(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.) Last Call: Submission Deadline extended to March 28th, 2012 for the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2012) <http://www.ares-conference.eu/> http://www.ares-conference.eu University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th – 24th, 2012 Conference The 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals: Special issue of the Elsevier journal Information Security Technical Report (ISTR): After the conference authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended editions of their papers to a special issue of the Elsevier journal Information Security Technical Report (ISTR) published in 2013. The selection process will be based on both the reviewers' evaluations of the papers and the quality of the authors' presentations at the conference. <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-security-technical-report/> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-security-technical-report/ Journal: Elsevier's Computers & Security (tentative) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cose> http://ees.elsevier.com/cose Submission Authors are invited to submit research and application papers in CPS Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts, and number each page). Please consult the CPS Author Guidelines at the following web page: <http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting> http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting For submitting a paper please follow our submission guidelines here: <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=8&Itemid=77> http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=8&Itemid=77 Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st. 2012 extended to March 28th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th – 24th, 2012 Conference Officers Program Committee Co-Chairs · Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs · Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee Please find the Program Committee for the ARES 2012 here: <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=4&Itemid=79> http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=4&Itemid=79 Keynote Speakers · Annie I. Antón Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University · Chenxi Wang Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research We are looking forward to your submissions! Best wishes Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office@ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu