INTERNATİONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURİTY OF INFORMATİON AND NETWORKS

Supported By
Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (pending)
National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE)
IEEE Turkey Section
IEEE Computer Society Turkey Branch
Chamber of Computer Engineers, TRNC, North Cyprus

Sponsored By
KKTCell, North Cyprus
Technopark, GMTGB, North Cyprus
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Turkey
ARGELA, Turkey & North Cyprus
EC-Council, USA

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

The International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007) provides an international forum for presentation of research and applications of security in information and networks. The SIN 2007 conference features contributed as well as invited papers, 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.

Conference main theme is Information Assurance, Security, and Public Policy, that is, by another name, "Effecting Security in the Age of e-X", where X could stand for any buzzword such as commerce, tourism, banking, wallet, learning, ... Other themes vying for the top spot are ‘Security Development Lifecycle: Promises, Practices, Findings‘, ‘High-Assurance Design‘, ‘Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Identity Management‘, and ‘VoIP & Wireless Access: Boon or Bust for Enterprise Security‘.

The conference main theme will be supported by invited papers and talks. The following have gracefully accepted to talk:

- Prof. Bart PRENEEL, Head of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

- Prof. Marc Joye, Thomson R&D, France

- Prof. Elisabeth OSWALD, Cryptography and Information Security Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

- Prof. Cetin Kaya KOC, Istanbul Commerce U., Turkey, & Oregon State U., USA

- Prof. Mehmet Ufuk CAGLAYAN, Bogazici U., Turkey

- Prof. Muslim BOZYIGIT, Middle East Technical U., North Cyprus

- Dr. Karthik BHARGAWAN, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.

Papers will be accepted into chaired presentation sessions.  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

Standards, guidelines and certification

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

Agent 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

sc ripts 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

Robotics

Safety critical systems

Semantic Web and semantic Web services

Smart card applications

SOA applications

Software engineering for dependable systems

Web services

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Researchers and practitioners of security are invited to propose papers. Position 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 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 are invited for workshops to be held in conjunction with SIN 2007 Conference. The workshop proposal theme should be closely related to the conference topics.

Conference medium will be English; papers in Turkish will be accepted as well.

Paper proposals must be submitted electronically via the SIN 2007 Submission Site. The SIN 2007 Submission Site at URL https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/SIN2007 will become available by November 2006. 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 ten pages for full paper, 5 pages for short paper, and two pages for demo and tutorial proposals.  All papers should be written by using LNCS/LNAI format. Please download LNCS Paper format by Clicking here (MS Word and LaTex formats are available).

Workshop proposals are submitted to the Workshops Chair, Justin Zhan (justinzh [at] andrew.cmu.edu) by e-mail.

Tutorial proposals are submitted to the Tutorials Chair, Saban Eren (sabaneren [at] maltepe.edu.tr) by e-mail.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposals Due Date: Jan. 31, 2007 (soft date)

Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification Due Date: Feb. 3, 2007

Conference Paper Submission Due Date:  Feb. 14, 2007 (soft date)

Workshop Paper Submission Due Date: Feb. 23, 2007

Tutorial Proposal Submission Due Date: Feb. 21, 2007 (soft date)

Tutorial Notification Due Date: Mar. 9, 2007

All Author Notification Due Date:  Mar. 19, 2007

All Papers Camera Ready Due Date:  Apr. 5, 2007

Conference Dates:  May 8-10, 2007

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(to be updated)

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

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

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 still being formed]

GENERAL INQUIRIES

For updated information, please refer to http://www.sinconf.org/ or the Promotion Chair.

Released on 02.02.‘07.