About the conference The Emerging Security Technologies (EST) Conference is a leading Euro-Asia technology forum dedicated to the presentation and discussion of new ideas and concepts in emerging technologies that span applications from personal biometrics to national security. Previous EST Conferences were organized in Canterbury, UK, in 2010 and Preston, UK, in 2011, while precursor meetings, the International Symposium on Defense and Security, ISDS-2006, was held in Iasi, Romania, and the Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security Symposia, BLISS 2007-2009, were held in Edinburgh, UK. Topics The conference invites security-oriented contributions in information technologies, robotics, cognitive systems, biotechnologies, and nanotechnologies. Concepts, hardware and software implementations are equally welcomed.  Previous editions included papers in biometrics and forensics, personal mobile/wireless security, robotic and unmanned vehicles' system security, perimeter, border, and homeland security, Internet and cyber-security (i.e., detection and prevention of cyber-crimes and identity theft), security of critical infrastructure systems (e.g., financial, public utilities, transportation, etc.), emergency response systems (e.g., combining space-based systems with geographical information systems), and hybrid security systems. Workshops/Symposia    - Autonomous Systems     - Biometrics    - Computer Vision    - Hardware Security    - Intrusion Detection September 5-7, 2012,  Lisbon, Portugal Welcome Dates and Deadlines Feb 25: Proposals for Tutorials, Workshops, Special Sessions. April 30: Full-length papers May 15: Author notification June 8: Camera-ready papers September 1: Registration Technology Fields: • Adaptive methods • Anti-tamper technologies • Autonomous systems • Behavioral biometrics • Bio-inspired technologies • Cancelable biometrics • Cognitive biometrics • Compressive sampling • Computer vision • Cryptography • Decision-making systems • Detection and tracking • Detectors and sensors • Distributed computing • Encryption ciphers • Forensics • Formal verification • Intelligent Systems • Machine learning • Mobile hotspots • Modeling and simulation • Multi-spectral processing • Pattern recognition and classification techniques • Physiological biometrics • Prediction techniques • Probabilistic methods • Reverse engineering • Secure dedicated ASIC • Secure FPGA • Sensor and information fusion • Soft-computing methods • Steganography • System engineering • Trusted ICs Application Areas: • Air and space security • Crime detection and prevention • Critical infrastructure systems • Cyber-physical security • Cyberspace security • Data center virtualization • Decision support systems • Detection and prevention of identity theft • Digital rights management • Distributed authentication • Early warning systems • Embedded security • Emergency response systems • Financial systems • Geographical information systems (GIS) • Grid and cloud computing • Human-centric systems ID and biometric security • Information hiding • IP protection • Intrusion detection • Medical devices • Mobile computing and infotainment systems • P2P commerce • Perimeter, border and homeland security • Personal and legal records management • Public utilities and transit • Remote sensing, monitoring, surveillance • Tele-healthcare • Training systems • Wireless security Publications The papers will be reviewed for technical merit and content and the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, to be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS).  Conference publications published by CPS are submitted for indexing through INSPEC®.  All CPS conference publications are also submitted for indexing to EI’s Engineering Information Index, Compendex®, (Elsevier), and ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings®, ISTP®/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette® (ISI Thomson). A number of papers will be selected for revision and publication in a SERSC open access journal.  There will also be an opportunity for extended papers to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, published by Springer. Call For Papers (PDF) Contact Information E-mail: organizers@est-2012.info 2012 Events of Interest     - Workshop on Cryptographic       Hardware and Embedded       Systems, Sept. 9-12, 2012,       Leuven, Belgium Welcome to EST 2012! Please take a look at the Conference Program for the latest updates to the schedule.