CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighth International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2012) 
15-19 December 2012 
IIT Guwahati, India 


The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating the latest research results in information and systems security. The acceptance ratio of the past four conferences has averaged less than 30%, and the proceedings have been published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The conference encourages submissions addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. We especially like to encourage papers in domains that have not been represented much in the past at the conference, such as database security/privacy, usability aspects of security, and smartphone security. Papers that introduce and address unique security challenges or present thought-provoking ideas are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Application Security 
Authentication and Access Control 
Biometric Security 
Cryptographic Protocols 
Data Security 
Digital Forensics and Diagnostics 
Digital Rights Management 
Distributed System Security	Formal Methods in Security 
Intrusion Detection, Prevention and Response 
Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery 
Key Management and Cryptographic Protocols 
Language-based Security 
Malware Analysis and Mitigation 
Network Security 
Operating System Security	
Privacy and Anonymity 
Security in P2P, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks 
Smartphone Security 
Software Security 
Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation 
Usable Security 
Web Security

IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscript Submission (Full Paper) : 13 July 2012 (11.59 p.m., U.S. Central Time)
Notification of Acceptance : Sep 3rd, 2012
Submission of Camera-Ready Manuscript: 15 Sep 2012
Paper Submission

Submissions must be made to the submission website by the deadline of July 20, 2012, 11.59 US Central Time. Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages in length, including the bibliography. Detailed submission instructions can be found at the conference web site. One of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format. Camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted in LaTex.

Dual Submission Policy: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

Proceedings: Conference Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.


Tutorial Proposals

There will be tutorial program for two days (15-16 December 2012). At most four three-hour tutorials will be offered. Proposals are invited for tutorials of duration three hours on relevant topics of current interest. A tutorial proposal should include the extended abstract of the tutorial and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Please mail your proposal to the Program Chairs. The speaker(s) of the accepted proposals need to submit their final presentation one month before the conference to the Tutorial Chairs.

Conference Organizers

	• General Co-Chairs : Sukumar Nandi (IIT Guwahati) and R. Sekar (Stony Brook University)
	• Program Co-chairs:  Venkat Venkatakrishnan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) and Diganta Goswami (ITT Guwahati, India)
	• Organizing Co-chairs : Santosh Biswas (IIT Guwahati) and Jatindra Kr. Deka (IIT Guwahati)
	• Publications Chair : Samit Bhattacharya (IIT Guwahati)
	• Submissions/Website Chair : Rigel Gjomemo, (University of Illinois at Chicago)
	• Publicity Co-Chairs : Shamik Sural (IIT Kharagpur, India), Claudio A. Ardagna (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Aryabartta Sahu (IIT Guwahati, India)
	• Tutorial Co-Chairs : Rajan Shankaran (Macquarie University, Australia) and Arijit Sur (IIT Guwahati, India)
	• Finance Chair : Sanasam Ranbir Singh (IIT Guwahati, India) 
	• Student Forum Chair : Partha Sarathi Mandal (IIT Guwahati, India)

Program Committee

	* Bruhadeshwar	Bezawada	International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
	* Sandeep	Bhatkar	Symantec Research Labs, USA
	* Prithvi	Bisht	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	* Lorenzo	Cavallaro	Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
	* Sanjit	Chatterjee	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
	* Frédéric	Cuppens	TELECOM Bretagne, France
	* Ashok Kumar	Das	International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
	* Anupam	Datta	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
	* Meenakshi	Dsouza	International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
	* William	Enck	North Carolina State University, USA
	* Vinod	Ganapathy	Rutgers University, USA
	* Kevin	Hamlen	University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	* Sebastian	Hunt	City University, London, UK
	* Sushil	Jajodia	George Mason University, USA
	* Somesh	Jha	University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
	* Aditya	Kanade	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
	* Ram	Krishnan	University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
	* Zhichun	Li	NEC Laboratories America, USA
	* Zhenkai	Liang	National University of Singapore, Singapore
	* Anish	Mathuria	Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India
	* Phu H.	Phung	Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
	* Indranil	Sengupta	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
	* Kapil	Singh	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
	* Scott	Stoller	Stony Brook University, USA
	* Mike	Ter-Louw	LGS Innovations, Bell Labs , USA
	* Alok	Tongaonkar	The Boeing Company, USA
	* Mahesh	Tripunitara	The University of Waterloo, Canada
	* Vinod	Yegneswaran	SRI International, USA
	* Stefano	Zanero	Politecnico di Milano, Italy