Subject: CMS'2002

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:15:21 +0100 (CET)

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                           The sixth IFIP 
            Communications and Multimedia Security Conference 
                             (CMS 2002)

		Joint working conference IFIP TC6 and TC11

                         September 26-27, 2002
                           Portoroz, Slovenia
     
                     http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

   Submission of full papers:     March 08, 2002
   Notification of acceptance:    April 25, 2002
   Camera-ready papers:           May 24, 2002

CONFERENCE INFORMATION:

CMS 2002 is the sixth working conference on Communications and Multimedia 
Security since 1995. State-of-the-art issues as well as practical experiences 
and new trends in the areas will be the topics of interest again, as proven 
by preceding conferences.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to 

   * Applied cryptography 
   * Biometry 
   * Combined multimedia security 
   * Communications systems security 
   * Cryptography - steganography
   * Digital signatures
   * Digital watermarking
   * Internet, intranet and extranet security 
   * Legal, social and ethical aspects of communication systems security 
   * Mobile communications security 
   * Multimedia systems security 
   * New generation networks (NGN) security
   * Possible attacks on multimedia systems 
   * Secure electronic commerce

The conference is jointly organised by SETCCE, Institut "Jozef Stefan" and 
ISOC-SI.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. 
Please email your submission in postcscript or PDF format to [email-masked].

Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 
5 (five) copies of an anonymous paper to the General Chair at the postal 
address below. Submissions must be received by the General Chair on or before 
March 8, 2002. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names 
and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author
including e-mail and postal addresses. 

Authors are asked to submit original papers only. Papers that have previously 
been published and papers that are currently being considered for publication 
by another journal or conference are not eligible. All submitted papers will 
be refereed by members of the International Program Committee for correctness, 
originality, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation.  

All submissions must be in English. The paper must be anonymous, with no author 
names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin 
with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction 
should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for 
a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 5000 words long. A full
page figure is 500 words.

Conference proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. 
Therefore authors are encouraged to use for their submissions the Kluwer IFIP
templates for LaTeX or Word. Style templates are available at 
http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ or http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/styles/
Copies of the proceedings will be available at the conference.  

To submit a paper, or for further details, please contact: 
  Prof. Borka Jerman-Blazic
  Institut Jozef Stefan
  Jamova 39
  SI-1000 Ljubljana
  Slovenia

  e-mail: [email-masked]
  www: http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/

VENUE:

The conference will take place in Portoroz, the beautiful Mediterranean 
seaside resort in Slovenia (http://www.portoroz2002.ki.si/portoroz.htm).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

   * Organizing Chair: Alenka Pahor Zvanut, SETCCE
		       Address: Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
		       E-mail:  [email-masked]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

   * General Chair: Borka Jerman-Blazic, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
   * Program Co-Chair: Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia

   * Augusto Casaca, INESC, chairman IFIP TC6, Portugal
   * David Chadwick, University of Salford, UK 
   * Bart de Decker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
   * Yves Deswarte, LAAS CNRS, France
   * Dieter Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK
   * Ruediger Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany
   * Patrick Horster, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Steve Kent, BBN, USA
   * Klaus Keus, BSI, Germany
   * Herbert Leitold, IAIK, Austria
   * Peter Lipp, IAIK, Austria
   * Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
   * Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
   * Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
   * Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Microsoft Research, UK
   * Wolfgang Schneider, SIT Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany 
   * Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, chairman IFIP TC11, Netherlands