CALL FOR PAPERS

GameSec 2011 - Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
November 14-15, 2011, College Park, Maryland, USA

www.gamesec-conf.org

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Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 25, 2011
Acceptance date: August 31, 2011
Camera-ready due: September 15, 2011

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Technical sponsors: Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC^2)

Technical co-sponsors:
 IEEE Control System Society
 International Society of Dynamic Games
 In-cooperation with ACM SIGSAC

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GameSec 2011, the second Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
will take place on the campus of University of Maryland, College Park, USA, on
November 14-15, 2011.

Securing complex and networked systems and managing associated risks become
increasingly important as they play an indispensible role in modern life at the
turn of the information age. Concurrently, security of ubiquitous communication,
data, and computing pose novel research challenges. Security is a multi-faceted
problem due to the complexity of underlying hardware, software, and network
inter- dependencies as well as human and social factors. It involves decision
making in multiple levels and multiple time scales, given the limited resources
available to both malicious attackers and administrators defending networked
systems.

GameSec conference aims to bring together researchers who aim to establish a
theoretical foundation for making resource allocation decisions that balance
available capabilities and perceived security risks in a principled manner. The
conference focuses analytical models based on game, information, communication,
optimization, decision, and control theories that are applied to diverse
security topics. At the same time, the connection between theoretical models and
real world security problems are emphasized to establish the important feedback
loop between theory and practice. Observing the scarcity of venues for
researchers who try to develop a deeper theoretical understanding of the
underlying incentive and resource allocation issues in security, we believe that
GameSec will fill an important void and serve as a distinguished forum of
highest standards for years to come.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Security games
* Security and risk management
* Mechanism design and incentives
* Decentralized security algorithms
* Security of networked systems
* Security of Web-based services
* Security of social networks
* Intrusion and anomaly detection
* Resource allocation for security
* Optimized response to malware
* Identity management
* Privacy and security
Infrastructure security
* Reputation and trust
* Information security and watermarking
* Physical layer security in wireless networks
* Information theoretic aspects of security
* Adversarial machine learning
* Distributed learning for security
* Cross-layer security
* Usability and security
* Human behavior, security and trust
* Dynamic control of security systems
* Organizational aspects of risk management
* Cooperation and competition in security
* Security and trust in safety critical systems
* Supply chain security management
* Evolution, biology, security and trust
* Virtualization and security
* Composite trust in man-machine systems
* Security in control and inference systems
* Security and trust in the future Internet
* Composable security
* Security economics
* Health care IT security and privacy
* Statistical mechanics games and security
* Hardware-software co-design for security
* Multimedia security
* Security and trust metrics, measurements and standards
* and more...

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Submission instructions will be available on the conference website. Prospective
authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their full papers in the
announced format and in a font no smaller than 10-points. The initial submissions
are limited to 12 single-column pages to decrease the workload of volunteer
reviewers. The camera-ready version of accepted papers is limited to 20
single-column pages. The conference language is English.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS). The proceedings will also be made available online
by Springer in full-text electronic form via Springerlink.

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Steering Board

Tansu Alpcan (TU-Berlin, T-Labs)
Nick Bambos (Stanford University)
Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at UC)
Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, College Park)
Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL)

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2011 Organizers

General Chair:
- John Baras (University of Maryland) 

TPC Co-Chairs:
- Eitan Altman (INRIA) 
- Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland)

Publicity Chair:
- Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland) 

Publication Chair:
- Gang Qu (University of Maryland)

Finance and Registration Chair:
- Ion Matei (National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland)

Local Chair:
- Shah-An Yang (University of Maryland)

Administrative Assistant: 
- Kimberly M. Edwards (University of Maryland)

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Technical Program Committee

Tansu Alpcan (TU Berlin and T-Labs, Germany)
Venkat Anantharam (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA)
Konstantin Avratchenkov (INRIA, France)
Sonja Buchegger (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
Levente Buttyan (Budapest Univ. of Tech. and Econ., Hungary)
Srdjan Capkun (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Alvaro Cardenas (Fujitsu Labs of America, USA)
Song Chong (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
T. Charles Clancy (Virginia Tech, USA)
Laura Cottatellucci (Eurecom, France)
George Cybenko (Dartmouth Univ., USA)
Sajal Das (Univ. of Texas Arlington and NSF, USA)
Merouane Debbah (SUPELEC, France)
Andrey Garnaev (St. Petersburg State Univ., Russia)
Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
Jens Grossklags (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA)
Majed Haddad (INRIA, France)
Joseph Halpern (Cornell Univ., USA)
Yezekael Hayel (Univ. of Avignon, France)
Sushil Jajodia (George Mason Univ., USA)
Tao Jiang (Intelligent Automation Inc, USA)
Arman Khouzani (Univ.of Pennsylvania, USA)
Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Univ. of Thessaly, Greece)
Richard La (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Jie Li (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Armand Makowski (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Fabio Martignon (Univ. of Bergamo, Italy)
Pietro Michiardi (EURECOM, France)
Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel)
Manoj Panda (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
George Polyzos (Athens Univ. of Econ. and Busi., Greece)
Radha Poovendran (Univ. of Washington Seattle, USA)
Balakrishna Prabhu (LAAS CNRS, France)
Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Svetlana Radosavac (DoCoMo Labs., USA)
Saswati Sarkar (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Jeff Shamma (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Alonso Silva (INRIA, France)
Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Milind Tampe (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
Georgios Theodorakopoulos (EPFL, Switzerland)
Wade Trappe (Rutgers Univ., USA)
Tunca Tunay (Stanford Univ., USA)
Sennur Ulukus (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Kavitha Voleti Veeraruna (INRIA, France)
Jean Walrand (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA)
Min Wu (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Nan Zhang (George Washington Univ., USA)