The International Conference on IT Convergence and Security 2012 (ICITCS 2012)
December 5 - 7, 2012, Republic of Korea

Publication: Springer LNEE

The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research results in all aspects of IT Convergence and Security. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted papers and posters will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering series (LNEE, ISSN: 1876-1100) which is indexed by ISI and Scopus. Furthermore, the selected papers will be published in the special issues of prestigious international journals after further revision.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: September 14, 2012
Notification of acceptance of papers: September 27, 2012
Early-bird registration deadline: September 28, 2012
Final papers (Camera ready) due: October 5, 2012

SPECIAL ISSUE (SCI or SCIE)
Multimedia Tools and Applications (SCIE) [pending]
Wireless Personal Communications, WIRE (SCIE) [pending]
Information – An International Interdisciplinary Journal (SCIE)
More to be announced

PAPER SUBMISSION AND GUIDELINE
- The paper must be written in English and readable
- The paper must be single-column format with single-spaced, 10 point font in the text
- The paper must be prepared using only the Word (doc) template found at the ICITCS 2012 website: http://icitcs2012.kcis.kr
- The document should be formatted for the standard A4-size paper
- Papers must be submitted Only in Portable Document Format (PDF)
- The paper length limit for full paper: 4 - 8 pages including all figures

SCOPE AND TOPICS
Topics of interest may include one or more of the following (but are not limited to) themes;


Track 1. Security Fundamentals: Cryptography and Number Theory/ Authentication, Authorization and Accounting/ Secure Key Creation and Distribution/ Private Information Security/ Biometrics Security/ Financial Security/ Malicious Code/ Theories, Methods, Tools and Applications in Security

Track 2. Industrial & Business Information Security: Security in E-commerce and E-business/ Security Applications and Services/ IPTV Security Services in the Broadband convergence Network (BcN)/ Security for Open convergence system/ Distributed Systems Security/ Trust model and Management/ Emerging Challenges in Industrial Security and Assurance

Track 3. Security Protocols and Applications: Security Protocols for Wireless and Mobile/ Constraint-based Analysis of Security Protocols/ Light-weight Authentication, Authorization and accountability/ Identity and Trust Management/ Secure Communications/ Intrusion Detection and Prevention/ PKI & Digital Signatures

Track 4. Convergence Security: Secure Collaboration in a Ubiquitous Environment/ Corporate Security & Electronic Access Control Solutions: RFID-based, Biometrics-based, etc/ Physical and Logical Security Convergence/ Security and Privacy Challenges in the Healthcare Domain/ Multimedia Security Services in Cloud Computing/ Access Control and Privacy Protection in Pervasive Computing

Track 5. IT Convergence Applications: IT Convergence Technology/ Trans-Media and IT Convergence/ Contents and Application convergence/ Knowledge Convergence Services/ Digital Convergence/ Hybrid of IT/BT, IT/NT/ Embedded SW, Middleware and Operating Systems/ Convergence Application Security

Track 6. Mobile Computing and Future Networks: Multimodal Mobile and Ubiquitous Services/ Mobile Applications and Convergence System/ Mobile, Wireless and Wired Convergence/ Mobile Convergence Service Architecture/ Optical Network and Systems/ Next Generation Networks and Media/ Convergence Networks and Communications/ u-City Convergence Technology/ Future Information Convergence Systems

Track 7. Multimedia and Information Visualization: Multimedia content distribution/ Converged Video Surveillance/ Image processing & visualization for Convergence/ Vision systems, including multi-camera systems/ Converged Information Visualization/ Multimedia and Information Convergence Security

Track 8. Convergence Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence: Database and Data Mining/ Service Mining in Marketing, CRM and Business Intelligence/ Artificial Life and Artificial Immune System/ Biomedical Devices, sensors, and Artificial Organs/ Convergence Technology for Data Mining and AI

Track 9. Web Technology and Software Engineering: Service-centric software engineering/ Web Technology and Internet Commerce/ Web data mining and information retrieval/ Agent-based trade-and mediating services/ Convergence Web Technology/ Web Security

Track 10. Green Convergence Services: Green computing methodologies and paradigms/ Power aware, thermal aware data center design, service, and application/ Energy awareness in network equipment and operations/ Energy efficient network infrastructures and protocols/ Green Computer Security

ORGANIZER
Center for Industry Security [CIS]
Kyonggi University
Convergence Security Association

CONTACT
For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact to Joanna Kim, Conference Secretariat (icitcs@global.kcis.kr).