Call For Papers

Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 6-8, 2001
Sponsored by ACM SIGSAC


Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Papers may present theory, technique, applications, or practical experience on topics including:

access control
security for mobile code
cryptographic protocols
key management
information warfare
authentication
applied cryptography
e-business/e-commerce
privacy and anonymity
secure networking
accounting and audit
data/system integrity
intrusion detection
security management
security verification
database and information system security
smart-cards and secure PDAs
inference and controlled disclosure
intellectual property protection
commercial and industry security

The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions discussing the application and deployment of security technologies in practice.

Paper submissions   Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations).
To submit a paper, send to ccs8@dsi.unimi.it a plain ASCII text email containing the title and abstract of your paper, the authors' names, email and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and identification of the contact author. If any bibliographic citations were blinded from the paper for anonymous review, then include the full bibliographic citations in this email message. To the same message, attach your submission (as a MIME attachment) in PDF or portable postscript format. Do NOT send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Papers must be received by the deadline of April 30, 2001.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by the ACM in a conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

Panel proposals   Proposals should be no longer than 5 pages in length, should include possible panelists and an indication of which panelists have confirmed participation. Send to ccs8@dsi.unimi.it a plain ASCII text email containing the title of your panel and contact information. To the same message, attach your proposal (as a MIME attachment) in ASCII, PDF, or portable postscript format. Do NOT send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files). Panel proposals must be received by the deadline of April 30, 2001.


General Chair
Mike Reiter (Bell Labs, USA)
email: mreiter@acm.org

Tutorial Chair
Matt Franklin (UC Davis, USA)

Publicity Chair
Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, USA)
Program Chair
Pierangela Samarati
DSI - Università di Milano
Via Bramante, 65
26013 - Crema - ITALY

email: samarati@dsi.unimi.it
phone: +39-0373-898237
fax: +39-0373-898253

Steering Committee Chair
Ravi Sandhu (GMU, USA)
Important dates
Paper submission due:
Panel submission due:
Acceptance notification:
Final papers due:





April 30, 2001
April 30, 2001
June 30, 2001
August 15, 2001





Program Committee
Viajy Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
Frederic Cuppens, Onera Toulose, FR
S. De Capitani di Vimercati, Un. Brescia, IT
Yvo Desmedt, Florida State Univ., USA
Ulrich Flegel, Un. Dortmund, Germany
Ravi Ganesan, Checkfree, USA
Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, USA
Anup Ghosh, Cigital, USA
Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece
Joshua Guttman, Mitre, USA
Steve Kent, BBN, USA
Michiharu Kudo, IBM TRL, Japan
Trent Jaeger, IBM Watson, USA
Pat Lincoln, SRI International, USA
Peng Liu, Univ. of Maryland BC, USA
Teresa Lunt, Xerox PARC, USA
John McLean, Naval Res. Lab., USA

Hilarie Orman, Novell, USA
B. Preneel, Kath. Univ. Leuven, Belgium
Mike Reiter, Bell Labs, USA
Ravi Sandhu, George Mason Univ., USA
Michael Steiner, Un. Saarlandes, Germany
Paul Syverson, Naval Res. Lab., USA
Giovanni Vigna, UCSB, USA
Moti Yung, CertCo, USA
Rebecca Wright, AT&T Labs, USA