SAC'02:
For the past sixteen years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
has been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer
engineers
and application developers to gather, interact, and present their work.
SAC
is sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP); its proceedings are
published
by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the
web
through the ACM's Digital Library.
More
information about SIGAPP and past SACs can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp
Special Track on Computer Security:
The proliferation of network computing and especially the ubiquity of
the
Internet has made security one of the key areas in modern computing.
The
track aims at bringing together researchers working on applied issues
in
computer and information security, ranging from protocols to laws
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
- software security (protocols, operating systems, etc.)
- hardware security (smartcards, etc.)
- security issues in mobile computing/computation
- network security (anti-hacker tools, firewalls, real-time
monitoring)
- alternatives to cryptography (steganography, etc.)
- cyberlaw and cybercrime
- security-specific software development practices (vulnerability
testing,
developing secure systems, etc.)
- techniques for anti-virus, anti-DoS, etc.
- privacy issues
- defensive information warfare
- software safety and program correctness
- new paradigms for protecting electronic intellectual capital
Track Websites:
US: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/sac02
Europe: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~giamp/sac02
Track Program Chair(s):
Guidelines for Submission:
Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will
be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1)
Original
and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing
applications
in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and
industry;
and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem
domains.
Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review
process
by at least three referees. Accepted papers in all categories will be
published
in the ACM SAC'02 proceedings. We expect that all authors submitting
papers
should be willing to participate of the review process as referees.
Submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to one of the track
chairs
(see addresses above). Alternatively, submit your paper electronically
to
one of the track chairs (see email address above) in uuencoded
compressed
postscript format or PDF; this is strongly encouraged. Fax submissions
will
not be accepted. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear
in
the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third
person.
This is to facilitate blind review
The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately
15 pages, double spaced). A separate cover sheet (in case of electronic
submission
this should be sent separately from the main paper) should show the
title
of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address
(including
email, telephone and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent.
All submissions must be received by September 1st,
2001
Anyone wishing to review papers for this special track should
contact
the Track Program Chair(s) at the address shown above
Important Dates
- Sept 1, 2001: Submission of papers and tutorial
proposals
- Oct 15, 2001: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
- Nov 1, 2001: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers
- Mar 10-14, 2002: SAC 2002 takes place