Information Security: 13th International Conference

Book Preface

The 13th Information Security Conference (ISC 2010) was held at Deerfield Beach / Boca Raton, Florida, USA, during October 25–28, 2010. The conference was hosted by the Center for Cryptology and Information Security (CCIS) at the Mathematical Sciences Department of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. ISC is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of information security and aims to attract high quality-papers in all technical aspects of information security as well as to provide a forum for professionals from academia and industry to present their work and exchange ideas. We are very pleased with both the number and high quality of this year’s submissions. The Program Committee received 117 submissions, and accepted 25 as full papers (acceptance rate 21%). The papers were selected after an extensive and careful refereeing process in which each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. A further 11 articles were selected as short papers because of their appropriateness and high quality. A new experimental format was adopted this year: pre-conference proceedings of all accepted papers were made available at the conference. This provided an additional opportunity for authors to solicit and obtain early feedback. The Springer proceedings were mailed to the authors after the conference. Many people deserve our gratitude for their generous contributions to the success of this conference. We wish to thank all the members of the ISC 2010 Program Committee, as well as the external reviewers, for reviewing, deliberating and selecting (under severe time pressure and in the middle of summer) an excellent set of papers. Thanks are also due to Masahiro Mambo who, as our contact person on the ISC Steering Committee, helped maintain ISC traditions and provided guidance. Mega-kudos to Ivana Ili´c for contributing a tremendous amount of work, much of it beyond the call of duty. Also, a great deal of thanks are due to: Emily Cimillo for helping with budgetary issues, Leanne Magliveras for keeping track of numerous organizational tasks, as well as Nidhi Singhi, Nikhil Singhi and Nicola Pace for invaluable assistance with various conference aspects.