SAC 2004
For the past eighteen 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 research. SAC is sponsored by the 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  Digital Library. More information about SIGAPP and past editions of SAC can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp
 

2004 Track on Computer Security (3rd edition)
The proliferation of network computing and especially the ubiquity of the Internet has made security one of the key areas in modern computing. The third edition of the Security Track strengthens its aims at bringing together researchers in any applied issues of computer and information security. These issues may vastly range from protocols to laws.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

• software security (protocols, operating systems, etc.)
• hardware security (smartcards, biometric technologies, etc.)
• mobile security (properties for/from mobile agents, etc.)
• network security (anti-virus, anti-hacker, anti-DoS tools, firewalls, real-time monitoring, etc.)
• alternatives to cryptography (steganography, etc.)
• security-specific software development practices (vulnerability testing, fault-injection resilience, etc.)
• privacy and anonimity (trust management, pseudonimity, identity management, etc.)
• safety and dependability issues (reliability, survivability, etc.)
• cyberlaw and cybercrime (copyrights, trademarks, defamation, intellectual property, etc.)

Track Website
The 2004 edition of the Security Track is the third of a successfull series, whose details are available at  http://www.dmi.unict.it/~giamp/sac
 

Program Chairs

• Giampaolo BELLA

Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita' di Catania
Viale A. Doria, 6
I-95125 Catania, (ITALY)
Phone: +39 095 7383050
Fax:     +39 095 330094
email: giamp@dmi.unict.it
 
 
• Peter RYAN

School of Computing Science - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, (UK)
Phone: +44 191 2228972
Fax    : +44 191 2228788
email: peter.ryan@newcastle.ac.uk

Program Committee

• Gail-Joon Ahn (Department of Software and Information Systems, University of  North Caroline at Charlotte, USA)
• Bruno Blanchet (Computer Science Department, Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
• Arslan Broemme (Faculty of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany)
• Nancy Durgin (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
• Simon Foley (Department of Computer Science, University College, Cork, Ireland)
• Stefanos Gritzalis (Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece)
• Sokratis K Katsikas (Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece)
• Heiko Mantel (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
• Pierangela Samarati  (Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Universita' di Milano, Italy)
• Vitaly Shmatikov (SRI International, USA)

Submission Guidelines
The submission guidelines must be strictly followed for a paper to be considered.

Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished research are sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or other tracks of SAC 2004 is forbidden. Each paper must be BLIND in the sense that it must only include its title but not mention anything about its authors. Self-reference should be blind too. Each paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Authors of submitted papers may be required to participate in the review process as referees.

The body of each paper should not exceed 5,000 words, that is approx. 14 pages using LaTeX "article" style, which is the preferred style for submission. Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection.

All papers must be submitted by 6 September 2003. It is once more remarked that the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body (including self-references) of the submitted paper in order to allow blind review.  Those details shall only be added later to accepted papers.

Accepted papers shall be formatted according to the conference LaTeX style, which can be obtained from the symposium web page, and will be published in the ACM SAC 2004 proceedings.
Some papers will be only accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings.

Anyone wishing to review papers for the Security Track should email either Program Chair.
 
Submission is entirely mechanised by the CRP tool (Conference Review Package -- Copyright © 2001  Univ. of Colorado).
The submission page can be found here, where authors must first register their own account by obtaining a password, and then follow the instructions.

Ackwnowledgements
Special thanks to Luigi Toscano (toscano@dmi.unict.it) and Giuseppe Patane' (patane@dmi.unict.it) for maintaining the installation of the CRP tool at Catania.

Important Dates

• 6 September 2003: Submission of papers
• 18 October 2003: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
• 8 November 2003: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers
• 14-17 March 2004: SAC 2004 takes place