The International Communications and Information Security Association has organized successful events of ICICS'97 in Beijing, ICICS'99 in Sydney, ICICS'01 in Xian and ICICS'02 in Singapore. To follow the progress of academic and industrial security, ICISA will continue the ICICS series and initiate a new conference series ACNS.

Original paper on all aspects of applied cryptography and network security are solicited for submission to the conference. Areas of interests include but not restricted to:

- Biometric Security Applications
- Cryptanalysis and Anti-Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic Applications
- Data Recovery and Coding
- Efficient Implementation
- Firewall and Intrusion Detection
- GPRS and CDMA Security
- Identification and Entity Authentication
- Key Management Techniques
- Network Protocol and Analysis
- Non-repudiation and Cryptographic Evidence
- PKI/PMI and Bridge CA
- Secure e-commerce and e-government
- Security Management and Strategy
- Side Channel Cryptanalysis
- Smart Card Security
- Verification and Testing of Secure Systems
- Viruses
- VPN and SVN
- WLAN and Bluetooth Security