International Conference on
Security of Information and Networks
(SIN 2007)

May 8-10, 2007

Venue
Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel, Gazimagusa (TRNC), North Cyprus

Organized by
Faculty of Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa (TRNC), North Cyprus
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Supported by
Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (pending)
National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE)
IEEE Turkey Section
IEEE Computer Society Turkey Branch
Chamber of Computer Engineers, TRNC, North Cyprus
Internet Technologies Association (INETD), Turkey
Linux Users Association (LKD), Turkey

Sponsored by
KKTCell, North Cyprus
Technopark, GMTGB, North Cyprus
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Turkey
ARGELA, Turkey & North Cyprus
EC-Council, USA

Hosted by
Department of Computer Engineering, and
Internet Technologies Research Center (ITRC)
Eastern Mediterranean University
Gazimagusa (TRNC), North Cyprus

The International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007) provides an international forum for presentation of research and applications of security in information and networks. The SIN 2007 conference features contributed as well as invited papers, workshops and tutorials on theory and practice. Its drive is to convene a high quality, well-attended, and up-to-date conference on scientific and technical issues of security in information, networks, and systems.

The Conference’s main theme is Information Assurance, Security, and Public Policy, by which is meant “Effecting Security in the Age of e-X”, where X could stand for any keyword such as commerce, tourism, banking, wallet, learning, … Other themes vying for the top spot are ‘Security Development Lifecycle: Promises, Practices, Findings’, ‘High-Assurance Design’, ‘Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Identity Management’, and ‘VoIP & Wireless Access: Boon or Bust for Enterprise Security’.

The Conference main theme will be supported by invited papers and talks. The following have gracefully accepted to talk:

• Prof. Bart PRENEEL, Head of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Prof. Marc Joye, Thomson R&D, France
• Prof. Elisabeth OSWALD, Cryptography and Information Security Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
• Prof. Cetin Kaya KOC, Istanbul Commerce U., Turkey, & Oregon State U., USA
• Prof. Mehmet Ufuk CAGLAYAN, Bogazici U., Turkey
• Prof. Muslim BOZYIGIT, Middle East Technical U., North Cyprus
• Dr. Karthik BHARGAWAN, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Researchers and practitioners of security are invited to propose papers. Position papers addressing all aspects of security in information and networks are being sought. Researchers working on the following and related subjects are especially encouraged: realization of security schemes, new algorithms, experimenting with existing approaches; secure information systems, especially distributed control and processing applications, and security in networks; interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems; information assurance, security, and public policy. Doctoral students are encouraged to propose short papers.

Original papers will be considered; submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee judging its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Authors are also encouraged to propose position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development.

Enterprises and research centers developing, implementing, or using security tools and frameworks are encouraged to propose application / tool demo.

Half-day tutorials on fundamental to advanced subjects covering practical implementation aspects of security are welcome.

Proposals are invited for workshops to be held in conjunction with SIN 2007 Conference. The workshop proposal theme should be closely related to the conference topics.

Conference medium will be English; papers in Turkish will be accepted as well.

Paper proposals must be submitted electronically via the SIN 2007 Submission Site. The SIN 2007 Submission Site at URL https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/SIN2007 will become available by November 2006. Title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and email of the principal author should be included. Maximum length for the proceedings is ten pages for full paper, 5 pages for short paper, and two pages for demo and tutorial proposals.  All papers should be written by using LNCS/LNAI format. Please download LNCS Paper format by Clicking here (MS Word and LaTex formats are available).

Workshop proposals are submitted to the Workshops Chair, Justin Zhan (justinzh [at] andrew.cmu.edu) by e-mail.

