Second International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'16)

Second International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'16)
Co-located with 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

26 May 2016 - The Fairmont, San Jose, CA

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: 18 January 2016
Deadline for paper submission: 8 February 2016
Notification of acceptance: 22 February 2016
Accepted paper camera-ready: 3 March 2016 

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Second International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'16).

Privacy engineering research has never been a more timely endeavor. Ongoing news reports regarding global surveillance programs, massive personal data breaches in corporate databases, and notorious examples of personal tragedies due to privacy violations have intensified societal demands for privacy-friendly systems. In response, current legislative and standardization processes worldwide are seeking to strengthen individuals’ privacy by introducing legal and organizational frameworks that personal data collectors and processors must follow. As a result, engineers are increasingly expected to build and maintain systems that preserve privacy and comply with data protection standards in different ICT domains (such as health, energy, transportation, social computing, law enforcement, and public services) and on different infrastructures and architectures (such as cloud, grid, or mobile computing).

Although there is a consensus on the benefits of an engineering approach to privacy, few concrete proposals exist for models, methodologies, techniques and tools to support engineers and organizations in this endeavor. Work that focuses on helping organizations and software developers to identify and adopt appropriate privacy engineering methods, techniques and tools in their daily practices is also missing. Furthermore, it is difficult to systematically evaluate whether the systems developed using privacy engineering methodologies comply with legal frameworks, provide necessary technical assurances, and fulfill users’ privacy requirements.

Clearly, more research is needed in developing methods that can help translate legal and normative concepts, as well as user expectations, into systems requirements. There is also a growing need for techniques and tools to support organizations and engineers in developing and maintaining (socio-)technical systems that meet these requirements. In an effort to close the gaps in research, the topics of IWPE'16 include all aspects of privacy engineering, ranging from its theoretical foundations, engineering approaches and support infrastructures to its practical application in projects of different scales.

Specifically, we are seeking the following kinds of papers:

1.  technical solution papers that illustrate a novel formalism, method or other research finding with preliminary evaluation;
2.  experience and practice papers that describe a case study, challenge or lessons learned in a specific domain;
3.  early evaluations of tools and techniques that support engineering tasks in privacy requirements, design, implementation, testing, etc.;
4.  interdisciplinary studies or critical reviews of existing privacy engineering concepts, methods and frameworks; 
5.  vision papers that take a clear position informed by evidence based on a thorough literature review.

IWPE’16 welcomes papers that focus on novel solutions based on recent developments in privacy engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Integrating law and policy compliance into the development process
• Privacy impact assessment during software development
• Privacy risk management models
• Privacy breach recovery methods
• Technical standards, heuristics and best practices for privacy engineering
• Privacy engineering in technical standards
• Privacy requirements elicitation and analysis methods
• User privacy and data protection requirements
• Management of privacy requirements with other system requirements
• Privacy requirements implementation
• Privacy engineering strategies and design patterns
• Privacy-preserving architectures
• Privacy engineering and databases
• Privacy engineering in the context of interaction design and usability
• Privacy testing and evaluation methods
• Validation and verification of privacy requirements
• Engineering of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Integration of PETs into systems
• Models and approaches for the verification of privacy properties
• Tools and formal languages supporting privacy engineering
• Teaching and training privacy engineering
• Adaptations of privacy engineering into specific software development processes
• Pilots and real-world applications
• Evaluation of privacy engineering methods, technologies and tools
• Privacy engineering and accountability
• Organizational, legal, political and economic aspects of privacy engineering

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive, as IWPE'16 is interested in all aspects of privacy engineering. However, to screen out off-topic papers early in the review process, we request authors to submit an abstract prior to their paper submission. Abstracts of papers without a clear application to privacy engineering will be considered outside the scope of this workshop and may be rejected.

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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit unpublished short position papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers reporting technical, research or industry experience (up to 8 pages) on all dimensions of the privacy engineering domain. Each paper, written in English, must follow IEEE Proceedings format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the paper.

