Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis

http://www.avispa-project.org/arspa

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BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ====================

In connection with

The Second Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis (ARSPA'05)

which took place as a satellite event of ICALP'05, we are guest-editing a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science devoted to original papers on formal security protocol specification, analysis and verification.

Contributions are welcomed on the following topics and related ones:

- Automated analysis and verification of security protocols. - Languages, logics, and calculi for the design and specification of security protocols. - Verification methods: accuracy, efficiency. - Decidability and complexity of cryptographic verification problems. - Synthesis and composition of security protocols. - Integration of formal security specification, refinement and validation techniques in development methods and tools.

SUBMISSION ==========

Authors should submit their papers electronically, in portable document format (pdf) or postscript (ps), by sending an email with subject "TCS submission" to the address arspa -at- avispa-project.org with the file of the paper as an attachment, by November 13, 2005. The following information should be included in the body of the email, in plain text: - paper title - author names - coordinates of the corresponding author - abstract of the paper The cover page of the submission should also include this information.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Elsevier Science's document class 'elsart', or alternatively the standard document class 'article'. The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from Elsevier's web site: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/latex (see also http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505625/descript...).

Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The submitted papers will be subject to the standard journal refereeing process.

We kindly ask the authors to send us an abstract of their submission by November 6, 2005.

DEADLINES =========

Submission of abstract: November 6, 2005 Submission of paper: November 13, 2005

EDITORS =======

Pierpaolo Degano (Universita` di Pisa, Italy) Luca Vigano` (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

WEB-SITE ========

http://www.avispa-project.org/arspa