IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST., VOL.E95–D, NO.1 JANUARY 2012
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FOREWORD
Special Section on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication Systems
With rapid development and increasing complexity of computer and communication systems and networks, user requirements for trust, security and privacy are becoming more and more demanding. However, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. Therefore, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving trust, security and privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention.
This special section on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication Systems aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on trusted computing and communications, with regard to trust, security, privacy, reliability, dependability, survivability, availability, and fault tolerance aspects of computer systems and networks, and providing a forum to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in this highly challenging research field. In order to achieve these goals, an editorial committee for this special section was organized to publish new research results on this area. We received 43 papers including 15 recommended papers with significant improvements from the TrustCom 2011 conference held in Hong Kong during December 11-13, 2010. Finally, we accepted 22 papers (including 3 invited papers and 4 letters) for publication through a rigorous reviewing process. The accepted papers cover a wide variety of topics in this hot research area. We believe that all the papers provide a lot of useful information for readers studying or working in this area. We also believe that this special section will definitely intrigue more research on this promising area in the near future.
The editorial committee would like to thank all of the authors who submitted their papers to this special section. We would also like to thank all of the reviewers who spent a lot of time on reviewing papers with a lot of valuable comments and suggestions, which contributed a lot to the selection of high-quality papers.
Editorial Committee for this Special Section
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Guojun Wang (Central South University, China)
Guest Vice Editors-in-Chief: Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan) Guest Editorial manager: Katsunari Yoshioka (Yokohama National University, Japan), Hiroshi Mineno (Shizuoka University, Japan),
Kenichi Takahashi (Tottori University, Japan)
Guest Associate Editors: Avinash Srinivasan (Bloomsburg University, USA), Bin Xiao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Bo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China), Chung-Huang Yang (National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan), Deqing Zou (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China), Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK), Gregorio Martinez (University of Murcia, Spain), Guilin Wang (University of Wollongong, Australia), Hai Jiang (Arkansas State University, USA), Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, South Korea), Jinjun Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), John Fiore (Temple University, USA), Juan E. Tapiador (University of York, UK), Maria S. Perez- Hernandez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), Masakazu Soshi (Hiroshima City University, Japan), Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA), Sajid Hussain (Fisk University, USA), Satoshi Hada (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan), Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan), Sozo Inoue (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan), Toshihiro Yamauchi (Okayama University, Japan), Weigang Wu (Sun Yat-Sen University, Chaina), Weizhong Qiang (Huazhong Uni- versity of Science and Technology, China), Xia Xie (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Xiaodong Lin (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Xiaolin (Andy) Li (University of Florida, USA), Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia), Yingjiu Li (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Zonghua Zhang (Institut TELECOM/TELECOM Lille1, France)
Guojun Wang , Guest Editor-in-Chief
Guojun Wang(Member)
