7th CCS 2000

Message from the General Chair 

It is my great honor and privilege to welcome to Athens all of you
distinguished guests and participants to the 7h ACM Computer and
Communications Security Conference (CCS-2000). After a series of six
successful CCS conferences, the ACM SIGSAC - through its Steering
Committee Chair, Ravi Sandhu - agreed that the seventh conference in
the series be held in Athens, Greece.

The Conference Committees did their best to bring together the
research communities of industry and academia, from all over the
world. We trust that the conference will result in considerable
stimulus for further research, application, and training and education
in computer and communications security.

It is clear - in the Information era - that no effective solution can
be given, to any problem, without first putting this problem into its
social context. Having this in mind, the conference organizers tried
to establish a forum from a global secure information infrastructure
perspective. New technology applications are developed because of
mankind, by mankind, for mankind. Therefore, mankind should be the
focus of the attention and its happiness should be the ultimate
purpose of our efforts.

The Conference was put together with the support of several people and
organizations. To begin with, the Conference is sponsored by ACM
SIGSAC and hosted by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(ACCI). The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), the
Greek Computer Society (GCS) and the Center for Secure Information
Systems (George Mason University, USA) served, also, as co-organizers.

A number of organizations, namely, Ernst & Young (GR), Citibank (GR),
Space Hellas (GR), Instant Lottery (GR), CheckFree (USA), and Intracom
(GR), kindly served as supporters of the Conference. We are most
grateful to all of the above for their continuous support and
encouragement. I would like, also, to express my appreciation to the
members of the Organizing Committee, namely, N. Kyrloglou (ACCI),
S. Gritzalis (GCS), S. Kokolakis (AUEB), K. Moulinos (Data Protection
Authority), T. Tryfonas (AUEB), V. Tsoumas (Ernst &Young) and
M. Karyda (AUEB). There would be no conference without them.

The success of any conference depends heavily on the quality of the
selected papers. For selecting the best out of many excellent
submitted papers, we are indebted to Sushil Jajodia, our Program
Committee Chair, and to the members of the Program
Committee. Finally, no Conference can ever take place without the
support of those individuals who submit their original research
results, or without the participants, who honor the conference with
their presence.  Enjoy the conference and have a great time in Athens,
the city with which History, Philosophy and Art are synonymous!

Ass. Prof. Dr. Dimitris Gritzalis
CCS-2000 General Chair
Dept. of Informatics 
Athens University of Economics & Business