Abstracts and papers must be submitted via EasyChair

All IWPE'16 Papers will be published in IEEE eXplore, which is indexed by EI Engineering Index, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S), Scopus, etc.

International Workshop on 5G Security - Programme

The 1st IEEE International Workshop on 5G Security held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15

There is a fast on-going change in the technical architectures and topologies of the Internet: in the near future 5G and next generation 4G/LTE network architectures will be based on or migrated to Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). These create new virtual network elements each affecting the logic of the network operation, traffic management and introducing new and novel security challenges. Aspects such as security of orchestration, management functionality as well as surveillance and privacy are brought to the fore. At the same time they introduce new ways of dealing with attack prevention, management and recovery.

The one-day workshop will consist of papers, presentations and demonstrations on the subject of advanced network security. While primarily related to 5G networks, experiences from 4G/LTE, 3G and earlier, including case studies on practicalities of known attacks and novel attack vectors will be considered for acceptance. An invited keynote speech will be given setting out the overall area of security in network development and operations.

IW5GS Programme
TrustCom 2015 Helsinki, Finland
Friday 21, August 2015

10h05-11h50 – Session I

• Ian Oliver, Silke Holtmanns, Workshop Opening
• Günther Horn and Peter Schneider, Towards 5G Security
• Siddharth Prakash Rao, Silke Holtmanns, Ian Oliver and Tuomas Aura. Unblocking stolen mobile devices using SS7-MAP vulnerabilities
• Vikramajeet Khatri and Joerg Abendroth, Mobile Guard Demo - Network Based Malware Detection

13h10-14h55 – Session II

• Ian Oliver, Aspects of 5G Security
• Nicolae Paladi and Christian Gehrmann. Towards Secure SDN-based Multi-tenant Virtualized Networks
• Elena Dubrova, Mats Näslund and Göran Selander. CRC-Based Message Authentication for 5G Mobile Technology
• Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Oscar Ohlsson and Michael Liljenstam. An Air Interface Signaling Protection Function for Mobile Networks: GSM Experiments and Beyond

15h15-17h00 – Session III

• Bengt Shalin, keynote talk
• Mingjun Wang and Zheng Yan. Security in D2D Communications: A Review
• Karl Norrman, Mats Näslund, Bengt Sahlin and Jari Arkko. A USIM compatible 5G AKA protocol with perfect forward secrecy
• Silke Holtmanns,Ian Oliver, Workshop Closing

Privacy Engineering Tutorial Session held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15

Privacy Engineering Tutorial Session held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15

August 20-22, 2015, Helsinki, Finland

Privacy from legal aspects through to engineering concepts has become a defining aspect of system design. Knowledge of how this relatively young and important area links together lawyers and engineers is critical to a proper implementation of privacy beyond mere lip-service and obscure privacy policies.

What would make this tutorial session unique is the presentation of the end-to-end privacy ‘process’ with examples drawn from industry demonstrating how Privacy-by-Design becomes Privacy Engineering with foundational aspects, tools and techniques, risk management, requirements management, checklists, auditing etc being properly integrated together.

Organisers

Dr. Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Michelle Dennedy, VP/Chief Privacy Officer, McAfee/Intel, US
Jonathan Fox, Director Data Privacy, McAfee/Intel, US

Dates

This tutorial will be held on the 20th of August 2015.

Content

This tutorial session will be held in four parts and presented by the three organizers listed above.

1. Legal Aspects of Privacy For Managers and Engineers(JF)
2. Privacy Development in the Software Process (MD)
3. Engineering Foundations of Privacy (IO)
4. Guest Lectures
1. Privacy at F-Secure, Antti Vaha-Sipila, F-Secure
2. Privacy at Nokia, TBD
5. Discussion (All)

The above sessions are supported by material in the following books:

• The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto - Apress
• Privacy Engineering: A dataflow and ontological approach - CreateSpace

Contact

Please direct enquiries and registration for the tutorial to Ian Oliver.

IW5GS2015 - The 1st International Workshop on 5G Security held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15

IW5GS2015

The 1st International Workshop on 5G Security held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-15

August 20-22, 2015, Helsinki, Finland

There is a fast on-going change in the technical architectures and topologies of the Internet: in the near future 5G and next generation 4G/LTE network architectures will be based on or migrated to Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). These create new virtual network elements each affecting the logic of the network operation, traffic management and introducing new and novel security challenges. Aspects such as security of orchestration, management functionality as well as surveillance and privacy are brought to the fore. At the same time they introduce new ways of dealing with attack prevention, management and recovery.

The one-day workshop will consist of papers, presentations and demonstrations on the subject of advanced network security. While primarily related to 5G networks, experiences from 4G/LTE, 3G and earlier, including case studies on practicalities of known attacks and novel attack vectors will be considered for acceptance. An invited keynote speech will be given setting out the overall area of security in network development and operations.

Scope and Interests
We solicit papers and demonstrations in the following areas related to 5G/LTE security:

• Core Network Security
• Cellular security
• Device to Device (D2D)
• Security Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN elements
• Terminal and Edge Computing Security
• Malware and attack detection and prevention techniques, eg: machine learning
• Authentication and Authorisation
• Encryption protocols, eg: homomorphic encryption
• Key Exchange, Storage and Protection
• Content/Semantic processing, inc. anonymisation of (meta*-) data
• Honeypot and Firewall Technologies
• Protocol security: Diameter, SS7, BGP, etc
• Physical Layer Security
• Formal Specification and Analysis of Protocols and Attacks, eg: model checking etc.
• Trusted Computing with NFV and SDN

Submission and Publication Information

TBA

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 31, 2015
Authors notification: May 31, 2015
Camera-ready due: July 1, 2015
Registration: July 1, 2015

Program Co-Chairs

Dr. Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Dr. Silke Holtmanns, Nokia, Finland

Program Committee

Dr. Rolf Blom (Security Researcher), SICS Security Lab, Sweden
Dr. Aidan Delaney, University of Brighton, UK
Tobias Engel (Security Expert), Sternraute, Germany (tbc)
Hannu Flinck (Senior Specialist in Internet Technologies), Nokia Networks, Finland
Dr. Martin Gerdes (Ph.D. Fellow), University of Agdar, Norway
Dr. Philip Ginzboorg (Senior Researcher), Huawei, Finland
Leo Hippalainen (Security Expert), Nokia Networks, Finland
Prof. John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
Prof. Theo Kanter, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Kari Kostiainen (Researcher), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Ulrike Meyer (Security Expert), RWTH Aachen, Germany
Prof. Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Markus Miettinen (Research Assistant), University of Darmstadt, Germany
Dr. Martin Otto (Head of Cyber Security Research), Siemens AG, Germany
Dr. Anand Prasant (3GPP Security Chair), NEC, Japan
Peter Schneider (Senior Specialist Security Solutions), Nokia Networks, Germany
Prof. Taleb Tirak, Aalto University, Finland
Prof. Ralf Tönjes, University of Applied Science, Osnabrueck, Germany
Janne Uusilehto (Head of Security and Privacy), Microsoft Mobile, Finland
Prof. Thanh van Do, Telenor, Norway
Prof. Alf Zugenmaier, Munich University of Applied Science, Germany

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning the workshop to Ian Oliver and Silke Holtmanns.

CFP: TrustCom 2015

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15)

Helsinki, Finland, 20-22 August, 2015

With the rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for trust, security and privacy are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. As a result, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving trust, security and privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention.

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15) will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 20-22 August 2015. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on trusted computing and communications, with regard to trust, security, privacy, reliability, dependability, survivability, availability, and fault tolerance aspects of computer systems and networks, and providing a forum to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in this highly challenging research field.

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings.
Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals.

First International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'15)

CFP:

First International Workshop on Privacy Engineering

(IWPE'15)

http://ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/IWPE/

http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2015

21 May 2015 - The Fairmont, San Jose, CA 

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline of paper submission:  23 January, 2015
Notification of acceptance:    16 February, 2015 
Accepted Paper camera ready:   3 March, 2015  

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual event of the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'15).

