Many industrial applications built today are increasingly using emerging behavior engineering technologies: this book looks at various research and practical issues for researchers and students working in computer science and engineering, and for industry technology providers interested in behavior engineering and applications. Behavior Engineering and Applications encompasses intelligent and efficient computational solutions, including models, architectures, algorithms and specif...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICISC 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November/December 2016.The 20 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover topics such as IoT security; cloud security; applied cryptography; attack behaviour analytics; authentication and authorization; engineering issues of cryptographic and sec...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Risk Assessment and Risk-Driven Quality Assurance, RISK 2016, held in conjunction with ICTSS 2016, in Graz, Austria, in October 2016.The revised 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. They focus on research studying, developing and evaluating innovative techniques, tools, languages and methods risk assessment and risk-driven quality engineeri...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow; models and applications; protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2015, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2015.The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers address the following topics: access control; attacks and mitigation; cloud security; crypto systems and protocols; information flow control; sensor networks a...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICISC 2014, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2014. The 22 revised full papers including two invited talks presented were carefully selected from 90 submissions. The papers provide the latest results in research, development and applications in the field of information security and cryptology.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cryptology and Malicious Security, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2, 2016.The 26 revised full papers, two short papers and two keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on revisiting tradition; different paradigms; cryptofication; malicious cryptography; advances in cryptanalysis; primiti...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2016, held in Jaipur, India, in December 2016.The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers address the following topics: attacks and mitigation; authentication; authorization and information flow control; crypto systems and protocols; network security...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA 2014, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in November 2014. The 24 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers have been organized in topical sections on Boolean functions, perfect sequences, correlation of arrays, relative difference sets, aperiodic correlation, pseudorandom sequences and s...

The two-volume set LNCS 10174 and 10175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in March 2017.The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as Cryptanalysis, Protocols, Encrpytion Schemes, Leakage-Resilient and Non-Malleable Codes, Number Theory and Diffie-H...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, COSADE 2014, held in Paris, France, in April 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully selected from 51 submissions and collect truly existing results in cryptographic engineering, from concepts to artifacts, from software to hardware, from attack to countermeasure.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security Standardisation Research, SSR 2016, held in Gaithersburg, MD, USA, in December 2016.The accepted papers cover a range of topics in the field of security standardisation research, including hash-based signatures, algorithm agility, secure protocols, access control, secure APIs, payment security and key distribution.