Calls for Papers

• Special Issues of Journals and Handbooks
  Listed earliest deadline first. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS); Special Issue on Data Mining. As a young, promising research area with broad applications, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases has attracted great interest in the research communities of database systems, machine learning, statistics, high performance computing, information retrieval, data visualization, and many others. Security and social impact of data mining is a topic of interest. Five hard copies of the paper, with the length limited to 20 pages, should be submitted by November 1, 1996 to the conference chair. Also see web page.
  • ACM-MONET. Special Issue of the Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications. Journal Web page. This special issue will concentrate on the problems associated with mobile and wireless networking in the Internet, primarily at the network layer and above. Internet security issues are a relevant topic. Authors should email an electronic Postscript copy of their paper to one of the guest editors by November 15, 1996. Submissions should be limited to 20 double spaced pages, excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations. Submissions can be sent to perk@watson.ibm.com.
  • ACM-MOBILE. ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. The wireless communication revolution is bringing fundamental changes to telecommunication and computing. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile computing and communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Furthermore, services for the mobile user are maturing and are poised to change the nature and scope of communication. This publication serves to enhance the ability of ACM SIGMOBILE members to keep up-to-date in this rapidly moving field, as well as serve as a major focal point for the discussion of new directions of portable computation and mobile networks for both the research and market-driven communities. Specific topics of interest include security, scalability and reliability issues for mobile/wireless systems. Authors should see the submission instructions.
  • Papers are solicited for a special issue of IEEE Software to focus on security and privacy concerns and their impact on software development. The full announcement has all details. The goal of this special issue is to
    * advise programmers, practitioners, developers, and managers of the security implications of their development work;
    * encourage companies and researchers whose products and technologies have security implications to address those requirements, by giving examples of how others have addressed these requirements and where to go for advice and guidance;
    * showcase positive achievements in developing secure applications.

    Papers must be of high quality, oriignal, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. Authors should submit an abstract of approximately 200-500 words to Charles P. Pfleeger by October 20, 1996, and the complete article by November 15, 1996. Comments will be returned to the authors before the end of February 1997. If at all possible, prospective authors should submit the abstract by e-mail, as this abstract will be used to schedule reviewers (also by e-mail). The complete article can be submitted either electronically (in ASCII, MSWord format, or postscript) or by hardcopy. In the case of hardcopy submissions, 8 copies must be provided.

• Archival journals regularly specializing in security and privacy
  • Journal of Computer Security JCS is an archival research journal for significant advances in computer security. Subject areas include architecture, operating systems, database systems, networks, authentication, distributed systems, formal models, verification, algorithms, mechanisms, and policies. Submissions: send six copies to one of the editors in chief: Sushil Jadodia, ISSE Dept., George Mason University, 440 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, or Jonathan Millen, The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730. Subscriptions: contact IOS Press, Van Diemenstraat 94, 1013 CN Amsterdam, Netherlands, fax: +31 20 22 6055, e-mail: Marie- Louise.Kok@ios.nl, for information about individual or institutional subscriptions or back issues.
  • Computers & Security aims to satisfy the needs of managers and experts involved in computer security by providing a blend of research developments, innovations, and practical management advice. Original submissions on all computer security topics are invited, particularly those of pracitcal benefit to the practitioner. Four copies of papers from 5-10,000 words should be sent to the editor, John Meyer, at Elsevier Advanced Technology, P.O. Box 150, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1AS, United Kingdom. Telephones: voice +44(0)1865 843848 / 843000; fax +44 (0) 1865 843971.
  • International Journal of Digital Libraries aims to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information via global networking. In particular, the journal will emphasize technical issues in digital information production, management and use, issues in high-speed networks and connectivity, inter-operability, and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks and needs, security and privacy of individuals and business transactions and effective business processes in the Information Age. The first issue will appear in Summer 1996 (see announcement). Electronic submission is encouraged to speed up the process (for details please send email to dlib@adam.rutgers.edu). For hard copy submission, please mail five copies to: Prof. Nabil R. Adam, CIMIC, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, (201) 648-5239, adam@adam.rutgers.edu.
• Conferences
  Listed earliest deadline first. See also Cipher Calendar and NRL CHACS CFP list.
  • Fast Software Encryption Workshop 1997, Haifa, Israel, January 27-29, 1997; Conf Web page. Interested parties are invited to submit original unpublished papers on the design and analysis of fast encryption algorithms and hash functions. Preproceedings will be available at the meeting. The final proceedings is expected to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Send submissions to biham@cs.technion.ac.il by October 11, 1996.
  • Enterprise Networking '97, Montreal, Quebec, June 11-12, 1997. Topics of interest include:
    * Integration of subsystems of enterprise networks, such as e-mail gateways, LAN switches, bridges and routers, database systems, and security and authentication mechanisms with the internets to provide "end-user" oriented services, such as video- conferencing, multi-media mails, etc.,
    * Enterprise information resource management. Enterprise Networks Management (e.g., configuration, fault, performance, accounting, security, etc.).
    Submissions are due to the program chair, Bhumip Khasnabish (bhumip@gte.com) by mail by November 15, 1996.
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 4-7, 1997. The Symposium on Security and Privacy has, for 16 years, been the premier forum for the presentation of developments in computer security and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. It seeks to build on this tradition of excellence by re-emphasizing work on engineering and applications while maintaining our interest in theoretical advances. See the conference Web page for information about electronic and paper submissions. Submissions are due Dec. 2, 1996 (NB this is an extension of the original deadline).
  • CSFW10 10th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA, 10-12 June, 1997. This workshop brings together researchers in computer science to examine foundational issues in computer security. We are interested both in papers that describe new results in the theories of computer security and in papers and panels that explore open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories. The paper submission deadline is February 7, 1997. See the web page, or email Program Chair (s.foley@cs.ucc.ie) for full details.
  • 7th USENIX Security Symposium, San Antonio, Texas; January 26-29, 1998. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security and applications of cryptography. This will be a four day symposium with two days of tutorials, followed by two days of refereed paper presentations, invited talks, works-in-progress presentations, and panel discussions. Conf Web page Submissions to securitypapers@usenix.org by September 9, 1997.

