2016 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security(SCIS 2016)
Call for Papers
Dates: January 19-22, 2016
Venue: ANA Crowne Plaza Kumamoto New Sky (Kumamoto City)
1. About SCIS 2016
The Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security has been held annually
since 1984, as a venue for presenting and exchanging ideas about the latest research
results in the fields of cryptography and security. It is the largest symposium on
information security in Japan. SCIS 2016, the 33rd edition, will be held in Kumamoto Cityin January 2016.
2. Conference scope
Cryptography and information security in general, with an emphasis on newly
developing research in those fields. A list of topics is provided below, but it isnon-exhaustive: papers on all aspects of security are welcome (there is no selection bypeer review).
Example topics: theory of cryptography, information-theoretic security, applied number
theory, public-key cryptography, identity-based encryption, elliptic and hyperelliptic
cryptography, computation on encrypted data, pairings, symmetric-key cryptography,
hash functions, randomness, signatures, identification, key management, quantum
security, side-channel attacks, cryptographic protocols, formal methods, network
security, network attack detection and countermeasures, malware prevention, web
security, ubiquitous security, cloud security, embedded security, mobile security, secure
operating systems, digital watermarking, content protection, software protection, privacyprotection, biometrics, bio-template protection, implementation, educational andpsychological issues, security evaluations and security models.
Note: authors are requested to transfer the copyright on submitted works to the IEICE.
3. Paper awards
Innovation Paper Award
To promote the continued development of the Symposium on Cryptography andInformation Security (SCIS), the IEICE Technical Committee on Information
Security (ISEC) has established the Innovation Paper Award, starting from SCIS
2012. This award encourages novel research and technological development in
the fields of cryptography and security, including not only new theoretical results,
but also the formulation of new problems in IT and the opening of new research
directions. The manuscripts of all SCIS 2016 presentations are eligible.
SCIS Paper Award
To promote the continued development of the Symposium on Cryptography andInformation Security (SCIS) as well as the active participation of young researchers
and technical experts in the fields of cryptography and security, the IEICE
Technical Committee on Information Security (ISEC) has established the SCIS
Paper Award, starting from 1993. All participants presenting a paper, who arecurrently enrolled in a Bachelor's program or have obtained their Bachelor's degree
within the last 10 years, and who have not received the SCIS Paper Award before
are eligible.

4. Venue
ANA Crowne Plaza Kumamoto New Sky
2 Higashiamidaji, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8575, Japan
5. Important dates
October 30, 2015November 30, 2015
December 4, 2015
December 15, 2015
January 5, 2016
January 19-22, 2016

Registration and submission server opens
Submission deadline for new presentations
Deadline for revision presentation titles and online abstracts
Deadline for submitting presentation manuscripts
Registration deadline
SCIS 2016

6. Submission instructions
We will be accepting submissions on the SCIS 2016 website starting from October 30.
Please refer to: http://www.iwsec.org/scis/2016/ for details.
The submission material consists of an online abstract (limited to 1300 characters in
English or 500 characters in Japanese) as well as a manuscript of up to 8 pages (a PDF
file in A4 format, with a maximum file size of 1.5MB).
7. Registration fee
Conference fee (advance registration rate): regular 33,000 JPY, students 20,000 JPY
Gala dinner (advance registration rate): regular 10,000 JPY, students 7,000 JPY
8. Important notice
The deadlines for conference registration and for the submission and revision ofpresentation materials are all firm. Authors are required to transfer the copyright on
submitted works to the IEICE.
Furthermore, instead of distributing a printed collection of abstracts to participants as inprevious editions, we will publish the online abstracts of submitted presentations on theSCIS 2016 website. Please refer to the URL mentioned in item 6. Submission
instructions above for details.
9. Contact information
For all inquiries, please contact us by email at the address below.
scis2016(at)lab.ntt.co.jp

Organized by:
IEICE Technical Committee on Information Security (ISEC)
In collaboration with:IEICE Technical Committee on Biometrics (BioX)
IEICE Technical Group on Information and Communication System Security (ICSS)
Supported by:
Kumamoto International Convention and Tourism Bureau