Ongoing news reports regarding global surveillance programs, massive personal data breaches in corporate databases, and notorious examples of personal tragedies due to privacy violations have intensified societal demands for privacy-friendly systems. In response, current legislative and standardization processes worldwide aim to strengthen individual’s privacy by introducing legal and organizational frameworks that personal data collectors and processors must follow.

However, in practice, these initiatives alone are not enough to guarantee that organizations and software developers will be able to identify and adopt appropriate privacy engineering techniques in their daily practices. Even if so, it is difficult to systematically evaluate whether the systems they develop using such techniques comply with legal frameworks, provide necessary technical assurances, and fulfill users’ privacy requirements. It is evident that research is needed in developing techniques that can aid the translation of legal and normative concepts, as well as user expectations into systems requirements. Furthermore, methods that can support organizations and engineers in developing (socio-)technical systems that address these requirements is of increasing value to respond to the existing societal challenges associated with privacy.

In this context, privacy engineering research is emerging as an important topic. Engineers are increasingly expected to build and maintain privacy-preserving and data-protection compliant systems in different ICT domains such as health, energy, transportation, social computing, law enforcement, public services; based on different infrastructures such as cloud, grid, or mobile computing and architectures. While there is a consensus on the benefits of an engineering approach to privacy, concrete proposals for processes, models, methodologies, techniques and tools that support engineers and organizations in this endeavor are few and in need of immediate attention.

To cover this gap, the topics of the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'15) focus on all the aspects surrounding privacy engineering, ranging from its theoretical foundations, engineering approaches, and support infrastructures, to its practical application in projects of different scale. Specifically, we are seeking the following kinds of papers: (1) technical solution papers that illustrate a novel formalism, method or other research finding with preliminary evaluation; (2) experience and practice papers that describe a case study, challenge or lessons learned from in a specific domain; (3) early evaluations of tools and other infrastructure that support engineering tasks in privacy requirements, design, implementation, testing, etc.; (4) interdisciplinary studies or critical reviews of existing privacy engineering concepts, methods and frameworks; or (5) vision papers that take a clear position informed by evidence based on a thorough literature review.

IWPE’15 welcomes papers that focus on novel solutions on the recent developments in the general area of privacy engineering. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Integration of law and policy compliance into the development process
• Privacy impact assessment
• Privacy risk management models
• Privacy breach recovery Methods
• Technical standards, heuristics and best practices for privacy engineering
• Privacy engineering in technical standards
• Privacy requirements elicitation and analysis methods
• User privacy and data protection requirements
• Management of privacy requirements with other system requirements
• Privacy requirements operationalization
• Privacy engineering strategies and design patterns
• Privacy architectures
• Privacy engineering and databases
• Privacy engineering in the context of interaction design and usability
• Privacy testing and evaluation methods
• Validation and verification of privacy requirements
• Engineering Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Models and approaches for the verification of privacy properties
• Tools supporting privacy engineering
• Teaching and training privacy engineering
• Adaptations of privacy engineering into specific software development processes
• Pilots and real-world applications
• Privacy engineering and accountability
• Organizational, legal, political and economic aspects of privacy engineering

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; since IWPE'15 is interested in all aspects of privacy engineering. However, papers without a clear application to privacy engineering will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

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PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION

We solicit unpublished short position papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers reporting technical, research or industry experience (up to 8 pages) on all dimensions of the privacy engineering domain. Each paper, written in English, must follow IEEE Proceedings format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the paper. All papers must be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwpe15

All IWPE'15 Papers will be published in IEEE eXplore, which is indexed by EI Engineering Index, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S), Scopus etc.

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If you have any questions regarding IWPE'15, please contact:

Jose M. del Alamo (jm.delalamo@upm.es)
Norman Sadeh (sadeh@cs.cmu.edu)
Seda Gurses (seda@nyu.edu)
Dawn Jutla (dawn.jutla@smu.ca)

Wikileaks, NSA and a crytpographic cat and mouse game

So we know that certain government agencies are collecting data and we also know that Wikileaks has at least 400Gb of encrypted data (aka. "insurance") now in the public domain.

