Call for Papers: Special Track on Applied Cryptology and Network Security (STACNS), USA, July 2008

[A. M. G. Solo]

Special Track on Applied Cryptology and Network Security (STACNS)
July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

A number of Special Sessions on Applied Cryptology and Network
Security will be organized within the 2008 International Conference on
Security and Management (SAM'08), July 14-17, 2008, Monte Carlo
Resort, Las Vegas, USA. This conference is an annual meeting on
quality papers focusing on the latest developments in security. The
goal of these sessions is to explore the research work of graduate
students, and junior faculty/researchers.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-- Applications of Block and Stream Ciphers
-- Applications of Symmetric and Public Key Cryptology
-- Applications of Hash Functions and Digital Signatures
-- Network Security

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (5-8 pages
- single space, font size of 10 to 12) via email to
dai...@udmercy.edu (Kevin Daimi). MS document and PDF formats are
preferable.

Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted
for publication elsewhere.

The first page of the draft paper should include:

-- The title of the paper
-- Name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone
number, and fax number for each author.
-- The name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if
accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

Authors of accepted papers should submit their Camera-Ready papers in
PDF format. The maximum number of pages in the final papers is 7.
Papers must conform to IEEE style guidelines at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html.

Conference Proceedings

Accepted papers will appear in the SAM'08 Conference Proceedings
published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be
available for distribution at the conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 25, 2008
Acceptance notification: March 25, 2008
Camera-ready Version Due: April 25, 2008

Conference Web sites

ACNS: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/sam08/workshops-sessions
SAM'08: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/sam08

Conference sponsors

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors:

--> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/

--> Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/

--> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
http://www.msi.umn.edu/

--> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, USA
http://bioinformatics.bioen.uiuc.edu/

--> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.bio-miblab.org/

--> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/

--> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA
http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/

--> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/

--> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

--> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/

--> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/

--> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
http://www.und.edu

--> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
http://www.isibm.org/

--> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

--> Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems
Applications
Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society (CIS)
http://wmn.csie.ntpu.edu.tw/isatc/

Corporate Co-Sponsors:

--> Google, Inc.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

--> NIIT Technologies
http://www.niit-tech.com/

Other Co-Sponsors:

--> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
http://www.hpcnano.org

--> International Technology Institute (ITI)
http://www.itiworld.org/

--> GridToday
http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html

--> HPCwire
http://www.hpcwire.com/

--> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk