SIN 2009

2nd ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009) 6-10 October 2009 Congress & Cultural Center, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, TRNC, North Cyprus

www.sinconf.org

In Technical Cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)

Organized by

-Dept. of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC, North Cyprus -Dept. of Security of Information Technologies, South-Russian Regional Scientific- Educational Center for Information Security Problems, Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Rostov, Russia -Dept. of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia -Cylab Japan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Supported by (some pending confirmation)

Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Russian Foundation for Basic Research National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), Turkey IEEE Turkey Section IEEE Computer Society Turkey Branch Chamber of Computer Engineers, TRNC, North Cyprus Internet Technologies Association (INETD), Turkey Linux Users Association (LKD), Turkey others tba

Sponsored by (some pending confirmation)

T. Is Bankasi, TRNC, North Cyprus KKTCell, TRNC, North Cyprus Unitary State Enterprise "Sistemprom", Moscow, Russia Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia Technopark (GMTGB), TRNC, North Cyprus Microsoft Research and Microsoft Turkey ARGELA, Turkey & TRNC, North Cyprus EC-Council, USA others tba

Hosted by - Department of Computer Engineering, and Internet Technologies Research Center (ITRC) Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, TRNC, North Cyprus

In succession to the extremely successful SIN 2007, the 2nd International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009) provides an international forum for presentation of research and applications of security in information and networks. SIN 2009 conference features contributed as well as invited papers, special sessions, workshops, and tutorials on theory and practice. Its drive is to convene a high quality, well-attended, and up-to-date conference on scientific and technical issues of security in information, networks, and systems.

The main theme of SIN 2009 is Intelligent Systems for Information Assurance, Security, and Public Policy in the Age of e-Euphoria. Conference main theme will be supported by the following keynote papers and talks: - Bart PRENEEL -- Professor and Head of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. - Vijay Varadharajan -- Professor and Microsoft Chair in Innovation in Computing, and Director of Information and Networked System Security Research, Macquarie University, Australia. - Elisa Bertino -- Professor of computer science and Research Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University, USA. - others tba.

Future SIN Conferences are scheduled to take place in Russia (2010) and Australia (2011).

PROPOSALS

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Researchers and practitioners of security are invited to propose papers. Papers addressing all aspects of security in information and networks are being sought. Researchers working on the following and related subjects are especially encouraged: realization of security schemes, new algorithms, experimenting with existing approaches; secure information systems, especially distributed control and processing applications, and security in networks; interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems; information assurance, security, and public policy. Doctoral students are encouraged to propose short papers.

Original papers will be considered; submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. All submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the program committee judging its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Authors are also encouraged to propose position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development.

Enterprises and research centers developing, implementing, or using security tools and frameworks are encouraged to propose application / tool demo.

Half-day tutorials on fundamental to advanced subjects covering practical implementation aspects of security are welcome.

Proposals of special session(s) to be held in the main conference are welcome.

Proposals are invited for workshops to be held in conjunction with SIN 2009 Conference. The workshop proposal theme should be closely related to the conference topics.

Broad areas of interest in security will include, but are not limited to, the following:


 * Access control and intrusion detection
 * Cryptographic techniques and key management
 * Information assurance
 * Network security and protocols
 * Security in information systems
 * Security tools and development platforms
 * Security ontology, models, protocols & policies
 * Secure ontology-based systems
 * Autonomous and adaptive security
 * Standards, guidelines and certification

Following is a non-exhaustive list of subtopics of interest:


 * Agent & MAS security
 * Authentication & authorization
 * Cryptographic hardware design
 * Cryptography and cryptanalysis (symmetrical and asymmetrical)
 * Digital signature
 * Executables security
 * Information security development processes
 * Intrusion & fraud detection
 * Malicious codes
 * Mobile code and agent security
 * Privacy
 * Scripts and languages
 * Side-channel attacks
 * Signals & security
 * Securing storage: SAN/NAS security
 * Security ontology, models, protocols & policies
 * Semantics of security
 * Software security and testing
 * Spam counter measures
 * Steganography
 * Vulnerability analysis
 * Web security
 * Wireless security

Applications of security in the following areas are especially sought for:


 * Ad hoc networks
 * Agent-based systems
 * Autonomous systems
 * Computer modeling / simulation
 * Computer security / forensics
 * Computer networks
 * Control systems
 * Data mining
 * Digital rights management
 * Distributed systems
 * E-government, -commerce, -learning,…
 * Electronic payments
 * Embedded systems
 * Emergent intelligence
 * Information systems / databases
 * Information security management
 * Internet and Web-based systems
 * Knowledge-based systems
 * Mobile computing
 * Multimedia applications
 * Network processors
 * RFID systems
 * Autonomous and semantic robotics
 * Safety critical systems
 * Security issues for ubiquitous systems
 * security technologies
 * Semantic Web and semantic Web services
 * Smart card applications
 * SOA applications
 * Software engineering for dependable systems
 * Security of Web services

