Friday, April 13, 2018

Call For Papers with Extended Paper Submission Deadline of April 20, 2018: The 17th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'18), July 30-August 2, 2018, Las Vegas, U.S.A.



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

         Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2018
                 11:59pm USA Eastern Time zone (EDT)

                The 17th International Conference on
                      Security and Management

                   http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam18/
            https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018

         July 30 - August 2, 2018, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA

Corporations who wish to participate in "Career, Job, & Education
Fair", please see the instructions at the end of this announcement.

This is an extended submission deadline; however, authors who have
already submitted papers (before March 31), will receive decisions
and status/referee reports by around April 15; others by May 1.

SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

    NETWORK SECURITY:
      - Security Algorithms
      - Mobile Network Security
      - Security in CDN (Contents Distribution Networks)
      - Virtual Private Network (VPN)
      - Tracing Techniques in Internet
      - Active Networks
      - Security in Grid
      - Web Monitoring
      - Control Systems/SCADA Security
      - Network Security Engineering
      - Transport-Level Security
      - Wireless Network Security
      - IP Security
      - Electronic Mail security

    CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES:
      - Security Protocols
      - Key Management Techniques
      - Cryptographic Technologies
      - Applications of Block and Stream Ciphers
      - Applications of Public Key Cryptology
      - Message Authentication and Hash Functions
      - Anonymity
      - Digital Signature Schemes
      - Secret Sharing
      - Cryptanalysis

    SECURITY MANAGEMENT:
      - Surveillance Technologies
      - Security Policies
      - Security for Protocol Management
      - Location Management
      - QoS Management
      - Resource Management
      - Channel Management
      - Mobility Management
      - Digital Contents Copyright Protection
      - System Security Management
      - Network Security Management
      - Management in Network Equipment
      - Storage Area Networks (SAN) Management
      - Information Security Management
      - Government Security Policy
      - Web Penetration Testing
      - Security Operations
      - Vulnerabilities Management
      - Change and Patch Management

    SECURITY APPLICATIONS:
      - Security in E-Commerce and M-Commerce
      - Secure OS
      - Watermarking
      - High-Tech Systems at Airports
      - Emerging Technologies and Applications
      - Cloud Computing Security
      - Database Security
      - Data Mining Security
      - Cyber Security Automation

    BIOMETRICS AND FORENSICS:
      - Novel Biometric Methods
      - Forensics
      - Biological Security Technologies
      - Face Recognition Systems
      - Signature Recognition Systems
      - Cyber Forensics
      - Forensic Analysis
      - Biometric Technologies for Security
      - Feature Extraction and Matching Algorithms

    HARDWARE SECURITY:
      - Embedded Systems Security
      - Cryptographic Processors and Co-Processors
      - Security Architectures
      - True and Pseudorandom Number Generators
      - Side Channel Attacks
      - Fault Attacks
      - Hardware Tamper Resistance
      - Smart Card Processors
      - Secure Storage Devices

    INFORMATION ASSURANCE:
      - Mission Assurance
      - Risk Assessment and Risk Management
      - Continuity of Operations and Business Impact Analysis
      - Cyber Security Compliance
      - Security Auditing
      - Security-Savvy Software Development
      - Disaster Recovery
      - Business Continuity Analysis
      - Access Control
      - Secure Use of Software
      - Secure Performance

    COMPUTER SECURITY:
      - Firewall Systems
      - Hacking Techniques and Related Issues
      - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
      - Honeypot
      - Virus Issues (Detection, Prevention ...)
      - Trusted Computing
      - Alert Correlation
      - Attack Graphs
      - Incident Responding
      - Malware Analysis
      - Intrusion Detection

    SECURITY EDUCATION:
      - Computer Security Education
      - Network Security Education
      - Cyber Security Education
      - Cyber Security Body of Knowledge
      - Information Assurance Education

The event ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018 ) that this
conference is part of, is among the top five largest international
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at
(over 2,000 photos): http://photos.ucmss.com/


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

   There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
   speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
   Keynote Speakers in recent years have included:

   - Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
     Purdue University)
   - Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
   - Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
   - The Late Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
     U. of Michigan)
   - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
   - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
   - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
   - Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
     former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
     CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
   - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)
   - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
   - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)
   - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
     Cyberinfrastructure)
   - Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
   - Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
   - Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
     Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
     Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook)
   - Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
     and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
     Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
   - Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
     Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
   - Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
   - Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
   - Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
     Technology, Sweden)
   - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)
   - and over 190 other distinguished speakers.


