CALL FOR PAPERS
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The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information
Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating
latest research results in information and systems security. ICISS
2016, the twelfth in the series, will be held in Jaipur, India from
December 16 to 20, 2016. The acceptance ratio of the first ten
conferences has averaged less than 30%. Like previous years,
proceedings of the conference will be published as part of the
Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Submissions are encouraged from academia, industry and government,
addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and
systems security and related areas. Topics of interest include but are
not limited to:

• Access and Usage Control
• Authentication and Audit
• Cloud Security
• Cyber-physical Systems Security
• Digital Forensics
• Distributed Systems Security
• Identity Management
• Intrusion Tolerance and Recovery
• Language-based Security
• Network Security
• Privacy and Anonymity
• Security and Usability
• Sensor and Ad Hoc Network Security
• Software Security
• Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation
• Application Security
• Biometric Security
• Cryptographic Protocols
• Data Security and Privacy
• Digital Rights Management
• Formal Models in Security
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Key Management
• Malware Analysis and Mitigation
• Operating Systems Security
• Secure Data Streams
• Security Testing
• Smartphone Security
• Usable Security
• Web Security

PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS
proceedings. Papers should be at most 20 pages in length, including
the bibliography and appendix (if any). PDF version of the paper
should be submitted via the EasyChair submission site -
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss2016 - by the deadline 29
July 2016.

Detailed submission instructions can be found at the
conference web site - http://www.iciss.org.in. One of the authors of
an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the
paper. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF
format. Camera-Ready manuscripts must be submitted in source format in LaTeX.

DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY:
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Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published
or currently submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Manuscript Submission: 29 July, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2016
Camera-Ready Manuscript: 26 September 2016

General Chairs (for all conference related questions except paper submission)

Manoj S. Gaur, MNIT Jaipur (gaurms@gmail.com)
Dheeraj Sanghi, IIIT Delhi (dheeraj@iiitd.ac.in)

Program Co-Chairs (for paper submission related questions)

Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA (Indrajit.Ray@Colostate.edu)
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy (conti@math.unipd.it)
V. Kamakoti, IIT, Madras (kama@cse.iitm.ac.in)

Publicity Committee:
Chhagan Lal, University of Padua, Italy
Priyadarsi Nanda, UTS, Australia
Smita Naval, IIIT Kota