NDSS '06 -- Call for Papers

[Karen Seo <kseo () bbn com>]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                             for the
13TH ANNUAL NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY SYMPOSIUM (NDSS'06)

February 1st, 2006 - Pre-Conference Workshop
February 2-3, 2006 - Symposium
Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California

IMPORTANT DATES
    * Paper and panel submissions due: 11:59pm PDT, Monday, August 22,
      2005. (This deadline is firm--no extensions will be granted except
      in the most extreme circumstances.)
    * Author notification: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
    * Final version of papers and panels due: Sunday, November 6, 2005.

GOAL:
    The symposium fosters information exchange among research scientists
    and practitioners of network and distributed system security
    services. The target audience includes those interested in practical
    aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on
    actual system design and implementation (rather than theory). A
    major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to
    apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security
    technology. The proceedings are published by the Internet Society.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
    Submission instructions will be available at
         http://www.cs.umd.edu/NDSS-06 .

SUBMISSIONS:
    Both technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. Technical
    papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
    published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
    conference with proceedings. All papers from authors perpetrating
    such "double submissions" will be immediately rejected from the
    conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to share
    information with other conference chairs and journal editors so as
    to detect such cases.

    Technical papers should be at most 12 pages excluding the
    bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font,
    single column format, and reasonable margins on 8.5"x11" or A4
    paper), and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not
    required to read the appendices, so the paper should be
    intelligible without them. Technical papers will appear in the
    proceedings. Panel proposals should be one page and must describe
    the topic, identify the panel chair, explain the panel format, and
    list three to four potential panelists. A description of each
    panel will appear in the proceedings, and may, at the discretion
    of the panel chair, include written position statements from the
    panelists.

    Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following
    areas:

    * Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming,
      TCP/IP, multicast, network management, and the Web.
    * Intrusion prevention, detection, and response: systems,
      experiences and architectures.
    * Privacy and anonymity technologies.
    * Network perimeter controls: firewalls, packet filters, application
      gateways.
    * Virtual private networks.
    * Security for emerging technologies: sensor networks, specialized
      testbeds, wireless/mobile (and ad hoc) networks, personal
      communication systems, RFID systems, peer-to-peer and overlay
      network systems.
    * Secure electronic commerce: e.g., payment, barter, EDI,
      notarization, timestamping, endorsement, and licensing.
    * Supporting security mechanisms and APIs; audit trails;
      accountability.
    * Implementation, deployment and management of network security
      policies.
    * Intellectual property protection: protocols, implementations,
      metering, watermarking, digital rights management.
    * Fundamental services on network and distributed systems:
      authentication, data integrity, confidentiality, authorization,
      non-repudiation, and availability.
    * Integrating security services with system and application security
      facilities and protocols: e.g., message handling, file
      transport/access, directories, time synchronization, data base
      management, boot services, mobile computing.
    * Public key infrastructure, key management, certification, and
      revocation.
    * Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between
      security and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost.
    * Security for collaborative applications: teleconferencing and
      video-conferencing, electronic voting, groupwork, etc.
    * Software hardening: e.g., detecting and defending against
      software bugs (overflows, etc.)
    * Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures.

    Each submission must be accompanied by a separate, electronically
    submitted Submission Overview specifying the submission type (paper
    or panel), the title or topic, author names with organizational
    affiliations, and must specify a contact author along with
    corresponding phone number, FAX number, postal address and email
    address.

    Submissions must be received by 11:59pm PDT, August 22rd, 2005, and
    must be made electronically in PDF format (for example, by using
    pdflatex). Each submission will be acknowledged by e-mail; if
    acknowledgment is not received within seven days, contact a program
    co-chair (see below). Authors and panelists will be notified of
    acceptance by October 7th, 2005, and given instructions for
    preparing the camera-ready copy. The camera-ready copy must be
    received by November 5th, 2005.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    * William Arbaugh, University of Maryland (Program co-chair)
    * Hao Chen, University of California, Davis
    * Crispin Cowan, Novell
    * Glenn Durfee, Palo Alto Research Center
    * Kevin Fu, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
    * Steve Gribble, University of Washington
    * Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    * Steve Kent, BBN
    * Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University
    * Tadayoshi Kohno, University of California, San Diego
    * Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
    * Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins University
    * Niels Provos, Google
    * Michael Roe, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
    * Dan Simon, Microsoft Research (Program co-chair)
    * Sean Smith, Dartmouth College
    * Dawn Song, CMU
    * Adam Stubblefield, Independent Security Evaluators
    * Jonathan Trostle, ASK Consulting & Research, Inc.
    * Dan S. Wallach, Rice University
    * Nicholas Weaver, International Computer Science Institute
    * Dongyan Xu, Purdue University