    Conferences of interest for which the submission date has passed.

    Listed earliest start date first.

  • World Conference of the Web Society, San Francisco, CA, October 16-19, 1996. This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the dissemination of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to the use, applications and societal and legal aspects of the Web in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing all modern tools to peruse the Internet. "Security and Privacy on the Web" is one of several major topics. Conf Web page
  • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Rockville, Washington D. C., October 16 - 19, 1996. The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. Network security and protocol verification/validation/testing are topics of interest.
  • Engineering of Complex Systems, Montreal, Quebec, October 21-25, 1996. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from these various disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. A subject of interest is dependable Real-Time Systems.
  • National Information Systems Security Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 22-25, 1996. The National Information Systems Security Conference audience represents a broad range of information security interests spanning government, industry, commercial, and academic communities.
  • High-Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop, Lake, Canada, October 22, 1996; Conf Web page. The primary focus of the Workshop is on innovative research results in the area of high-assurance (real-time, reliable, safety-critical, and secure) systems. Complex systems' engineering issues, including hardware design, software engineering (both formal and informal methods), testing and performance evaluation, are particular focus of the Workshop.
  • International Conference on Network Protocols '96, Columbus, Ohio, October 29 through November 1, 1996. Network security is a topic of interest for this conference. Conf Web page The program chair is Dr. Hasan Ural (ural@csi.uottawa.ca).
  • Operating Systems Design and Implementation '96, Seattle, Washington, October 29, 1996 - November 1, 1996. The OSDI Symposium emphasizes both innovative research and quantified experience in operating systems. Security in distributed systems is one topic of interest.
  • ASIACRYPT '96, Kyongju, South Korea, November 3-7, 1996; Conf Web page.
  • Mobile Computing and Networking 1996, Rye, NY, November 11-12, 1996. Conference Web page. Includes scalability and reliability issues for mobile/wireless systems.
  • Computer Security Institute Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1996. Proposed presentation should offer successful concepts, models, processes and applications useful to those responsible for information security.
  • Integration of Enterprise Information and Processes Rethinking Documents, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 14, 1996. Conf Web page Managing enterprise information offers opportunities for new forms of security controls, especially when large scale intra and inter-company collaborations are involved. This conference focuses on integration of enterprise information, including process and workflow models.
  • Databases: Active & Real-Time, Rockville, MD, November 15, 1996. Reliability and dependability are topics of interest. Conf Web page
  • 12th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 9-13, 1996, San Diego, CA.
  • 6th International Conference on Database Theory, Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997. A topic of interest is fundamentals of security and privacy in databases. Conf Web page.
  • Multimedia Data Security, San Jose, California, 8-14 February 1997. Part of IS&T/SPIE's 1997 Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology. HREF=http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/meetings_home.html>Conf Web page.
  • The Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, California, February 10-11, 1997. The symposium fosters the exchange of technical information that will encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology. Symposium proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Conference Web page.
  • First Asia-Pacific Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 23-24 February, 1997, Singapore. Goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from basic and applied research and information industries, and to push forward the state-of-art of KDD. The conference technical programme will include paper presentations, posters, invited talks, panels, and tutorials in a two-day event. Security and privacy are topics of interest. Info available from hweeleng@iti.gov.sg; Conf Web page
  • Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, Partenkirchen, Germany, March 5-7, 1997. Papers are sought in all areas of dependable computing, including but not limited to models, methods, algorithms, tools and practical experience with specifying, designing, implementing, assessing, validating, operating, and maintaining dependable computing systems. Papers that deal with man-machine interface issues (as they relate to dependability) are specifically encouraged. Of particular but not exclusive interest will be presentations that address combinations of dependability attributes, e.g., safety and security, through studies of either a theoretical or an applied nature.
  • 5th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis, Nashville, TN, March 20-23, 1997 Security and Privacy Issues in Telecommunications is a topic of interest.
  • Database Systems For Advanced Applications, Melbourne, Australia, April 1 - 4, 1997. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. Papers on implemented systems, from research prototypes to advanced industry projects are strongly solicited. "Security and integrity" is a topic of interest. Conf Web page
  • 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2-4, 1997. Papers pertaining to all aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the Fourth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Papers may present theory, technique, applications, and practical experience on a variety of topics including access control, accounting and audit, applied cryptography and cryptographic protocols, authentication and authorization, data/system integrity, electronic commerce, intrusion detection, key management, privacy, protection of software and intellectual property, run-time system security, secure networking, secure operating systems, security architectures and models, security management, security of distributed systems and databases, security protocols, and smart-cards and secure PDAs. Conference Web page;
  • 13th Internation Conference on Data Engineering, Birmingham, UK, 7-11 April, 1997. Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering disciplines in the design, development and evaluation of information systems for different computing platforms and architectures. An issue of interest for the conference is the security of network databases. Conference Web page.
  • High Performance Database Management for Large Scale Applications; Birmingham, England, April 7-8, 1997. Solicits papers that deal with performance issues enabling the support of database management for large scale applications; an example is security and privacy of transactions in electronic commerce. Conf Web page. Submissions to peters@ece.nwu.edu by October 1, 1996.
  • Third International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Berlin, Germany, April 9 - 11, 1997. Driven by the increasing power, intelligence, reliability, and openness of computer, communication and control technologies, a new generation of distributed systems is emerging, that will be able to support distributed business and control applications with extreme efficiency, reliability and security requirements. Conf Web page
  • IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks, Kent Ridge, Singapore, April 14-17, 1997; Network security and privacy is a topic of interest.
  • Asian Computing Science Conference, Singapore, 22 Apr 1997; Conf Web page. This year networking and security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, systems, ...) are among featured topics. The proceedings is expected to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Computer Science series.