It is encrypted and no-one knows what's there...right?

Schneier posted on his blog an article about the upcomming cryptopocalypse about an presentation from the Black Hat conference entitled The Factoring Dead:Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse.

Given that we are fairly confident that the NSA has an enormous amount of computing power available to it, but even then probably not enough for a brute force attack on the Wikileak's encrypted data by a few orders of magnitude, they do have some pretty competent mathematicians working in that field and a vast amount of data including a lot of unencrypted originals.

Now, as mathematics starts chipping away as the encryption algorithms themselves the amount of computation and time to decrypt without a key comes dramatically down (it might just take a few billions of years now).

What helps in these scenarios is if you have some knowledge about what the encrypted data contains and its encryption method. If the Wikileaks file contains what it is supposed to contain (whatever that is, but it probably implicates the USA) then we have a head-start towards the decryption. This isn't too far from what Alan Turing and the Bletchley code breakers did.

Furthermore, rarely in the past have we have huge amounts of data to work with...encryption algorithms generate data with extremely high entropy. The point now is that is there enough entropy in 400Gb of encrypted data? Do patterns start emerging at some point? Admittedly even 400Gb is not considered a large amount of data these days.

Furthermore the encryption algorithm used is one approved by the NSA. What if the NSA start matching already encrypted documents they hold against the Wikileaks data? Is there a weakness in the keys? Are there patterns in the encrypted data that are independent of the keys being used? Then there's the interesting idea of a blackdoor in the algorithm too.

So, (tin foil hats on please), one of the things that Wikileaks is then looking forward is accidental disclosure of some information in that release. This might suggest that either NSA has succesfulyl decrypted the data. I'm sure that the NSA aren't that stupid to tell us that but governments are large things and even despite apparently good security practices breaches happen either deliberately or accidentally.

From a game theoretic point of view the best I can come up with at the moment is that any release of information by the NSA will reveal subtle hints about what they can and can not do with regards to their knowledge of encryption algorithms.

Shares in popcorn and publishers of books on game theory just went through the roof. Ultimately it might just be that physics, mathematics and plain old information theory has the last laugh...

More on "Apps considered harmful"

Just a heads up that the abstract to Ora's keynote at CIDOC 2012 in Helsinki in up on the CIDOC pages at the following address: http://www.cidoc2012.fi/en/File/1575/lassila-abstract.pdf

It is entitled: Love Thy Data (or: Apps Considered Harmful) and I've seen the slide-set...something really worth waiting for and when it becomes publicly available I'll post the link here as well.

LoD 2012: Layout of Diagrams 2012

LOD 2012

3rd International Workshop on Layout of Diagrams 

Diagrams are an effective means of conveying a wide variety of different sources of information. They play a vital role in communication at many levels, and the quality of diagram layout effects the ease of communication. Creating task-adequate layouts is surprisingly difficult, and the cognitive factors involved are often not very well understood. The automatic generation of diagrams is essential for many tasks such as the presentation of multiple views of large scale data sets. In many domains, tool support is not satisfactory. The workshop aims to bring together different communities that can learn from each other, both within different academic disciplines and between academia and industry.
We solicit original submissions related to diagram layout, in areas including, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Layout algorithms ;
• Layout design styles, guidelines and patterns;
• Automatic diagram generation and transformation techniques;
• Visual language theory (e.g. quality metric development) ;
• Visualisation of constraints, algorithms, and tools;
• Cognitive or empirical research on diagram layout;
• Diagram layout for diagrammatic reasoning, knowledge representation, etc;
• Application areas (e.g. system modelling, ontology visualisation, etc, with an emphasis on layout requirements and benefits).

All diagram types fall within the scope of the workshop series (e.g. graphs, hypergraphs, Euler diagrams, maps, knot diagrams, etc). Of particular interest is research and techniques that may encourage interaction and knowledge transfer between fields. However, for this instalment of the workshop series, we particularly encourage submissions that have a software engineering orientation (e.g. those within UML, IDEF or ARIS), building on the success of two previous workshops at VL/HCC on the Layout of Software Engineering Diagrams (LED).

