Original papers pertaining to all aspects of information security and privacy are solicited for submission to the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2012). Papers may present theory, techniques, applications and practical experiences on a variety of topics. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

We seek submissions from academic and industrial researchers on all theoretical and practical aspects of information security. Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to, the following.

Cryptography
Network Security
Copyright Protection
Mobile Communications Security
Secure Commercial Applications
Security Architectures and Models
Database Security
Privacy Technologies
Authentication and Authorization
Smartcards
Software Protection and Malware
Distributed System Security
Computer Forensic
Key Management and Auditing
Secure Operating System
Secure Electronic Commerce
Biometrics
Secure Cloud Computing

Instructions for Authors

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings.

The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

Original contributions are invited up to 12 pages in length (single column) excluding appendices and bibliography and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins.

Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. The contribution of the paper should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms. Submission of a paper includes a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work.

Papers must be submitted electronically and be received by the submission deadline. Late submissions and non-electronic submissions will not be considered.

Submission Server
Papers should be submitted using the conference submission server at https://ssl.informatics.uow.edu.au/acisp2012/ichair/

Important Dates

Paper Submission 23 February 2012
Notification of Acceptance 13 April 2012
Conference 9-11 July 2012