NDSS Symposium 2016
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium-2016

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2016 will be held 21-24
February 2016 at Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego, California.
Call for PapersImportant Dates

   -  14 August 2015, 06:00 am CET (UTC+1:00),  Paper titles and abstracts
      due
   -  18 August 2015, 06:00 am CET (UTC+1:00),  Full submissions for
      technical papers and panels due
   -  Each submission will be acknowledged by email; if acknowledgement is
      not received within 24 hours, contact the Program Committee chair.
   -  18 September 2015 (tentative), Early notification for submissions
       rejected in the first round
   -  22 October 2015 (tentative), Final notification of acceptance

Symposium Goals
ISOC NDSS fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners
of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes
those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system
security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major
goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy,
and advance the state of available security technologies.
Technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be
reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted submissions will be
published by the Internet Society in the Proceedings of NDSS 2016. The
Proceedings will be made freely accessible from the Internet Society
webpages. Furthermore, permission to freely reproduce all or parts of
papers for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear the
Internet Society notice included in the first page of the paper. The
authors are therefore free to post the camera-ready versions of their
papers on their personal pages and within their institutional repositories.
Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and requires
prior consent.

Technical Papers

*Paper Formatting*
Technical papers submitted for NDSS should be written in English. Papers
must not exceed 15 pages in total (including the references and
appendices). Papers must be formatted for US letter size (not A4) paper in
a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.25 in. high and 3.5 in.
wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or
larger line spacing. Authors must use the NDSS templates, which can be
found here:
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/ndss-symposium/ndss-templates.
Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay
special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create
problems for reviewers. Documents should render correctly in Adobe Reader
when printed in black and white.

*Double and Concurrent Submissions*
Technical papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings. Double-submission will result in
immediate rejection. The Program Committee may share information with other
conference chairs and journal editors so as to detect such cases.

*Ethical Considerations*
If a paper relates to human subjects, analyzes data derived from human
subjects, may put humans at risk or might have other ethical or legal
implications, authors should disclose if an ethics review (e.g., IRB
approval) was conducted, and discuss in the paper how ethical and legal
concerns were addressed. If the paper reports a potentially high-impact
vulnerability the authors should discuss their plan for responsible
disclosure. The chairs will contact the authors in case of major concerns.
The Program Committee reserves the right to reject a submission if
insufficient evidence was presented that ethical and legal concerns were
appropriately addressed.

*Anonymous Submissions*
NDSS implements a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and
affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a
reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional
affiliation in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is
contained in the paper.  Authors' prior work should be preferably referred
to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be
blinded.  Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected
without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance
decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

*Conflicts of Interest*
Authors and Program Committee members are required to indicate any conflict
of interest and its nature. Advisors and advisees, as well as authors and
PC members with an institutional relationship are considered to share a
conflict of interest. Professional collaborations (irrespective of whether
they resulted in a publication) that occurred in the past 3 years and close
personal relationships equally constitute a conflict of interest. PC
members, including chairs that have a conflict of interest with a paper,
will be entirely excluded from the evaluation of that paper. The PC chair
and shadow chair are not allowed to submit to the conference. Declaring
conflicts of interest in order to prevent submissions from being reviewed
by selected PC members is not allowed and can constitute grounds for
rejection. If authors have concerns about the fair treatment of their
submissions, they should instead contact the chairs and provide convincing
arguments for any special consideration that they are requesting.

*Early Rejection Notification *
The review process will consist of several reviewing rounds. In order to
allow authors time to improve their work and submit to other venues,
authors of submissions for which there is a consensus on rejection will be
notified earlier (by 18 September 2015).
Papers that are not accepted as full technical papers may be invited by the
Program Committee to be presented at the conference as short talks.
Extended abstracts of such papers will appear on the Internet Society
website but not in the proceedings. Priority will be given to papers that
have fresh, unconventional ideas.

Panel Proposals
Panel proposals should be one page and must describe the topic, identify
the panel chair, explain the panel format, and list three to four potential
panelists. A description of each panel will appear on the Internet Society
website but not in the proceedings, and may, at the discretion of the panel
chair, include written position statements from the panelists.

