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CALL FOR
PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 1, 2012
The 2012 International Conference on
Security and Management
SAM'12
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages)
for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed
conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract
submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The
conference proceedings will be made available in printed book as well as
online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that
track citation frequency/ data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress
that SAM is part of enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations
have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference
is co-sponsored by various associations and groups as well as centers, large
labs, and institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason
University, Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of
Minnesota, US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel
Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore, authors who have already submitted papers in response
to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been
notified that their papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the
instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines
mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them).
IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to
different deadlines; those who receive this announcement should ignore the
deadlines mentioned on the web (we are not updating the deadlines on the
conference web site because we would like to control the number of submissions
- we can only manage a limited number of additional submissions at this late
date). What appears below are the current deadlines.
June 1, 2012:
Submission of papers for evaluation
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
June 14, 2012:
Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 22, 2012:
Registration
July 16-19, 2012:
The 2012 International Conference on Security and Management
(SAM'12)
July 30, 2012:
Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
(papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
will go to press soon after the conference.)
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 FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://world-comp.org Submissions
must be uploaded by June 1, 2012 and 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 that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be
stated on the first page of the paper (ie, SAM) 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.
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.
The proceedings 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; the set of proceedings that SAM is part of has been 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 that SAM was part of were included in these databases. Therefore,
we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI
Compendex/Elsevier.
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.
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement, will have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in
the Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements
to ship the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of
the conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4043
Submission of Poster Papers:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same instructions that appear above. On the first page, the author should
state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster for SAM".
Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only if the author of the
accepted poster wishes to have his/her poster published as a 2-page extended
abstract.)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
SAM conference is being held jointly (same location and
dates) with a number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated
congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer engineering and applied computing. 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 the congress 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 the congress 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.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently
being prepared; for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:
The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of
citations. In total, about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings of the federated congress. The link below contains
the url's to the citation data for each track (each link is 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. SAM 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp,
see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:
CONTACT:
Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org