15th EICAR Annual Conference Call for Papers

The 2006 EICAR conference, which will be held 29 April through 2 May 2006 in Hamburg, Germany, has a few days left in their call for papers. From the CFP, relevant (to Wormblog readers) topics include:

• Side effects of malicious code
• Viruses and worms
• Vulnerabilities
• e-Crime and e-Forensics
• Legal, Privacy and Social Issues of ICT Security
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Please note that the industry paper submission track has closed, and academic papers are sitll being accepted. This is how they describe what they're looking for:

Academic, peer reviewed papers - these papers will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee and other independent reviewers (where necessary) and published in the edited conference proceedings with ISBN and on conference CD-ROM. Case studies, research in progress and full research papers will be considered for the inclusion in the conference program and published proceedings. There is no definitive word limit for the submissions; however, it is anticipated that submissions will be between 3500 and 5500 words. The program committee will not accept research proposals for submission to the conference.

Important dates:

• Academic paper submissions due: 13 January 2006
• Poster submissions due: 24 February 2006
• Notification to authors for academic papers: 11 February 2006
• Notification to authors for poster submissions: 3 March 2006

Link: EICAR 2006 website