We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

Note that the deadline of submission has been EXTENDED to June 20th,
2007.

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Call for Papers
International Journal on Intelligent Control and Systems
Special Session on Information Assurance

Guest Editors: Wanyu Zang, Qijun Gu and John R. James

Information assurance is one of the most pressing challenges to various
systems of business today, ranging from traditional distributed systems
and networks to newly proliferated applications like P2P systems, sensor
networks and ubiquitous computing systems. Attackers can access, tamper
and delete valuable information by exploiting vulnerabilities of
operating systems, protocols, database systems, or web servers. Research
on defensive techniques, which manage to be effective in keeping
information safe and preventing or tolerating intrusions, becomes an
active area.

To achieve a high quality of information assurance, traditional security
aspects such as data confidentiality, integrity, access control, and
availability should be fully attained. Techniques in other research
areas such as data mining, bioinformatics, and high performance
computing should also be considered.

The goal of this special session is to provide researchers with an
opportunity to propose emerging technology in information assurance. We
expect to identify the breadth of current work, commonalities, gaps,
potential collaborations and future research directions. Relevant topics
include but not limit to:
*       Crypto, key management, and digital signature applications
*       Security Policies
*       Distributed denial of service attacks
*       Distributed intrusion detection and protection systems
*       Distributed access control and firewalls
*       Security in P2P networks and Grid computing
*       Security in mobile and pervasive computing
*       Security in distributed and parallel systems
*       Ad hoc and sensor network security
*       Data privacy and trustiness
*       Information hiding and multimedia watermarking in distributed
systems
*       Software safety and program correctness
*       Internet security and electronic commerce technologies
*       Information assurance of process control systems
*       Information assurance of control and intelligent systems
*       Security in control and data acquisition systems
*       Security in distributed control systems
*       Fault tolerance


IMPORTANT DATES
June 20th, 2007            New deadline of paper submission
September 1st, 2007        Notification of acceptance
October 15th, 2007         Delivery of final version

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Paper must be electronically submitted to the guest editor Wanyu Zang at
[log in to unmask], Qijun Gu at [log in to unmask], or John R. James at
[log in to unmask]  Please see the IJICS web site,
http://www.ijics.org <http://www.ijics.org/> , for formatting
guidelines. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual
IJICS refereeing process.

Guest Editors' Address

Dr. Wanyu Zang
Department of Computer Science
Monmouth University
West Long Brach, NJ 07764, USA
Tel: (732)571-4449
Email: [log in to unmask]

Dr. Qijun Gu
Department of Computer Science
Texas State University, San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
Tel: (512) 245-3518
Email: [log in to unmask]

Dr. John R. James
Associate Professor and Adam Chair in Information Technology 
EE&CS,  601 Thayer Road, Room TH1107 
USMA, West Point, NY 10996-1695
Phone: (845) 938-5563
Email: [log in to unmask]  




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