------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS *** EXTENDED DEADLINE 17/09 ***

SSI´2006 8th International Symposium on System and Information Security Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil November 08-10, 2006 http://www.ssi.org.br/english/

THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS AWARD

Organized by Technological Institute of Aeronautics - ITA Department of Computer Science and Casimiro Montenegro Filho Foundation

IEEE CNOM and CIS TC technical co-sponsorship Supported by IEEE South Brazil Section

------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION

The International Symposium on System and Information Security (SSI) is organized by Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) and is the foremost event of its kind in Latin America.

Each year, researchers, students, and practitioners from academia, industry, and government organizations convene in Sao Jose' dos Campos, Brazil, to present and discuss the latest research and developments in the area.

SSI'2006 is selecting the best works in System and Information Security area, finished, defended and approved from Jan 01, 2006 to Jul 31, 2006, in the following categories:

. Under graduation conclusion works; . Master dissertation; and . PhD thesis.

The award objective is to promote and disseminate the work of young researchers and stimulate the Brazilian and Latin-American students that finished their phd, master and under graduation studies to take part at SSI'2006.

For the submission, the candidates must send papers that are summaries of their academic final works.

These papers must be 10 to 20 pages long, including eventual figures, tables and references.

In order to distinguish from regular papers, these works are here called of "summary-papers".

SSI'2006 aims at providing a larger dissemination of the high quality material generated by the symposium due the publication of the accepted papers in the Electronic Proceedings at conference site.

------------------------------------------------------------- THE AWARD

It will be chosen one paper in each category among the summary-papers submitted that conforms the established requirements.

The certificates will be given in the SSI'2006 award ceremony.

All the awarded authors will receive Certificate proving the SSI'2006 award, and informing the category.

Moreover, depending of the finance availability, the winner of each category, if Brazilians, will receive 100% of the tickets (from home to SSI), plus hotel and SSI'2006 fees.

In addition, authors of selected excellent scientific papers of SSI 2006 will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the IEEE/SBrT JCIS (JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS).

------------------------------------------------------------- CERTIFICATION OF FINISHED AND APPROVED WORK

The candidates must send the official CONCLUSION CERTIFICATE to the Award Coordinator - SSI'2006 CTD A/C Profa. Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare by fax - number (48)3234-2344.

In the case of PhD thesis or master dissertation, the certification must inform: the title of the defended and approved work, the defense date, the adviser and co-adviser names, and the signature of the program coordinator.

In the case of graduate conclusion works, the certification must inform: the title of the work, the month and year of the conclusion, the name of the adviser and co-adviser,and the signature of the program coordinator.

------------------------------------------------------------- JUDGMENT

The works will be judge by a committee coordinated by Profa. Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare (Barddal Fundation, Brazil).

The committee member names will be available at the conference site, as soon as possible.

------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS

The summary-papers must include or be related to one or more of the following topics:

. Artificial Intelligence methods in system security . Authentication, access control and auditing . Computer forensics . Cryptography . Database security . Dependability . Digital certificates and Public Key Infrastructure - PKI . Digital Rights Management . E-commerce security . Firewalls and other security tools . Formal methods in system security . Internet/Web security . Intrusion detection and prevention . Management of enterprise security . Mobile code and agent security . Network security . New security paradigms . Operating systems security . Risk/vulnerability analysis, assessment and management . Security in electronic voting systems . Security of distributed systems . Security of emerging technologies . Security policies . Secure programming . Security in P2P and Grid computing . Threats and information warfare . Trust management . User privacy and anonymity . Viruses and other malicious code . Wireless and ubiquitous computing security

------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES

Summary-papers submission: 17/09/2006 ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** Acceptance Notification: 02/10/2006 Camera-ready version: 13/10/2006

------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS

The summary-papers can be in Portuguese or in English, and must be in the format .pdf (or .ps).

The submission is in electronic form only. Summary-papers should be submitted by the deadline to: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ssi2006 following the link ssi2006TD

The summary-papers follow the same format of the regular papers.

Papers must use 10-point Times New Roman font and have at most twenty (20) A4 (not Letter) single-spaced, two-column, unnumbered pages. The page limit include all figures, tables, and references. Margins should be: left 3 cm, and bottom, top and right 2 cm. The space between columns should be 1 cm. Title in font size 10, bold, caps and centered.

Differently of the regular papers,the summary-papers must include the author identification, affiliation, lab and involved projects.

The summary-papers must have the following organizational structure:

. Introduction; . Declaration of the problem/research object; . Description of the previous and related works, showing why the problem is not yet well solved; . Hypothesis and research questions [optional]; . Proposed solution; . Method used to solve the problem; . Research contribution; . Research results; . Conclusion; . References.

Templates to write the papers are available at http://www.ssi.org.br (link "authors"). The available formats are: Latex Unix, Latex Windows, Star Office e MS Word (.rtf).

The template aims at facilitating formatting the summary-paper in the required format.

------------------------------------------------------------- ACCESS TO THE FULL TEXTS OF THESIS, DISSERTATIONS AND UNDER GRADUATION CONCLUSION WORKS

The candidates can make available in the web (via URL or FTP) their full works, in .pdf format, for the more detailed reading and evaluation by the committee - just in case some committee member consider that relevant. (these addresses should be informed during the submission)

Important to emphasize that the committee member is not imposed to read the full texts - but read the summary-papers only.

------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR Jose M. Parente de Oliveira - ITA, Brazil

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Carlos Becker Westphall - Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil José Carlos Brustoloni - University of Pittsburgh, USA

THESIS AND DISSERTATION AWARD CHAIR Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare - Fac. Barddal/SC

------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION

Conference announcements and updated information will be available at: http://www.ssi.org.br

For other information, please send email to the general chair, Jose M. Parente de Oliveira (dir@ssi.org.br).

ITA - Technological Institute of Aeronautics Computer Science Division A/C Prof. Jose' M. Parente de Oliveira [General Chair] Praca Mal. Eduardo Gomes, 50 - Vila das Acacias 12228-901 Sao Jose dos Campos-SP - BRAZIL

Phone +55(12) 3947-6869 [Secretary] Fax +55(12) 3947-5989

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