TDSC 2011 - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Special Issue on "Learning, Games and Security"

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Category TDSC 2011

Deadline: November 15, 2010 | Date: March 31, 2011

Venue/Country: Call for Papers, U.K.

Updated: 2010-09-13 14:02:23 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Special Issue on "Learning, Games and Security"

Manuscript submission deadline: 15th of November 2010

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***Overview****

Information and network security is an important application area for

machine learning and game theory. We invite contributions from

theorists

and practictioners in learning and games, with an interest in

security.

Security applications are a point where machine learning and game

theory

naturally meet. This is especially true in contexts where some

learning

from data occurs, where the source of the data may be adversarial, or

where decision making involves interactions between multiple agents.

For

example, wireless lightweight communication devices are now

ubiquitous,

making security an important concern. Principled approaches to

tackling

the problem are necessary. These are frequently interdisciplinary,

using

elements from machine learning or game theory. Machine learning and

game

theory are also linked at a deeper level. For example, fundamental

game

theoretic results can be derived from a learning theory perspective.

In

addition, game theory naturally arises in learning and decision making

problems involving multiple agents. This issue is concerned with

machine

learning and game theoretic topics related to security applications,

such as networking, or other multidisciplinary work in cryptography,

game theory, machine learning, security and statistics. We invite both

papers addressing theoretical problems, as well as papers addressing

practical issues. Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Adversarial classification, learning and hypothesis testing.

- Biometric authentication.

- Captchas and other authentication topics.

- Cryptographic applications of machine learning.

- Distributed inference and decision making (with some relevance to

security).

- Fraud detection.

- Intrusion detection and response.

- Malware detection.

- Multi-agent systems and mechanism design (with some relevance to

security).

- Privacy-preserving machine learning.

- Spam detection.

In general, we invite submissions addressing information security and

privacy problems related to learning and games. This includes

principled

approaches to solving security problems that employ learning or game

theory. We are particularly interested in contributions on the theory

of

learning and games, which have a direct connection to security

problems.

Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must

be

original and must not be under consideration for publication in any

other journal or conference. TDSC requires meaningful technical

novelty

in submissions that extend previously published conference papers.

Extension beyond the conference version(s) is not simply a matter of

length. Thus, expanded motivation, expanded discussion of related

work,

variants of previously reported algorithms, incremental additional

experiments/simulations, may provide additional length but will fall

below the line for proceeding with review.

Important Dates

- Manuscript submission deadline: 15th of November 2010

- Reviews due: 12th of January 2011

- Revised papers due: 16th of February 2011

- Final Decision: 15th of March 2011

- Camera-ready papers due: 31st of March 2011

- Tentative Publication date: Summer/Fall issue, 2011

Guest Editors

Dr. Christos Dimitrakakis

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies,

Goethe University, Germany

Dr. Tom Karygiannis

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), USA

Dr. Katerina Mitrokotsa

School of Computer & Communication Sciences,

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland