IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:

• Submission of papers: March 15, 2002
• Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2002
• Submission of final camera-ready paper: June 30, 2002

Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the Seventh European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2002). Organised in a series of European countries, ESORICS is confirmed as the European research event in computer security. The symposium started in 1990 and is now held every two years in different European countries and attracts audience from both the academic and industrial communities. The Symposium has established itself as one of the premiere, international gatherings on Information Assurance. Papers may present theory, technique, applications, or practical experience on topics including:

The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development.

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop with proceedings. The paper must list all authors and their affiliates; in case of multiple authors, the contact author must be indicated (note that ESORICS does not require anonymized submissions). It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 24 pages in total, using at least 11-point font, reasonable margins, and page numbers on each page. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. The document must be in either PostScript or Acrobat PDF format, and must be legible after printing on standard grayscale printers, both those that use A4 and those that use 8-1/2x11" paper. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear in February 2002 at ESORICS 2002 submissions page. Submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by March 15, 2002 in order to be considered.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by May 31, 2002. Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Authors of accepted papers must follow the "Information for Authors" guidelines for the preparation of the manuscript and use the templates provided there. The final copy of the paper may be no longer than sixteen (16) pages (which corresponds to approx. 8000 words in Springer LNCS style), unless otherwise arranged with the Program Chair. Last day for receipt of camera-ready copy for the proceedings is June 30, 2002.

Conference Committee

See http://www.esorics2002.org/commit.html for a complete list of committee members.