Subject: Call For Papers

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:22:55 -0400

International Federation for Information Processing 
CMS 2001 
Communications and Multimedia Security 
Joint working conference IFIP TC6 and TC11 
May 21-22, 2001 
GMD Darmstadt, Germany 

GMD-German National Research Center for Information Technology, 
Institute IPSI - Dept. Mobile Interactive Media Darmstadt, Germany 
and 
Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Industrial Process and System Communications, 
Dept.of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology 

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Call For Papers
GOALS and TOPICS of INTEREST 

CMS 2001 is the sixth working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security since 1995. State-of-the-art issues as well as practical experiences and new trends in the areas will be the topics of interest again, as proven by preceding conferences. 

This year the organisers want to focus the attention on watermarking and copyright protection for e-commerce applications and multimedia data. We want to evaluate the progress of digital watermarking, the robustness and the practical usage for authentication and also for integrity checks. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to 

Applied cryptography 
Biometry 
Combined multimedia security 
Communications systems security 
Cryptography – steganography – watermarking aspects 
Digital watermarking applications 
Digital watermarking technologies 
Electronic commerce and digital signatures 
Internet, intranet and extranet security 
Legal, social and ethical aspects of communication systems security 
Mobile communications security 
Multimedia systems security 
Possible attacks on multimedia systems 
SUBMISSION DETAILS 
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. 

Please email your submission in postscript or pdf format to: [email-masked] 

Electronic submissions must be received by December 4, 2000. 

Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to contact us ([email-masked]) or send the papers to the  postal address below. 

Authors are asked to submit original papers only. Papers that have previously been published and papers that are currently being considered for publication by another journal or conference are not eligible. All submitted papers will be refereed for correctness, originality, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. 

All submissions must be in English. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, 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. 

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 15th of January. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. 

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Important dates : 
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2000 

Notification: January 15, 2001 

Final camera-ready version: February 28, 2001 

Conference: May 20-21, 2001 

To submit a paper, or for further details, please contact: 

Yvonne Sobon 

German National Research Center for Information Technology 

Institute IPSI - Dept. Mobile Interactive Media 

Dolivostr.15 

D-64293 Darmstadt 

Germany 

tel: +49-6151-869-847 | fax:-6847 

[email-masked] 

For further details see http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/cms/start.html 

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Program Committee Chair: 

Chair: R. Steinmetz 

Co-Chair: J. Dittmann 

Program Committee: 

I. Cox, NEC Research Institut, USA 
E. Delp, Purdue University, USA 
J. Fridrich, Center for Intelligent Systems SUNY Binghamton, USA 
D. Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK 
R. Grimm, GMD SIT, Germany 
P. Horster, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria 
T. Kalker, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
K. Keus, BSI, Germany 
P. Kraaibeek, ConSecur, Germany 
D. Kundur, University of Toronto, Canada 
N. Memon, Polytechnic University Brooklyn, USA 
K. Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
G. Pernul, University of Essen, Germany 
F. Petitcolas, Microsoft, UK 
B. Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
C. Schmidt, Software Professional GmbH & Co. KG, Germany 
J. Schwenk, Telekom, Germany 
A. Tirkel, Scientific Technology, Australia 
P. Wohlmacher, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria 
R. Zuccherato, Entrust Technologies, Canada 

Organising Committee Chair: 

Chair: J. Dittmann 

Co-Chair: M. Steinebach 

Organising Committee: 

Yvonne Sobon 

Main Organiser: 
IFIP TC 11 and TC 6