Call For Papers

14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop
June 11-13, 2001
Keltic Lodge, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
of the IEEE Computer Society

This workshop series brings together researchers in computer science to examine foundational issues in computer security. For background information about the workshop, see the CSFW home page. This year the workshop will be in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

We are interested both in new results in theories of computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories. Both papers and panel proposals are welcome.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

access control
database security
anonymity
security protocols
privacy
information flow
authentication
network security
intrusion detection
security models
executable content
data and system integrity
distributed systems security
security for mobile computing
decidability issues
formal methods for security

The proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be available at the workshop. Selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Computer Security.

Instructions for Participants

Submission is open to anyone. Workshop attendance is limited to about 40 participants. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with a proceedings. Papers should be at most 20 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font, single column format, and reasonable margins on 8.5"x11" paper), and at most 25 pages total. The page limit will be strictly adhered to. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Proposals for panels should be no longer than five pages in length and should include possible panelists and an indication of which of those panelists have confirmed participation.

To submit a paper, send to s.schneider@rhbnc.ac.uk a plain ASCII text email containing the title and abstract of your paper, the authors' names, email and postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and identification of the contact author. To the same message, attach your submission (as a MIME attachment) in PDF or portable postscript format. Do not send files formatted for word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect files).

Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the guidelines above risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Where possible all further communications to authors will be via email. If for some reason you cannot conform to these submission guidelines, please contact the program chair at s.schneider@rhbnc.ac.uk.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 1, 2001
Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2001
Camera-ready papers: April 5, 2001

Program Committee

Workshop Location

The workshop will be held at the Keltic Lodge in beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  Located on a narrow peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean, the Lodge's comfortable rooms offer breathtaking views of the rugged shore, vibrant in sunny days and majestic when shrouded in mist. Activities on the premises include tennis, swimming in the heated pool, golf, and mountain biking. The picturesque fishing villages along the scenic Cabot Trail offer opportunities to get acquainted with the local lifestyle and also to embark in such activities as ocean swimming, whale watching, and sea kayaking. Moose, bears and other wildlife are often seen while hiking and camping in the surrounding Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Cape Breton also hosts the final home of Alexander Graham Bell and the station from which Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first recorded East-bound radio signal across the Atlantic.

The Keltic Lodge is 4 hours by car from Halifax International Airport along a magnificent drive. There are direct flights between Halifax and numerous European and American cities. Sydney Regional Airport is 1 1/2 hours by car from the Keltic Lodge and has flights every 2 hours to Halifax. People attending LICS 2001 in Boston may also consider the ferry between Portland, ME and Yarmouth, NS. More travel information can be found by following this link, this link and this link.

For further information contact:
General ChairProgram ChairPublications Chair
Iliano Cervesato
ITT Industries, Inc. - AES Division
2560 Huntington Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22303-1410
USA
+1-202-404-4909
iliano@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Steve Schneider
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
UK
+44 1784 443431
s.schneider@rhbnc.ac.uk
Jonathan Herzog
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1420
USA
+1-781-271-2907
jherzog@mitre.org