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

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Paper proposals must be submitted electronically via the SIN 2009 Submission Site. The SIN 2009 Submission Site is at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIN2009/. Title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and email of the principal author should be included. Maximum length for the proceedings is 10 pages for full paper, 6 pages for short paper, and 4 pages for demo and tutorial proposals. All papers should be written according to double-column ACM format.

Special session proposals are submitted to the Program Chair by e-mail (SINConf- Program@sinconf.org).

Workshop proposals are submitted to the Workshops Chair by e-mail (SINConf- Workshops@sinconf.org).

Tutorial proposals are submitted to the Tutorials Chair by e-mail (SINConf- Tutorial@sinconf.org).

Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in a conference proceedings and placed into ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of select papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of a prominent journal (TBA). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Proceedings book of SIN 2007 was published by Trafford Publishing, Canada. Trafford is an OnDemand printing publisher, thus any number of purchases are served at any time upon orders by individuals, bookshops, online sellers, through catalogs and distributors. It is available for online orders from the publisher (www.trafford.com/07-1689), Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Books-A-Million, BookSense.com, and Google Book Search, as well as an e-book through LSI. The book data is as follows:

Security of Information and Networks by Elci, A., Ors, B., & Preneel, B. (eds.) Trafford Publishing, Canada. 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4251-4109-7.

IMPORTANT DATES

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Workshop/Special Session Proposals Due Date: 27 February 2009 Workshop/Special Session Proposal Acceptance Notification Due Date: 6 March 2009 Conference/Workshop Paper Submission Due Date: 13 April 2009 All Author Notification Due Date: 25 May 2009 All Papers Camera Ready Due Date: 15 June 2009 Author Registration due date: 15 June 2009 Tutorial Proposal Submission Due Date: 17 August 2009 (soft date) Tutorial Notification Due Date: 3 September 2009 Tutorial Dates: 6-7 October 2009 Conference Dates: 8 – 9 October 2009 Workshops Date: 10 October 2009

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE (some pending confirmation)

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Steering Committee Chair: Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon U, USA) Steering Committee Members: Alexander Ivanovich SUKHINOV (Southern Federal U, Russia) Bülent Örencik (TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Turkey) Bart Preneel (Katholieke U Leuven, Belgium) Hasan Kömürcügil (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Elisa Bertino (Purdue U, USA) others tba Conference Chair: Atilla Elci (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Conference Co-Chair: Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie U, Australia) Conference Co-Chair: Oleg Makarevich (SFU, Russia) Conference Co-Chair: Justin Zhan (Cylab Japan, Carnegie Mellon U, USA) Program Chair: Alexander Chefranov (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Program Co-Chair: Josef Pieprzyk (Macquarie U, Australia) Program Co-Chair: Yuri Anatolievich BRYUKHOMITSKY (SFU, Russia) Program Co-Chair: Siddika Berna Ors (ITU, Turkey) Tutorials Chair: Ahmet Unveren (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Tutorials Co-Chair: Christophe Doche (Macquarie U, Australia) Workshops Chair: Ahmet Hasan Koltuksuz (IIT, Turkey) Workshops Co-Chair: Alexander Yurievich DOBRODEEV (Sistemprom,Russia) Workshops Co-Chair: Rajan Shankaran (Macquarie U, Australia) Workshops Co-Chair: Duygu Çelik (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Treasurer: Muhammad Salamah (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Finance Co-Chair: Michael Hitchens (Macquarie U, Australia) Registration Chair: Zafer Erenel (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Registration Onsite Team (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Local Arrangements Chair: Yiltan Bitirim (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Volunteers, Internet Presence, and Exhibits Chair: Behnam Rahnama (Cyprus Intl U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Volunteers Team: ACM & IEEE CS EMU Student Chapters, Computer Club, Robotics Club (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Promotion Chair: Zeki Bayram (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus) Promotion Co-Chair: Yi Mu (U of Wollongong, Australia) Promotion Co-Chair: Ahmed Y. Mahmoud (Eastern Mediterranean U, TRNC, North Cyprus)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (pending confirmation)

