IEEE CEC 2004 Special
Session on Evolutionary Computation in Cryptology and
Computer Security
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Important Dates Deadline for submissions: February 24,
2004 Author notification: March 14, 2004 Camera-ready copy of papers: March 21,
2004 Conference: To be held in Portland, Oregon (EEUU) from June 20th to 23th, 2004 Journal Special Issue A selection of the best papers accepted will be published in a special issue on Evolutionary Computation in Cryptology and Computer Security of the New Generation Computing Journal.
For further
information, visit http://www.ohmsha.co.jp/ngc/ Further information For further
and up-to-date information, please visit the Special Session Webpage at http://tracer.uc3m.es/cec2004ss.html or the
CEC 2004 Special Sessions homepage at http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/ Organizers Artificial
Intelligence Group Julio Cesar Hernandez John A Clark University
of York, York YO10
5DD, England Tel: +44
1904 433379 |
The Conference
The Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC),
one of the leading International Conferences in the field, will be held in Portland,
Oregon, EEUU, 20th - 23th June 2004. It covers all topics in evolutionary computation:
from combinatorial to numerical optimization, from supervised to unsupervised
learning, from co-evolution to collective behaviors, from evolutionary design
to evolvable hardware, from molecular to quantum computing, from ant colony
to artificial ecology, etc. Motivations
Techniques taken from the field of
Evolutionary Computation (especially Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming,
Artificial Immune Systems, but also others) are steadily gaining ground in
the area of cryptology and computer security. In recent years, algorithms which take
advantage of approaches based on Evolutionary Computation have been proposed,
for example, in the design and analysis of a number of new cryptographic
primitives, ranging from pseudorandom number generators to block ciphers, in
the cryptanalysis of state-of-the-art cryptosystems, and in the detection of
network attack patterns, to name but a few. There is a growing interest from
the cryptographic and computer security communities towards Evolutionary
Computation techniques. This has occurred partly as a result of these recent
successes, but also because the nature of systems is changing in a way which
means traditional computer security techniques will not meet the full range
of tasks at hand. The increasing distribution, scale, autonomy and mobility
of emerging systems is forcing us to look to nature-inspired computation to
help deal with the challenges ahead. There is a general feeling that the area is
ripe for further research; the creation of a body of work has only just
begun. Objectives
The special session encourages the submission
of novel research at all levels of abstraction (from the design of
cryptographic primitives through to the analysis of security aspects of
‘systems of systems’). We believe the special session will promote
further co-operation between specialists in evolutionary computation (and its
current partners such as biology), computer security, cryptography and other
disciplines, and will give interested researchers an opportunity to review
the current state-of-art of the topic, exchange recent ideas, and explore
promising new directions. |
