The 13th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2012) will be held in Jeju Island, Korea on August 16-18, 2012. It is hosted by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), supported by the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), and sponsored by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MoPAS) and the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The focus of this workshop is on all technical and practical aspects of cryptographic and non-cryptographic security applications. The workshop will serve as a forum for new results from the academic research community as well as from the industry.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Internet & Wireless Security
- E-Commerce Protocols
- Access Control & Database Security
- Biometrics & Human Interface
- Network Security & Intrusion Detection
- Security & Trust Management
- IPTV Security
- Content Protection & Service Security
- Digital Rights Management
- Secure Software & Systems
- Information Hiding
- Digital Forensics
- Secure Hardware
- Cyber Indication & Intrusion Detection
- Multicast & Group Security
- Secure Application Protocols
- Secure Coding
- Smart Cards & Applications
- Mobile Security
- Privacy & Anonymity
- Public Key Crypto Applications
- Threats & Information Warfare
- Virus Protection & Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing Security
- Combating SPAM
- ID Management
- Peer-to-Peer Security
- Information Assurance
- RFID Security & Applications
- Sensor Network Security & Applications
- Common Criteria
- Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
- Video Surveillance Systems
- Healthcare Security

Workshop Tracks

There will be two separate tracks in WISA 2012
- Full paper track: Papers presented in the full paper track will be included in the formal proceedings published by
Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. A limited number of papers will be selected for
presentation in this track through a thorough review by program committee members.
- Short abstract track: Papers presented in this track will appear in the workshop pre-proceedings. Papers valuable but
not included in the Full paper track due to the space/time limitation will be selected for presentation in this track.

SCIE Journal Publication

All accepted and presented full papers will be published in one of the journals listed below
- KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
- Special Issue of Information-an International Interdisciplinary Journal

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 journals or any other conferences that have proceedings. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. The paper should be prepared according to the "Authors Instruction for LNCS"(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and limited to at most 15 pages in total.