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Khalil A. ABUOSBA, Philadelphia University, Jordan Sheikh Iqbal AHAMED, Marquette U., USA Ersan AKYILDIZ, METU, Turkey Taner ALTINOK, Defense Sciences Institute, Military Academy, Turkey Serap ATAY, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Lyudmila Klimentyevna BABENKO, Federal U. of South Russia, Russia Yuri Vladimirovich BORODAKIY, Sistemprom, Moscow, Russia Arkadiy B. BARSKIY, Moscow State U. of Transport Ways, Russia Suha BAYINDIR, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Zeki BAYRAM, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Ayse BENER, Bogazici U., Turkey Jun BI, Tsinghua U., China Müslim BOZYIGIT, Middle East Technical U., North Cyprus Mehmet Ufuk CAGLAYAN, Bogazici U., Turkey Jan CAPPAERT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Alexander CHEFRANOV, Eastern Mediterranean U. & ITRC, North Cyprus Anton CHUVAKIN, LogLogic, USA Danny De COCK, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Mina DENG, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Claudia DIAZ, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tharam S. DILLON, U. of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Atilla ELCI, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Saban EREN, Maltepe U., Turkey Ruyal ERGUL, METU, Turkey Ana Isabel Gonzlez-Tablas FERRERES, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Dieter GOLLMANN, Techniche U. Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Johann GROSCHDL, Graz University of Technology, Austria Song HAN, Curtin U. of Technology, Australia Selim HENDRICKSON, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Edward HUMPHREYS, XiSEC and ISO/IEC SC27, UK David HWANG, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Fuat INCE, Marmara U., Turkey Hai JIN, Huazhong U. of Science and Technology, China Tai-hoon KIM, Security Engineering Research Group (SERC), Korea Il Seok KO, Dongguk U., Korea Cetin Kaya KOC, Istanbul Commerce U., Turkey, & Oregon State U., USA Ahmet Hasan KOLTUKSUZ, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Ozgul KUCUK, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Sefer KURNAZ, ASTIN- Air Force Academy, Turkey Klaus KURSAWE, Phillips, The Nederlands Geuk LEE, Hannam U. & SERC, Korea Tiberiu S. LETIA, Technical U. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Albert LEVI, Sabanci U., Turkey Chuchang LIU, DSTO, Australia Robert MAIER, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Oleg Borisovich MAKAREVICH, Federal U. of South Russia, Russia Nele MENTENS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jorge NAKAHARA, Universidade Catolica de Santos, Brazil Gregory NEVEN, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Svetla NIKOVA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jose Antonio ONIEVA, U. de Málaga, Spain Bülent ORENCIK, TUBITAK MAM, Turkey Mehmet A. ORGUN, Macquarie U., Australia Valeriy O. OSIPYAN, Kuban State U., Russia Elisabeth OSWALD, Graz University of Technology, Austria Attila OZGIT, Middle East Tech U., Turkey Pascal PAILLIER, Gemalto, France Josef PIEPRZYK, Macquarie U., Australia Norbert PRAMSTALLER, Graz University of Technology, Austria Vasant H. RAVAL, Creighton U., USA Mesut RAZBONYALI, Maltepe U., Turkey Seref SAGIROGLU, Gazi U., Turkey Muhammed SALAMAH, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Erkay SAVAS, Sabanci University, Turkey Ashutosh SAXENA, Infosys Technologies, India Bruce SCHNEIER, BT Counterpane, USA Ali Aydin SELCUK, Bilkent U., Turkey Stefaan SEYS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Siraj SHAIKH, United Nations U., Macau SAR China Sushil K. SHARMA, Ball State University, USA Dave SINGELEE, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Gennadiy Viasilyevich SLYUSAREV, North Caucasus State Technical U., Russia Boris V. SOBOL, Don State Technical U., Russia Eugene H. SPAFFORD, Purdue U., USA Kaile SU, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Cengiz TAVUKCUOGLU, Defense Sciences Institute, Military Academy, Turkey Dongvu TONIEN, CIS, TITRI, U. of Wollongong, Australia Tugkan TUGLULAR, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Ion TUTANESCU, U. of Pitesti, Romania Ahmet UNVEREN, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Vladimir I. VASILYEV, Ural State Aviation Technology U., Russia Huaxiong WANG, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore Dai WATANABE, Hitachi, Japan Thomas WOLLINGER, escrypt GmbH - Embedded Security, Germany Karel WOUTERS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Brecht WYSEUR, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Siddika Berna Ors YALCIN, Istanbul Technical U., Turkey Justin ZHAN, Carnegie-Mellon U., USA Mohammad ZULKERNINE, Queens U., Canada

[The International Program Committee is being formed]

GENERAL INQUIRIES

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