CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Conference Tracks
SAM'12
The 2012
International Conference on
Security and Management
Date and Location:
July 16-19, 2012, USA
http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam12
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city
You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
...).
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
O Network Security:
Security algorithms, mobile network
security, security in CDN
(Contents Distribution Networks), Virtual Private
Network (VPN),
tracing techniques in internet, active networks, security in
Grid,
web monitoring, network security engineering,
transport-level
security, wireless network security, IP security, electronic
mail
security.
O Cryptographic Technologies:
Security protocols, key
management techniques, cryptographic
technologies, applications of block and
stream ciphers, applications
of public key cryptology, message authentication
and hash functions,
anonymity, digital signature schemes, secret sharing,
cryptanalysis.
O Security Management:
Surveillance technologies, security
policies, security for protocol
management, location management, QoS
management, resource management,
channel management, mobility management,
digital contents copyright
protection, system security management, network
security management,
management in network equipment, Storage Area Networks
(SAN)
management, information security management, government
security
policy, web penetration testing, security
operations,
vulnerabilities management.
O Security
Applications:
Security in e-Commerce and M-Commerce, secure OS,
watermarking,
high-tech systems at airports, emerging technologies
and
applications, Cloud computing security, database security, data
mining
security, cyber security automation.
O Biometrics and Forensics:
Novel
biometric methods, forensics, biological security technologies,
face
recognition systems, signature recognition systems, cyber
forensics, forensic
analysis, biometric technologies for security,
feature extraction and
matching algorithms.
O Hardware Security:
Embedded systems security,
cryptographic processors and co-processors,
security architectures, true and
pseudorandom number generators,
side channel attacks, fault attacks, hardware
tamper resistance,
smart card processors, secure storage devices.
O
Information Assurance:
Mission assurance, risk assessment and risk
management, continuity
of operations and business impact analysis, cyber
security compliance,
security auditing, security-savvy software development,
disaster
recovery, business continuity analysis, access control, secure
use
of software, secure performance.
O Computer Security:
Firewall
systems, hacking techniques and related issues, intrusion
detection system
(IDS), honeypot, virus issues (detection,
prevention ...), trusted computing,
alert correlation, attack graphs,
incident responding, malware analysis,
incident responding, malware
analysis, intrusion detection.
O Security
Education:
Computer security education, network security education,
cyber
security education, cyber security body of knowledge,
information
assurance education.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 12,
2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification
of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent
+ Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on
Security
and Management (SAM'12)
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
SAM (2011) included
research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of
California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern
California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota;
Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and
Translational Research, Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University
of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico
II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of
Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North
Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a
partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation;
Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing
for Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.
SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sam12
Submissions
must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
tables, and references - single
space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.)
Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for
each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, SAM) that the paper
is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of
the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the
final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE
style) pages.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in
the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In
cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged
to make the final decision (accept/reject); often,
this would involve seeking
help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors include
a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels). Proceedings of SAM
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the
conference.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after
the
conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal
special
issues to be published after the conference.
PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:
SAM 2012 is composed of a number of tracks.
A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at
least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18
papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks,
including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track
chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as
such).
Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums)
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, SAM) the track is
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your
track proposal to Dr. Gevorg Margarov ( [log in to unmask] ) or Dr. Sergey
Morozov
( [log in to unmask] ). We
would like to receive the track proposals
as soon as possible but by no later
than January 31, 2012.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING
COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist,
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor,
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing /
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory
Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National
Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of
California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry
of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi
Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof.
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science,
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof.
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA
Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
USA).
2012 Publicity Chair: A. M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society;
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick
Technologies America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo
Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems and
New Math Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)
The 2012 Program
Committee for SAM is currently being compiled. Many
who have already joined
the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs.,
members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies,
as well as deans and provosts.
Program Committee members are expected to
have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program
Committee should email Prof. Kevin Daimi ( [log in to unmask] )
the
following information for consideration/evaluation: Name,
affiliation
and position, complete mailing address, email address, a
one-page
biography that includes research expertise and the name of
the
conference(s) offering to help with. The list of Program Committee
of
SAM 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/sam11/committee
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
The SAM 2012 conference is being held jointly (same location
and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP
is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or
more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed
of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father
of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer,
VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789
An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."
One main goal of the congress is to assemble a
spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:
As
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month).
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )
USEFUL
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for SAM, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/csreaSAM/index.html
The
main web site of SAM'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon appear
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of
Contents of last offering of SAM (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/sam/contents-vol-i.pdf
CONTACT:
General
inquiries should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
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