Tutorial proposals are submitted to the Tutorials Chair, Saban Eren (sabaneren [at] maltepe.edu.tr) by e-mail.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings book with ISBN number. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Papers will be accepted for chaired presentation sessions.  Broad areas of interest in security will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Access control and intrusion detection
• Cryptographic techniques and key management
• Information assurance
• Network security and protocols
• Security in information systems
• Security tools and development platforms
• Security ontology, models, protocols & policies
• Standards, guidelines and certification

Following is a non-exhaustive list of subtopics of interest:

Agent security Authentication & authorization Cryptographic hardware design Cryptography and cryptanalysis (symmetrical and asymmetrical) Digital signature Executables security Information security development processes Intrusion & fraud detection Malicious codes Mobile code and agent security Privacy Scripts and languages

Side-channel attacks Signals & security Securing storage: SAN/NAS security Security ontology, models, protocols & policies Semantics of security Software security and testing Spam counter measures Steganography Vulnerability analysis Web security Wireless security

Applications of security in the following areas are especially sought for:

Ad hoc networks Agent-based systems Autonomous systems Computer modeling / simulation Computer security / forensics Computer networks Control systems Data mining Digital rights management Distributed systems E-government, -commerce, -learning,… Electronic payments Embedded systems Emergent intelligence

Information systems / databases Information security management Internet and Web-based systems Knowledge-based systems Mobile computing Multimedia applications Network processors RFID systems Robotics Safety critical systems Semantic Web and semantic Web services Smart card applications SOA applications Software engineering for dependable systems Web services

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposals Due Date: March 1, 2007 (extended)

Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification Due Date: March 3, 2007

Conference Paper Submission Due Date: March 1, 2007 (extended)

Workshop Paper Submission Due Date: March 23, 2007 (soft date)

Tutorial Proposal Submission Due Date: Feb. 21, 2007 (soft date)

Tutorial Notification Due Date: Mar. 9, 2007

All Author Notification Due Date: Mar. 19, 2007

All Papers Camera Ready Due Date: Apr. 5, 2007

Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2007

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Steering Committee Chair:	Bulent ORENCIK, TUBITAK MAM (TR)
Conference Chair:	Atilla ELCI, EMU (TRNC)
Conference Co-Chair:	Siddika Berna Ors YALCIN, ITU (TR)
Program Chair:	Ahmet Hasan KOLTUKSUZ, IYTE (TR)
Program Co-Chair:	Attila OZGIT, METU (TR)
Program Co-Chair:	Alexander CHEFRANOV, EMU (TRNC)
Tutorials Chair:	Saban EREN, Maltepe U. (TR)
Tutorials Co-Chair:	Sefer KURNAZ, Air Force Academy (TR)
Workshops Chair:	Justin ZHAN, CMU (USA)
Treasurer:	Muhammed SALAMAH, EMU (TRNC)
Finance Co-Chair:	Suha BAYINDIR, EMU (TRNC)
Finance Co-Chair:	Ender YUKSEL, ITU (TR)
Registration Chair:	Alev ELCI, EMU (TRNC)
Operations / Local Arrangements Chair:	Yiltan BITIRIM, EMU (TRNC)
Site Facilities Chair:	Ahmet UNVEREN, EMU (TRNC)
Volunteers, Internet Presence, and Exhibits Chair:	Behnam RAHNAMA, EMU (TRNC)
Volunteers Team:	ACM & IEEE CS EMU Student Chapters, Computer Club, EMU (TRNC)
Promotion Chair:	Nurten KARA, EMU (TRNC)
Local Publicity / Press Relations Chair:	Suleyman IRVAN, EMU (TRNC)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(to be updated)

