[PlanetKR] Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering -- Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Security and Privacy in Distributed Communications" (LAST CALL)

[Gregorio Martinez]

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Call for Papers

Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/compeleceng)

Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Security and Privacy in Distributed Communications"

CfP URL: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/CEE-SI-Recent-Advances-Security-Privacy.pdf

Paper submission date: September 30, 2011
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Aim and scope
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Security services need to be considered as part of most communication proposals being discussed nowadays in distributed communication environments. 
Additionally, in the last few years, privacy has been gaining interest from both the designers and the customers of security solutions, thus being 
considered now as a key aspect for them. For a good security and/or privacy design, one needs to be informed of the latest advances in this field, 
this being the main objective of this special issue.

This special issue is intended to report the most recent research works related to security and privacy, particularly in the following fields:

- Anonymity
- Authentication
- Authorization and access control
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- Data integrity and protection
- Identity Management
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- End-to-end security solutions
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Risk analysis and management
- Security policies
- Threats and vulnerabilities
- Trust and reputation management in distributed scenarios


Submission Guidelines
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Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the fields of security and privacy, as well as their 
suitability to the special issue, and for their overall quality. The submitted papers have to describe original research which has not been published 
nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all 
submissions.  Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review 
and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases.

Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/authorinstructions

Papers should be submitted via the EES application that can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/compeleceng/

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select Special Issue: 
Security and Privacy when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.


Schedule
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Paper submission deadline:  September 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2012
Final papers due:           May 31, 2012
Publication date:           September 2012


Guest Editors
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Gregorio Martinez (corresponding Guest Editor)
University of Murcia, Spain
Email: gregorio at um.es

Felix Gomez Marmol
NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Email: Felix.Gomez-Marmol at neclab.eu

Jose M. Alcaraz Calero
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, United Kingdom
Email: jose.alcaraz-calero at hp.com



-- 
Gregorio Martinez, PhD
University of Murcia, Spain
http://webs.um.es/gregorio/