Dear Colleagues, Attached please find the Call For Papers for DIMVA 2008, the Fifth GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment; which is to be held in Paris, France, July 10-11, 2008. Complete information is available at http://www.dimva.org/dimva2008. Please feel free to distribute this announcement. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Best Regards, The DIMVA 2008 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- DIMVA 2008 Fifth GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment Organized by the GI Special Interest Group SIDAR [1]http://dimva.org/dimva2008/ July 10-11th, 2008 Paris, France Call for Papers The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group [2]Security - Intrusion Detection and Response of the [3]German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's [4]Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. DIMVA solicits submission of high-quality, original scientific work. This year we invite two types of paper submissions: * Full papers, presenting novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages, prepared according to the instructions provided below. They will be reviewed by the program committee, and papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings. * Short papers (extended abstracts), presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. Short papers are limited to 10 pages, prepared according to the instructions provided below. They will also be reviewed by the program committee, and papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings (containing Extended Abstract in the title). DIMVA's scope includes, but is not restricted to the following areas: * Intrusion Detection + Approaches + Implementations + Prevention and response + Result correlation + Evaluation + Potentials and limitations + Operational experiences + Evasion and other attacks + Legal and social aspects * Malware + Techniques + Detection + Prevention and containment + Evaluation + Trends and upcoming risks + Forensics and recovery * Vulnerability Assessment + Vulnerabilities + Vulnerability detection + Vulnerability prevention + Classification and evaluation DIMVA particularly encourages papers that discuss the integration of intrusion, malware, and vulnerability detection in large-scale operational communication networks. Organizing Committee General Chair: Hervé Debar, France Telecom R&D, France (info@dimva.org) Program Chair: Diego Zamboni, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland (pc-chair@dimva.org) Sponsor Chair: Ludovic Mé, Supélec (sponsor-chair@dimva.org) Publicity Chair: Tadeusz Pietraszek, Google, Switzerland (publicity-chair@dimva.org) Program Committee * Kostas Anagnostakis (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) * Thomas Biege (SuSE, Germany) * David Brumley (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.) * Roland Büschkes (RWE AG, Germany) * Weidong Cui (Microsoft Research) * Marc Dacier (Institut Eurecom, France) * Sven Dietrich (Stevens Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) * Holger Dreger (Siemens CERT, Germany) * Ulrich Flegel (University of Dortmund, Germany) * Marc Heuse (Baseline Security Consulting, Germany) * Thorsten Holz (University of Mannheim, Germany) * Ming-Yuh Huang (Boeing, U.S.A.) * Bernhard Hämmerli (HTA Lucerne, Switzerland) * Martin Johns (University of Hamburg, Germany) * Erland Jonsson (Chalmers University, Sweden) * Klaus Julisch (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland) * Christian Kreibich (International Computer Science Institute, U.S.A.) * Christopher Kruegel (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) * Pavel Laskov (Fraunhofer FIRST and University of Tuebingen, Germany) * Wenke Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) * John McHugh (Dalhousie University, Canada) * Michael Meier (University of Dortmund, Germany) * John Mitchell (Stanford University, U.S.A.) * George Mohay (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) * Benjamin Morin (Supelec, France) * Ludovic Mé (SUPELEC, France) * Tadeusz Pietraszek (Google, Switzerland) * Phil Porras (SRI International, U.S.A.) * Stelios Sidiroglou (Columbia University, U.S.A.) * Robin Sommer (ICSI/LBNL, U.S.A.) * Morton Swimmer (City University of New York, U.S.A.) * Peter Szor (Symantec, U.S.A.) * Giovanni Vigna (University of California in Santa Barbara) Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: February 4th, 2008 (firm deadline) Notification of acceptance or rejection: April 8th, 2008 Final paper camera ready copy: April 25th, 2008 Conference dates: July 10-11th, 2008 Paper Submission All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the conference Web site. Submissions must be formatted according to the [5]instructions provided by Springer Verlag. Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap work that has been published before, or that is simultaneously in submission to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Simultaneous submission, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. DIMVA prohibits these practices and may take appropriate action against authors who have committed them. For accepted papers, it is required that at least one of the authors attends the conference to present the paper. Presentations must also be held in English. Details about the electronic submission procedure will be provided on the conference Web site by the end of November 2007. Authors of accepted papers must follow the Springer guidelines for the preparation of camera-ready copies. Details of the process will be provided to the authors in time. Sponsorship Opportunities We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for DIMVA 2008; please contact the sponsorship chair for information regarding corporate sponsorship. Steering Committee Chairs: * Ulrich Flegel, University of Dortmund * Michael Meier, University of Dortmund Members: * Roland Büschkes, RWE * Bernhard Hämmerli, Acris GmbH, HSLU and ISSS * Marc Heuse, Baseline Security Consulting * Klaus Julisch, IBM Research * Christopher Kruegel, TU Vienna * Pavel Laskov, Fraunhofer FIRST and University of Tuebingen * Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL References 1. http://dimva.org/dimva2008/ 2. http://www.gi-ev.de/fachbereiche/sicherheit/fg/sidar 3. http://www.gi-ev.de/ 4. http://www.springer.com/lncs 5. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html