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27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and
Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec '13)
July 15-17, 2013, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
http://dbsec2013.business.rutgers.edu/
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Scope
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The 27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications
Security and Privacy provides a forum for presenting original unpublished
research results, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in data and
applications security. Both papers and panel proposals are also 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).

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
- Identity theft and countermeasures
- Integrity maintenance
- Intrusion detection
- Knowledge discovery and privacy
- Logics for security and privacy
- Organizational security
- 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.

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Paper Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically
through the conference web site. 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, name 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
conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. The final copy of a paper for the proceedings must use LaTeX,
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.

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Panel Proposals
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Proposals for panels should be e-mailed to the PC chairs
(wang@ciise.concordia.ca and basit@lums.edu.pk). Proposals should
include a one-page description of the subject matter, the name and
address (including e-mail address) of the organizer, and a list of
proposed panelists.


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Important dates
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Paper Submission due: February 15, 2013.
Acceptance notification: April 19, 2013.
Final papers due: May 3, 2013.


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Conference Organization
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General Chairs: Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
(jsvaidya@business.rutgers.edu) and Soon Ae Chun, City University
of New York, USA (Soon.Chun@csi.cuny.edu).

Program Chairs: Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
(wang@ciise.concordia.ca) and Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of
Management Sciences, Pakistan (basit@lums.edu.pk).

Publicity Chair: Claudio Ardagna, Universita di Milano, Italy.
(ardagna@dti.unimi.it).

Local Arrangements Chairs: Reza Curtmola, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, USA (crix@njit.edu) and Heechang Shin, Iona College, USA (hshin@iona.edu).

IFIP WG 11.3 Chair: Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
(atluri@rutgers.edu).


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Program Committee
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- Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
- Claudio Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
- Joachim Biskup, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
- Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA
- David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
- Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA
- Frédéric Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France
- Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France
- Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada
- Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
- Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
- Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University
- Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
- Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK
- Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' 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
- Kouchi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
- Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
- Heechang Shin, Iona College, USA
- Anoop Singhal, NIST, USA
- Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University, USA
- Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
- Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
- Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Xinwen Zhang, Huawei Research Center, USA
- Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Zutao Zhu, Google Inc., USA

This call for papers and additional information about the conference
can be found at http://dbsec2013.business.rutgers.edu/.