============================================================== The 1st International Workshop on Next Generation Security (WNGS ¨08) April 24-26, 2008, Hanwha Resort Haeunde, Busan, Korea to be held in conjunction with The 2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering http://www.sersc.org/MUE2008/ ===============================================================   Overview The workshop will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of NGS. The workshop will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in NGS. In addition, we expect that the workshop and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. Topics (included, but are not limited to) - Cryptographic Protocol & Application In NGS - Peer-to-Peer Security & Application - Privacy & Anonymity in NGS - Access Control in NGS - Biometrics in NGS - Computer Forensics in NGS - Efficient Implementations in NGS - Key/Identity Management in NGS - Smart & Java Cards in NGS - Mobile Communication in NGS   Workshop Co-Chair Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI. Korea) Steering Committee Kyo-Il Chung (ETRI, Korea)    Program Committee Anna C. Squicciarini (Perdu University, USA) Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Dimitrios Katsaros (Aristotle University, Greece) Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna, Italy) Heang Suk Oh (ETRI, Korea) Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA) Jong Wook Han (ETRI, Korea) Trevor Jim (AT&T, USA) Important dates  Paper Submission deadline December 5, 2007 Camera-ready due January 31, 2008  Acceptance notification January 10, 2008 Conference April 24-26, 2008 Author Instruction Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings. The submission of contributions to WNGS2008 occurs through the MUE2008 paper submission website. Paper must be prepared with PDF. Please use IEEE CS paper format. Submissions must not exceed 6~8 pages, including tables and figures, with only PDF. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Proceedings All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS (Our proceedings will be included in EI and other index). The proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop. Contact For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact WNGS'08 Cyber-chair at wngs08@gmail.com