[hpc-announce] [CFP]: ISPEC 2019 + 3 Special Issues (IEEE Access + Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience + Digital Communications and Networks)

[Shifeng Sun]

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well.

We cordially invite you to share your recent ideas by submitting your new
research results to ISPEC 2019, which will be held in  Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia on November 26-28, 2019.  We apologize for possible cross posting,
and
thanks for distributing the ISPEC'19 CFP to your colleagues/students.

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# ISPEC 2019
# 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and
Experience
# http://ccs.research.utar.edu.my/ispec2019/
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*Call for Papers:*
The 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and
Experience (ISPEC 2019) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November
26-28, 2019. The conference will be organised by Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman (UTAR).  The main goal of the conference is to promote research on
new information security technologies, including their applications and
their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. Previous
ISPEC has taken place in Singapore (2005), Hangzhou, China (2006), Hong
Kong, China (2007), Sydney, Australia (2008), Xi'an, China (2009), Seoul,
Korea (2010), Guangzhou, China (2011), Hangzhou, China (2012), Lanzhou,
China (2013), Fuzhou, China (2014), Beijing, China (2015), Zhangjiajie,
China (2016), Melbourne, Australia (2017) and Tokyo, Japan (2018). For all
sessions, the conference proceedings were published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Areas of interest for ISPEC 2019 include, but are not limited to:

   - Cryptology
   - Applied cryptography
   - Mobile security
   - Cloud security
   - Access control
   - Privacy enhanced technology
   - Viruses and malware
   - Software security
   - Database security
   - Web security
   - Operating system security
   - Intrusion detection
   - Big data security and privacy
   - Biometric Security
   - Implementation
   - Network security
   - Key management
   - Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing
   - Formal methods for security
   - Digital forensics
   - Security for critical infrastructures
   - Embedded systems security
   - Lightweight security
   - Smart grid security
   - Cyber security for urban transportation
   - Cyber-physical security
   - Cryptocurrency

*Important Dates:*
Submission Deadline:          8 June 2019 (15:59 UTC) *21 June 2019 (AoE)*

Acceptance Notification:      29 July 2019
Camera-ready Copy Due:    3 September 2019
Conference:                          26-28 November 2019


*Instructions for Authors:*Authors are invited to submit original papers.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors
has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of
any other conference with proceeding or any journal. The submission must
be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or
obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in
length
(single column) excluding the bibliography and appendices and up to
20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable
margins. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection
without
consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must
guarantee that at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present their work. Submitted papers should follow the
formatting
instructions of the Springer LNCS Style. Please kindly refer to
Springer LNCS Author Information
<
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
> for style and formatting guidelines.

*Conference Proceedings:*
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

*Journal Special Issues: *
Selected papers presented at the ISPEC 2019 will be invited to consider
submission (after significant extension) for special issue in the following
journals:


   - *IEEE Access*: Special Issue on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics
   Research Advances and Challenges
   <https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/deep-learning-security-and-forensics-research-advances-and-challenges/>
(Impact
   Factor: 3.557)
   - *Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience*: Special Issue
   on Trust Management and Security Enforcement in Internet of Things (TMSEIoT
   2019) <http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2019.html#TMSEIoT2019>
(Impact
   Factor: 1.114)
   - *Digital Communications and Networks*:   Special Issue on Security and
   Privacy Protection in the Era of IoT Devices
   <http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networks/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-security-and-privacy-protection/>
    (SCIE-indexed)

*Honored Chair*

Bok-Min Goi, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia



*General Chair*

Wun-She Yap, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia



*Organization Committee*

Local Chair: Denis C.K. Wong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Finance Chair: Yee-Kai Tee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Sponsorship Chair: Wai-Kong Lee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Web Chair: Ji-Jian Chin, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Donghong Qin, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China

Shifeng Sun, Monash University, Australia



*Program Co-Chairs*

Swee-Huay Heng, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain

*Program Committee:*

Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Joonsang Baek, University of Wollongong, Australia

Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy

David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK

Jiageng Chen, Central China Normal University, China

Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China

Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Sherman S. M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia

Jose Maria de Fuentes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain

José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany & National
University of Singapore, Singapore

Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Debiao He, Wuhan University, China

Shoichi Hirose, University of Fukui, Japan

Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China

Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, Nеw Zеаlаnd

Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan

Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Noboru Kunihiro, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey

Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK

Tieyan Li, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore

Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Kaitai  Liang, University of Surrey, UK

Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia

Zhe Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Giovanni Livraga, University of Milan, Italy

Jiqiang Lu, Beihang University, China

Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Tzu-Chuen Lu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

Di Ma, University of Michigan, USA

Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

David Naccache, École Normale Supérieure, France

Takeshi Okamoto, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan

Kazumasa Omote, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Pedro Peris-Lopez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany

Raphael C.-W. Phan, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Geong Sen Poh, Singtel, Singapore

C. Pandu Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA

Na Ruan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy

Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

Miguel Soriano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan

Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia

Syh-Yuan Tan, Newcastle University, UK

Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ding Wang, Peking University, China

Guilin Wang, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore

Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China

Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan

Wei-Chuen Yau, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia

Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia

Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Tsz Hon Yuen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Yuexin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Jianying  Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Sencun Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

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Best regards,


-- 
Dr. Shi-Feng Sun (孙士锋)
Email: shifeng.sun at monash.edu
Phone: +61-3-99058074
Cybersecurity Lab, https://www.monash.edu/cybersecurity-lab
Faculty of Information Technology,
Monash University,
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia