AVAR 2008 Call For Papers

First published: 30^th April 2008

The Eleventh Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers International Conference will be held at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi on 10th-12th December 2008. President of AVAR, Allan Dyer, said, "This is probably the first time an International Anti-Virus conference has been held in India. I am delighted that Kailash Katkar and Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. are dedicating their time and resources to hosting the conference and I am looking forward to meeting everyone in New Delhi."

The AVAR 2008 Conference Committee is now seeking submissions from those wishing to present at the AVAR 2008 Conference to be held on 10-12 December 2008 in New Delhi, India.

This call for papers invites the submission of full papers and abstracts on all subjects relevant to anti-malware and anti-spam that may include, but are not restricted to:

• Analysis of malware trends
• Non-Windows malware
• Botnets
• Fast-flux network threats
• Rootkits
• The roles of ISPs, ASN's
• Wireless security
• Honeypot
• Sandbox
• Unpackers/emulators
• Reverse engineering
• Vulnerabilities and Software Bugs
• Cyber Terrorism
• Spam and Phishing
• Mobile threats
• Online Games malware
• Attack scenarios - how to handle them
• Obfuscation methods
• Network-based malware control (IDS/IPS)

Speakers from government, defense, ISPs, CERTs, universities, the commercial sector, and anywhere the security of networked computers is involved are encouraged to submit.

Authors wishing to give a presentation must provide the following information to the AVAR 2008 Conference Organizing Committee on or before 15th July 2008.

• name and affiliation
• contact email and physical address
• a short biography of qualification and/or experience(100 words)
• paper title
• abstract (maximum 500 words)

The above information should be submitted by e-mail in Plain text, Rich text or Adobe PDF format to avar2008@aavar.org.

Following the close of the call for papers all submissions will be anonymized before being reviewed by a selection committee. Authors will be notified of the status of their paper by email. Authors are required to submit the completed papers on selection no later than 30th September 2008.

Presentations must not exceed 40 minutes including 5 minutes for questions.

The official language of the conference is English. Speakers should indicate their audio-visual and computing equipment requirements for presentation of papers.

The speakers are exempted from the conference registration fee and are entitled to attend all sessions of the two-day conference, lunch on 11-12 December 2008 and banquet on 11 December 2008.

AVAR 2008 Conference Organizing Committee also invites suggestions for particular speakers you would like to hear from at AVAR 2008 Conference. Please send speaker nominations, along with details of why you would like to hear the speaker to avar2008@aavar.org.