The 2019 International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be the 21st 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. It will be organized by Peking University and Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The conference started in 1997 and aims at bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and exchange their experiences, lessons learned, and insights related to computer and communications security. More info about the previous conferences can be found at https://dblp1.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icics/index.html.

Original papers offering novel research contributions on all aspects of information and communications security are solicited for submission to ICICS 2019. There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Access control
Social networks security, privacy and trust
Key management and key recovery
Software defined networking security
Anonymity
Embedded systems security
Language-based security
Security management
Applied cryptography
Security models, metrics, and policies
Malware and anti-malware
Fraud and cyber-crime
Authentication and authorization
Security and privacy of Big Data
Mobile computing security and privacy
Hardware security
Biometrics security
Security of critical Infrastructures
Network security
Identity access management
Blockchain security and privacy
Trust and reputation systems
Cloud computing and edge computing security
Trusted and trustworthy computing technologies
Operating systems security
Usable security and privacy
Computer and digital forensics
Insider threat detection
Cyber-physical systems security
Underground economy
Privacy protection
Intellectual property protection
Data and system integrity
Verification of security protocols
Privacy-preserving data mining
Intrusion detection
Database security
Web security
Risk assessment
IoT security and privacy
Distributed systems security
Wireless security

Instructions for Authors
Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded, in the Springer-Verlag LNCS format (details can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset with 11pt font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices (no more than 18 pages in total). Note that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions.

The manuscripts should be submitted via EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics19 ).

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 10 Sept 2019 (23:59 AOE)

Notification of acceptance: October 21, 2019

Camera-ready due: November 11, 2019

Conference: December 15-17, 2019

Additional Information
Conference homepage: http://icics.cn/

Email: icics@iie.ac.cn