Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials

The Seventh European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW) is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants from Europe and elsewhere who are involved in the study, management, development and implementation of systems and concepts to combat information warfare or to improve information systems security to come together and exchange ideas. There are several strong strands of research and interest that are developing in the area including the understanding of threats and risks to information systems, the development of a strong security culture, as well as incident detection and post incident investigation. This conference is continuing to establish itself as a key event for individuals working in the field from around the world.

The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of papers on both the theory and practice of all aspects of Information Warfare and Security. The conference in June/July 2008 is seeking qualitative, experience-based and quantitative papers as well as case studies and reports of work in progress from academics, information systems practitioners, consultants and government departments. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
e-Health systems as part of a national critical infrastructure; Security implications of “virtualised machines and services”; UCE; Hacking; Human Factors; Firewalls; Biometrics; Cryptography; Security policy; Cyber-terrorism; Digital forensics; Physical security; Reflector attacks; Principles of War; Strategic leadership; Influence campaigns; Psychological warfare; Infra-structure warfare; National security policy; Information operations; Perception management; Information warfare policy; Compromise path analysis; Information warfare theory; Data and service integration; Information warfare techniques; Corporate defence mechanisms; Electro-magnetic pulse weapons; e-Intelligence/counter-intelligence; Security for small to medium enterprises; Information warfare and security education; Information, computer and network security; Legal issues concerned with information warfare and e-Crime; Ethical, political and social issues relating to information warfare; Cyber-fraud, Phishing and spam; SIMAD what can/should be done to protect against this threat? The Resilience and Susceptibility of "Service Oriented Architectures" (SOAs); Data Integration; IT auditing and compliance; Networked Centric War; Virtual Intrusion Detection; Natural computing; Particle swarm data mining; Artificial immune recognition system security infrastructure; Art of war; Military Culture Topography; Risk Management; Postmodernism; Modern conflict; Military approaches; Counter-terrorism security policies, procedures and legislation; Computers-as-weapons; Non-traditional enemies; SMEs; Malware; Traffic classification; Subliminal Channel; Random numbers approximation sequence; Context free grammers; Information Security Architecture; Information security governance and management; ISO 27001; Small-to-medium Size Enterprises Security model; Defence steganography; Network anomaly detection models; SecureMDA; Collaborative decision making; Acute situational awareness; Unidirectional linguistic steganography; Biometrics; Gaussian empirical rule; Security of the virtual worlds; Network Address Translator; Machine Learning Risk; SQL Infections; RFID Virus; Current Anti Virus Technologies; Mobile Virus; Critical national infrastructure protection; Public Key Infrastructure; Association of Religions with Warfare; Mathematical-filtering; Image-processing; Data Loss; Wireless Treats; Aircraft Environment; Threat Agents.

In addition to the main conference, submissions are welcomed to four mini tracks: Data Surveillance, chaired by Henrique Santos, University of Minho, Portugal; Information Age War Propaganda, chaired by Jari Rantapelkonen, National Defence University, Finland; The human/social aspects of psychological operations and their civilian and military impact, chaired by Andy Jones, BT, UK and Edith Cowan University, Australia; The resilience and susceptibility of “Service Oriented Architectures” (SOA’s), chaired by Tim Parsons, BAE Systems, UK.

Submission details

Important information

The selection panel of the conference committee will consider all abstracts received by the submission deadline to ensure that the proposed paper is relevant to the Conference. The authors of abstracts, which describe a relevant paper, will receive a notification of abstract acceptance. All full papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the conference committee to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of their abstract has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced. Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author registers and presents the work at the Conference (see the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration). Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee only allows an author to present one paper. Therefore if multiple papers are accepted for presentation different co-authors need to present each paper. Author registration must be completed by 26 May 2008.

Publication opportunity

Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Information Warfare: http://www.jinfowar.com .

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Additionally, selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics published by Inderscience UK (ISSN:1751-1911X)

Purchase previous conference proceedings  The proceedings for this conference are listed on the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings), the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP) and the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings).

Important dates

For operational reasons we have had to alter the submission dates for this conference. However, as we are aware that a considerable amount of literature was in circulation before we did this we will honour all submissions that arrive by the original dates (21 January for Abstracts and 10 March for papers). We would ask that you strive to meet the new dates as these have been arranged to allow a longer paper review period which we hope will give authors more time to arrange travel and registration after receiving reviewer feedback.

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