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CALL FOR PAPERS
EXTENDED
Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012
The
2012 International Conference on
Security and Management
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings
will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of WORLDCOMP congress that
SAM is part
of, enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000
citations so far.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
O Network
Security:
Security
algorithms, mobile network security, security in CDN
(Contents
Distribution Networks), Virtual Private Network (VPN),
tracing
techniques in internet, active networks, security in Grid,
web monitoring,
network security engineering, transport-level
security,
wireless network security, IP security, electronic mail
security.
O Cryptographic
Technologies:
Security
protocols, key management techniques, cryptographic
technologies,
applications of block and stream ciphers, applications
of public key
cryptology, message authentication and hash functions,
anonymity,
digital signature schemes, secret sharing, cryptanalysis.
O Security
Management:
Surveillance
technologies, security policies, security for protocol
management,
location management, QoS management, resource management,
channel
management, mobility management, digital contents copyright
protection,
system security management, network security management,
management in
network equipment, Storage Area Networks (SAN)
management,
information security management, government security
policy, web
penetration testing, security operations,
vulnerabilities
management.
O Security
Applications:
Security in
e-Commerce and M-Commerce, secure OS, watermarking,
high-tech
systems at airports, emerging technologies and
applications,
Cloud computing security, database security, data
mining security,
cyber security automation.
O Biometrics and
Forensics:
Novel biometric
methods, forensics, biological security technologies,
face recognition
systems, signature recognition systems, cyber
forensics,
forensic analysis, biometric technologies for security,
feature
extraction and matching algorithms.
O Hardware
Security:
Embedded systems
security, cryptographic processors and co-processors,
security
architectures, true and pseudorandom number generators,
side channel
attacks, fault attacks, hardware tamper resistance,
smart card
processors, secure storage devices.
O Information
Assurance:
Mission
assurance, risk assessment and risk management, continuity
of operations
and business impact analysis, cyber security compliance,
security
auditing, security-savvy software development, disaster
recovery, business
continuity analysis, access control, secure use
of software,
secure performance.
O Computer
Security:
Firewall
systems, hacking techniques and related issues, intrusion
detection system
(IDS), honeypot, virus issues (detection,
prevention ...),
trusted computing, alert correlation, attack graphs,
incident
responding, malware analysis, incident responding, malware
analysis,
intrusion detection.
O Security
Education:
Computer
security education, network security education, cyber
security
education, cyber security body of knowledge, information
assurance
education.
SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:
Submissions must be uploaded by April 12, 2012 and they
must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all
figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to
12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the
authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers
must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include:
title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email
address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of
the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best
represent the content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, SAM) that
the paper is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the
first page of the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length
of the final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7
(two-column IEEE
style) pages.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the
field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review
process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a
member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded
review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels).
Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to
upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded
papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct
typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the
originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized
and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)
Proceedings of SAM will be published in printed
conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings
will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as:
Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French
National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL
(covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are
journals; only about 9%
are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be
among the 9% - accessable
from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit,
Qwam, and STN
International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee
that the proceedings
will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings,
in the past, the
proceedings in which SAM was part of (PDPTA and
WORLDCOMP) was included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the
proceedings for
indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed
proceedings/books
will be available for distribution on site at the
conference.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings,
selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various
publishers - these books will
be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of
tracks will be forming
journal special issues to be published after the
conference.
SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same instructions
that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS)
except for the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author
should state that "This
paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers
(if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper
wishes to do so.
April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)
Those who have submitted papers during the months of January, February, and
March will receive decisions on their papers by the earlier announced dates.
April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)
Those who have submitted papers during the months of January, February, and
March will receive decisions on their papers by the earlier announced dates.
SAM'12 CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Prof. Kevin Daimi
Director, CS and SE Programs, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit,
Michigan, USA
GENERAL INFORMATION:
SAM conference is being held jointly (same location and
dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers
in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We
anticipate
to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries.
The congress will be composed of research presentations,
keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as
Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding
member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man,
developer of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH
Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT &
Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz
Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge
Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To
get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates
photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique
platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The
congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that
have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with
institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a
quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of WORLDCOMP is to assemble a spectrum of
affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time.
This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different
fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied
computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:
The proceedings of the WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of
citations. As of
March 2012, papers published in each track of the
proceedings have
received the following number of citations: 252 citations
to BIOCOMP
papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC
papers; 271 to
DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504
to ESA papers;
176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA
papers; 75 to GEM
papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers;
1,247 to ICWN papers;
571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers;
5,239 to PDPTA
papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177
to SWWS papers.
In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far)
to papers
published in the proceedings of this federated joint
conferences. Refer
to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers
(each is a link to
a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the
data to pull up):
USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of SAM'12:
http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam12/
2. Announcements blog for SAM'12:
http://worldcomp-sam.blogspot.com
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
2. Announcements blog for SAM'12:
http://worldcomp-sam.blogspot.com
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
3. This announcement contains updated and current
information (correct
as of the date
of this message). The information that appears in this
announcement
supersedes earlier ones.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org