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The 2008 ECSIS Symposium on

Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security

August 4-6, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

BLISS 2008 Aug 4-6, is organized in conjunction with LAB-RS 2008 Aug 6-8, held at the same location, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Best Paper Award: won by K. Harmer, W. Sheng, G. Howells, M. Fairhurst & F. Deravi, University of Kent, UK for the paper "Fuzzy Vault Fingerprint Smartcard Implementation Using an Orientation-Based Feature Vector".

Call For Papers Author Instructions Paper Submission Registration Final Program Keynotes Important Dates Previous Symposiums Current Sponsors Sponsorship Opportunities Edinburgh Festival Social Functions Travel Information & Maps Accommodation Organisation Venue Contact Information Symposium management		BLISS NEWS 8.Jun.2008 The final program is available HERE, which is a joint program with LAB-RS. 5.Jun.2008 A new keynote speech titled: “Security vs. Business: a balancing act”, by Nigel Stinton. 25.May.2008 Registration web site is available now. A discount of 20% on co-located LAB-RS registration fees is offered. A common banquet and sessions will take place on 6 August 2008. 29.Apr.2008 Instructions for Camera ready version of the papers and submission link have been emailed to the accepted papers’ Authors. News Archive Here
	Venue: Playfair Library Hall, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Organized by: ECSIS and The University of Edinburgh, UK Supported by: European Centre for Secure Information and Systems (ECSIS.EU) Institute for System Level Integration (ISLI), UK
Scope This symposium is of interest to developers and users of reliable, versatile and intelligent systems* needed by a broad range of security applications.  Examples of such applications are: the detection and prevention of cyber-crimes and identity theft, internet security, security of financial systems, security of public transportation systems, emergency response systems (e.g. combining space-based systems with geographical information systems), etc.  Systems with different degrees of autonomy of operation benefit greatly from incorporating aspects and mechanisms that are found in a broad range of biological systems: from survivability and adaptation of the simple living structures to learning, creativity, cognition and various forms of intelligence that are normally associated with humans.  The symposium will bring together: (a) investigators of bio-inspired and intelligent techniques (more exactly, techniques that increase the machine intelligence quotient (MIQ), such as, for example, techniques of Artificial Intelligence) and their implementations on high-performance systems with (b) real-world application developers, project managers, system integrators and end users of security applications. (*) Intelligent Systems are defined here as artificial computational systems which operate in part or fully autonomously, and which display behaviour that if it were to be observed in animals would normally become associated with intelligence of one sort or another. Proceedings: Papers will be published in the Proceedings with IEEE Computer Society and will be available on IEEE Xplore within 3 Months after the BLISS 2008 Symposium.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technologies: Ø Adaptation algorithms Ø Automata (including fuzzy, probabilistic, etc) Ø Advanced Signal processing Ø Biometrics     Ø Bioinformatics/Algorithms Ø Bio-inspired algorithms and technologies Ø Biomimetics Ø Reconfigurable technologies Ø Adaptive and Evolvable Systems Ø Machine Learning Ø Neural networks Ø Modelling and simulations Ø Prediction techniques Ø Pattern recognition Ø Expert systems Ø Cognitive systems Ø Soft computing techniques (fuzzy, neural, evolutionary, etc) Ø Sensor information processing

Application areas: Ø Sensing (remote sensing, sensor networks, etc) Ø Space-based systems Ø Early warning systems Ø Robotic systems Ø Language translation systems Ø Financial systems Ø Human-centric systems Ø Decision support systems Ø Training systems (modeling, simulation, virtual environments) Ø Complex systems reliability Ø Geographic Information Systems Ø Transportation systems Ø Detection/prevention of Identity theft Ø ID security Ø Wireless communications security Ø Cyberspace security Ø Biometric security systems

 
Symposium Co-Chairs:
Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Howard, QinetiQ, UK
 
Program Co-Chairs:
Adrian Stoica, University of Edinburgh and ECSIS
Adam Laurie, RFIDIOt.org UK
Phil Phillips, Office for National Statistics, UK
 

Local Organizing Chair:

Ahmed El-Rayis, University of Edinburgh
 
Local Organizing Committee:
Ahmet T. Erdogan, University of Edinburgh

Erfu Yang, University of Edinburgh

Nakul Haridas, University of Edinburgh

Program Committee:

Ahmed Bouridane, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Alicia Morales, University of Edinburgh, UK

Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK

Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Didier Keymeulen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Eduardo Sanchez, EPFL, Switzerland

Erfu Yang, University of Edinburgh

Gang Qu, University of Maryland. USA

Gareth Howells, University of Kent, UK

Gianluca Tempesti, U York, UK

H J Kadim, LJM University, Liverpool, UK

Horia N. Teodorescu, TU Iasi, Romania

Ioan Doroftei, TU Iasi, Romania

Isabella Panella, Thales Group, UK

J.Manuel Moreno, Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain

Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway

Juergen Becker, U Karlsruhe, Germany

Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China

Justinian Rosca, Siemens, USA

Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK

Konstantinos Sirlantzis, University of Kent, UK

Lukas Sekanina, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Mihai Oltean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Mircea Gh. Negoita, Pertronic Industries Ltd., New Zealand

Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

Nizamettin Aydin, Bahcesehir University, Turkey

Oana Muntean, Babes¬Bolyai University, Romania

Radu Andrei, Plura-Tech, USA

Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA

Sanda Mandutianu, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA

Sarah Thompson, NASA, USA

Sue Ellen Haupt, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada

Tanya Vladimirova, Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey, UK

Terry Huntsberger, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK

Vlad P. Shmerko, University of Calgary, Canada

Wael Adi, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

Wei Yan, University College London, UK

Important Dates
Deadline for papers: (Extended)	April 9, 2008
Author notification:	April 18, 2008
Camera ready:	May 16, 2008
Author Early registration:	June 30, 2008

Potential organizers for special sessions and panels: please contact Tughrul Arslan

Contact Information:

For further information please check the conference web site http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/bliss08/
or contact Tughrul Arslan:

Email: T.Arslan@ed.ac.uk

Tel: +44 131 6505592

Fax: +44 131 6506554

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