INTRODUCTION:

   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
   Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks
   ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018 ) composed of: 122
   technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of
   keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously,
   same location and dates: July 30 through August 2, 2018. Last year,
   the Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants
   affiliated with over 169 different universities (including many
   from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations
   (including: Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon,
   Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE
   Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon
   Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline,
   HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies
   (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US
   national laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL,
   Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National
   Cancer Institute, NIST, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as
   well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property
   issues. Last year, 55% of attendees were from academia, 24% from
   industry; 20% from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown.
   About half of the attendees were from outside USA; from 72 nations.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted
   papers will be published in printed conference books (ISBN),
   imprinted by the American Council on Science and Education, and
   distributed/published by CSREA (Computer Science Research, Education,
   and Applications Press). The proceedings will also be made available
   online. The printed proceedings/books will be available for
   distribution on site at the conference. The books will be indexed in
   science databases, including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the
   largest subject index systems, and others. ACM Digital Library is
   also including the titles into its databases as well as ProQuest
   indexing databases and others.

   In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
   (about 40%) will appear in journals and 12 edited research books;
   publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others. Each book
   in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science
   indexing products (which includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI
   Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com;
   and others). See the web link below for a small subset of such
   publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
   already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
   identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
   index trackers.)

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/books-journal-special-issues
   https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/conferences/biocomp18/publications

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
   them to the evaluation web site at:
   http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam18/Paper-Submission.html
   Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
   must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (7 pages for Regular Research
   Papers; 4 pages for Short Research Papers; 2 pages for Extended
   Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages include all figures,
   tables, and references). All reasonable typesetting formats are
   acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
   follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers
   for publication; these formatting instructions appear at the submission
   web site and they conform to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers
   must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
   publication elsewhere.

   The first page of the paper should include the followings:
      - Title of the paper
      - Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each
        author (identify the name of the Contact Author)
      - Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
      - A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
        work described in the paper
      - Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
        "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
      - The actual text of the paper can start from the first page
        (space permitting).
      Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
      portal at http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam18/Paper-Submission.html

   Type of Submissions/Papers:

     - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
       Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research
       contributions. They must report new research results that
       represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and
       support for the results and conclusions should also be provided.
       The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a
       stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published
       as journal papers.

     - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
       Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They
       should provide overall research methodologies with some results.
       The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage
       of maturity that with some additional work can be published as
       regular papers.

     - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
       Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still
       in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend
       to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results.

   Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
   originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
   of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
   committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
   often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees.
   Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program
   committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
   (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered
   for discussion/panels).


CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR:

   The CSCE 2018 Congress will host its two-day Career, Job, & Education Fair
   on July 30 and July 31, 2018. This annual strategic event provides
   congress attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with
   employers and educators and learn more about career options. Corporations
   can also exhibit their products during the event. Interested parties
   should refer to: https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/career_job_fair


IMPORTANT DATES:

   April 20, 2018:    Submission of papers: (Easychair)
                      http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam18/Paper-Submission.html
                      - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
                      - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages);
                      - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages)
                      (Authors who have already submitted papers before
                      March 31, will receive decisions and status reports
                      by around April 15; others by May 1.)
   May 01, 2018:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
   May 15, 2018:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
   July 30 - August 2, 2018:
                      The 17th International Conference on Security and Management
                      http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam18/
                      https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018

SAM'18 CHAIR:
   Prof. Kevin Daimi,   daimikj@udmercy.edu

LOCATION:
   Luxor in Las Vegas (renovated)
   https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment.html

CONTACT:
   General questions and inquiries should be sent to:
   CSCE'18 Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org


Thursday, April 12, 2018

The research paper submission deadline for the 2018 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE'18) has been extended to April 20, 2018.