Khalil A. ABUOSBA, Philadelphia University, Jordan Sheikh Iqbal AHAMED, Marquette U., USA Ersan AKYILDIZ, METU, Turkey Taner ALTINOK, Defense Sciences Institute, Military Academy, Turkey Serap ATAY, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Lyudmila Klimentyevna BABENKO, Federal U. of South Russia, Russia Arkadiy B. BARSKIY, Moscow State U. of Transport Ways, Russia Suha BAYINDIR, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Zeki BAYRAM, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Ayse BENER, Bogazici U., Turkey Jun BI, Tsinghua U., China Müslim BOZYIGIT, Middle East Technical U., North Cyprus Mehmet Ufuk CAGLAYAN, Bogazici U., Turkey Jan CAPPAERT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Alexander CHEFRANOV, Eastern Mediterranean U. & ITRC, North Cyprus Anton CHUVAKIN, LogLogic, USA Danny De COCK, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Mina DENG, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Claudia DIAZ, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tharam S. DILLON, U. of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Atilla ELCI, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Saban EREN, Maltepe U., Turkey Ruyal ERGUL, METU, Turkey Ana Isabel Gonzlez-Tablas FERRERES, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Dieter GOLLMANN, Techniche U. Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Johann GROSCHDL, Graz University of Technology, Austria Song HAN, Curtin U. of Technology, Australia Selim HENDRICKSON, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Edward HUMPHREYS, XiSEC and ISO/IEC SC27, UK David HWANG, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Fuat INCE, Marmara U., Turkey Hai JIN, Huazhong U. of Science and Technology, China Tai-hoon KIM, Security Engineering Research Group (SERC), Korea Il Seok KO, Dongguk U., Korea Cetin Kaya KOC, Istanbul Commerce U., Turkey, & Oregon State U., USA Ahmet Hasan KOLTUKSUZ, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Ozgul KUCUK, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Sefer KURNAZ, ASTIN- Air Force Academy, Turkey Klaus KURSAWE, Phillips, The Nederlands Geuk LEE, Hannam U. & SERC, Korea Tiberiu S. LETIA, Technical U. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Albert LEVI, Sabanci U., Turkey

Chuchang LIU, DSTO, Australia Robert MAIER, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Oleg Borisovich MAKAREVICH, Federal U. of South Russia, Russia Nele MENTENS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jorge NAKAHARA, Universidade Catolica de Santos, Brazil Gregory NEVEN, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Svetla NIKOVA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jose Antonio ONIEVA, U. de Málaga, Spain Bülent ORENCIK, TUBITAK MAM, Turkey Mehmet A. ORGUN, Macquarie U., Australia Valeriy O. OSIPYAN, Kuban State U., Russia Elisabeth OSWALD, Graz University of Technology, Austria Attila OZGIT, Middle East Tech U., Turkey Pascal PAILLIER, Gemalto, France Josef PIEPRZYK, Macquarie U., Australia Norbert PRAMSTALLER, Graz University of Technology, Austria Vasant H. RAVAL, Creighton U., USA Mesut RAZBONYALI, Maltepe U., Turkey Seref SAGIROGLU, Gazi U., Turkey Muhammed SALAMAH, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Erkay SAVAS, Sabanci University, Turkey Ashutosh SAXENA, Infosys Technologies, India Bruce SCHNEIER, BT Counterpane, USA Ali Aydin SELCUK, Bilkent U., Turkey Stefaan SEYS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Siraj SHAIKH, United Nations U., Macau SAR China Dave SINGELEE, Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium Gennadiy Viasilyevich SLYUSAREV, North Caucasus State Technical U., Russia Boris V. SOBOL, Don State Technical U., Russia Eugene H. SPAFFORD, Purdue U., USA Kaile SU, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Cengiz TAVUKCUOGLU, Defense Sciences Institute, Military Academy, Turkey Dongvu TONIEN, CIS, TITRI, U. of Wollongong, Australia Tugkan TUGLULAR, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Ion TUTANESCU, U. of Pitesti, Romania Ahmet UNVEREN, Eastern Mediterranean U., North Cyprus Vladimir I. VASILYEV, Ural State Aviation Technology U., Russia Huaxiong WANG, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore Dai WATANABE, Hitachi, Japan Thomas WOLLINGER, escrypt GmbH - Embedded Security, Germany Karel WOUTERS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Brecht WYSEUR, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Siddika Berna Ors YALCIN, Istanbul Technical U., Turkey Justin ZHAN, Carnegie-Mellon U., USA Mohammad ZULKERNINE, Queens U., Canada [The International Program Committee is still being formed]

GENERAL INQUIRIES

For updated information, please refer to www.sinconf.org or the Promotion Chair.

Released on 2007-02-13