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Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish 
original scientific results to SECURWARE 2012.
The submission deadline is set to April 5, 2012.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: 
http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== SECURWARE 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SECURWARE 2012: The Sixth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies

August 19-24, 2012 -Rome, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SECURWARE12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPSECURWARE12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas


Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitSECURWARE12.html


Submission deadline: April 5, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, 
implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete 
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, 
topic areas.


All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, 
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


SECURWARE 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


ARCH: Security frameworks, architectures and protocols

   Formal aspects of security; Security analysis methodologies; Security verification; Security protocols; Security 
architectures and formalisms; Security and design vulnerability; Security and privacy protection; Performance and 
security; Secure group communication/multicast; Software design security; Middleware security; Security for nomadic code; 
Intrusion detection systems; Static analysis for software security; Security modeling

METRICS: Security, trust and privacy measurement

   Security, trust and privacy metrics; Security assurance metrics; Security measurement architectures; Metrics for 
adaptive security systems; Taxonomical and ontological support of security metrics; Experiments and benchmarks for 
security measurements; Embedding security measurability in software and service architectures; Risk-driven assessment of 
security; Assessment of effectiveness, efficiency and correctness of security; Mapping security metrics and security 
assurance metrics; Mapping security measurements and non-functional requirements

SECMAN: Security management

   Identity management; Security law enforcement; PKI; PKI Key management; Incident response planning; Intrusion detection 
and event correlation; Firewalls; Trust management; Software security assurance

SECTECH: Security technologies

   Secure protocols; Applied cryptography; Smart cards; Biometrics; Digital rights management; Electronic surveillance; 
Database security

SYSSEC: System security

   Internet security; Security in wireless; Sensor/cellular network security; Ad hoc network security; Security in 
peer-to-peer networks; Security in wireless multimedia systems; Security in different networks (mesh, personal, local, 
metropolitan, GSM, Bluetooth, WiMax, IEEE 802.x, etc.); Security of emergency services

INFOSEC: Information security

   Information hiding; Anonymity; Authentication; Data Integrity; Security data mining; Data confidentiality and 
integrity; Information flow protection; Trustworthy networks: authentication, privacy and security models; Secure service 
discovery; Secure location-based service; Information survivability

RISK: Risk and security

   Operational risk (opRisk); OpRisk and field studies; Reputation risk; Risk and security-awareness; Business continuity 
and disaster recovery; Privacy-awareness; Security and trust

MALWA: Malware and Anti-malware

   Threat taxonomies and modeling; Security threats; Threats propagation; Anti-malware technologies; Engineering 
anti-malware; Anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing; Malware propagation models; Profiling security information; 
Vulnerability analysis and countermeasures; Denial of service attacks; Measurements and metrics; Testing samples and 
techniques; Quarantine/reuse decisions; Anti-malware tool performance; Anti-malware tool suites; Open-source anti-malware; 
Host-based anti-malware; On-line anti-malware scanning

MISUSE: Electronic abuse protection

   Messaging, viruses, spyware; Advanced misuse detection techniques /machine learning, natural language processing, 
challenge-response, etc./; Message filtering, blocking, authentication; Digital signatures; Generalized spamming /over 
email, Internet telephony, instant messaging, mobile phone,  phishing, etc. /; Spam compression and recognition; Learning 
misuse patterns; Payment schemes; Economics of generalized spam; Tracking abuse tactics and patterns; Protecting 
legitimate use patterns; Methods for testing protection robustness; Costs and benefits of messaging use and misuse; 
Standards for messaging and misuse reporting; Legal aspects /identity theft, privacy, freedom of speech, etc./

ANTIFO: Anti-forensics

   Advanced anti-forensics mechanisms; Smart anti-forensics; e-discovery industry and anti-forensics; Overwriting data and 
metadata; Data hiding approaches; Detecting forensics analysis; Anti-forensics tools; Unix-, Windows-, and Linux 
anti-forensics techniques; Open source anti-forensics tools; Network anti-forensics tools

PRODAM: Profiling data mining

   User and traffic profiling; Data mining and visualization; Profile mining and knowledge discovery; Mining lifecycle for 
profile collections; Profile warehouse construction; Profile portfolio and profile discovery; Profiling game users and 
game traffic; Profiling transactions; Simpson'd paradox; Real-time profiling mechanisms; Patterns for information 
profiling; Profiling engines; Profiling metrics; Forensics; Profiling applications (banks, on-line shopping, etc.); Data 
mining-based user profile prediction

SECHOME: Smart home security

   Fundamentals for SHS; Privacy and protection for SHS; Identify and location management in SHS; Authentication and 
authorization in SHS; Access control and security policies in SHS; Trust and reputation management; Security context-based 
interfaces for SHS; SHS for accessibility and elderly/disabled people; Real-time challenges for SHS in eHealth 
environments; Architectures and systems for SHS; Network technologies and protocols for SHS; Ubiquitous/pervasive platform 
and middleware for SHS; Services and applications for SHS; SHS on campuses and hotels; SHS for mission critical 
laboratories; Content protection and digital rights management for SHS; Intelligent devices, sensor network/RFID for SHS; 
Intrusion detection and computer forensics for SHS; SHS and Homeland security; Personal data privacy and protection in 
SHS; Emerging standards and technologies for SHS; Commercial and industrial for SHS; Case studies, prototypes and 
experience

SECDYN: Security and privacy in dynamic environments

   Fundamentals on highly dynamic environments; Privacy and predefined access control dilemma; Privacy police, provisions 
and obligations; Dependability in dynamic environments; Protection of digital documents in dynamic environments; On-line 
activities in high dynamic systems; Law enforcement in high dynamic systems; Personalization; Privacy and transparency; 
Distributed usage control; Privacy compliance; Secure ambient intelligence; Secure embedded microprocessor architectures; 
Secure compilation techniques

ECOSEC: Ecosystem security and trust

   Secure and trusted service compositions in peer-to-peer networks; Secure data management in collaborative peer-to-peer 
networks; Security and reputation models for self-adaptive overlay networks; Identity and trust management in dynamic, 
self-organizing environments; Social institutional-based trust models for self-evolving communities

CRYPTO: Cryptography

   Foundations of cryptography; Applied cryptography; Cryptanalysis; Signatures schemes and trust models; Cryptographic 
algorithms; Electronic payment systems; High-performance encryption methods; Group-oriented cryptography; Identity-based 
cryptography; Anonymous authentication; Cryptography for multi-user environments; Cryptography and secure localization 
systems; Attacks on cryptosystems

CYBER-Threat

   e-Crime; Epidemiological models for warware and cyber-crime propagation; Record and retrieval of cyber-crimes; 
Cyber-crime prevention; Cyber-crime vulnerabilities; Cyber-counterattack at source; Distributed cyber-attacks; 
Orchestrated cyber-attacks; Recursion attacks; Cyber-storm attacks; Cyber-pranks, hoaxes; Phishing/Pharming and 
anti-phishing; Cyber-terrorism; Online cyber-crime reporting; Accuracy and security of cyber-reports; Fighting 
cyber-crimes; Cyber-crime laws

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