4th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems (C&SS'17)

Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017

Cryptography and security systems are two fields of security research that strongly interact and complement each other. The International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems (CSS) is a forum of presentation of theoretical, applied research papers, case studies, implementation experiences as well as work-in-progress results in these two disciplines.

Topics

The main topics of interests include:

  • network security
  • cryptography and data protection
  • peer-to-peer security
  • security of wireless sensor networks
  • security of cyber physical systems
  • security of Internet of Things solutions
  • heterogeneous networks security
  • privacy-enhancing methods
  • covert channels
  • steganography and watermarking for security applications
  • cryptographic protocols
  • security as quality of service, quality of protection
  • data and application security, software security
  • security models, evaluation, and verification
  • formal methods in security
  • trust and reputation models
  • reputation systems for security applications
  • intrusion tolerance
  • system surveillance and enhanced security
  • cybercrime: threats and countermeasures
  • 5G Security
  • DDoS attacks: detection and mitigation
  • Security of Smart Grid systems

Paper submission

  • Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file).
  • The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
  • Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
  • Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
  • Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
  • Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
  • Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, InspecIndex CopernicusDBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar
  • The selected paper will be invited to submit extended version of the paper for post-conference publication in one of the recognised journal indexed by JCR (with IF).
  • Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.

Committee

Important dates

  • Call for event proposals: November 02, 2016
  • Call for dissemination event proposals: January 10, 2017
  • Paper submission (strict deadline): May 10 2017 23:59:59 pm HST
  • Position paper submission: May 31, 2017
  • Authors notification: June 21, 2017
  • Final paper submission and registration: June 28, 2017
  • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2017
  • Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017

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