Working group
"Biometrics and Electronic Signatures"
(FG BIOSIG)

BIOSIG 2003 - Announcement and Call for Papers

- July 24th, 2003 Darmstadt (Germany)

Call for Papers

We invite you to submit scientific contributions ("Full Papers") (which are limited to a maximum of 8 pages and will be reviewed by the program committee).

Important Dates

Submissions should be made via email, containing authors' names, affiliation, contact addresses, email addresses, and title of the paper. Papers itself, being subject to anonymous review, should not contain names or other indications towards the authors' identity

Links

The Proceedings will be published within the GI-Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)" by the German Informatics Society:

Authors' Guidelines

Latex-Template

Word-Template

Registration

Call for Papers Handout, Version 1.1, 2003-01-27 (.pdf)

BIOSIG - Biometrics and Electronic Signatures

The working group "Biometrics and Electronic Signatures" is dedicated to the fundamentals, methods, techniques, processes, and implementations used to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of entities that are involved in information, communication and operating systems employing applications that have a need for security, as well as to the related organizational and legal frameworks. In this context, constructive approaches and threat analyses are considered.

To illuminate and develop this topics, and to congregate experts as well as interested persons in those topics, the working group BIOSIG is holding the conference "BIOSIG 2003" in Darmstadt, Germany.

Topics of Interest

The topics may include but are not limited to:":

Biometrics
Biometric algorithms, signatures and databases; Biometric methods and techniques; Admission and access control using biometric systems; Evaluation, testing and benchmarking of biometric algorithms and systems; Attacking biometric algorithms, techniques and systems; Monitoring and tracing with biometrics; Aspects of privacy and data protection when using biometrics; Biometrics and multilateral security

Electronic Signatures
Cryptographic algorithms for signature methods; Security services and mechanisms based on electronic signatures; Products and systems for the application of signatures; Usage of signatures within organizational, technical and legal frameworks; Standardization and interoperability

Smartcards and Tokens
Card design; electrical and physical characteristics; Security mechanisms; Card operating systems; Personalization processes

Access Control and Operating Systems
Models and technical procedures of access control; Enforcement of authentication procedures by directly including operating system mechanisms; Security through authenticity as a design principle for operating systems; Security characteristics and weaknesses of existing systems; Security enhancement for existing systems; especially related to authentication and based on open source

Special topics
Papers on algorithms, data structures, and protocols in the outlined topics are especially welcomed.

Institutions and Organization

Working Group "BIOSIG - Biometrics and Electronic Signatures" :
Arslan Brömme, Universität Magdeburg, Tel. +49-391-67-1441, arslan.broemmeisg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

CAST-Forum:
Christoph Busch, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Tel. +49-6151-155147, buschigd.fhg.de

BIOSIG Webmaster:
Victor-Philipp Busch, Universität Hamburg, Tel. +49-40-94769389, webmasterbiosig.de

Program Committee

H. Baier (Darmstädter Zentrum für IT-Sicherheit, D),
M. Behrens (FH Giessen-Friedberg, D),
A. Brömme (Uni Magdeburg, BIOSIG program chair, D),
C. Busch (Fraunhofer IGD, CAST-Forum program chair, D),
S. Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University, S),
M. Hegenbarth (Infineon Technologies, D),
D. Ochel (atsec, D),
A. Ott (Compuniverse, D),
R. Pohle (Uni Magdeburg, D),
K. Rannenberg (Uni Frankfurt, D),
M. Ruppert (TU Darmstadt, D),
K. Schier (Amex, AUS),
T. Teichmann (HypoVereinsbank, D),
K.D. Tönnies (Uni Magdeburg, D),
P. Wohlmacher (RegTP, D)