Call For Papers: SSR 2015

                    Call for Papers (SSR 2015)

          SSR 2015: 2nd International conference on Security
                       Standardisation Research

              15th-16th December 2015, Tokyo, Japan
                        http://ssr2015.com


Background

Over the last two decades a very wide range of standards have been developed covering a wide range of aspects of cyber security. These documents have been published by national and international formal standardisation bodies, as well as by industry consortia. Many of these standards have become very widely used - to take just one example, the ISO/IEC 27000 series has become the internationally adopted basis for managing corporate information security.

Despite their wide use, there will always be a need to revise existing security standards and to add new standards to cover new domains. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the many research problems deriving from studies of existing standards, the development of revisions to existing standards, and the exploration of completely new areas of standardisation. Indeed, many security standards bodies are only beginning to address the issue of transparency, so that the process of selecting security techniques for standardisation can be seen to be as scientific and unbiased as possible.
Conference scope

This conference is intended to cover the full spectrum of research on security standardisation, including, but not restricted to, work on cryptographic techniques (including ANSI, IEEE, IETF, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ITU-T and NIST), security management, security evaluation criteria, network security, privacy and identity management, smart cards and RFID tags, biometrics, security modules, and industry-specific security standards (e.g. those produced by the payments, telecommunications and computing industries for such things as payment protocols, mobile telephony and trusted computing).
Topics for papers

Papers offering research contributions to the area of security standardisation are solicited for submission to the SSR 2015 conference.

Papers may present theory, applications or practical experience in the field of security standardisation , including, but not necessarily limited to:

access control
biometrics
cloud computing
consistency and comparison of multiple standards
CNI protection
critiques of standards
cryptanalysis
cryptographic protocols
cryptographic techniques
evaluation criteria
formal analysis of standards
history of standardisation
identity management
implementation of standards
industrial control systems security
internet security
interoperability for standardisation
intrusion detection
key management and PKIs
mobile security
network security
open standards and open source
payment system security
privacy
regional and international standards
RFID tag security
risk analysis
security controls
security management
security protocols
security services
security tokens
standardisation management
smart cards
telecommunications security
trusted computing
web security


Instructions for authors

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration for publication. Papers must be written in English; they should be at most 15 pages (excluding bibliography and appendices). It is planned that accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings in the Springer LNCS series (see www.springer.com/lncs). In addition, a special issue of the International Journal of Information Security (published by Springer) is also planned, to contain extended versions of selected papers.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper.

All submissions will be blind-reviewed. Papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. A submitted paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.

Clear instructions for the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Authors are strongly recommended to submit their papers in the standard LNCS format (see the Springer web page for details).

Papers must be submitted using the EasyChair conference management system at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssr2015.

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Important dates

Deadline for submissions:  Friday 26 June 2015 (23:59 UTC)
Notifications to authors:  Thursday 10 September 2015
Camera-ready due:          Friday 25 September 2015
Opening of conference:     Tuesday 15 December 2015

Conference organisation

General Co-Chairs

Yuji Suga, Internet Initiative Japan, Japan
Hajime Watanabe, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan


Programme Committee Co-Chairs

Liqun Chen, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK
Shin'ichiro Matsuo, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan


Programme Committee

David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Lily Chen, NIST, USA
Takeshi Chikazawa, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK
Andreas Fuchsberger, Microsoft
Phillip H Griffin, Griffin Information Security, USA
Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK
Jens Hermans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Dirk Kuhlmann, Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK
Eva Kuiper, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Peter Lipp, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Joseph Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Atsuko Miyaji, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Angelika Plate, help AG, UAE
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Christoph Ruland, University of Siegen, Germany
Ben Smyth, Huawei Technologies, France
Jacques Traore, Orange Labs, France
Claire Vishik, Intel Corporation, UK
Debby Wallner, USA
Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Other PC members will be added to the list.