Call for Papers! The International Conference on Cyber Conflict
Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia Co-Sponsored by IEEE http://www.ccdcoe.org/ICCC In 2011, the conference will focus on a combination of defensive and offensive aspects of *Cyber Forces*. The conference will have two parallel tracks: Concepts, Strategy & Law Technical Challenges & Solutions Relevant topics for both tracks include, but are not limited to: Creation and Management of Cyber Forces - Country case studies: theory and practice - Training and exercises for cyber operations - Human Resources management (selection, recruitment, evaluation, training, retention) - Role of volunteers, mercenaries, private sector - Organisational aspects: command & control structures, coalitions and alliances - Doctrine of using cyber power, deterrence Cyber Battlefield Intelligence - Tactical and Operational issues: target selection, validation and prioritisation, collateral damage, risk management, traffic flow analysis - Attribution and anonymity - Information gathering from the underground hacker community - Situational awareness and management in cyberspace - Heuristic and early warning notification, event identification, data correlation and ranking - Data exfiltration: prevention, detection and mitigation The Nature of Cyber Weapons - Definition, development and use of cyber weapons and defence tools - Strategic use of botnets and malware - Zero-day attacks and how to cope with them - Discovering and mitigating vulnerabilities - Automated use of cyber weapons or defense means and the liability for their effects Advanced Technologies - Cooperative Cyber Defence on a technical level - Cyber attack and defence modeling and simulation - Automated cyber attack and defence systems - Artificial Intelligence in cyber attack and defence - Secure and robust system implementations (network redundancy and resiliency) - Visualisation for situation awareness Submission of papers and publication Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers (up to 6000 words). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the printed conference proceedings with ISBN reference and made digitally available through IEEE Xplore. The proceedings will be indexed by international indexers like crossref.org and the CCD COE will apply for indexation of the papers by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Submission details, author’s guidance and other practical information will be available on our website at www.ccdcoe.org/ICCC/cfp. Manuscripts must be uploaded electronically to www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc3. You must create an account for doing so. Important dates: January 20, 2011: Deadline for submission of papers Beginning of March, 2011: Notification of acceptance End of March, 2011: Final papers (camera ready) + Copyright + Registration June 7 to 10, 2011: 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC)