ISPEC 2012


9-12 April 2012

Hangzhou, China.




The 8th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference




Call for Papers




ISPEC is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a confluence of new information security technologies, their applica-tions and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. The previous ISPEC conference series were successfully held in Singapore, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Sydney, Xi¡¯an, Seoul and Guangzhou. The 8th ISPEC will be held in the beautiful city Hangzhou, China, April 9-12, 2012, and hosted by Hangzhou Normal University, China.



Conference Topics


Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to information security technologies and applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:


  • Access control
  • Applied cryptography
  • Availability, resilience, and usability
  • Cryptanalysis
  • Database Security
  • Digital rights management
  • Information security in vertical applications
  • Multimedia security
  • Network security
  • Privacy and anonymity
  • Risk evaluation and security certification
  • Security of smart cards and RFID systems
  • Security policy
  • Security protocols
  • Security systems
  • Trust model and management
  • Trusted computing

  • Important Dates




  • Submission Due: 10 Nov. 2011
  • Acceptance Notification: 10 Jan. 2012
  • Camera-ready Copy Due: 31 Jan 2012
  • Conference dates: 9-12 April 2012


  • Instructions for authors


    Authors are invited to submit original papers which are not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, typeset using 11pt font, and having reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 12 A4-sized pages, excluding a bibliography and well-marked appendices. Note that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions.
        The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper should register and give presentation at the conference. The URL for online submission is available at the conference website: http://hise.hznu.edu.cn/ispec/




    Contact Information


    For further information regarding to the conference, please send email to ispec12@hotmail.com or contact the chairs directly.




    Online Submission


    To submit a paper to ISPEC 2012, please click https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=
    ispec2012
    and then follows the instructions given by EasyChair.