CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ’12) & 5th Secure Knowledge Management (SKM 2012) 15th Annual New York State Cyber Securit­y Conference http://www.albany.edu/iasymposium https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asiaandskm2012

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 05, 2012 Held on June 5-6, 2012 at  Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY

 

This is a call for papers for the 7^th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ‘12), which is being merged with the 5^th Secure Knowledge Management Conference (SKM 2012) this year. This event will be held in conjunction with the 15^th Annual New York State Cyber Security Conference (NYSCSC). This two-day event is expected to attract over 900 participants including practitioners, researchers, and vendors providing opportunities for business and intellectual engagement among attendees. The symposium is organized by the School of Business and the NYS Center for Information Forensics and Assurance (CIFA) at the University at Albany, State University of New York, as well as the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Office of Cyber Security (OCS). Through generous sponsorships, we are able to have free registration for all selected presenters, authors of accepted papers, and members of government organizations. There is a modest fee of $50 for not-for-profit attendees and $200 for private registrants. All participants in ASIA & SKM will also be able to attend other NYSCSC sessions that typically cover practical applications of information security. Authors are invited to submit papers in information assurance and secure knowledge management for (but not limited to) topics listed below:

 

·   Information Assurance

·   Privacy &

·   Information Security Education

·   Risk Management

·   Policy Design & Implementation

·   Policy Compliance & Auditing

·   Business Continuity

·   Disaster Recovery

·   Information Security Economics

·   Cyber Warfare & Terrorism

·   Internet-based Espionage

·   Critical Infrastructure Security

·   Smart Grid Security

·   Network Data Collection &  Analysis

·   Intrusion Detection & Prevention

·   Network Security

·   Web Security

·   Mobile Device Security

·   Cloud Computing Security

·   Cyber Crime Investigation

·   Digital & Network Forensics

·   Forensic Accounting & Fraud

·   Self-Organization Based Models

·   Cryptography / Quantum Computing

·   Digital Rights Management

·   Linguistic Analysis for Security

·   Knowledge Management

·   Content Management

·   Security Languages

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1.    Submitted papers must not have been previously published, or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, or have substantial overlap with papers the author has submitted elsewhere.

2.    Submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process.

3.    Papers selected for presentation will be published in proceedings; however, we do not take the copyright away from authors. Arrangements are also being made with journals to publish extended versions of selected papers from the symposium.

4.    Papers in the topic areas discussed are preferred, although contributions outside those topics may also be of interest. Please feel free at any time to contact the symposium chair if you have questions regarding your submission.

5.    Papers should be submitted via the conference submission system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asiaandskm2012

6.    The paper should conform to the IEEE format and must include the following:

a)    Separate title page (in plain text) with Title, Name(s) of authors, Organizational affiliation(s), telephone and fax number(s), postal address(es), and email address(es), Author to contact for correspondence about the paper.

b)    Abstract (less than 250 words)

c)    Paper including a brief biography of each author as appropriate at the end of the paper

 

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

Submissions can be made in a number of categories: Completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, case studies, and panel proposals/round table discussions. Please follow the following guidelines in preparing your submission.

1.    Completed Research Papers: Typically 5,000 words long (excluding abstract and references).

2.    Research in Progress Papers: Typically 2,500 words (excluding abstract and references).

3.    Panel Proposals: Typically a 1,000 word description, identifying the panelists to be involve

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline 03/05/12

Reviewer Feedback 03/31/12

Final Paper Submission 04/15/12

Symposium Dates 06/05/12 – 06/06/12

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ASIA ’12 & SKM 2012

 

GENERAL CHAIR

Sanjay Goel

Director of Research, CIFA

Associate Professor, School of Business

University at Albany, SUNY

goel@albany.edu

 

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Elisa Bertino

Professor, Computer Science Department

Research Director, CERIAS

Interim Director, Cyber Center (Discovery Park)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

bertino@cs.purdue.edu

 

PROGRAM CHAIR

Raj Sharman

Associate Professor, School of Management

University at Buffalo, SUNY

rsharman@buffalo.edu

 

ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Karen Sorady

Assistant Deputy Director of Cyber Programs, OCS

ksorady@dhses.ny.gov

 

SUBMISSIONS CHAIR

Damira Pon

Senior Research Analyst, CIFA

University at Albany, SUNY

damira@gmail.com

 

REVIEW CO-CHAIRS

Ravi Sen

Associate Professor

Dept. of Information and Operations Mgt.

Mays Business School

Texas A&M University

rsen@mays.tamu.edu

 

Chandrasekar Subramaniam

Associate Professor

Management Information Systems
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
csubrama@uncc.edu

 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Kevin A Kwiat, Air Force Research Lab

Nasir Memon, NYU Polytechnic

Hoang Pham, Rutgers University

H. Raghav Rao, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Bhavani Thuraisingham, UT Dallas

Shambhu Upadhyaya, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alex Tuzhilin, New York University

Alvaro Ortigosa, Autonoma Universidad de Madrid

Anil B. Somayaji, Carleton University, Canada

Ben Shao, Arizona State University

Billy Rios, Microsoft Corporation

Boleslaw Szymanski, RPI

Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University

Daniel Rice, Tech. Solutions Experts, Inc.

Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis

Farookh Salam, UNC at Greensboro

George Berg, University at Albany, SUNY

Gurpreet Dhillon, VCU

Hemantha Herath, Brock University

Hoang Pham, Rutgers University

Hong C. Li, Intel Corporation

Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University

Jeffrey Carr, GreyLogic

Jim Cao, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories

Jingguo Wang, UT at Arlington

Junjie Wu, Beihang University

M.P. Gupta, Indian Institute of Tech., Delhi

Manish Gupta, M&T Bank

Manish Parashar, Rutgers University

Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University

Martin Loeb, University of Maryland

Mohan Kankanhalli, National U. of Singapore

Murtuza Jadliwala, EPFL, Lausanne

Myon-K. Jeong, Rutgers University

Nan Zhang, George Washington University

Raghu Santanam, Arizona State University

Ronald Dodge, United States Military Academy

S. S. Ravi, University at Albany, SUNY

Shiu-Kai Chin, Syracuse University

Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, MIT

Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research Center

Sumita Mishra, RIT

Tejaswani Herath, Brock University

Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University

Tin Kam Ho, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories

Tyrone Grandison, IBM Almaden Research Lab

Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan, Microsoft

Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University

W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Univ. of Washington

Wade Trappe, Rutgers University

Yan Sun, University of Rhode Island

Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University

Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University

Rahul Singh, United Nations Global Compact

Olivia Sheng, University of Utah

Manish Gupta, M&T Bank

Ernst Bekkering, Northeastern State University

Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University

Gaurav Bansal, University of Wisconsin