Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Biometrics

 

Special Issue on: "Digital Signature and Biometrics in Theory and Practice"

Guest Editors:
Professor Jerzy Pejaś, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Professor Jacek Pomykała, University of Warsaw, Poland

The topics suggested by this special issue concern the concepts, surveys, state-of-the-art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and practical case studies. In particular, we solicit works that answer the following questions:

• Is it possible to increase the strength of biometrics using digital signatures and related techniques? Why and how?
• Can digital signatures be hardened by the application of the biometrics techniques? Why and how?
• Are there some closely related areas making mixing biometrics and digital signatures easier?

Subject Coverage
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• New digital signature schemes with biometrics
• Share-key based cryptosystems
• ID-based signature schemes
• PKI -based signature schemes
• Security and cryptographic protocols with biometrics
• Authentication protocols and their security analysis
• Smartcards and authentication tokens
• Securing of biometrics sensors.
• Methods of biometrics data protection in IT systems
• ID spoofing
• Attacks on biometrics-based ID systems
• Methods of a spoof detection
• Protection methods against ID spoofing
• Visual and phonic methods of identification
• Comparisons of biometrics and cryptographic methods of identification
• A digital signature as a hardening (complementary) tool for biometrics identification
• Algorithmic aspects of biometrics and cryptographic identification
• Hybrid and “multilevel” identification methods
• Case studies
• Biometrics usage in PKI systems
• Closed-circuit TV systems, access control systems
• Projects combining digital signature and biometrics methods: travel documents, electronic IDs, etc.
• Integrated biometrics-based methods in penitentiary systems
• Intrusion and hold-up alarm systems

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Deadline for Submission: 15 June 2010 (extended)

Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2010

Camera ready papers due: 30 October 2010