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Mobile Wireless Communications enable the exchange of information in a real, or near real-time manner, without the constraint of a fixed point of access. Reliable and secure communications combined with constant and universal network availability, are key elements for the successful commercialization of the applications that utilize the wireless technology. However, new security challenges emerge due to the dynamic network topology, the open nature of the wireless medium, the resource constraints of the mobile devices and, possibly, the lack of a pre-deployed infrastructure. The workshop on Security for Mobile Wireless Communication (SeMIC), held in conjunction with COMSWARE 2008, seeks submissions from the academia and industry, that present novel approaches on addressing security issues for mobile wireless communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Authentication and access control * Secure MAC/PHY protocols for mobile networks * Cooperation, fairness and incentive -based security * Key management for wireless/mobile environments * Trust establishment * Intrusion detection in mobile networks * Accountability for malicious behavior and resource misuse * Revocation of malicious parties * Secure location services * Privacy, anonymity and prevention of traffic analysis * Security in cognitive radios * Security in vehicular networks * Anti-Jamming techniques, and DoS Countermeasures * Vulnerability modeling and threat analysis * Security & privacy in RFID systems * Secure routing Paper submission instructions ============================= Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Submitted papers must not be previously published elsewhere or currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions regarding the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. All submissions are limited to 6 PAGES in fonts no smaller than 10pt, and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors. The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the COCUS system. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. Important dates ================ * Paper submission deadline: September 28, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2007 * Camera-ready papers due: December 3, 2007 * Workshop date: January 6, 2008 Technical Program Co-Chairs =========================== * Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA * Mingyan Li, Boeing Phantom Works, USA Honorary Chair ============== * Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Publicity Chair =============== * Krishna Sampigethaya, University of Washington, USA Technical Program Committee =========================== * Rana Barua, Indian Statistical Institute, India * Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Srdjan Capkun, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland * Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs, USA * Reza Curtmola, John Hopkins University, USA * Rainer Falk, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany * Leping Huang, Nokia Research Center & University of Tokyo, Japan * Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA * Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece * Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA * Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA * Roberto Di Pietro, Università "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy * Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA * Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA For further information, please contact Loukas Lazos (llazos@ece.arizona.edu or 520-626-0736) or Mingyan Li (Mingyan.li@boeing.com or 425-865-1027)

ACM Compute 2008 Call for Papers Organized by ACM Bangalore Chapter, To be held in Indian Institute of Science & The Taj West End, Bangalore, India, 18th – 20th January 2008. Conference Webpage: http://www.acmbangalore.org/ Important Dates Paper Submissions Due: August 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007 Camera Ready Versions Due: December 1, 2007 Conference: January 18-20, 2008 THEME: It is now widely recognized that computer science is moving beyond the academia into the business domain, more specifically into the enterprise computing space. The aim of this multi-track conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners, technology market movers, and thought leaders, with a view to advance the state of the art, and the state of the practice in applied areas of computer science, with focus on enterprise computing. The specific focus areas of computer science, relevant in the enterprise context, are being considered. TRACKS 1. Software Services Engineering Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Business process Management: Languages, process management, process mining, process monitoring, workflows, process improvement b. Event Driven Architectures, Complex Event Processing c. Service Oriented Architectures, standards, Web services, Semantic Services d. Software quality and quantitative measures (real-time, response, etc) e. Software Architecture - Software factories, Pattern oriented software architecture, ADLs, Enterprise Architecture formalisms f. Service Identification Approaches, Process-service linkage g. Contemporary Software engineering, global software development h. Software as a service, Composite Applications, Web based collaborative software development, e-services i. Web N.0 – Participative architectures, Semantic Web, j. Software Non-functional requirements including security, policy, privacy, maintainability 2. High Performance Computing Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Scientific and Business needs and challenges b. Multi-core architectures c. Next Gen Data Centers d. Grid computing e. Autonomic computing f. Virtualization g. High Speed Networks 3. Information Management Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence b. Information retrieval/storage/query c. Data/text mining d. Information Virtualization e. Next generation Query Optimization/Processing f. Graphics g. Computational intelligence –intelligent agents, learning 4. Pervasive Computing Papers invited in the broad areas of : a. Multi-modal computing b. Sensor networks c. Enterprise mobility d. Field force automation and occasionally connected computing e. Mobile ad-hoc networking f. Ambient intelligence CONFERENCE CHAIR: Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar, IBM Research labs, India Email: Shyam AT tifr.res.in WORKSHOP COMMITTEE (to be completed): SUBMISSION PROCESS: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. The authors can submit upto a maximum of 8 ACM conference pages (about 4000 words). The conference format specifications and templates can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html At least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing papers in all the tracks will be published. Papers to be submitted via the online submission system accessible at the site above. DATES: Paper Submissions Due: August 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007 Camera Ready Versions Due: December 1, 2007 Conference: January 18-20, 2008