ICICS 2008 :: 10th International Conference on Information and Communications Security

20 - 22 October, 2008

Hyatt Regency, Birmingham, UK

Call for papers

The 10th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS) will take place on 20th - 22nd October, 2008. The event, which started in 1997, brings together individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information and Communications Security, in order to foster the exchange of ideas. ICICS 2008 will be organised by the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, in co-operation with HP Laboratories (Bristol, UK), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the International Communications and Information Security Association (ICISA).

Conference topics

Original papers on all aspects of information and communications security are solicited for submission to ICICS 2008. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:


Access control Anti-malware Anonymity Applied cryptography Authentication and authorization Biometric security Data and system integrity Database security Distributed systems security Electronic commerce Fraud control Grid security	Information hiding and watermarking Intellectual property protection Intrusion detection Key management and key recovery Language-based security Operating system security Network security Risk evaluation and security certification Security for mobile computing Security models Security protocols Trusted computing

Instructions for authors

Authors are invited to submit original papers which are 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, in PDF or PS format with all fonts embedded, typeset using 11pt font, and having reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 12 A4-sized pages, excluding a bibliography and 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.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper should register and give presentation at the conference.

Important dates

Submission deadline: ~~28 May, 2008~~
Notification deadline: ~~15 July, 2008~~
Camera-ready deadline: ~~5 August, 2008~~

Paper submission

Click here to submit a paper.

General chair

Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK

Programme committee chairs

Liqun Chen, HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Guilin Wang, University of Birmingham, UK

Programme committee


Mikhail Atallah, Purdue University, USA Tuomas Aura, Microsoft Research, UK Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Feng Bao, I2R, Singapore Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Colin Boyd, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Hao Chen, University of California at Davis, USA Kefei Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Edward Dawson, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dengguo Feng, Chinese Academy of Science, China Steve Furnell, University of Plymouth. UK Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg Univ. of Technology, Germany David Grawrock, Intel, USA Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Engin Kirda, Institute Eurecom, France. Steve Kremer, ENS de Cachan, France. Chi-Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Dong Hoon Lee, Korea University, Korea Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Wenbo Mao, EMC Research, China Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA	Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, UK Sang-Jae Moon, Kyungpook National University, Korea Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Akira Otsuka, AIST, Japan Kenneth G. Paterson, Royal Holloway, UK Giuseppe Persiano, Universita di Salerno, Italy Raphael C.-W. Phan, Loughborough University, UK Sihan Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Eike Ritter, University of Birmingham, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle, UK Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Wenchang Shi, Renmin University of China, China Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Tsuyoshi Takagi, Future University Hakodate, Japan Bogdan Warinschi, Universtiy of Bristol, UK Andreas Wespi, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Duncan S. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Alec Yasinsac, Florida State University, USA Moti Yung, Columbia University, USA Yuliang Zheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Sencun Zhu, Penn State University, USA

Organising committee

Guilin Wang, University of Birmingham, UK
Andrew Brown, University of Birmingham, UK
Hasan Qunoo, University of Birmingham, UK
Ben Smyth, University of Birmingham, UK