Special Track on Applied Cryptology and Network Security (STACNS)
July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

A number of Special Sessions on Applied Cryptology and Network Security will be organized within
the 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM’08), July 14-17, 2008, Monte
Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.  This conference is an annual meeting on quality papers focusing on
the latest developments in security.  The goal of these sessions is to explore the research work
of graduate students, and junior faculty/researchers.  

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-- Applications of Block  and Stream Ciphers
-- Applications of Symmetric and Public Key Cryptology
-- Applications of Hash Functions and Digital Signatures
-- Network Security

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (5-8 pages - single space, font size
of 10 to 12) via email to [log in to unmask] (Kevin Daimi).  MS document and PDF formats are
preferable.

Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. 

The first page of the draft paper should include: 

-- The title of the paper
-- Name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and fax number for each
author. 
-- The name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5
keywords.

Authors of accepted papers should submit their Camera-Ready papers in PDF format.  The maximum
number of pages in the final papers is 7.  Papers must conform to IEEE style guidelines at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html. 
	
Conference Proceedings

Accepted papers will appear in the SAM’08 Conference Proceedings published by CSREA Press (ISBN)
in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available for distribution at the conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:       February 25, 2008
Acceptance notification:   March 25, 2008
Camera-ready Version Due:  April 25, 2008

Conference Web sites

ACNS:   
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/sam08/workshops-sessions
SAM'08:  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/sam08

Conference sponsors

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors:

-->  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
     Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
     http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/

-->  Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
     USA
     http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/

-->  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
     http://www.msi.umn.edu/

-->  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
     Urbana-Champaign, USA
     http://bioinformatics.bioen.uiuc.edu/

-->  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
     of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
     http://www.bio-miblab.org/

-->  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
     of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
     http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/

-->  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
     MIT, USA
     http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/

-->  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
     Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
     http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/

-->  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
     Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

-->  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
     College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
     http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/

-->  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
     University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
     http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/

-->  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
     http://www.und.edu

-->  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
     http://www.isibm.org/

-->  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
     Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

-->  Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems
     Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE
     Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
     http://wmn.csie.ntpu.edu.tw/isatc/

-->  IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (IEEE TCSC)
     http://www.ieeetcsc.org/

-->  IEEE Task force of Ubiquitous Intelligent Computing of IEEE
     Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
     http://www.ieee-cis.org/technical/isatc/

Corporate Co-Sponsors:

-->  Google, Inc.
     http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

-->  NIIT Technologies
     http://www.niit-tech.com/

Other Co-Sponsors:

-->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
     http://www.hpcnano.org

-->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
     http://www.itiworld.org/

-->  GridToday
     http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html

-->  HPCwire
     http://www.hpcwire.com/

-->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
     http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk



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