4th International Conference on Information Systems Security …

        4th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2008)
                            16-20 December 2008 · Hyderabad, India
                                          http://seclab.cs.sunysb.edu/iciss08/

Advisory Committee Chair CALL FOR PAPERS
Sushil Jajodia           The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held an-
George Mason University  nually, provides a forum for disseminating the latest research results in information and systems
Program Co-chairs                 security. ICISS 2008 is the fourth in the series, following earlier conferences held at Kolkata (1st and
Arun K Pujari, LNM IIT            2nd) and Delhi (3rd). The acceptance ratio of the first three conferences has averaged less than 30%,
R. Sekar
                                  and the proceedings have been published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in
Stony Brook University
                                  Computer Science.
Submissions Chairs                ICISS 2008 will be held in Hyderabad, India from December 16 to 20, 2008. Hyderabad is the capital
Alok Tongoankar
Stony Brook University
                                  city of Andhra Pradesh and the fifth largest city of India. In addition to its historical significance,
Subrat Kumar Dash                 Hyderabad is one of the major IT hubs of India, housing more than 150 major IT companies. The
University of Hyderabad           ICISS 2008 encourages submissions from academia, industry and government addressing theoretical
Tutorial Co-chairs                and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. Topics of interest
Vineet P Nair                     include but are not limited to:
University of Hyderabad           ·   Application Security                            ·   Key Management and Cryptographic Protocols
V.N. Venkatakrishnan
                                  ·   Authentication and Access Control               ·   Language-based Security
University of Illinois, Chicago
                                  ·   Biometric Security                              ·   Malware Analysis and Mitigation
Organizing Chair
                                  ·   Data Security                                   ·   Network Security
G. Vijaya Kumari
JNTU, Hyderabad                   ·   Digital Forensics and Diagnostics               ·   Operating System Security
                                  ·   Digital Rights Management                       ·   Privacy and Anonymity
Finance Chair
P. Radha Krishnan
                                  ·   Distributed System Security                     ·   Security in P2P, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
Infosys, Hyderabad                ·   Formal Methods in Security                      ·   Software Security
                                  ·   Intrusion Detection, Prevention & Response      ·   Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation
Program Committee                 ·   Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery                ·   Web Security
Vijay Atluri
Aditya Bagchi                     Paper Submission - Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceed-
Kevin Butler                      ings. Papers should be at most 15 pages in length, including the bibliography. Detailed submission
Chakravarthy Bhagvati             instructions can be found at the conference web site One of the authors of an accepted paper must
Lorenzo Cavallaro                 attend the conference to present the paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format.
Hao Chen                          Camera-Ready manuscripts must be submitted in LaTeX.
Shuo Chen
Marc Dacier                       Dual Submission Policy - Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published
Saumya Debray                     or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Subrat Kumar Dash                 Ongoing Research Reports - There will be two sessions to present reports on the current research
Vinod Ganapathy                   projects. One session will be for academic institutions and the other for industrial establishments.
Jonathon Giffin
S. K. Gupta
                                  The research reports should be submitted in the same way as the technical papers. A report should
Sushil Jajodia                    be maximum of 4 pages.
Somesh Jha                        Tutorial Proposals - There will be tutorial program for two days (16-17 December 2008). At most
Shrikant Ojha                     four three-hour tutorials will be offered. Proposals are invited for tutorials of duration three hours
Engin Kirda                       on relevant topics of current interest. A tutorial proposal should include the extended abstract of
P. Radha Krishna
G. Vijaya Kumari
                                  the tutorial and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Please mail your proposal to the Tutorial Chair.
Zhenkai Liang                     The speaker(s) of the accepted proposals need to submit their final presentation one month before
Arun K. Majumdar                  the conference to the Tutorial Chair.
Anish Mathuria                    Proceedings - Conference Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.
Chandan Mazumdar
Nasir Memon
Peng Ning
Atul Prakash                                                            INVITED TALKS
R. Ramanujam
Sanjay Rawat                                                   Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin
Pierangela Samarati                                            Basant Rajan, CTO, Symantec India
Amitabh Saxena                                            Amit Sahai, University of California at Los Angeles
Radu Sion
Anil Somayaji
                                                           Dawn Song, University of California at Berkeley
Robin Sommer
Gaurav Tandon                                                        IMPORTANT DATES
Vijay Varadharajan
V.N. Venkatakrishnan                                       Manuscript Submission             19 July 2008
Poorvi Vora                                                                                  (No extensions!)
Xiaofeng Wang                                              Tutorial Proposal Submission      26 July 2008
Wei Xu                                                     Notification of Acceptance        08 September 2008
                                                           Camera-Ready Manuscript           22 September 2008