Program Committee Co-Chairs

P. Montague, Motorola Australia Software Centre, Australia

C. Steketee, U of South Australia, Australia

Program Committee (provisional)

H. Armstrong, Curtin U, Australia

C. Boyd, Qld U of Technology, Australia

E. Dawson, Qld U of Technology, Australia

A. Farkas, Tenix Defence, Australia

E. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA

D. Gritzalis, Athens U of Economics and Business, Greece

J. McCarthy, DSTO, Australia

M. Ozols, DSTO, Australia

G. Pernul, U of Essen, Germany

G. Quirchmayr, U of Vienna, Austria

R. Safavi-Naini, U of Wollongong, Australia

V. Varadharajan, Macquarie U, Australia

M. Warren, Deakin U of Technology, Australia

H.Wolfe, University of Otago, NZ

ACSW 2004 Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

I. McDonald, University of Otago

M. Atkinson, University of Otago

Key dates

19 Sep, 2003	Submission of papers
24 Oct, 2003	Notification of authors
14 Nov, 2003	Camera-ready copy due
14 Nov, 2003	Author registration
18-22 Jan, 2004	ACSW 2004 and workshop

Paper Submission

Submissions should conform to the Submission Guidelines below and be emailed as an attachment (PDF, PostScript or Microsoft Word acceptable) to

aisw04-submissions@asc.corp.mot.com.

The covering email should indicate the name and details of the primary contact author. Confirmation will be sent once the file has been successfully received.

Publication

Proceedings will be published through the Australian Computer Society in its Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series. At least one author must register for the workshop to ensure publication of the paper.

 

The 2004 Australasian Information Security Workshop is a one-day workshop aiming to bring together information security researchers with practitioners from industry and government. The workshop, which is part of Australasian Computer Science Week, also provides an opportunity to meet with colleagues in the broader computer science community.

Key Areas

Topics include but are not limited to:

§         Secure electronic commerce and government

§         Security standards and practices

§         Security product evaluation and certification

§         Critical infrastructure protection

§         Legal and policy issues

§         Information security management

§         PKI implementation

§         Security of mobile, wireless and ad-hoc communication

§         Peer-to-peer networks

§         Digital rights

§         Smart cards and other cryptographic tokens

§         Biometrics and other authentication technologies

§         Formal modelling and information security.

ACSW 2004

AISW is part of Australasian Computer Science Week 2004, to be held at the University of Otago from 18-22 January, 2004. ACSW 2004 also includes:

§         27th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2004)

§         15th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2004)

§         5th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2004)

§         Computing: the Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS2004)

§         2nd Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2004)

§         9th Asia-Pacific Computer System Architecture Conference (ACSAC2004)

§         6th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2004)

§         1st Australasian Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ACCM2004)

Registration for any of these conferences will enable delegates to attend sessions in any ACSW conference and workshop. Registration for AISW alone (one day) will also be available. The proceedings for each conference / workshop will be made available through the CRPIT website. The ACSW web site is at http://acsw04.cs.otago.ac.nz/index.html.

Submission Guidelines

Papers describing original contributions up to 10 pages in length are invited. Papers should conform to the formatting instructions for the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (available at http://crpit.com/).

Both research papers and papers describing practical experiences and security implementations are welcome. Each paper will be double refereed. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and clarity. The contribution of the paper should be clearly explained in both general and technical terms. Submission of a paper includes a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work.