International Symposium on Software Security

Place: Conference Hall in West 8E Building,

Tokyo Institute of Technology,

Oookayama, Meguro, Tokyo

Date: 4th, 5th, 6th November 2003

Following the successful ISSS 2002 (International Symposium on Software Security 2002; held in Keio University, Tokyo, 8-10 November 2002), we are pleased to announce that ISSS 2003 will be held in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, on 4- 6 November 2003. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for research discussions and exchanges amaong world-leading scientists in the fields of both theoretical and system aspects of security in software construction.

The post-proceedings of this symposium is going to be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science.

Program
Access
Important dates
Paper Submissions
Program Committee

Access

From Narita Airport to Hotels

To Shinagawa Prince Hotel (three ways)

Take 'Airport Limousine bus' to Shinagawa Ebisu area Hotels (Time Table, 3,000yen, 85min). You can arrive there directly.
Take a Narita skyliner (Keisei Line) to Nippori Station and transfer to JR Keihin-Tohoku Line or JR Yamanote Line. Take a train bound for south from Nippori to Shinagawa and get off at Shinagawa. You can walk to the hotel about 2min. (map) (85min, 2,110yen)
Take a Narita express (JR line) to Tokyo Station and transfer to JR Keihin-Tohoku Line or JR Yamanote Line. Take a train bound for south from Tokyo to Shinagawa and get off at Shinagawa. Or, you might catch a Narita express to go to Shinagawa Station directly. You can walk to the hotel from Shinagawa Station about 2min. (map) (85min, 3,110yen)

To Miyako Hotel Tokyo (three ways)

Take 'Airport Limousine bus' to Shinagawa Ebisu area Hotels (Time Table, 3,000yen, 85min). You can arrive there directly.
Take a Narita skyliner (Keisei Line) to Nippori Station and transfer to JR Yamanote Line. Take a train 'Sotomawari'(the outer tracks) from Nippori to Meguro and get off at Meguro. Take a Hotel Bus at East Exit of Meguro Station (map of bus stop). You can arrive at the hotel.(120min, 2,280yen)
Take a Narita express (JR line) to Tokyo Station and transfer to JR Yamanote Line. Take a train 'Sotomawari'(the outer tracks) from Tokyo to Meguro and get off at Meguro. Take a Hotel Bus at East Exit of Meguro Station (map of bus stop). You can arrive at the hotel.(120min, 3,280yen)

To Celestine Hotel

Take 'Airport Limousine bus' to Shiba area Hotels (Time Table, 3,000yen, 80-100min). You can arrive there directly.
If you know much about japanese transportion system, you can arrive by train and subway by changing lines several times.

From Hotels to Conference site (map)

From Shinagawa Prince Hotel: Walk to Shinagawa Station and take Keihin-Tohoku Line(Japan Railways) to Ooimachi Station. Transfer to Ooimachi Line (Tokyu Line) and get off at Oookayama Station. The train ride from Ooimachi Station to Oookayama Station is about 10 minutes.
From Miyako Hotel Tokyo: Walk to Shirokane-dai Subway Station. Take Mita Line (Tokyo Metropolitan Subway) or Namboku Line (Eidan Subway) to Meguro Station and continue the ride to Oookayama Station.
From Celestine Hotel: Walk to Shiba-Koen Subway Station. Take Mita Line (Tokyo Metropolitan Subway) to Meguro Station and continue the ride to Oookayama Station. If the final destination of the train is Shirokane-takanawa Station, take any trains to the same direction. Trains arriving on both sides of the platform go to the same direction.

In the University

The conference will be held at conference hall on the 10th floor in West 8E Building. (map).

(Access map and Campus map in TokyoTech's webpage)

Important dates

September 20,    Deadline for submission
October   15,    Notification for acceptance
November  4,5,6  Symposium in Tokyo
December  25,    Deadline of final camera ready for LNCS

Paper Submissions

Submitted papers must be original works not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to a journal or to another conference.

Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 20 pages, including title page, figures and references. The title page must contain: title and authors; physical and e-mail addresses; telephone and (if available) fax number for the corresponding author; an abstract of no more than 200 words; a list of keywords. The format for camera-ready manuscripts should be that of Springer LNCS; instructions can be found in the LNCS home page at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions must arrive by September 20, 2003. Authors are invited to send an e-mail with subject "submission to ISSS2003" to the address isss-submit@fmx.cs.titech.ac.jp, which contains:

PDF form of the paper as an attachment,
title of the paper and authors, physical and e-mail addresses, telephone (and fax number) for the corresponding author, as the main body of the message.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by October 15, 2003. Concerning further questions about the submission procedure please contact isss@fmx.cs.titech.ac.jp.

Papers accepted by the Program Committee must be presented at the conference. Final versions of accepted papers will be due by December 25, 2003, and will appear in a proceedings volume, to be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Program Committee

Kokichi Futatsugi (Co-Chair): JAIST; kokichi (@) jaist.ac.jp
David Gilliam: Jet Propulsion Laboratory; david.p.gilliam (@) jpl.nasa.gov
Masami Hagiya: University of Tokyo; hagiya (@) is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Fumio Mizoguchi (Co-Chair): Science University of Tokyo; mizo (@) ia.noda.sut.ac.jp
Aloysius Mok: University of Texas at Austin; mok (@) cs.utexas.edu
George Necula: University of Calfornia, Berkeley; necula (@) eecs.berkeley.edu
Mitsuhiro Okada: Keio University; mitsu (@) abelard.flet.keio.ac.jp
John Rushby: SRI International; rushby (@) csl.sri.com
Etsuya Shibayama: Tokyo Institute of Technology; etsuya (@) is.titech.ac.jp
Andre Scedrov: Univeristy of Pennsylvania; scedrov (@) saul.cis.upenn.edu
Naoki Yonezaki (Co-Chair): Tokyo Institute of Technology; yonezaki (@) cs.titech.ac.jp