International Federation for Information Processing CMS '99 Communications and Multimedia Security Joint working conference IFIP TC6 and TC11 September 20-21, 1999 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

CMS '99 is the fourth in a series of international conferences which aim at reviewing state-of-the-art issues as well as practical experiences and new trends in the areas of communications and multimedia systems security.

It is the intention of the organisers to focus the attention of the conference presentations and discussions on issues which combine innovative research work with a highly promising application potential.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• communications systems security
• mobile communications security
• Internet, intranet and extranet security
• security of mobile code
• multimedia systems security
• applied cryptography
• electronic commerce and digital signatures
• security in distributed systems
• secure teleworking, telecooperation, telemedicine
• legal, social and ethical aspects of communication systems security
• standards for communication and multimedia systems security

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically.
Please email your submission in postscript (or pdf) format to: cms99@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Electronic submissions must be received by March 15, 1999, 23:00 GMT April 2, 1999 in order to be considered.

Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 5 (five) copies of an anonymous paper (double-sided copies preferred) to the Program Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the Program Chair on or before March 15, 1999 April 2, 1999.

The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 5000 words long.  A full page figure is 500 words. It is anticipated that the proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Therefore authors are encouraged to use for their submissions the Kluwer IFIP templates for LaTeX or Word (see http://www.wkap.com/IFIP).
 
All submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members of the International Program Committee according to the standard blind refereeing procedures. The Conference Proceedings will be published by an international publisher; copies of the proceedings will be available at the conference.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by April 30, 1999. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Important dates:

• Submission Deadline: March 15, 1999   Extended deadline: April 2, 1999
• Notification: April 30, 1999
• Final camera-ready version: May 21, 1999
• Conference: September 20-21, 1999

  Prof. Bart Preneel,
  Program Committee Chair CMS'99
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Dept. Electrical Engineering-ESAT/COSIC
  K. Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Heverlee, BELGIUM

  Email: cms99@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
  Tel +32 16 32 10 50    Fax: +32 16 32 19 86
  For further details see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/cms99/

Program Committee Chair:
  B. Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Program Committee:
  P. Ashley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  A. Casaca, Inesc, Portugal
  S. Fischer-Huebner, Hamburg University, Germany
  W. Fumy, Siemens Corporate Technology - Security Technologies, Germany
  D. Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK
  D. Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  P. Horster, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  S. Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece
  L.R. Knudsen, University of Bergen, Norway
  P. Kraaibeek, ConSecur, Germany
  C. Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
  D. Naccache, Gemplus, France
  R. Oppliger, BFI, Switzerland
  G. Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
  R. Posch, TU Graz, Austria
  G. Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
  J.-J. Quisquater, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  M. Reiter, Bell Labs, USA
  D. Tygar, University of California at Berkeley, USA
  P. van Oorschot, Entrust Technologies, Canada
  S.H. von Solms, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa
  L. Yngstrøm, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  L Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank NV, The Netherlands, advisory member
 

Organising Committee Chair:
  J. Vandewalle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Organising Committee:
  Joris Claessens,  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Jorge Nakahara,  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Péla Noë,  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Vincent Rijmen,  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Mark Vandenwauver,  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Main Organiser:
  IFIP TC 11 and TC 6