BalkanCryptSec 2014
16 – 17 October 2014

Call for Papers

Important Dates -

Submission of Papers: August 01, 2014, 18:00 UTC
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2014
Camera-ready Version of Papers for Pre-proceedings: October 1st, 2014
BalkanCryptSec 2014 October 16-17, 2014

General Information

The first edition of the annual International Conference on Cryptography and Information security -BalkanCryptSec 2014- will take place in Istanbul from 16 October to 17 October 2014 and will be organized by the Embedded System Design Laboratory at Istanbul Technical University. We are seeking contributions to theoretical and applied aspects of security and cryptography.

Invited Talks

Katerina Mitrokotsa
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Aggelos Kiayias
University of Connecticut, USA

Benedikst Gierlichs
K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Instructions for Authors

The submissions must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations or obvious references. The length of the submission must be at most 12 pages, excluding references and appendices, in a single column format, in 11pt fonts and with reasonable margins.

Authors are encouraged to prepare the submission using LaTeX according to the instructions listed on here. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers. Submitted papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically. The web link to the submission server will be published on the conference website.

The submission should begin with a title and a short abstract. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at the level understandable for a non-expert reader. The reviewers are not required to read appendices, the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings, or has submitted/is planning to submit before the author notification deadline to a journal or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The proceedings will be published after the conference, allowing to use the community feedback received during the conference for the final versions of the papers.

Conference Proceedings

We are in negotations with Springer-Verlag for publishing the proceedings of the conference in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Pre-proceedings will be available at the conference and post-proceedings will be published in LNCS series after the conference.

Steering Commitee
Sedat Akleylek Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey
Tsonka Baicheva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Lejla Batina Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Vesna Dimitrova Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia
Zoran Djuric University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bogdan Groza Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sokratis Katsikas University of Piraeus, Greece
Miodrag Mihaljevic Serbian Academy of Sciences, Serbia
Svetla Nikova KU Leuven, Belgium
Berna Ors Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis University of the Aegean, Greece
Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
Tolga Yalcin UIST "St Paul the Apostle", Macedonia

Program Commitee
Sedat Akleylek Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey
Elena Andreeva KU Leuven, Belgium
Elli Androulaki IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Tsonka Baicheva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia
Lejla Batina Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Ioana Boureanu Akamai Technologies Limited, United Kingdom
Claude Carlet University of Paris 8 and LAGA, France
Jean-Sebastien Coron Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Reza Curtmola New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Ricardo Dahab University of Campinas, Brazil
Paolo D'Arco University di Salerno, Italy
Vesna Dimitrova Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Zoran Djuric University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Christophe Doche Macquarie University, Australia
Stefan Dziembowski University of Warsaw, Poland
Gerhard Frey University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dieter Gollmann Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Bogdan Groza Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Tim Güneysu Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Sokratis Katsikas University of Piraeus, Greece
Aggelos Kiayias University of Connecticut, USA
Lars R. Knudsen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
David Lubicz Université Rennes, France
Stephen Mclaughlin Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nasir Memon Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Miodrag Mihaljevic Serbian Academy of Sciences, Serbia
Svetla Nikova KU Leuven, Belgium
Claudio Orlandi Aarhus University, Denmark
Berna Ors Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Elisabeth Oswald University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Charalampos Papamanthou University of Maryland, USA
Bart Preneel KU Leuven, Belgium
Christian Rechberger Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Kui Ren State University of New York, USA
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis University of the Aegean, Greece
Erkay Savas Sabanci University, Turkey
Zulfukar Saygı TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Michael Scott Dublin City University, Ireland
Ali Aydın Selçuk TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Dimitris. E. Simos SBA Research, Austria
Johannes Skaar Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Ercan Solak Işık University, Turkey
Berk Sunar Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
François-Xavier Standaert UC Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
Nikos Triandopoulos Boston University
Serge Vaudenay Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Vesselin Velichkov University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Frederik Vercauteren KU Leuven, Belgium
Lawrence C. Washington University of Maryland, USA
Tolga Yalcin UIST "St Paul the Apostle", Macedonia