Submission Site and Contact
Submissions of papers and panels: https://ndss16.syssec.ch/
PC chair contact: pc-chair@isoc.org

Areas of Interest
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

   - Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
   - Combating cyber-crime: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud techniques
   - Security for future Internet architectures and designs (e.g.,
     Software-Defined Networking)
   - High-availability wired and wireless networks
   - Implementation, deployment and management of network security policies
   - Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, network
     management
   - Intellectual property protection: protocols, implementations,
     metering, watermarking, digital rights management
   - Intrusion prevention, detection, and response
   - Privacy and anonymity technologies
   - Security and privacy for distributed cryptocurrencies
   - Security and privacy in Social Networks
   - Public key infrastructures, key management, certification, and
     revocation
   - Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between security
     and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost
   - Security for collaborative applications: teleconferencing and
     video-conferencing
   - Security for cloud computing
   - Security for emerging technologies: sensor/wireless/mobile/personal
     networks and systems
   - Security for future home networks, Internet of Things, body-area
     networks
   - Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures (e.g.,
     electronic voting, smart grid)
   - Security for peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
   - Security for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)
   - Security of Web-based applications and services
   - Trustworthy Computing mechanisms to secure network protocols and
     distributed systems
   - Usable security and privacy

Program Committee
Manos Antonakakis, *Georgia Institute of Technology*
Davide Balzarotti, *EURECOM*
Lujo Bauer, *Carnegie Mellon University*
Joseph Bonneau, *Stanford University & EFF*
Nikita Borisov, *University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*
Kevin Butler, *University of Florida*
Srdjan Capkun, *ETH Zurich (Chair)*
Nicolas Christin, *Carnegie Mellon University*
Emiliano De Cristofaro, *University College London*
William Enck, *North Carolina State University*
Manuel Egele, *Boston University*
Guofei Gu, *Texas A&M University*
Thorsten Holz, *Ruhr-University Bochum*
Somesh Jha, *University of Wisconsin Madison*
Ari Juels, *Cornell Tech (Shadow Chair)*
Jonathan Katz, *University of Maryland*
Yongdae Kim, *KAIST*
Engin Kirda, *Northeastern University*
Farinaz Koushanfar, *Rice University*
Christopher Kruegel, *University of California, Santa Barbara*
Wenke Lee, *Georgia Institute of Technology*
Zhenkai Liang, *National University of Singapore*
David Lie, *University of Toronto*
Ben Livshits, *Microsoft Research*
Ivan Martinovic, *Oxford University*
Prateek Mittal, *Princeton University*
David Molnar, *Microsoft Research*
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, *Purdue University*
Alina Oprea, *RSA Laboratories*
Adrian Perrig, *ETH Zurich*
Christina Poepper, *Ruhr University Bochum*
Mike Reiter, *UNC Chapel Hill*
Thomas Ristenpart, *Cornell Tech*
Franziska Roesner, *University of Washington*
Andrei Sabelfeld, *Chalmers University*
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, *TU Darmstadt*
Reza Shokri, *University of Texas at Austin*
Robin Sommer, *International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley*
Patrick Traynor, *University of Florida*
Venkat Venkatakrishnan, *University of Illinois, Chicago*
Giovanni Vigna, *UC Santa Barbara*
David Wagner, *University of California, Berkeley*
XiaoFeng Wang, *Indiana University Bloomington*

NDSS 2016 Steering Group
Michael Bailey, *University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign*
David Balenson, *SRI International*
Davide Balzarotti, *EURECOM*
Lujo Bauer, *Carnegie Mellon University (General Chair)*
Srdjan Capkun, *ETH Zurich*
Deb Frincke, *National Security Agency*
Tom Hutton, *University of California San Diego*
Yongdae Kim, *KAIST*
Karen O'Donoghue, *Internet Society*
Deborah Shands, *Aerospace Corporation*
Matthew Smith, *Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn*
Paul Syverson, *National Research Labs*
Doug Szajda, *University of Richmond*
Helen Wang, *Microsoft Research*