*** IAS 2012 - First Call for Papers *** 8th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS'12) Sao Carlos, Brazil November 21-23, 2012 http://www.mirlabs.net/ias12 or http://www.mirlabs.org/ias12 Publication: IEEE ------------------------- Objective: Information assurance and security has become an important research issue in networked and distributed information sharing environments. Finding effective ways to protect information systems, networks and sensitive data within the critical information infrastructure is challenging even with the most advanced technology and trained professionals. The International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security (IAS) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers involved in multiple disciplines of information security and assurance to exchange ideas and to learn the latest development in this important field. Topics: ** Information Assurance, Security Mechanisms, Methodologies and Models ** Authentication and Identity Management Authorization and Access Control Trust Negotiation, Establishment and Management Anonymity and User Privacy Data Integrity and Privacy Network Security Operating System Security Database Security Intrusion Detection Security Attacks Security Oriented System Design Security and Performance trade-off Security Management and Strategy Security Verification, Evaluations and Measurements Secure Software Technologies New Ideas and Paradigms for Security Cryptography Cryptographic Protocols Key Management and Recovery ** Secure System Architectures and Security Application ** Web Services Security Grid Security Ubiquitous Computing Security Mobile Agent Security Internet Security Intellectual Property Protection E-Commerce Security E-Government Security E-Health Security Home System Security Sensor Network Security Ad hoc network security Biometrics Security and Applications Secure Hardware and Smartcards ** Image Engineering, Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication Security ** Multimedia Security Multimedia Forensic Digital Watermarking and DRM Communication Security Biometrics Information Fusion Image Registration Image Mosaic Image Indexing and Retrieval Image and Video Coding Multiscale Geometric Analysis Motion Detection and Tracing Feature Extraction 3G Communication Embedded System Design Author Guidelines: -------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission link: https://www.easychair.org/ account/signin.cgi?conf=ias12 Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Important Dates: ------------------------ Special session proposals: June 01, 2012 Acceptance of special sessions: June 15, 2012 Paper submission due: August 15, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: September 15, 2012 Final manuscript due: September 30, 2012 Registration and full payment due: September 30, 2012 Call for Workshops and Special Sessions ------------------------------ ------------------------------ IAS 2012 is seeking original high quality Special Sessions and Workshops on focused discussion addressing innovative research highlighting significant topics and emerging issues which are related to the conference theme and with the desired expertise. Interdisciplinary session themes are strongly sought after. Each special session resembles a mini-conference within the main IAS meeting will run throughout the conference in parallel to other tracks (except the keynote presentations). IAS 2012 Organizing team: ------------------------------------ General Chairs Andre Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs Massimiliano Rak, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Zhao Liang, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Workshop and Special Session Chairs Valentina Casola, University of Napoli Federico I, Italy Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain Publicity Chair Yun-Huoy Choo, UTeM, Malaysia International Program Committee (please see web site) Information Contact: ---------------------------- Local Information and Venue: Andre de Carvalho email: [log in to unmask] Technical matters: Ajith Abraham email: [log in to unmask] -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link<http://124.133.254.46/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=0edb6104a223eebaa8a69b4de6a0a217> To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link<http://124.133.254.46/lists/?p=preferences&uid=0edb6104a223eebaa8a69b4de6a0a217> Forward a Message to Someone this link<http://124.133.254.46/lists/?p=forward&uid=0edb6104a223eebaa8a69b4de6a0a217&mid=11>