CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2011) December 15-19, 2011, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India http://www.iciss.org.in ****************************************************************** The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating latest research results in information and systems security. ICISS 2011, the seventh conference in this series, will be held under the aegis of the newly formed Society for Research in Information Security and Privacy (SRISP). The acceptance ratio of the first six conferences has averaged less than 30%, and the proceedings have been published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Submissions are encouraged from academia, industry and government addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Application Security * Authentication and Access Control * Biometric Security * Data Security * Digital Forensics and Diagnostics * Digital Rights Management * Distributed System Security * Formal Methods in Security * Intrusion Detection, Prevention & Response * Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery * Key Management and Cryptographic Protocols * Language-based Security * Malware Analysis and Mitigation * Network Security * Operating System Security * Privacy and Anonymity * Security in P2P, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks * Software Security * Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation * Web Security IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission: July 15, 2011 Tutorial Proposal Submission: July 22, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: September 09, 2011 Camera-Ready Manuscript: September 23, 2011 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages in length, including the bibliography. Detailed submission instructions can be found at the conference web site. One of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format. Camera-Ready manuscripts must be submitted in LaTeX. DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS There will be tutorial program for two days (December 15-16, 2011). At most four three-hour tutorials will be offered. Proposals are invited for tutorials of duration three hours on relevant topics of current interest. A tutorial proposal should include the extended abstract of the tutorial and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Please mail your proposal to the Tutorial Chair. The speaker(s) of the accepted proposals need to submit their final presentation one month before the conference. PROCEEDINGS Conference Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. GENERAL CHAIRS * Aditya Bagchi, ISI, Calcutta, India (aditya@isical.ac.in) * A. K. Majumdar, IIT, Kharagpur, India (akmj@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in) PROGRAM CHAIRS * Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U., USA (jajodia@gmu.edu) * Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur U., India (chandan.mazumdar@gmail.com) ORGANIZING CHAIR * Mridul S. Barik, Jadavpur Univ., India (mridulsankar@gmail.com) TUTORIAL CHAIR * Sarmistha Neogy, Jadavpur Univ., India (sarmisthaneogy@computer.org) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS * Claudio A. Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * TBC FINANCE CHAIR * Anirban Sengupta, Jadavpur Univ., India (anirban.sg@gmail.com) INDUSTRY CHAIR * Kushal Banerjee, TCS, Kolkata, India (kushalk.banerjee@tcs.com) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA * Steve Barker, King's College London, UK * Frédéric Cuppens, ENST, France * Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Fabio Massacci, U.of Trento, Italy * G. Karjoth, IBM Res. Lab, Switzerland * Indrajit Ray, CSU, USA * Indrakshi Ray, CSU, USA * Javier Lopez, Univ. of Malaga, Spain * Jonathan Giffin, Georgia Tech Univ, USA * Michiharu Kudo, IBM TRL, Japan * M. Christodorescu, IBM T.J.W.R.C., USA * Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University, USA * Patrick McDaniel, Penn State U. USA * Atul Prakash, Univ. of Michigan, USA * Shankardas Roy, Howard University, USA * Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * R. Sekar, SUNY, Stony Brook, USA * Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine, USA * Shiuh-Pyng Shieh, NCTU, Taiwan * Somesh Jha, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA * V.N. Venkatakrishnan, Univ. of Illinois, USA * Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie U., Australia * Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore * Anish Mathuria, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India * B. Bruhadeshwar, IIIT Hyderabad, India * Indranil Sengupta, IIT, Kharagpur, India * R. Ramanujam, IMS, Chennai, India * S K Gupta, IIT, Delhi, India * Shamik Sural, IIT, Kharagpur, India * Shishir Nagaraja, IIIT Delhi, India * Subrat Kumar Dash, LNMIIT, India * Sukumar Nandi, IIT, Guwahati, India * Samiran Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University * Goutam Kumar Paul, Jadavpur University * Subhomoy Maitra, ISI Calcutta, India For any questions, please contact iciss2011india@gmail.com