CALL FOR PAPERS, IHTIAP 2012:
The First Workshop on Information Hiding Techniques for Internet Anonymity and Privacy
June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy
- along with INTERNET 2012, The Fourth International Conference on Evolving Internet
- under InforWare 2012 umbrella

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/IHTIAP.html

Important deadlines:
Submission (full paper) February 16, 2012
Notification March 23, 2012
Registration April 7, 2012
Camera ready April 7, 2012

Proceedings (along with INTERNET 2012)
ISBN: 978-1-61208-204-2
Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library (open access, free downloadable, no account, no password)
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org


The evolving usages and economic models on the Internet tend to involve a lot of personal data disclosure. This information sharing is usually intended and assumed by the users, either because it is needed for service personalization or because it is simply the core aspect of a distributed social application. Yet, it often leads to abusive, unexpected, or unwanted behavioral profiling.

Individual online tracking is even possible and has been frequently reported. In most serious cases, impersonation and identity theft can prove disastrous for users. There is thus a salient need for efficient tools providing users with reliable pseudonymity, anonymity, and privacy on the Internet, allowing them to fully benefit from the services and applications without avoiding privacy breaches.

The First Information Hiding Techniques for Internet Anonymity and Privacy, IHTIAP 2012, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on aspects of information hiding techniques for Internet anonymity and privacy.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Anonymity and privacy theory (information theory of privacy, statistics and decision theory for anonymity, mathematical models)
- Data hiding for anonymity techniques (digital watermarking, steganography, etc.)
- Anonymity and privacy attacks and metric (security models, forensics and counter-forensics, acquisition system identification, etc.)
- Practical uses of anonymity and privacy
- Danger of anonymity in digital society (uncontrolled defamation, uncontrolled replicas, etc.)


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IARIA Advisory Chairs

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute-Alsace, France
Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada / China Space Agency Center, China

IHTIAP 2012 Workshop Chairs

Jacques M. Bahi, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France
Christophe Guyeux, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté France
Jean-François Couchot, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France

IHTIAP 2012 Technical Program Committee

Gergely Acs, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Jacques M. Bahi, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France
Thierry Berger, XLIM, University of Limoges, France
Rémi Cogranne, ICD, LM2S, University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), UMS STMR CNRS, France
Jean-François Couchot, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France
Eric Filiol, ESIEA Group, France
Caroline Fontaine, CNRS/Lab-STICC/CID and Télécom Bretagne/ITI, France
Sébastien Gambs, IRISA, France
Christophe Guyeux, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté France
Vincent Guyot, ESIEA Group, France
Pierre-Cyrille Heam, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France
Yoshinobu Kawabe, Dept. of Information Science, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Siegen, Germany
Carlos Munuera, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Valladolid, Spain
Guillaume Piolle, SUPELEC, France
Josep Rifa, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Imre Sandor, Department of Telecommunications, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Tim Watson, Department of Computer Technology, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
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IHTIAP Chairs
Jacques M. Bahi, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France
Christophe Guyeux, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté France
Jean-François Couchot, FEMTO-ST, University of Franche-Comté, France