NDSS Symposium 2020
February 23-26, 2020
San Diego, CA
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2020/call-for-papers/
NDSS 2020 Call for Papers
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is a top
venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and
practitioners of computer, 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 practical security technologies.
Technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. Authors are
encouraged to write the abstract and introduction of their paper in a
way that makes the results accessible and compelling to a general
computer-security researcher. All submissions will be reviewed by the
Program Committee and accepted submissions will be published by the
Internet Society in the Proceedings of NDSS 2020. 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. Paper Submission
Information
New Submission Model: NDSS will have two review cycles in 2020: the
first (Summer) with a submission deadline of June 14, 2019, and the
second (Fall) with a submission deadline of September 13, 2019. All
submissions must be received by 11:59 PM AoE (UTC-12) on the day of
the corresponding deadline.
For each submission to one of the two review cycles, one of the
following decisions will be made:
Accept: Papers in this category will be accepted for publication
in the proceedings and presentation at the conference.
Minor Revision: Papers in this category will be accepted for
publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference,
if and only if they undergo a minor revision and the revision is
determined satisfactory by their shepherds.
Major Revision: Papers in this category are considered promising
but need additional work (e.g., new implementations, experiments
and/or proofs). Authors may choose to revise and resubmit such
papers to NDSS 2020, with appropriate revisions and within about
45 days after notification (see specific deadlines below). The
revision and second-review of “Major Revision” papers will be
based on a list of “revision tasks” clearly specified by the
original reviewers and conveyed to authors in the notification. A
revised paper will be accepted to NDSS 2020, if it satisfactorily
fulfills the revision tasks. A paper may undergo at most one major
revision for NDSS 2020.
Reject: Papers in this category are not allowed to be resubmitted
to NDSS 2020.
Authors of accepted papers must ensure that their papers will be
presented at the conference.
Important Dates
Summer Review Cycle:
May 31, 2019: Submission site opens for summer review cycle
June 14, 2019: Full submissions for technical papers
July 25, 2019: Early notification for submissions rejected in the first round
August 14-17, 2019: Author rebuttal period for papers advanced to the
second round
August 25, 2019: Notification of acceptance/minor revision/major
revision/rejection
October 9, 2019: Resubmission of revised papers (for Summer review
cycle only) Fall Review Cycle:
August 30, 2019: Submission site opens for fall review cycle
September 13, 2019: Full submissions for technical papers
October 31, 2019: Early notification for submissions rejected in the
first round
November 16-19, 2019: Author rebuttal period for papers advanced to
the second round
December 8, 2019: Final notification of acceptance/minor
revision/major revision/rejection
January 24, 2020: Resubmission of revised papers (for Fall review
cycle only) NDSS 2020 Workshops and Symposium
February 23-26, 2020 — San Diego, CA
Areas/Topics of Interest
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
Cyber-crime defense and forensics (e.g., anti-phishing,
anti-blackmailing, anti-fraud techniques)
Security for future Internet architectures and designs (e.g.,
Software-Defined Networking)
Implementation, deployment and management of network security policies
Integrating security in network protocols (e.g., routing, naming,
and management)
Cyber attack (e.g., APTs, botnets, DDoS) prevention, detection,
investigation, and response
Software/firmware analysis, customization, and transformation for
systems security
Privacy and anonymity in networks and distributed systems
Security and privacy for blockchains and cryptocurrencies
Public key infrastructures, key management, certification, and revocation
Security for cloud/edge computing
Security and privacy of mobile/smartphone platforms
Security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles,
industrial control systems)
Security for emerging networks (e.g., home networks, IoT,
body-area networks, VANETs)
Security for large-scale, critical infrastructures (e.g.,
electronic voting, smart grid)
Security and privacy of systems based on machine learning and AI
Security of Web-based applications and services (e.g., social
networking, crowd-sourcing)
Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between
security and efficiency, usability, cost, and ethics
Usable security and privacy
Trustworthy Computing software and hardware to secure networks and
systems
A special note on “fit” for all submissions: NDSS is primarily a venue
focusing on network and systems security. As such, the Program
Committee will be looking for papers that have a clear relation to
real systems and applications. For instance, a paper that makes
significant contributions in an area such as cryptography but that
fails to demonstrably tie those advances to real systems is unlikely
to be accepted.
Review Task Force
The Program Committee (PC) has an exceedingly difficult job that
demands, collectively, many thousands of hours of volunteered
effort. The goal of NDSS is to not only to select the submissions that
are ready for presentation at this venue, but also to assist the
authors of rejected papers in improving their work as much as
possible.
To assist in this process, we are creating a group of senior PC
members who will read reviews across many papers and ensure that all
feedback achieves the following goals: 1) Provide concrete steps for
improving the work; 2) Separate reviewer opinion from demonstrable
technical weakness; and 3) Provide clear citation to work when claims
of novelty are raised. While we make no claims that these changes will
make the peer review process perfect (i.e., very good papers may still
not be selected), we believe that this will help to improve the
process.
Paper Formatting
Technical papers submitted for NDSS should be written in
English. Papers must not exceed 13 pages, excluding 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. The NDSS 2020 Templates are available at
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2020/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
implications or introduce legal issues of potential concern to the
NDSS community, 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 or
relevant 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 publication
or funding) that occurred in the past 2 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 Co-Chairs are not allowed to submit to the conference.
A Special Note on “Fake Conflicts”: Declaring conflicts of interest to
avoid certain (otherwise non-conflicting) PC members is not allowed
and can constitute grounds for rejection. The PC Chairs reserve the
right to request additional explanation for a declared conflict. 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.
Submissions of papers
The submission site for the summer review cycle (opening on May 31,
2019) is https://ndss20-summer.hotcrp.com.
The submission site for the fall review cycle (opening on August 30,
2019) is https://ndss20-fall.hotcrp.com.
PC chair contact: ndss-pc-chair@elists.isoc.org
Acknowledgement
We thank the PC Co-Chairs of ACM CCS’19 and USENIX Security’19 for
allowing us to reuse certain text in their CFPs.