IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

1. Conference Report is published! (Updated time: Nov. 7, 2008)

2. The slides from keynote speakers and authors are published! (updated time: Oct. 21, 2008)

3. Advanced Program is updated!!! (updated time: Oct. 10, 2008)

4. Attendees with vegetarian food requirement must send the special requirement to the conference email address (aptc08@gmail.com) by Wednesday Oct. 8th. (updated time: Oct. 6, 2008)

5. The information related to “Access” and Accommodation” in Yichang, China, is available now!! (updated time: Sept. 24, 2008).

6. There are two registration sites: one is in building No. 8, HUST, Wuhan, China; the other is in Gezhou Dam hotel, Yichang, China. If you go to Wuhan at first, a bus will take you from building No. 8, HUST to Three Gorges Dam and the cruise boarding place at 09:30, October 14. If you go to Yichang, the bus will pick you up from Gezhou Dam hotel to Three Gorges Dam and the cruise boarding place at 13:30, October 14.

7. Please make sure to send your name, gender, registration site to aptc08@gmail.com before October 5, it will help us to pick you up and assign a room to you in advance.

Notice: Both three Gorges Dam and the cruise boarding place are in Yichang, not in Wuhan.

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

In past few years we have been witnessing a growing interest in trusted infrastructure technologies. The area of study has been gaining importance recently due to the technologies' association to a useful notion of software behavior conformity which is considered to have a potential for securing multi-tenancy and service-oriented computing such as Cloud Computing. Asia and Pacific proves an active region for research and development activities in trusted infrastructure technologies. In December 2005, 7th International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ICICS 2005, www.icics2005.org), held in Beijing, China, included an Industry Track to host Trusted Computing Group (TCG) for a TCG Business Community Day Seminar. In November 2006, 2nd Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing (WATC'06, www.trl.ibm.com/projects/watc) was held in Tokyo, Japan. In August 2007, Asia-Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technologies Summer School (APTISS, www.aptiss.org) was launched in Zhuhai, China, and its sequel continued in August 2008 in Shah Alam, Malaysia. In addition, the region's industry development effort has also been very active: versions of Trusted Platform Modules have been independently designed and developed by several companies in China. The Advisory Board and Industry Sponsors wish to continue fostering and supporting trusted infrastructure research and development activities in the Asia-Pacific region and consider that it is highly desirable to hold this conference in China.  APTC 2008 will be co-organized with China Trusted Computing Union (CTCU) and China Open Source Software Promotion Union (COPU)

TOPICS

Original papers are solicited for submission to APTC'08. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Trusted Computing

· Middleware Security

· Trust & Security for Grid & Cloud Computing

· Secure Virtualization

· Virtual Machine Security

· Trusted Virtual Domains

· Operating Systems Security

· Tamper resistant Software

· Software Integrity Technologies

· Enterprise Rights Management

· Security Functionalities in Hardware

· Policy Enforcement & Management

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. A submission should be limited to 15 pages of 11pt type excluding bibliography and appendices, and maximum 20 pages. Authors should submit papers via electronic submission using the web tool in the APTC'08 website (detailed instructions to be available soon).

The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

· Submission deadline: June 15, 2008, 00:00 Beijing Time

· Notification: July 26, 2008

· Proceedings version: August 10, 2008

· Conference: October 14-17, 2008