[ml] CFP: Journal of Computer Virology

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers; please
feel free to forward to researchers who may be interested - thanks !

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

The field of computer virus prevention has rapidly taken an important
position in our technological and information society.
Viral attacks increase year after year, and antiviral efforts
continually face new challenges. Beneficial applications of technologies
based on scientific computer virology are still very limited. The
theoretical aspects of the virus problem are only rarely considered,
although many interesting and important open problems still exist.
Little proactive research is focused on predicting the future of viral
attacks.

The "Journal of Computer Virology" is an independant scientific and
technical journal dedicated to computer viral and antiviral
technologies. Both theoretical and experimental aspects will be
considered; papers emphasizing the theoretical aspects are especially
welcome.

The topics covered by this journal include, but are certainly not
limited to:

- Mathematical aspects and theoretical fundamentals of computer virology
- Algorithmics and computer virology
- Computer immunology and biological models for computers.
- Reverse engineering of computer viruses
- Viral technologies.
- Antiviral technologies.
- Cryptologic techniques and tools in computer virology.
- Steganographic techniques and tools in computer virology.
- Applications of computer virology.
- Virology and IDS.

In addition, since computational problems are of practical interest,
papers on the computational aspects of computer
virology are welcome. It is expected that the areas covered by this
journal will change as new technologies, methodologies,
challenges and applications develop.

The aim of the "Journal of Computer Virology" is to promote constructive
research in computer virology by publishing technical and scientific
results related to this research area.

Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and judged primarily by their
content, their originality and their technical and scientific quality.

Contributions should comprise novel and previously unpublished material.
However, prior publication in conference proceedings of an abstract,
summary, or other abbreviated, preliminary form of the material shall
not preclude publication in this journal when notice of such prior or
concurrent publication is given with the submission.
In addition to full-length theoretical and technical articles, short
communications or notes are acceptable as well.
Survey papers will be accepted with a prior invitation only. Special
issues devoted to a single topic are also planned.

The policy of the journal is to maintain strict refeering procedures, to
perform a high quality peer-review of each submitted paper, and to send
notification to the author(s) with as short a delay as possible. The
journal will be published twice a year.

As far as new viral techniques are concerned, the journal strongly
encourages authors to consider algorithmic aspects rather than the
actual source code of a particular virus. Nonetheless, papers containing
viral source code may be accepted provided that a scientific approach is
maintained, and that inclusion of the source code is necessary to the
presentation of the research.
No paper containing viral source code will be considered or accepted
unless the complete source code is communicated to the editor-in-chief.

No publication will occur before antiviral companies receive this source
code to update/upgrade their products. The final objective is, once
again, proactive defense.

A prize of 500 euros will be awarded to the best paper every year. The
journal will be published by Springer Verlag France.

CONTACT AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

All papers should be submitted in English. They should include an
introduction explaining the motivation and the
background for the problem being studied as well as a short but
informative abstract of 150 to 250 words and at
least four key words.

The journal strongly encourages authors to submit electronically
prepared manuscripts in LaTeX.
Complete instructions for electronic submission will be made available
soon on the Springer journal home page, which is due to appear in two
weeks, along with the LaTeX template for final manuscript preparation.

Submissions must be sent via electronic mail as an attachment document
(postscript or pdf files produced from LaTeX format) to
Eric.Filiol@xxxxxxxx . Reception notification will be sent to the
corresponding author. For prompt attention, all correspondance should be
directed to this address. The submission email must contain:

- Title and abstract of the paper. In case the abstract contains
mathematical expressions, LaTeX notation may be used.
- Name, address, complete affiliation (s), phone number, fax number and
email address of all the authors. The corresponding author should be
clearly indicated

The style for submitted manuscript is as follows:

-One-column, double spaced with wide margins all around.
-Footnotes other than those referring to the title or author affiliation
should be avoided.
-Illustrations should be sharp, noise-free and of good contrast.
-Tables and figures should be kept included in the text and should be
numbered in Arabic numerals. A brief title must be present under each
table and figure.
-References should be cited in the text by Arabic numerals in brackets.
Complete and detailed references are required. If there is reference
material that is both essential for the reviewing process and
unavailable to the reviewers (e.g. preprints, reports) then, for
sake of expediting the reviewing process, authors should provide them
along with the submitted paper.

Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is
accepted for publication, copyright in the article, including the right
to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned
exclusively to the Publisher. A standard transfer of copyright will be
then required. Thirty free offprints will be forwarded to the
corresponding author.

EDITORIAL BOARD

All submitted papers will reviewed by two reviewers at least. The board
of reviewers includes but is but not limited to:

David M. Chess, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Fred Cohen, University of New Haven, USA.
Ferenc Leitold, Veszprog, Ltd, Hungary.
Eric Filiol, editor-in-chief, Army Signals Academy, France.
Caroline Fontaine, CNRS-LIFL, France.
Cestmir Halbich, Czech University of Agriculture, Czech Republic.
Marko Helenius, University of Tampere, Finland.
Ludovic Me', Ecole Superieure d'Electricite', Rennes.
Markus Schmall, Germany.
Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
Jean-Marc Steyaert, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Additional reviewers may be included in the reviewing process when
necessary. They will be included in the editorial board for the relevant
volumes.

--
Cordiali saluti,
Stefano Zanero
Dottorando di Ricerca / Ph.D. Student

Politecnico di Milano - Dip. Elettronica e Informazione
Via Ponzio, 34/5 I-20133 Milano - ITALY
Tel.    +39 02 2399-4010/3660
Fax.    +39 02 2399-3411
E-mail: zanero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web:    www.elet.polimi.it/upload/zanero