The International Workshop on Security and Forensics of Multimedia in the Cloud (IWSFMC 2016)
Call for Paper (CFP)

Cloud computing is an emerging yet revolutionary technology. It has started changing the ways people live and work. With the rapid growth of cloud and related services, security and privacy in the Cloud have become increasingly critical issues in the research realm of communications and networks security. The introduction of cloud in existing computer systems and networks has changed the security perspectives and measures, consequently affecting how crime related digital evidence is retrieved, processed, and presented in this environment.

The International Workshop on Security and Forensics of Multimedia in the Cloud (IWSFMC 2016), aptly named for its goals, is a one-day research workshop organized with the objective of bringing together top researchers working on the intersection of the of cloud computing as well as the security and forensics of multimedia to present and discuss their latest research results and ideas, thereby promoting the development and the evolution of this combined body of knowledge. All submissions enabling cross-pollination of ideas on multimedia security and forensics in the cloud environment are welcome. IWSFMC 2016 encourages and accepts novel, innovative, and previously unpublished works. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Multimedia Storage Security in Cloud
• Multimedia Cloud Access Control
• Multimedia Security Management
• Multimedia Hacking and Countermeasures
• Secure Encoding for Multimedia
• Cloud Services for Delivering Secure Multimedia
• Cloud Multimedia Data Acquisition
• Cloud Multimedia Evidence Management
• Multimedia Auditing and Compliance
• Multimedia Digital Evidence Analysis and Presentation

The workshop organizers cordially invite submissions of original research work to The International Workshop on Security and Forensics of Multimedia in the Cloud (IWSFMC 2016), in conjunction with The 9th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, to be held on June 18-20, 2016 in Xi’an, China. Paper formatting and submission instructions can be found at the 2016 IEEE MOBIMEDIA website http://www.mobimedia.org/2016/show/initial-submission.

Workshop Chairs
• Dr. Lei Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA, lchen@georgiasouthern.edu
• Dr. Danda B Rawat, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA, db.rawat@ieee.org

Important Dates
Workshop: TBA (one of the MOBIMEDIA 2016 conference days)
Location: Xi’an, China (venue to be announced)
Paper Due: April 8, 2016
Paper Notification: April 20, 2016
Camera-ready Paper Due: May 1, 2016
Start of MobiMedia Conference: June 18, 2016
End of MobiMedia Conference: June 20, 2016

Tentative List of Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members
• Dr. Venkatesan Ekambaram, Qualcomm, USA
• Dr. Yan Chen, Northwestern University
• Dr. Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine
• Dr. Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University, USA
• Dr. Feng Hong, Ocean University of China
• Dr. Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Dr. Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Dr. Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
• Dr. Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota
• Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas
• Dr. Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
• Dr. Shaoen Wu, Southern Mississippi University
• Dr. Gongjun Yan, University of Southern Indiana, USA
• Dr. Ming Yang, Kennesaw State University
• Dr. Shengli Yuan, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
• Dr. Ren Kui, University at Buffalo
• Dr. Xingwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Dr. Yongang Wen, Nanyang Technological University
• Dr. Shucheng Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Dr. Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame
• Dr. Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Dr. Brent Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Dr. Andrea Lanzi, University of Milan
• Dr. Mohit Tiwari, University of Texas at Austin
• Dr. Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Dr. Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov, University of British Columbia

Planned Format of the Workshop
Time Program
8:30 am Introduction (workshop chair and co-chairs)
8:45 am Invited Speech
9:15 am Session #1
10:45 am break
11:00 am Session #2
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Session #3
3:00 pm break
3:15 pm Session #4
4:15 pm Closing comments from workshop chair and co-chairs
4:30 pm Adjournment