Approved Special Sessions and Workshops
SS1: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) For Information Assurance
Session Chair:
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman
Assistant Professor
College of Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT),
Department of Computer Science,
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, KSA
Email: aaurrahman@iau.edu.sa

SS2: Digital Forensics
Session Chair:
Mário Antunes, INESC-TEC; IPLeiria, Portugal

Call for Special Sessions & Events 
We kindly invite you to propose Workshop/Special Session in the 14th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2018) to be held in Porto, Portugal during December 13-15, 2018. IAS 2018 is intended to be a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of intelligent systems and its applications in industry and the real world.
Session organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting, and chairing the parallel special session during the conference. Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program Committee. Each Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be done through IAS’2018 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper. 
All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the IAS’2018 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered:

• Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to IAS’2018 attendees.
• Complementarity to the IAS’2017 program provided by the other tracks.
• Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal.
• Qualification of the submitter(s) to organize the SS.
• Likely success of the proposed session.
• Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity.

It is expected that all accepted papers will be included in the IAS’2018 conference proceedings published by Springer.