ICICS 2014
The Sixteenth International Conference on Information and
Communications Security
Hong Kong, December 16 – 17, 2014.
Call for Papers
Conference Overview
The 2014 International Conference on Information and Communications Security
will be the 16th event in the ICICS conference series, started in 1997, that brings together
individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information and Communications Security
in order to foster exchange of ideas.
ICICS 2014 will be co-organized by the Center for Information Security and
Cryptography (CISC), Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
and Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), China, sponsored by
both National Natural Science Foundation of China and Information Security and Forensics
Society (ISFS), Hong Kong.
Original papers on all aspects of information and communications security are
solicited for submission to ICICS2014. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Access control
Anonymity
Anti-virus and anti-worms
Applied cryptography
Authentication and authorization
Biometric security
Cloud security
Computer and digital forensics
Cyber-physical systems security
Data and system integrity
Database security
Digital currency
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Distributed systems security
Electronic commerce security
Engineering issues of cryptographic
and security systems
Fraud and cyber-crime
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Hardware security
Information hiding and watermarking
Intellectual property protection
Intrusion detection
Key management and key recovery
Language-based security
Network security
Operating systems security
Privacy protection
Risk evaluation and security
Security for mobile computing
Security in wearable computing and
Internet of things
Security models
Security protocols
Trusted computing and trustworthy
computing technology
Usable security
Instructions for Authors
Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor
submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All
submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations,
acknowledgements, or obvious references.
Submissions should be in English, as a PDF or PS file with all fonts embedded, in
the
Springer-Verlag
LNCS
format
(details
can
be
found
at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset with 11pt
font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 12 A4-sized
pages including the bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices. Note that
papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not
required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without
consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions.
At least one author of each accepted paper should register the conference and give
presentation at the conference.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2014
Camera-ready due: September 31, 2014
Conference: December 16 – 17, 2014
Additional Information
Conference homepage: http://www.cs.hku.hk/icics2014/
Email: icics@cs.hku.hk
Among the preceding conferences, ICICS1997 took place in Beijing, China,
ICICS1999 in Sydney, Australia, ICICS2001 in Xi’an, China, ICICS2002 in Singapore,
ICICS2003 in Huhehaote city, China, ICICS2004 in Malaga, Spain, ICICS2005 in
Beijing, China, ICICS2006 in Raleigh, NC, USA, ICICS2007 in Zhengzhou, China, and
ICICS2008 in Birmingham, UK, ICICS2009 in Beijing, China, ICICS2010 in Barcelona,
Spain, ICICS2011 in Beijing, China, ICICS2012 in Hong Kong and ICICS2013 in
Beijing, China. The proceedings were released as Volumes 1334, 1726, 2229, 2513, 2836,
3269, 3783, 4307, 4381, 5308, 5927, 6476, 7043, 7618, and 8233 of the LNCS series of
Springer, respectively.