Call for Papers

The 25th Annual WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2011) provides a forum for presenting original unpublished research re-sults, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in data and applications security and privacy. Both research papers and panel proposals are solicited. Proceedings will be published by Springer as the next volume in the Research Advances in Database and Information Systems Security series (http://www.springeronline.com/lncs).

[Topics:]

Papers may present theory, techniques, applications, or practical experience on topics of relevance to IFIP WG 11.3:

Access control
Applied cryptography in data security and privacy
Identity theft and countermeasures
Integrity maintenance
Intrusion detection
Knowledge discovery and privacy
Organizational security
Privacy and privacy-preserving data management
Secure transaction processing
Secure information integration
Secure semantic web
Secure sensor monitoring
Secure web services
Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management
Trust management

Additional topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Terrorism, Information Warfare, Database Forensics, Electronic Commerce Security, and Security in Digital Health Care.

[Paper Submissions:]

Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically to the conference submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec11. Submission must be in the form of a PDF file. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 11-point font (minimum), and must not be more than 16 pages long. Manuscripts must have a cover page with title, names and addresses (including e-mail address) of authors, an abstract, and a set of keywords. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the confer-ence and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The final copy of a paper for the proceedings must use La-TeX, and must be laid out according to the Camera Ready Copy format required by Springer.
A submitted paper must not be under review for inclusion in any other conference or journal, and must be substantially different from previously published work. Duplicate submissions will be automatically rejected and without review.

[Panel Proposals:]

Proposals for panels should be e-mailed to the PC chair (yjli@smu.edu.sg). Proposals should include a one-page description of the sub-ject matter, the name and address (including e-mail address) of the organizer, and a list of proposed panelists.

[Important Dates:]

Paper submission due: February 28, 2011
Notification to authors: April 18, 2011
Camera ready due: May 2, 2011

[Organization Committee:]

General chairs:
Peng Liu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Meng Yu
(Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

PC chair:
Yingjiu Li (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Publicity chair:
Adam J. Lee (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Local arrangement chair:
Wanyu Zang (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Web chair:
Qijun Gu (Texas State University, USA)

IFIP WG 11.3 chair:
Vijay Atluri (Rutgers University, USA)

[Program Committee:]

Claudio A. Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Vijay Atluri (Rutgers University, USA)
Kun Bai (IBM Research T.J. Watson, USA)
Steve Barker (King’s College London, UK)
Joachim Biskup (Technische Universität Dortmund Germany)
Marina Blanton (University of Notre Dame, USA)
David Chadwick (University of Kent, UK)
Frédéric Cuppens (TELECOM Bretagne, France)
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Simon Foley (University College Cork, Ireland)
Sara Foresti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Qijun Gu (Texas State University, USA)
Ehud Gudes (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Ragib Hasan (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Sokratis Katsikas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Adam J. Lee (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Tieyan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Peng Liu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain)
Emil Lupu (Imperial College London, UK)
Martin Olivier (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Stefano Paraboschi (Università di Bergamo, Italy)
Wolter Pieters (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Indrajit Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
Kui Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK)
Kouchi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan)
Pierangela Samarati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Anoop Singhal (NIST, USA)
Traian Marius Truta (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University, USA)
Hui Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada)
Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Meng Yu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Xinwen Zhang (Samsung Information Systems, USA)
Zutao Zhu (Google Inc., USA)