Call for Papers [pdf] [txt]

As applications of information security technologies become pervasive, issues pertaining to their deployment and operation are becoming increasingly important. ISPEC is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a confluence of new information security technologies, their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors.

Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to information security technologies and applications. All submissions must describe original research that is not published or currently under review by another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of cryptography
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Digital rights management
• Economic incentives for deployment of information security systems
• Information security in vertical applications
• Legal and regulatory issues
• Privacy and anonymity
• Risk evaluation and security certification
• Resilience and availability
• Secure system architectures
• Security policy
• Security standards activities
• Trust model and management
• Usability aspects of information security systems

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be written in English and be fully anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements or obvious references. They should be at most 12 pages (excluding bibliography and appendices), using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Papers must be formatted according to the LNCS rules. Papers should be sufficiently intelligible and self-contained without appendices so that PC members can review papers without them. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference and present their paper. We plan to publish the conference proceedings in a volume of Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Please refer to related instructions to be available at ISPEC 2007 website for the submission details.