Call for Chapters: Biometrics Multimodal Systems for Identity Management

Call for Chapters: Biometrics Multimodal Systems for Identity Management
Editors
Dr. Abdullah Rashed (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho)
Prof. Henrique Santos (Algortimi Centre, University of Minho)

Proposals Submission Deadline: July 30, 2012
Full Chapters Due:  December 30, 2012

INTRODUCTION:
In a mobile era, users (or more generally, subjects) are represented by a set of data called digital identity, which are used, among other purposes, for authentication. Digital identity is defined as the digital representation of the known information about a specific subject (individual or organization). Within the digital world, security solutions are necessary to protect digital identity. Information security provides several identity management mechanisms to mitigate that threat. Identity management is a wide administrative area that identifies users in a system and defines restrictions on established identities. Efficient protection of digital identity encourages users to enter the digital world without hesitation. Users have a lot of user accounts (more then 20). Thus they always forget the full details or use insecure ways to recall. Users select easy to guess or personal information for their passwords or PINs. Biometrics presents a very promising alternative to prot!
ect against identity theft.

OBJECTIVE:
Biometrics can change drastically the way people interact with computers, making it possible to overcome a major security limitation: authentication is always under user control and can be fuelled by malicious operators. Biometrics systems – that recognize physical or behavioral human characteristics – may facilitate and enrich social interactions and allow people to naturally interact with computer systems with minimal training, for domains such as communications, education, entertainment, and robotics. Among all possible applications, Identity Management emerges since we are pushing our dependency on Internet based services, for which identification and/or authentication is becoming crucial. However, to be effective biometric technologies need to fulfill several demanding requirements which are imposing serious restrictions to adaptation. From limited technical precision and scalability, to poor user adoption, we can find many arguments to drop it. With this book we intend!
to address these issues and collect different proposals to overcome them. In particularly we want:

Target Audience
The target audiences are professionals and researchers who work in the field of biometrics identity management. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support for identity management experts and researchers.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
o IDM Architectures (centralized, federated and distributed)
o User Acceptance for Biometrics
o Behavioral Biometrics
o Performance Prediction for Multimodal Biometrics
o Biometrics Theory Methods and Applications
o IDM multimodal system: advantages and integration.
o Multimodal information architectures
o Multimodal Interaction Processing
o Security, Privacy, & access control
o Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction
o Audit and accountability
o Credential and access management
o Digital identity management
o Digital identity privacy issues
o Identity-related scientific, business, industrial, legal and social implications
o Federated identities management
o Models for authentication and privacy management
o Participating organizations
o User-centric identities management
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 30, 2012, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 30, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013.

Important Dates

July 30, 2012:    Proposal Submission Deadline
August 15, 2012:    Notification of Acceptance

December 30, 2012:    Full Chapter Submission
January 30, 2013:    Review Results Returned
February 30, 2013:    Final Chapter Submission