Call for Papers *********************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SECICT 2020) Bucharest, Romania 19-20 November 2020 http://www.secitc.eu/ *********************************************************************** *Deadline: 20 September 2020* The 13th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SECITC 2020) will be held in Bucharest, Romania on November 19-20, 2020. The conference venue will be the Palace of the National Military Circle, located right in the heart of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. SECITC brings together computer security researchers, cryptographers, industry representatives and graduate students interested in any aspect of information security and privacy. One of SECITC’s primary goal is connecting security and privacy researchers as well as professionals from different communities and providing a forum that allows informal exchanges necessary for the emergence of new scientific and industrial collaborations. Paper submission and refereeing for SECITC 2020 will take place via EasyChair and the post-proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. CONFERENCE TOPICS -------------------------- Topics comprise all aspects of Information Security, including but not limited to the following areas: Access Control Algorithmic Tools for Security and Cryptography Cryptology Application Security Attacks and Defenses Authentication Biometry Censorship and Censorship-Resistance Cloud Security Distributed Systems Security Embedded Systems Security Digital Forensics Hardware Security Information Flow Analysis Internet of Things (IoT) Security Intrusion Detection Language-Based Security Malware Mobile Security and Privacy Network Security New Exploits Policy Enforcements Privacy and Anonymity Protocol Security Reverse-Engineering and Code Obfuscation Security Architectures Security Aspects of Alternative Currencies Side Channel Attacks Surveillance and Anti-Surveillance System Security IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- Paper submission deadline: 20 September 2020 at 23:59 UTC/GMT Notification of decisions: 25 October 2020 Proceedings version deadline: 01 November 2020 Conference: 19-20 November 2020 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -------------------------- Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of any other journal, conference/workshop with proceedings. The submission should begin with a title followed by a short abstract and keywords. Submissions must be in PDF format and should have at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. All submissions must be anonymous. The reviewers are not required to read appendices—the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers should guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present their paper. Paper submission and review process is handled via EasyChair platform. All submissions must be in PDF format. For paper submission follow the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secitc2020 As the final accepted papers will be published in LNCS by Springer, it is recommended that the submissions be processed in LaTeX2e according to the instructions listed on the Springer’s LNCS Webpage: www.springer.com/lncs. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers. In particular, Springer’s LNCS paper formatting requirements can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 Program Chairs: - Diana MAIMUȚ (Advanced Technologies Institute, ROMANIA) diana.maimut@dcti.ro - Andrei-George OPRINA (Head of the Advanced Technologies Institute, ROMANIA) andrei.oprina@sri.ro - Damien SAUVERON (University of Limoges, FRANCE) damien.sauveron@unilim.fr Program Committee: - Raja Naeem AKRAM, UK - Ludovic APVRILLE, FRANCE - Claudio ARDAGNA, ITALY - Lasse BERNTZEN, NORWAY - Ion BICA, ROMANIA - Cătălin BOJA, ROMANIA - Guillaume BOUFFARD, FRANCE - Samia BOUZEFRANE, FRANCE - Paolo D'ARCO, ITALY - Roberto DE PRISCO, ITALY - Eric DIEHL, USA - Pooya FARSHIM, FRANCE - Dietr GOLLMANN, GERMANY - Johann GROSZSCHAEDL, LUXEMBOURG - Rémi GERAUD-STEWART, FRANCE - Julio HERNANDEZ, UK - Shoichi HIROSE, JAPAN - Nesrine KAANICHE, UK - Mehmet Sabir KIRAZ, UK - Chhagan LAL, NORWAY - Jean-Francois LALANDE, FRANCE - Maryline LAURENT, FRANCE - Giovanni LIVRAGA, ITALY - Kazuhiko MINEMATSU, JAPAN - Stig MJOLSNES, NORWAY - David NACCACHE, FRANCE - Vincent NICOMETTE, FRANCE - Ruxandra OLIMID, NORWAY - Victor Valeriu PATRICIU, ROMANIA - Cezar PLEŞCA, ROMANIA - Marius POPA, ROMANIA - Joachim POSEGGA, GERMANY - Reza REYHANITABAR, GERMANY - Peter ROENNE, LUXEMBOURG - Emil SIMION, ROMANIA - Daniel SMITH-TONE, USA - Agusti SOLANAS, SPAIN - Riccardo SPOLAOR, UK - Pantelimon STĂNICĂ, USA - Rainer STEINWANDT, USA - Ferucio Laurențiu ȚIPLEA, ROMANIA - Mihai TOGAN, ROMANIA - Cristian TOMA, ROMANIA - Denis TRCEK, SLOVENIA - Valérie VIET TRIM TONG, FRANCE - Qianhong WU, CHINA - Sule YILDIRIM-YAYILGAN, NORWAY - Alin ZAMFIROIU, ROMANIA - Stefano ZANERO, ITALY - Lei ZHANG, CHINA - TBC -- Damien Sauveron http://damien.sauveron.fr/