Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. We cordially invite you to share your recent ideas by submitting your new research results to ISPEC 2019, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 26-28, 2019. We apologize for possible cross posting, and thanks for distributing the ISPEC'19 CFP to your colleagues/students. ========================= # ISPEC 2019 # 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience # http://ccs.research.utar.edu.my/ispec2019/ ========================= *Call for Papers:* The 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2019) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 26-28, 2019. The conference will be organised by Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). The main goal of the conference is to promote research on new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. Previous ISPEC has taken place in Singapore (2005), Hangzhou, China (2006), Hong Kong, China (2007), Sydney, Australia (2008), Xi'an, China (2009), Seoul, Korea (2010), Guangzhou, China (2011), Hangzhou, China (2012), Lanzhou, China (2013), Fuzhou, China (2014), Beijing, China (2015), Zhangjiajie, China (2016), Melbourne, Australia (2017) and Tokyo, Japan (2018). For all sessions, the conference proceedings were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Areas of interest for ISPEC 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Cryptology - Applied cryptography - Mobile security - Cloud security - Access control - Privacy enhanced technology - Viruses and malware - Software security - Database security - Web security - Operating system security - Intrusion detection - Big data security and privacy - Biometric Security - Implementation - Network security - Key management - Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing - Formal methods for security - Digital forensics - Security for critical infrastructures - Embedded systems security - Lightweight security - Smart grid security - Cyber security for urban transportation - Cyber-physical security - Cryptocurrency *Important Dates:* Submission Deadline: 8 June 2019 (15:59 UTC) Acceptance Notification: 29 July 2019 Camera-ready Copy Due: 3 September 2019 Conference: 26-28 November 2019 *Instructions for Authors:*Authors are invited to submit original papers. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of any other conference with proceeding or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding the bibliography and appendices and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present their work. Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style. Please kindly refer to Springer LNCS Author Information < https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui...

for style and formatting guidelines.

*Conference Proceedings:* The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. *Journal Special Issues: * Selected papers presented at the ISPEC 2019 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) for special issues in the following journals: (TBC) *Honored Chair* Bok-Min Goi, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia *General Chair* Wun-She Yap, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia *Organization Committee* Local Chair: Denis C.K. Wong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Finance Chair: Yee-Kai Tee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Sponsorship Chair: Wai-Kong Lee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Web Chair: Ji-Jian Chin, Multimedia University, Malaysia Publicity Co-Chairs: Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Donghong Qin, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Shifeng Sun, Monash University, Australia *Program Co-Chairs* Swee-Huay Heng, Multimedia University, Malaysia Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain *Program Committee:* Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Joonsang Baek, University of Wollongong, Australia Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Jiageng Chen, Central China Normal University, China Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Jose Maria de Fuentes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany & National University of Singapore, Singapore Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Debiao He, Wuhan University, China Shoichi Hirose, University of Fukui, Japan Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, Nеw Zеаlаnd Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Noboru Kunihiro, The University of Tokyo, Japan Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK Tieyan Li, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Zhe Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Giovanni Livraga, University of Milan, Italy Jiqiang Lu, Beihang University, China Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Tzu-Chuen Lu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Di Ma, University of Michigan, USA Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Naccache, École Normale Supérieure, France Takeshi Okamoto, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan Kazumasa Omote, University of Tsukuba, Japan Pedro Peris-Lopez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Raphael C.-W. Phan, Multimedia University, Malaysia Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Geong Sen Poh, Singtel, Singapore C. Pandu Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Na Ruan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China Miguel Soriano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Syh-Yuan Tan, Newcastle University, UK Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ding Wang, Peking University, China Guilin Wang, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan Wei-Chuen Yau, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China Tsz Hon Yuen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yuexin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Sencun Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA ========================= Best regards, -- Dr. Shi-Feng Sun (孙士锋) Email: [email protected] Phone: +61-3-99058074 Cybersecurity Lab, https://www.monash.edu/cybersecurity-lab Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia