CALL FOR PAPERS
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience
Editor-in-Chief: Peter Sloot
Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs
Special Issue on
Recent Developments in High Performance Computing and Security
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2011
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Providing high performance computing and security is a challenging task. Internet, operating systems and
distributed environments currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common attacks.
Adding security measures typically degrade performance. This special issue addresses relationships
between security and high performance computing systems in three directions. First, it considers how to
add security properties (authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, access control) to high
performance computing systems. In this case, safety properties can also be addressed, such as availability
and fault tolerance for high performance computing systems. Second, it covers how to use high
performance computing systems to solve security problems. For instance, a grid computation can break
an encryption code, or a cluster can support high performance intrusion detection. More generally, this
topic addresses every efficient use of high performance computing systems to improve security. Third, it
investigates the tradeoffs between maintaining high performance and achieving security in computing
systems and solutions to balance the two objectives. In all these directions, various performance analyses
or monitoring techniques can be conducted to show the efficiency of a security infrastructure.
The special issue on “Recent Advances in High Performance Computing and Security” seeks submissions
from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer
and network security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have
practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. The scope
of this special issue will be interdisciplinary, involving contributions from experts in the areas of
computer security, high performance computing, cryptography, and formal methods.
The Special Issue topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
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Access Control
Accounting and Audit
Anonymity
Applied Cryptography
Authentication
Biometrics
Cloud Security
Commercial and Industry Security
Cryptographic Protocols
Data and Application Security
Data/System Integrity
Database Security
Digital Rights Management
Forensic Analysis
Formal Verification of Secure Systems
Identity Management
Inference/Controlled Disclosure
Information Warfare
Intellectual Property Protection
Intrusion and Attack Detection
Intrusion and Attack Response
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Key Management
Privacy-Enhancing Technology
Secure Networking
Secure System Design
Security Monitoring & Management
Security for Mobile Code
Security in IT Outsourcing
Security for Specific Domains (e.g., EGovernment, E-Business, P2P)
Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks
Security in Untrusted & Adversarial
Environments and Systems
Security in Operating Systems
Security Location Services
Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures
Security Visualization
Smartcards
Trust Management Policies
Trust Models
Web Security
Web Services Security
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Interested authors should send a one-page abstract with title, authors, affiliations, emails and contact
information, and a statement of their intent to submit a new or an extended version of their HPCS 2010
paper to this special issue by the due date. The one page abstract should be sent as an email attachment to
the Special Issue Guest Editors by January 28, 2011. Guest Editors replies will be sent by February 7,
2011.
Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted
papers must represent a substantial extension of work presented at the conference (at least by 30%), and
should include previously unpublished material that adds new insight and significant content well beyond
that in the published proceedings. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names,
affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly
the corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of
no more than 400 words. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers
to provide helpful comments.
Please register at the Journal's editorial handling system (EES) http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/, if you have
not yet used the system, select Author Log-in, and upload editable source files for manuscript (Word,
LaTeX, ...) and figures, mentioning that the paper is part of the special section Recent Developments in
High Performance Computing and Security. Please choose the Article Type ''SS: SecurityHPCS2010". The system will then prepare a pdf for approval. When the "approval" button is clicked,
the paper will be submitted.
Regarding format: On the journal homepage www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs, there is a Guide for Authors
providing instructions and requirements for papers. There is no journal template, and we prefer to have
no elaborate lay-out as that will be removed anyway. We do require however the submission of author
biographies and photographs. An elementary structure of title, author names, affiliations, abstract, text,
references, figure captions, figures would be sufficient. The number of pages of the submitted paper
should be related to the content of the paper: superfluous material is to be avoided. Usually uploading
takes less than 10 minutes.
If you encounter any problems in the use of the online system, please do not hesitate to contact
authorsupport@elsevier.com.
Submitted papers will receive thorough reviews and evaluation. Papers will be selected based on their
originality, contributions, technical clarity and presentation, language, significance to the readership of
the journal, relevance to the special issue, and quality and significance of research hypothesis, assertions,
and conclusions.
IMPORTANT DATES (Subject to Change)
Abstract Submission: ---------------------------------------- January 28, 2011
Guest Editors Reply: ----------------------------------------- February 7, 2011
Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------------- April 1, 2011
1st Notifications and Reviewers Comments: ------------------ May 15, 2011
2nd Revision Submission: ----------------------------------------- June 10, 2011
2nd Notifications and Reviewers Comments: ----------------- July 15, 2011
Revised Final Manuscripts: ----------------------------------- August 10, 2011
Accepted papers are expected to appear in the 4th Quarter of 2011 (Tentative).
GUEST EDITORS
Waleed W. Smari
University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton OH 45469-0226, USA
Phone: +1 (937) 681-0098
Fax:
+1 (937) 255-4511
Email: smari@arys.org
Luca Spalazzi
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, ITALY, EU
Phone: +39 071 2204829
Fax:
+39 071 2204474
Email: spalazzi@diiga.univpm.it
Yacine Zemali
LIFO, Université d'Orleans - ENSI de Bourges, 10 Boulevard Lahitolle, F-18020 Bourges Cedex,
FRANCE, EU
Phone: +33 (0)2 48 48 40 94
Fax:
+33 (0)2 48 48 40 50
Email:
yacine.zemali@ensi-bourges.fr
If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue, please contact one of the Guest
Editors.