BOOK TITLE: "Security for Information and Communication Systems – Principles and Technologies" To be published by: IJCSIS Online Publications and Press, USA http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ Security for information and communication systems is an indispensable issue and researchers have been putting various efforts and coming up with innovative ideas. Within the last decade, we have seen a steep growth of research works particularly on various security issues in different types of networks and systems. The objective of this book is to gather recent advancements in the fields of securing information and communication system as well as to provide the readers with the essential information about security protocols, security technologies & applications, wireless network security, security attacks and countermeasures etc. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Data security - Applied cryptography - Secure routing and transport - Secure in-network processing and cross-layer design for security - Security services and architecture - Key management issues - Trust and privacy - Secure deployment - Access control and authentication - Intrusion detection - Denial of service - Wireless communication security - Security Model for new services … Contact Editor: IJCSIS Managing Editor Pittsburgh, USA ijcsiseditor@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ Submission Details: Each manuscript must be written in a tutorial manner so that it can be easily accessible for the readers outside the specialty of the area. Expected manuscript length is between 10,000 to 13,000 words. Manuscripts submitted for the book must be original, must not be previously published or currently under review anywhere. Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract of 150-300 words with the gist of their proposed chapter. Please use only MS-Word format for submission of the final manuscript. Abstract of the tentative chapter should be mailed to the IJCSIS editor (ijcsiseditor@gmail.com) as soon as possible and no later than December 24, 2009. An abstract acceptance notification will first be sent to authors. Each manuscript/chapter must contain five basic sections (with exact headings): Introduction, Background, Future Directions for Research, Conclusions, and References. Authors may also add any other extra section of their choice if necessary with different title. After the 'References' section, 7-10 terminologies/keywords should be included. In addition, 10-15 questions and their sample answers/solutions should be included at the end of the chapter, which could help the potential readers. The authors may be requested to modify the contents of the chapters if deemed necessary to maintain the consistency of the entire book and to include the most up-to-date information about each topic. A PowerPoint presentation of 25-35 pages should be provided for each chapter after the final acceptance so that they can be used for classroom teaching. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the corresponding author will be sent guidelines for preparing the camera-ready copy of the chapter. Authors of accepted chapters are also required to sign an agreement of copyright transfer and an originality statement to the publisher. Authors will bear the Manuscript/Chapter publication cost (which includes submission handling, processing, revision, editing and publication) at the rate of USD $15 per page. The first author of each chapter will be sent a free examination copy of the book. Important Dates: Preliminary Abstract Due: 24 December, 2009 Abstract Acceptance Notification: 20 January, 2010 Full Manuscript/Chapter Due: 31 March, 2010 Acceptance of Chapter Notification: 31 May, 2010 Final Camera Ready Manuscript/Chapter Due: 30 June, 2010 *Publication Date:* August of 2010 (tentative) |