The 14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience

ISPEC 2018


Computer Security & Cryptography Security & Trust & Testing



The 14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2018) will be held in Tokyo in September 2018. The ISPEC conference is an established forum that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a confluence of new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. In previous years, ISPEC has taken place in Singapore (2005), Hangzhou, China (2006), Hong Kong, China (2007), Sydney, Australia (2008), Xi'an, China (2009), Seoul, Korea (2010), Guangzhou, China (2011), Hangzhou, China (2012), Lanzhou, China (2013), Fuzhou, China (2014), Beijing, China (2015), Zhangjiajie, China (2016) and Melbourne, Australia (2017). For all sessions, the conference proceedings were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to information security technologies and applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cryptology
Applied cryptography
Mobile security
Cloud security
Access control
Privacy enhanced technology
Viruses and malware
Software security
Database security
Web security
Operating system security
Intrusion detection
Big data security and privacy
Biometric Security
Implementation
Network security
Key management
Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing
Formal methods for security
Digital forensics
Security for critical infrastructures
Embedded systems security
Lightweight security
Smart grid security
Cyber security for urban transportation
Cyber-physical security
Cryptocurrency
Important Dates
Submission Deadline 1st April, 2018
Acceptance Notification 25th May, 2018
Camera-ready Copy Due 15th June, 2018
Conference 25th - 27th September, 2018
Journal Special Issues
We plan to select papers presented at the ISPEC 2018 for further submission to the special issues of some journals.
Author Instructions
Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding appendices and bibliography and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Organising Committee
Honored Chair
Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
General Co-Chairs
Kazumasa Omote, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jiageng Chen, Central China Normal University, China
Program Co-Chairs
Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan
Liaison Chair
Naoto Yanai, Osaka University, Japan
Local Organizing Chair
Keita Emura, NICT, Japan
Publication Co-chairs
Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Takeshi Okamoto, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan
Publicity Co-chairs
Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
Atsuo Inomata, Tokyo Denki University/NAIST, Japan
Registration Chair
Masaki Fujikawa, Kogakuin University, Japan
Web Chair
Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK
We are pleased to announce that the proceeding will be published by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Auther instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS publications can be found via the following link.