[Mycolleagues] IAS09 call for papers

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Call for Papers
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The 5th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS09)
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August 18-20 2009, Xi’an, China
http://www.ias09.org/  or  http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~ias09/

Information assurance and security has become an important research issue in networked and distributed information sharing environments. Finding effective ways to protect information systems, networks and sensitive data within the critical information infrastructure is challenging even with the most advanced technology and trained professionals. The International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policy makers involved in multiple disciplines of information security and assurance to exchange ideas and to learn the latest development in this important field.

The proceedings of IAS09 will be published by IEEE Computer Society and will be indexed by EI and ISTP.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Information Assurance, Security Mechanisms, Methodologies and Models

·    Authentication and Identity

·    Management Authorization and Access Control

·    Trust Negotiation, Establishment and Management

·     Data Integrity and Privacy

·     System and Network Security

·     Security Attacks

·     Security Verification, Evaluations and Measurements

    Cryptography

 

2. Secure System Architectures and Security Application

• Web Services Security
• GRID Security
• Ubiquitous Computing Security
• Mobile Agent Security
• Intellectual Property Protection
• E-Government Security
• E-Health Security
• E-Commerce Security

3. Image Engineering, Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication

• Multimedia Security and Forensic
• Digital Watermarking and DRM
• Communication Security
• Biometrics
• Information Fusion
• Image Registration
• Image Mosaic
• Image Indexing and Retrieval
• Image and Video Coding
• Multi-scale Geometric Analysis (MGA)
• Intelligent Signal Processing
• Embedded Systems
• 3G/4G communication techniques

Important Dates
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Workshop proposal:               Feb. 20, 2009

Submission of full papers:      Mar. 01, 2009

Notification of acceptance:    Apr. 01, 2009

Camera-ready papers:             May.01, 2009

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Paper Submission
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Papers are invited from prospective authors with interest on the related areas. Each paper should follow the IEEE paper format (DOC, LaTex Formatting Macros, PDF, PS) with title, authors' names, affiliations and email addresses, an up to 150-words abstract, and a two-column body with 4 single-spaced pages and with font size at 10 pts. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only. Before submitting your papers, please register to get the user ID and password for the paper submission. All papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the online submission system:  http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~ias09/

IAS09 is sponsored by
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IEEE Computer Society (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/index.jsp )

Xidian University ( www.xidian.edu.cn )
Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences ( http://www.kuas.edu.tw )