Call For Papers
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the
premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and
electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and
practitioners in the field. The 2016 Symposium will mark the 37th
annual meeting of this flagship conference.
The Symposium will be held on May 23-25, 2016
and the Security and Privacy Workshops will be held on May 26, 2016.
Both events will be in San Jose, California at The Fairmont Hotel.
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/index.html
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has
been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the
latest developments and bringing together researchers and
practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel
research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers
may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis,
verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure
systems.
Topics of interest include:
Access control and authorization
Accountability
Anonymity
Application security
Attacks and defenses
Authentication
Censorship resistance
Cloud security
Distributed systems security
Economics of security and privacy
Embedded systems security
Forensics
Hardware security
Intrusion detection
Malware and unwanted software
Mobile and Web security and privacy
Language-based security
Network and systems security
Privacy technologies and mechanisms
Protocol security
Secure information flow
Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
Security and privacy metrics
Security and privacy policies
Security architectures
System security
Usable security and privacy
This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in
all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear
application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of
scope and may be rejected without full review.
Systematization of Knowledge Papers
As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers
that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as
such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers
are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established,
major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an
area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive
new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are
not appropriate. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix
“SoK:” in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will
be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as
traditional research papers, except instead of emphasizing novel
research contributions the emphasis will be on value to the
community. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and
included in the proceedings. Workshops
The Symposium is also soliciting submissions for co-located
workshops. Further details on submissions can be found at
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/workshops.html
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59:59 EST (UTC-5).
Paper submission deadline November 13, 2015 No Extensions
Early-reject notification and author appeal period January 11-13, 2016
Conference registration opens February, 2016
Acceptance notification February 7, 2016
Approval deadline for shepherded papers February 26, 2016
Early-bird conference registration deadline Mid-April, 2016
Camera-ready deadline TBD
Instructions for Paper Submission
These instructions apply to both the research papers and systematization of knowledge papers.
All submissions must be original work; the submitter must clearly
document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously
submitted papers from any of the authors. Failure to point out and
explain overlap will be grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission
of the same paper to another venue with proceedings or a journal is
not allowed and will be grounds for automatic rejection. Contact the
program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy.
NEW THIS YEAR: To encourage authors to submit their very best work, no
single author may appear on more than three (3) non-SoK
submissions. Authors who wish to submit more than 3 papers must follow
a special procedure for bulk submissions, described below. Also, as
described below, early rejection with an option to appeal is being
introduced, and a “Student PC” is being established. The Student
Program Committee
Following a successful model used at other premier technical
conferences, some paper submissions will be reviewed by a "shadow PC"
of students and junior researchers, this year chaired by Joseph
Bonneau of Stanford University/EFF. For more information see
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/studentpc.html. Early
Rejection and Appeals
There will be no conventional rebuttal process. Papers that receive
substantially negative initial reviews will be rejected early and, at
the same time, the initial reviews of all submissions will be sent to
the authors. Authors who substantively disagree with the reviews can
appeal to the PC chairs. Authors’ appeals must clearly and explicitly
identify concrete disagreements with factual statements in the initial
reviews that should be adjudicated by a special arbitration reviewer
who may be recruited by the PC chairs. Appealing a submission that was
rejected early will keep it under consideration, and it cannot be
withdrawn or resubmitted elsewhere until the final notification of
acceptance or rejection.
Anonymous Submission
Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no
author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers
should avoid revealing their identity in the text. When referring to
your previous work, do so in the third person, as though it were
written by someone else. Only blind the reference itself in the
(unusual) case that a third-person reference is infeasible. Contact
the program chairs if you have any questions. Papers that are not
properly anonymized may be rejected without review.
Page Limit and Formatting
Submitted papers may include up to 15 pages of text and up to 5 pages
for references and appendices, totalling no more than 20 pages. The
same applies to camera-ready papers, although, at the PC chairs’
discretion, additional pages may be allowed for references and
appendices. Reviewers are not required to read appendices.
Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. The text
must be formatted in a two-column layout, with columns no more than
9.5 in. tall and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font,
10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are
encouraged to use the IEEE conference proceedings templates. LaTeX
submissions should use IEEEtran.cls version 1.8. Failure to adhere to
the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for
rejection. Submission
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. Your document should render correctly
in Adobe Reader 9 and when printed in black and white. Bulk
Submissions
Special rules apply to all submissions by authors who submit more than
3 non-SoK papers. If the paper has been previously considered at other
conferences, journals, or workshops, the submitted version must
include an appendix that lists: (a) the year and full name of those
venues, (b) the complete set of reviews, and (c) detailed description
of the changes made since. This appendix does not count towards the
page limit. By their submission, the authors of these papers
acknowledge and accept that the PC chairs may solicit further
information about them (e.g., to verify the contents of the appendix)
and pass such information on to the PC. Failure to comply with these
rules will result in automatic rejection of the bulk submissions
without consideration.
Conference Submission Server
Papers must be submitted at http://oakland2016.hotcrp.org/ and may be
updated at any time until the submission deadline. The submission site
will open October 14, 2015.
Publication and Presentation
Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate publication
clearances. One of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to
present the paper at the conference. Submissions received after the
submission deadline or failing to conform to the submission guidelines
risk rejection without review.
For more information, contact the program co-chairs at:
oakland16-pcchairs@ieee-security.org.
Program Committee
Chairs
Úlfar Erlingsson Google
Vitaly Shmatikov Cornell Tech
Members
Sadia Afroz UC Berkeley
Davide Balzarotti EURECOM
Adam Barth Google
Karthikeyan Bhargavan INRIA
Joseph Bonneau Stanford / EFF
Nikita Borisov UIUC
Kevin Butler U. of Florida
Steve Checkoway UIC
Haibo Chen SJTU
Adam Chlipala MIT
Nicolas Christin CMU
Manuel Costa MSRC
Emiliano de Cristofaro UCL
Ittay Eyal Cornell
Adrienne Porter Felt Google
Arjun Guha UMass
Andreas Haeberlen UPenn
Nadia Heninger UPenn
Jason Hong CMU
Amir Houmansadr UMass
Brent Kang KAIST
Chris Kanich UIC
Sam King Twitter
Aleksandra Korolova USC
David Lie Toronto
Jay Lorch MSR
Matteo Maffei CISPA, Saarland
David Mazières Stanford
Ilya Mironov Google
Cristina Nita-Rotaru Northeastern
Marcus Peinado MSR
Frank Piessens KU Leuven
Benny Pinkas BIU
Mike Reiter UNC Chapel Hill
Franziska Roesner U. of Washington
Ulrich Rührmair U. of Bochum
Prateek Saxena Singapore
Thomas Schneider TU Darmstadt
Vyas Sekar CMU
Simha Sethumadhavan Columbia
Hovav Shacham ICSI / UCSD
Elaine Shi Cornell
Emin Gun Sirer Cornell
Matthew Smith U. Bonn
Nikhil Swamy MSR
Nina Taft Google
Gang Tan Lehigh
Mohit Tiwari U. of Texas at Austin
Eran Tromer TAU
Carmela Troncoso IMDEA Software
Giovanni Vigna UCSB
Bogdan Warinschi Bristol University
Robert Watson U. of Cambridge
Tao Xie UIUC
Jean Yang CMU
Junfeng Yang Columbia
Ben Zhao UCSB
Yinqian Zhang Ohio State