-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call For Papers: 2012 Int'l Conf. on Security & Management (SAM'12, USA), Submission Deadline: March 12, 2012 Datum: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:17:56 -0500 Von: Security Community wcom12@world-comp.org An: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

CALL FOR PAPERS

SAM'12 The 2012 International Conference on Security and Management

Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam12

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'12)

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. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, ...).

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.

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of SAM (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site (EasyChair) at: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sam12

Submissions must be uploaded by March 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). 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, SAM proceedings were 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 (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - 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.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow& Professor, University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member, Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information& Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute& State University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). 2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society; Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for SAM is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Kevin Daimi ( daimikj@udmercy.edu ) the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to help with. The list of Program Committee of SAM 2011 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/sam11/com...

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The SAM 2012 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. WORLDCOMP 2012 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 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. 32229

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )

USEFUL WEB LINKS: 1. Web site of SAM'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ The proceedings' Table of Contents of last offering of SAM (2011) appears at: http://world-comp.org/proc2011/sam/contents-vol-i.pdf 2. Detailed information about citations to worldcomp proceedings: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news 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: General inquiries should be sent to: editor@world-comp.org

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