The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the journal of Electronic Communications of the EASST (TBC). All papers must conform to the ECEASST format. All papers must be submitted electronically in the PDF format via the EasyChair submission system. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 reviewers, as usual.

The intention is that after the workshop the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and significantly extended version of their article to a special issue of a sutiable journal (e.g. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing or the journal of Software and Systems Modeling).

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: June 11th, 2012
• Paper Submission: June 18th, 2012
• Notification to Authors: August 8th, 2012
• Camera Ready Submission: August 30th, 2012
• Workshop Dates: Oct 4th, 2012

 

 

CFP: IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2012

Industry Session Call for Papers

IEEE ICSC 2012: The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 

September 19th- 21st, 2012 

Palermo, Italy

Website: http://icsc2012.pa.icar.cnr.it/industry-session.html

Program Goals and Format: 

The goals of the ICSC 2012 Industry Session are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's challenges in the area of Semantic Computing and applications, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development efforts. Similar to regular papers, the papers in the industry session will undergo a review process and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for industry papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. A main goal of this session is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Therefore, the papers in this session will be evaluated primarily by the novelty and applicability of the insights from its industrial solutions, instead of the originality of its algorithmic content. 

Topics of Interest: 

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the main conference call for papers, as well as those listed below:

1. Development of new semantic systems, architecture, and standards 

2. Employment of semantic computing tools and interfaces 

3. Employment of large scale semantic systems 

4. Benchmarking and performance evaluation of semantic systems 

5. Innovative solutions for performance optimization

6. Mobile semantic systems and services 

7. Multimedia semantic content analysis and retrieval systems

8. Modeling issues and case studies of semantic computing 

9. Game and entertainment applications 

10. e-Business and other applications 

11. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges 

Important Dates

Demo Submission: May 04th, 2012

Notification: June 28th, 2012

Conference: September 19th-21st, 2012

Industrial Paper Submission: 

Industrial papers should be submitted via the ICSC 2012 online paper submission system. Industry Session papers should be no longer than 8 pages with the same submission guidelines available on the ICSC 2012 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference. 

Industry Session Co-Chairs: 

Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA

Vito Morreale, Engineering SpA, Italy

Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland

Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research, USA

Note:

1. Every  paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ICSC 2012 MUST be presented during the conference.

2. Every  paper accepted for ICSC 2012 MUST have attached to it at least one registration at the full member/nonmember rate. Thus, for a paper for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate.

Conferences

Always good to start a year off with a few conferences to be actively involved in:

• 7th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams 2012

• VL/HCC 2012 : IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

•  2012 International Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing 

• The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies UBICOMM 2012

And for each a short summary of their content:


Diagrams 2012:

Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams, including architecture, art, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all these related fields, positioning Diagrams as a major international event in the area.

VL/HCC 2012:

From the beginning of the computer age, people have sought easier ways to learn, express, and understand computational ideas. Whether this meant moving from punch cards to textual languages, or command lines to graphical UIs, the quest to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand by a broader group of people is an ongoing challenge.

VLC 2012:

Visual languages mediate human and computer interaction. For some visual languages this mediation is straightforward; using a mouse to access a drop-down menu is well-known to computer users. For others, this mediation can be enriched via sketch and gesture recognition. This is made possible by advances in commodity hardware. More formal visual languages allow experts to accurately specify complex systems, such as software architecture or chemical molecules. A visual language can also encompass complex human-computer interaction such as navigating a set of semantically linked videos. Indeed, precision of semantics underlies visual languages and computation. 

UbiCOMM 2012:

The rapid advances in ubiquitous technologies make fruition of more than 35 years of research in distributed computing systems, and more than two decades of mobile computing. The ubiquity vision is becoming a reality. Hardware and software components evolved to deliver functionality under failure-prone environments with limited resources. The advent of web services and the progress on wearable devices, ambient components, user-generated content, mobile communications, and new business models generated new applications and services. The conference makes a bridge between issues with software and hardware challenges through mobile communications.