CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper
Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016
The 15th
International Conference on Security and Management
(SAM'16)
July
25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/
INVITATION:
We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants
in the federated
event that this conference is part of. You are invited to
submit a paper
for consideration. All accepted papers will be published
in PRINTED
conference BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international
ISBN number) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will
be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data. In addition,
like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will
appear in journals and edited research books; publishers
include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the web link below for a
small subset of
such publications: (some of these books and journal
special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their
respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers
and/or science citation
index trackers.)
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Last year, the federated event that this conference is
part of had attracted
speakers/authors/participants affiliated with over 178
different
universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), many
major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google, SAP,
Oracle, Amazon,
Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, HSBC, Apple,
GlaxoSmithKline,
Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai,
Hitachi, NTT, ...),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, AirForce,
...), national
laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL,
Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, ...), and a number
of Venture
Capitalists as well as speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.
The conference is composed of a number of tracks,
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
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
- Control
Systems/SCADA Security
- 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
- Change and
Patch 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
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 22, 2016:
Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
Papers should be submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160 ;
refer to http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/index.html for
paper submission instructions.
April 17, 2016:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:
The 15th International Conference on Security and
Management (SAM'16: Las Vegas,
USA). All affiliated
federated conferences will be held simultaneously;
same location and dates.
http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
Papers should be submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160 ;
refer to http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/index.html for
paper submission
instructions. 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 the
followings:
- Title of the
paper
- Name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author
(identify the
name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract
(between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the work
described in
the paper
- Write the type
of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
"Short
Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual
text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).
Submissions are
to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
portal at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160
Type of Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular
Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
Regular
Research Papers should provide detail original research
contributions.
They must report new research results that represent
a contribution
to the field; sufficient details and support for
the results and
conclusions should also be provided. The work
presented in
regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some
additional work can be published as journal papers.
- Short Research
Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short Research
Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should
provide overall
research methodologies with some results. The work
presented in
short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some
additional work can be published as regular papers.
- Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
Poster papers
report on ongoing research projects that are still in
their infancy
(i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide
research
methodologies without yet concrete results.
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 would be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees. 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).
The proceedings will be published in printed conference
books (ISBN) and will
also be made available online. The printed
proceedings/books will be
available for distribution on site at the conference. The
proceedings will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for
each published paper. The proceedings/books of the
congress have been
evaluated and approved for inclusion into major science
citation index
databases. In addition, the proceedings are approved for
inclusion into
EBSCO, one of the largest subject index systems. ACM
Digital Library is also
including the titles into its database as well as
ProQuest indexing database
and others.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers
(Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18
months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of our congress,
will be given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their
papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having
between 10 and 15 books
a year in each of these book series projects. Each book
in each series will
be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing
products (which
includes: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and a very small subset of the books (and
journal special
issues) that have been published mostly based on the
extended versions of
the federated congress papers, see the link and titles
below:
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the
top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly
Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers. Some titles
appear below (this is a small subset):
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision
and Pattern
Recognition. (about 650 pages)
o. Springer:
Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems;
Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 696.
780 pages
(Awarded the top 25% downloads in the field.)
o. Springer:
Advances in Computational Biology; Series: Advances in
Experimental
Medicine and Biology, Vol 680. 700+ pages.
(Awarded the
top 25% downloads in the field.)
o. Journal of BMC
Systems Biology: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics
and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp. 3); Impact Factor: 2.44.
200+ pages.
(Many articles of this issue is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Information and
Communications
Technology). 660 pages. (One of the most highly
accessed books
in the field.)
o. Journal of BMC
Medical Genomics: Special Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and Computational Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp. 1);
Impact Factor:
2.87. 240+ pages. (Some articles of this issue is
marked as
"Highly accessed".)
o. Springer:
Transactions on Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence
(multiple volumes).
o. Journal of BMC
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational
Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact Factor: 3.99.
250+ pages.
(Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing
(multiple
volumes.)
o. Journal of BMC
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Advances in Big Data
Analytics", (Vol. 15, Supp. 11); Impact Factor: 3.99. 100+ pages.
(Some articles
of this issue is marked as "Highly Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems
Biology - Algorithms and Software Tools. 600+ pages.
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems
Biology - Systems and Applications. (In Press). 600+ pages.
o. Springer:
Resilient Computer System Design.
300+ pages.
o. Journal of BMC
Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15, Supp.
17); Impact
Factor: 2.58. 140+ pages. (Some articles of this issue is
marked as
"Highly accessed".)
o. Springer: The
Journal of Supercomputing (multiple journal issues);
o. Springer:
Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems; Data Mining;
Vol. 8; 400
pages.
o. Springer: Real
World Data Mining Applications; in Annals of
Information Systems;
Vol. 17; 420 pages.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The federated congress (
http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016 ) that
this conference is part of 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.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean,
Cornell University;
formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and
former director of
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science
Foundation, USA), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished
Professor, Purdue
University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of
Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
Parallel Coordinates
and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell
Endowed Chair
Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS;
Director, CSU
Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC),
Colorado State
University, Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of
IEEE and
LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of
Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and
Professor of
Computer Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA);
Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University, USA and School of
Engineering and
Applied Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain
Imaging
Center; and The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP
Information
Technology, USA and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind
and Brain;
Recipient of John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force
Award for
basic research); Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer,
Raytheon
Intelligence, Information, and Services; Aurora,
Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of
Numerical
Calculus Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
and part-time
Professor of Lobachevsky State University, Russia); and
many other
distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top
five largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have
attendees
from about 85 countries. To get a feeling about the
conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
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."
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference
proceedings
that have been held as part of this federated congress,
have received
28,380 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations).
Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation
data does not
even include more than 17,000 other citations to papers
in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress
(such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and others).
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
January 5, 2016.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to SAM'16 Conference Chair:
Prof. Kevin Daimi ( daimikj@udmercy.edu )