Call For Papers : SAINT2005 Workshop - http://www.saint2005.org/ - 

<Network Security Threats and Countermeasures>

This workshop aims to bring together engineers, researchers and others 
interested in the latest advances in network security.  We are interested in 
innovative defense technologies against malicious attacks, survey of security 
issues in relative areas, attack simulations etc.  Invited talks will focus on 
new insights, preliminary or concrete research results, visions and future 
plans in this evolving area.  Tutorials are also welcome.

Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 

- Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
- IP traceback 
- Attack simulations 
- New types of attacks
- Firewall technologies
- Network security policies
- First-hand experiences in defending against attacks
- Honeypot 
- Intrusion detection  
- Security issues in peer-to-peer
- Security issues in active networks 
- Security issues in ubiquitous and pervasive computing 
- Analysis of network and security protocols

<Important Dates>

  Paper Submission: Oct 7, 2004
  Notification: Oct 20, 2004
  Final Manuscript: Nov 1, 2004
  Workshop Date: One day during Jan 31- Feb 4, 2005. The exact date will be 
  announced later.

Papers and Author's Kit:
Workshop papers should be within 4 pages, no extra page is allowed. The 
Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in separated 
volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  Please follow the instruction on 
the web below when preparing your Workshop papers. http://www.saint2005.org/ > 
Author's Kit

Paper Submission:
Papers should be sent to Organizer no later than Oct 7.  After a 
review process by Organizers and Program Committee of the Workshop, authors of 
accepted papers will be requested to send its final manuscript to IEEE-CS press 
no later than November 1. Authors are kindly requested to submit their papers 
as early as possible to facilitate our review process.

Registration:
The IEEE policy states that accepted papers can be published only if at least 
one author has registered for presentation. Therefore, authors of accepted 
paper must register along with the submission of their final manuscript.  SAINT 
Conference Registration fees include a copy of the Conference proceedings, a 
copy of the Workshop proceedings and admission to the Conference/Workshop 
sessions.

Note:
The date and length (a full or half day) of the Workshop will be decided by 
SAINT2005 Organizing Committee taking account of the number submitted of 
papers, and be notified on the SAINT2005 web. Please also note that, according 
to the SAINT2005 Organizing Committee, the Workshop is subject to cancellation 
when the number submitted of papers will not be enough.

Organizer:
   Eric Chen, NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories (Japan)

Program Committee for Paper Review:   
   Yoshihiro Oyama, University of Tokyo, oyama@yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
   Dai Kashiwa, NTT Communications, dail.kashiwa@ntt.com
   Hiroshi Kurakami, NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, 
   kurakami.hiroshi@lab.ntt.co.jp