CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2012) Pisa, Italy -- September 10-12, 2012 http://www.iit.cnr.it/esorics2012/ ****************************************************************************** ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - accountability - ad hoc networks - anonymity - applied cryptography - authentication - biometrics - database security - data protection - digital content protection - digital forensic - distributed systems security - electronic payments - embedded systems security - inference control - information hiding - identity management - information flow control - integrity - intrusion detection - formal security methods - language-based security - network security - phishing and spam prevention - privacy - risk analysis and management - secure electronic voting - security architectures - security economics - security metrics - security models - security and privacy in cloud scenarios - security and privacy in complex systems - security and privacy in location services - security and privacy for mobile code - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security and privacy in social networks - security and privacy in web services - security verification - software security - steganography - systems security - trust models and management - trustworthy user devices - web security - wireless security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All submissions should follow the LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2012. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 31, 2012. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 31, 2012 Notification to authors: June 10, 2012 Camera ready due: June 20, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Fabio Martinelli National Research Council - CNR, Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Sara Foresti Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Moti Yung Google Inc., USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Giovanni Livraga Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Mikhail Atallah, Purdue University, USA Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany David A. Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kevin Bauer, University of Waterloo, Canada Joachim Biskup, University of Dortmund, Germany Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Liqun Chen, HP Labs, UK Seung-Geol Choi, University of Maryland, USA Veronique Cortier, LORIA, France Jason Crampton, University of London, UK Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Italy Claudia Diaz, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Simon Foley, University College Cork, Ireland Keith B. Frikken, Miami University, USA Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Ryan Henry, University of Waterloo, Canada Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany KwangJo Kim, KAIST, Korea Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research, UK Michiharu Kudo, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Adam J. Lee, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, USA Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dongdai Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA John C. Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Atsuko Miyaji, JAIST, Japan David Naccache, ENS, France Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy R. Sekar, Stony Brook University, USA Elaine Shi, PARC/UC Berkley, USA Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Carmela Troncoso, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Michael Waidner, TU Darmstadt, Germany Shouhai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://www.iit.cnr.it/esorics2012/