ICICS 2015
The Seventeenth International Conference onInformation and Communications Security
Beijing, China, December 9 – 11, 2015
Call for Papers
Conference Overview
The 2015International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be the17th event in the ICICS conference series, started in 1997, that bringstogether individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information andCommunications Security in order to foster exchange of ideas.
ICICS 2015will be co-organized by Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences,School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University and Institute ofInformation Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, sponsored by the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China.
Originalpapers on all aspects of information and communications security are solicitedfor submission to ICICS2015. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
| l Access control | l Hardware security |
| l Anonymity | l Information hiding and watermarking |
| l Anti-virus and anti-worms | l Intellectual property protection |
| l Applied cryptography | l Intrusion detection |
| l Authentication and authorization | l Key management and key recovery |
| l Biometric security | l Language-based security |
| l Cloud security | l Network security |
| l Computer and digital forensics | l Operating systems security |
| l Cyber-physical systems security | l Privacy protection |
| l Data and system integrity | l Risk evaluation and security |
| l Database security | l Security for mobile computing |
| l Digital currency | l Security in wearable computing and Internet of things |
| l Distributed systems security | l Security models and Protocols |
| l Electronic commerce security | l Security and Privacy of Big Data |
| l Engineering issues of cryptographic and security systems | l Trusted computing and trustworthy computing technology |
| l Fraud and cyber-crime | l Usable security |
Instructions for Authors
Authorsare invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted inparallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. Allsubmitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations,acknowledgements, or obvious references.
Submissionsshould be in English, as a PDF or PS file with all fonts embedded, in theSpringer-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 shouldnot exceed 12 A4-sized pages including the bibliography, but excludingwell-marked appendices. Note that papers should be intelligible without allappendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Submittedpapers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their meritsif they do not follow all the above submission instructions.
At leastone author of each accepted paper should register the conference and givepresentation at the conference.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2015
Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2015
Camera-ready due: October 9, 2015
Conference: December 9-11, 2015
Additional Information
Conference homepage: http://ICICS2015.org/
Email: icics@iie.ac.cn
Among thepreceding conferences, ICICS1997 took place in Beijing, China, ICICS1999 inSydney, Australia, ICICS2001 in Xi’an, China, ICICS2002 in Singapore, ICICS2003in Huhehaote city, China, ICICS2004 in Malaga, Spain, ICICS2005 in Beijing,China, ICICS2006 in Raleigh, NC, USA, ICICS2007 in Zhengzhou, China, andICICS2008 in Birmingham, UK, ICICS2009 in Beijing, China, ICICS2010 inBarcelona, Spain, ICICS2011 in Beijing, China, ICICS2012 in Hong Kong,ICICS2013 in Beijing, China and ICICS2014 in Hong Kong. The proceedings werereleased as Volumes 1334, 1726, 2229, 2513, 2836, 3269, 3783, 4307, 4381, 5308,5927, 6476, 7043, 7618, 8233, and 8958 of the LNCS series of Springer,respectively.