The 2013 International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be the 15th event in the ICICS conference series, started in 1997, that brings together individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information and Communications Security in order to foster exchange of ideas.

Among the preceding conferences, ICICS97 took place in Beijing, China, ICICS99 in Sydney, Australia, ICICS2001 in Xi’an, China, ICICS2002 in Singapore, ICICS2003 in Huhehaote city, China, ICICS2004 in Malaga, Spain, ICICS2005 in Beijing, China, ICICS2006 in Raleigh, NC, USA, ICICS2007 in Zhengzhou, China, ICICS2008 in Birmingham, UK, ICICS2009 in Beijing, China, ICICS2010 in Barcelona, Spain, ICICS2011 in Beijing, China, and ICICS2012 in Hong Kong. The proceedings were releases as Volumes 1334, 1726, 2229, 2513, 2836, 3269, 3783, 4307, 4861, 5308, 5927, 6476, 7043, and 7618 of the LNCS series of Springer, respectively.

ICICS 2013 will be co-organized by Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University and Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

The Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper should register the conference and give presentation at the conference.

Original papers on all aspects of Information and Communications Security are solicited for submission to ICICS 2013.