    Journal special issues for which the submission date has passed:

  • JCS Special issue on WWW security. The special issue of the Journal of Computer Security will be focused on research and development efforts leading to identify requirements and viable solutions for WWW security. Two kinds of papers will be considered: regular papers presenting new research results, and short papers describing ongoing projects. Editors of the special issue: Elisa Bertino, Gianpaolo Rossi, and Pierangela Samarati, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41, 20135-Milano, Italy; phone: +39-2-55006227/257/272; fax: +39-2-55006253; e-mail: bertino,rossi,samarati@dsi.unimi.it. More information at http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/jcs-www.
  • Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, Special Issue on Future Directions for Internet Technology. Contributions are invited on all aspects of where the Internet is going technically including security. Guest editors: Dr Brian E. Carpenter (brian@dxcoms.cern.ch, WWW) and Prof J Crowcroft (J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk, WWW).
  • ACM Journal, Wireless Networks, special issue on Personal Communications. Personal communications provide communication services anywhere, anytime, with anybody, and in any form. To implement the personal communications concepts, extremely sophisticated systems which integrate many diverse technologies are required. This special focuses on the research and development of advanced PCS technologies.
  • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), a quarterly electronic journal, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on electronic commerce, including issues related to security and privacy. The call for papers can be found at http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/steincfp.html.
  • Auerbach 1996 Handbook of Data Management seeks papers written by and for practitioners addressing a variety of topics, including data security, privacy, and integrity. Three copies of manuscripts of 20-30 pages double-spaced, including figures and tables, are due to Bhavani Thuraisingham (thura@mitre.org) or Karen Brogno (73752.2270@compuserve.com) no later than 8 September 1995. Details here.
  • Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society Special Issue on Databases, April 1996. Suggested topics include integrity and security. Submit 5 copies of your paper (about 20 A4 pages or 8000 words) to Alberto H. F. Laender (laender@dcc.ufmg.br) by 2 October 1995. Details available at http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jbcs.
  • Information Systems Special Issue on Disaster Recovery in Database Systems. No specific mention of security or privacy, but the topic seems relevant to security concerns. Five copies of paper up to 30 pages, double-spaced (10 pt.), due 1 Nov 95 to Divyakant Agrawal, Computer Science Dept., UCSB (agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu).
  • ACM Journal, Wireless Networks, special issue on Mobility and Security. Mobility introduces a new dimension to the problem of secure computing and communication. The securing becomes harder and often more important. This is sometimes due to the mobility of the communication devices, sometimes due to the mobility of users (without mobile device), or the mobility of objects, or that of the attackers. Manuscripts to amir@watson.ibm.com or kutten@watson.ibm.com by 15 November 1995.
  • International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Databases and Telecommunications, Journal Web page. Because of the growing importance of this area, the International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems is planning a special issue on Databases and Telecommunications for Summer 1996. They solicit both theoretical and applied papers describing the state-of-art in this area. The journal will be published in July 1996.