NSS 2012 Call for Papers November 21-23, 2012, Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, China NSS is an annual international conference covering research in network and system security. The 6th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2012) will be held in Wu Yi Shan, Fujian, China. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of network security, privacy, applications security, and system security. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Active Defense Systems Hardware Security Security in P2P systems Adaptive Defense SystemsAnalysis Benchmark of Security Systems Identity Management Intelligent Defense Systems Security in Cloud and Grid Systems Security in E-Commerce Applied Cryptography Authentication Insider Threats Intellectual Property Rights Protection Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grid Biometric Security Complex Systems Security Internet and Network Forensics Intrusion Detection and Prevention Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks Database and System Security Data Protection Key Distribution and Management Large-scale Attacks and Defense Security Policy Security Protocols Data/System Integrity Distributed Access Control Malware Network Resiliency Security Simulation and Tools Security Theory and Tools Distributed Attack Systems Network Security Standards and Assurance Methods Denial-of-Service RFID Security and Privacy Trusted Computing High Performance Network Virtualization Security Architectures Trust Management High Performance Security Systems Security for Critical Infrastructures World Wide Web Security Submission Instructions: Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 14 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors are encouraged to prepare their submissions following Springer's LNCS Author Guidelines. Submissions must be made to the submission website at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=nss2012. Only PDF files will be accepted. If accepted, one of the authors is expected to present the paper at the conference. Special Issues: Accepted papers, after substantial extension, will be recommended for special issues in international journals. Please refer to the conference website http://anss.org.au/nss2012 for the latest information. Important Dates: June 15, 2012 Submission Due August 10, 2012 Notification September 2, 2012 Camera-Ready Due Program Chairs: Li Xu Fujian Normal University, China Elisa Bertino Purdue University, USA Yi Mu University of Wollongong, Australia General Chair: Qidan Ling Fujian Normal University, China Peter Mueller IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland Steering Chair: Yang Xiang Deakin University, Australia Sponsored by: Key Lab of Network Security and Cryptography (Fujian Province), School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, China Conference Website: http://anss.org.au/nss2012 E-Mail: nss2012.fjnu@gmail.com NSS 2012 Program Committee: Rafael Accorsi University of Freiburg, Germany Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University, USA Eric Alata LAAS-CNRS, France Joonsang Baek KUSTAR, UAE Marina Blanton University of Notre Dame, USA Carlo Blundo Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Barbara Carminati University of Insubria, Italy Marco Casassa Mont Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK David Chadwick University of Kent, UK Tingting Chen Oklahoma State University, USA Xiaofeng Chen Xi'dian University, China Zhide Chen Fujian Normal University, China Jung Hee Cheon Seoul National University, Korea Mauro Conti University of Padua, Italy Jorge Cuellar Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Frederic Cuppens TELECOM Bretagne, France Robert H. Deng Singapore Management University Roberto Di Pietro Università di Roma Tre, Italy Ning Ding Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xuhua Ding Singapore Management University Wenliang Du Syracuse University, USA Elena Ferrari University of Insubria, Italy Simone Fisher-Huebner Karlstad University, Sweden Keith Frikken Miami University, USA Steven Furnell Plymouth University, UK Alban Gabillon University of Polynésie Française, French Polynesia Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro TELECOM Bretagne, France Gabriel Ghinita University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA Dieter Gollmann Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Juan Gonzalez Nieto Queensland University of Technology, Australia Lein Harn University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Jiankun Hu UNSW@ADFA, Australia Qiong Huang South China Agricultural University, China Michael Huth Imperial College London, UK Limin Jia Carnegie Mellon University, USA Audun Josang University of Oslo, Norway James Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA Murat Kantarcioglu University of Texas at Dallas, USA Gunter Karjoth IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Sokratis Katsikas University of Piraeus, Greece Stefan Katzenbeisser TU Darmstadt, Germany Muhammad Khurram Khan King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Shinsaku Kiyomoto KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis University of Piraeus, Greece Bo Lang Beihang University, China Adam J. Lee University of Pittsburgh, USA Laurent Lefevre INRIA, University of Lyon, France Hui Li Xi'dian University, China Yingjiu Li Singapore Management University Yong Li Beijing Jiaotong University, China Changlu Lin Fujian Normal University, China Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA Shengli Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Giovanni Livraga Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Der-Chyuan Lou Chang Gung University, Taiwan Li Lu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Jianfeng Ma Xi'dian University, China Fabio Martinelli IIT-CNR, Italy Carlos Maziero Federal Technological University, Brazil Qun Ni Google Inc, USA Eiji Okamoto University of Tsukuba, Japan Jaehong Park Eastern Michigan University, USA Jong Hyuk Park Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Gerardo Pelosi Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul University of Regensburg, Germany Alexander Pretschner Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany Indrakshi Ray Colorado State University, USA Ning Shang Qualcomm, USA Elaine Shi UC Berkeley，USA Charalabos Skianis University of Aegean, Greece Miguel Soriano Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Anna Squicciarini The Pennsylvania State University, USA Hung-Min Sun National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Willy Susilo University of Wollongong, Australia Qiang Tang University of Twente, The Netherlands Juan E. Tapiador Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Dan Thomsen Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA Mahesh Tripunitara University of Waterloo, Canada Traian Marius Truta Northern Kentucky University, USA Jaideep S. Vaidya Rutgers University, USA Guilin Wang University of Wollongong, Australia Huaxiong Wang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jian Wang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Leon S.L. Wang National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Lingyu Wang Concordia University, Canada Duncan S. Wong City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Qianhong Wu Wuhan University, China Xiaoxin Wu Huawei, China Shouhuai Xu University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Chung-Huang Yang National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Xun Yi Victoria University, Australia Kangbin Yim Soonchunhyang University, Korea Fangguo Zhang Sun Yat-sen University, China Rui Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Yuqing Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhengfeng Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Sheng Zhong State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Jianying Zhou Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Liehuang Zhu Beijing Institute of Technology, China Zutao Zhu Google Inc., USA