PROACT best paper award 2006

The Programme for Advanced Contactless Technologies (PROACT) is searching for the best paper about radio-frequency indentification technologies (RFID).

• Download: Call for papers (.pdf, 97 kB)

The winners are ... (September 25 2006)

The expert jury had to review 10 submissions. Due to the excellent quality of the articles it was not easy to select best. The following articles were selected:

• Bachelor students
  1. Hannes Riedenbauer, RFID - EPC and Security Mechanisms (.pdf, 106 kB).
  2. Johannes Schweighofer, RFID Security and Application in Biometric Passports.
  3. Herwig Guggi, RFID Security and Privacy.
• Master students
1. Franz Fürbass, ECC Signature Generation Device for RFID Tags (.pdf, 232 kB).
2. Micheal Hutter, Attacking AES on a Passive RFID Transponder.
3. Christian Tutsch, Implementation of Symmetric Authentication for an RFID System.
• PhD students, researchers
  1. Martin Feldhofer, Christian Rechberger, A Case Against Currently Used Hash Functions in RFID Protocols (.pdf, 164 kB).
  2. Wolfgang Stocksreiter, Gernot Knoll, Technologische Herausforderungen an RFID Systeme.

PROACT congratulates the winners! The Prizes are

• Bachelor students
  1. Apple iPod nano MP3-Player 4 GB black.
  2. Apple iPod shuffle MP3 Player 1GB clamshell.
  3. SanDisk Cruzer Micro U3 USB-Stick 1GB.
• Master students
1. Hewlett-Packard iPAQ hx2490 Pocket PC Handheld.
2. Apple iPod shuffle MP3 Player 1GB clamshell.
3. SanDisk Cruzer Micro U3 USB-Stick 1GB.
• PhD students, researchers
  1. International conference travel.
  2. Apple iPod shuffle MP3 Player 1GB clamshell.

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony of the PROACT best-paper award will take place at the Aula of TU Graz

PROACT Best-paper Award Ceremony

Friday 6th October 2006, 13:00
Aula TU Graz
Rechbauerstraße 12, 1st floor

The rector of the TU Graz Sans Sünkel will hand over the prizes to the winners.

Call for papers

RFID technology is an emerging technology touching many aspects of our lifes. Logistics, car immobilization, ticketing, and many more applications rely on RFID. RFID is regarded as an enabling technology for the “Internet of things”. To reach this goal research in many different domains is necessary.

Topics

Topics for the call for papers include but are not limited to:

Valuable prizes to win

Join the RFID research community by writing a scientific article about RFID. You may be rewarded with valuable prizes! The best-paper award is open for students and researchers in the Graz area. Prizes are given in three categories to give students on different levels a fair chance to participate:

Bachelor students iPod Nano MP3 player Master students HP iPAQ Pocket PC PhD students, researchers Int´l conference travel

Instructions for the author

Authors are invited to submit papers of at least six and at most 12 pages in PDF or Word format. There are no strict rules for formatting although the Springer LNCS style is preferred [-> www.springer.de]. Submit your article per email: PROACT@tugraz.at.

Important dates

Program committee

Further information

If you have further questions about the best-paper award do not Hesitate to contact us: PROACT@tugraz.at.

• Download: Call for papers (.pdf, 97 kB)