January 1998
Final papers due: late-February 1998)
5-minute talks due: April 10, 1998
Symposium: May 3-6, 1998
General Chair: Mike Reiter, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Vice Chair: John McLean, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Program Co-Chairs: Paul A. Karger, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Li Gong, Javasoft, USA
Treasurer: Brian Loe, Secure Computing Corporation, USA
Program Committee:
TBD