First IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Identity and Security (BIdS) http://ieee-biometrics.org/bids2009 Tampa Sept 22-24 2009 Co-located with the Biometrics Consortium Conference, Authors of selected papers will be provided free attendance to both the BCC and BIdS events. The ability to determine or verify the identity of an individual in a reliable and rapid manner is becoming increasingly important in a large number of operations including banking, law enforcement, border control, logical access, internet relay chat, crime scene investigation, surveillance, and disaster victim identification. Biometrics and Identitfy Management represent two technologies that can be used to deduce and reason about the identity of individuals based on evidence pertaining to their physical and behavioral traits. They are a critical component of modern security systems. Biometrics is the science of determining human identity based on anatomical or behavioral attributes such as fingerprints, iris, voice, gait, and hand geometry. Other means of identification and verification include user name/passwords, smart cards. In addition, the principles of forensic science can be used to ascertain human identity, digital identitfies as well as associated events in the context of investigations. Identity Management allows representing and reasoning about the identity of many individuals and formalization of that process for security and access systems. This conference seeks new research results, approaches and systems at the confluence of these areas. In order to foster the cross-cutting discovery needed to provide the foundation for these systems, the conference is organized into the following tracks: * Biometrics: (Algorithms, sensors, systems) * Forensic Identification: * Identitfy Management: (Theory, Tools, Systems) * Security rRelated to identity * Privacy and socio-legal aspects * Identity System Evaluationevaluation BIdS is co-located with the Biometrics Consortium Conference in order to provide a unique venue in the community to bring together academic, industry, and government scientists along sidealongside system practitioners and programmatic personnel needed to shape next-generation systems. The goal is to foster exchange of biometrics identity and security ideas and issues across this interdisciplinary group. To support this goal, BIdS Conference is introducing an unique format, seeking the re-presentation of some of the best recent work which will be combined with highly selective original work. For original works, authors should submit papers on original, unpublished work in the field, or a new unpublished "review paper" providing a critical analysis of topics of interest. All submissions will be subjected to a double-blind review procedure. Selected papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and distributed on the conference CD.. Best paper awards will be given to outstanding contributions and recognized as such at the Conference. For "recent works", the authors will submit paper, the conference/journal where the work was published, where/when it was published, the paper as reviewed, the original reviews and the revised final paper. An optional presentation file will also be allowed. The paper must have been published in the past 2 years. The program committee will select the best of these recent papers, considering the paper, the goals of the meeting and the desired mix of topics. This will not be considered a new publication, but will provide for the authors to present the work at a broad venue with an interdisciplinary audience. The authors will be expected to make the presentation aimed at BIdS/BCC audience rather than the original academic audience. Paper Deadline June 1, 2009 General Chair Terrance Boult, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Program Co-chairs Joe Pato, Trust, Security & Privacy, HP Labs Joseph P. Campbell, MIT Salsa Prabhakar, Digital Persona Inc. Rangachar Kasturi, University of South Florida