MAY 21-23, 2018 AT THE HYATT REGENCY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2018/cfpapers.html
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security
and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for
Cryptologic Research Call For Papers
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 We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel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 and prevention
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
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, but they will be accepted based on their
treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based
on any new research results they may contain. 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
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2018/workshops.html . Ongoing
Submissions
To enhance the quality and timeliness of the scientific results
presented as part of the Symposium, and to improve the quality of our
reviewing process, IEEE S&P now accepts paper submissions 12 times a
year, on the first of each month. The detailed process is as follows.
A rolling deadline occurs on the 1st of each month, at 3:00 PM
(UTC-7, i.e., PDT). This deadline is strict and no extensions will
be granted.
Within two months of submission, author notifications of
Accept/Revise/Reject decisions will be sent out.
Within one month of acceptance, all accepted papers must submit a
camera-ready copy incorporating reviewer feedback. The papers will
immediately be published, open access, in the Computer Society's
Digital Library, and they may be cited as "To appear in the IEEE
Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 20XX".
A limited number of papers will be invited to submit a revision;
such papers will receive a specific set of expectations to be met
by that revision. Authors may take up to three months from
decision notification to produce a revised manuscript and submit
it as part of the standard deadline on the 1st of the
month. Authors will receive decisions on revisions within one
month. See below for additional details on the resubmission
procedure.
Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original
submission, to resubmit to IEEE S&P.
A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new
submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors,
and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of
the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of
thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original
submission and the new paper, it will be considered a
resubmission.
All papers accepted by February 1st, 2018, or that are submitted
as a revision by February 1st, 2018 and the revision is then
accepted, will be included in the proceedings of the symposium in
May, 2018 and invited to present their work. Other papers will be
included in the 2019 proceedings.
As a result, for authors who anticipate using the full three
months to respond to a Revision decision, the final submission
deadline for possible inclusion in the 2018 proceedings is
September 1st, 2017.
For authors who anticipate using only one month to respond to
a Revision decision, the final submission deadline for
possible inclusion in the 2018 proceedings is November 1st,
2017.
The final submission deadline for possible inclusion in the
2018 proceedings is December 1st, 2017, but only for papers
accepted without revision.
Revised Submissions
As described above, some number of papers will receive a Revise
decision, rather than Accept or Reject. This decision will be
accompanied by a detailed summary of the expectations for the
revision, in addition to the standard reviewer comments. Authors may
take up to three months to prepare a revision, which may include
running additional experiments, improving the paper's presentation, or
other such improvements. Papers meeting the expectations will
typically be accepted. Those that do not will be rejected. Only in
exceptional circumstances will additional revisions be requested.
Upon receiving a Revise decision, authors can choose to withdraw their
paper or not submit a revision within three months, but they will be
asked to not submit the same or similar work again (following the same
rules as for Rejected papers) for 1 year from the date of the original
submission.
Revised submissions should be submitted on the first of the month,
just as with new submissions. Revisions must be accompanied by a
summary of the changes that were made.
Student Program Committee
Following a successful model used at last year's conference, as well
as other premier technical conferences, some paper submissions will be
reviewed by a "shadow PC" of students and junior researchers, this
year chaired by Thorsten Holz of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. For
more information see
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2018/studentpc.html.
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.
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. Publication as a technical report or in an online
repository does not constitute a violation of this policy. Contact the
program chairs if you have any questions. Papers that are not properly
anonymized may be rejected without review.
Conflicts of Interest
Drawn from the ACM SIGMOD 2015 CFP
During submission of a research paper, the submission site will
request information about conflicts of interest of the paper's authors
with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of
all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential
conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following
definition. A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member
when and only when one or more of the following conditions holds:
The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or
university within the past two years.
For student interns, the student is conflicted with their
supervisors and with members of the same research group. If
the student no longer works for the organization, then they
are not conflicted with a PC member from the larger
organization.
The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
The PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, no
matter how long ago.
The author is or was the PC member's primary thesis advisor, no
matter how long ago.
The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.
For any other situation where the authors feel they have a conflict
with a PC member, they must explain the nature of the conflict to the
PC chairs, who will mark the conflict if appropriate. Papers with
incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information as of the
submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.
Human Subjects and Ethical Considerations
Drawn from the USENIX Security 2016 CFP
Submissions that describe experiments on human subjects, that analyze
data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), or that
otherwise may put humans at risk should:
Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from
each of the authors' institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if
applicable.
Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who
might have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically
and with respect.
If the submission deals with vulnerabilities (e.g., software
vulnerabilities in a given program or design weaknesses in a hardware
system), the authors need to discuss in detail the steps they have
taken or plan to take to address these vulnerabilities (e.g., by
disclosing vulnerabilities to the vendors). The same applies if the
submission deals with personal identifiable information (PII) or other
kinds of sensitive data. If a paper raises significant ethical and
legal concerns, it might be rejected based on these concerns.
Contact the program co-chairs oakland18-pcchairs@ieee-security.org if
you have any questions.
Page Limit and Formatting
Submitted papers may include up to 13 pages of text and up to 5 pages
for references and appendices, totalling no more than 18 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. All submissions will
be automatically checked for conformance to these
requirements. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting
requirements are grounds for rejection without review.
Reviews from Prior Submissions
Authors may optionally submit a document (PDF or text) containing:
the complete reviews they received from prior submission(s) and
a page of up to 500 words documenting the improvements made since
the prior submission(s).
Also starting this year, if a submission is derived in any way from a
submission submitted to another venue (conference, journal, etc.) in
the past twelve months, we require that the authors provide the name
of the most recent venue to which it was submitted. This information
will not be shared with reviewers. It will only be used (1) for
aggregate statistics to understand the percent of resubmissions among
the set of submitted (and accepted) papers; (2) at the Chairs'
discretion, to identify dual submissions and verify the accuracy of
prior reviews provided by authors regarding previously rejected
papers.
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.
Conference Submission Server
Papers must be submitted at https://oakland18.seclab.cs.ucsb.edu
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.
Program Committee
Chairs
Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher Kruegel UC Santa Barbara
Associate Chairs
Lujo Bauer Carnegie Mellon University
Srdjan Capkun ETH Zurich
David Evans University of Virginia
Michael Hicks University of Maryland
Members
Manos Antonakakis Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Backes CISPA
Davide Balzarotti Eurecom
Gilles Barthe IMDEA Software Institute
Karthik Bhargavan INRIA
Leyla Bilge Symantec Research Labs
Marina Blanton University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Nikita Borisov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kevin Butler University of Florida
Juan Caballero IMDEA Software Institute
David Cash Rutgers University
Haibo Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Stephen Chong Harvard University
Manuel Costa Microsoft Research
Cas Cremers University of Oxford
Rob Cunningham MIT Lincoln Laboratory
George Danezis University College London
Anupam Datta Carnegie Mellon University
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud Microsoft Research
Srini Devadas Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland, College Park
Manuel Egele Boston University
Serge Egelman UC Berkeley / ICSI
Sascha Fahl Leibniz University Hannover
Cédric Fournet Microsoft Research
Matt Fredrikson Carnegie Mellon University
Kevin Fu University of Michigan
Cristiano Giuffrida Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Virgil Gligor Carnegie Mellon University
Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Hicks Virginia Tech
Thorsten Holz Ruhr-Universit_t Bochum
Amir Houmansadr University of Massachusetts Amherst
Trent Jaeger Penn State University
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rob Johnson VMware Research
Brent Byunghoon Kang KAIST
Engin Kirda Northeastern University
Farinaz Koushanfar University of California San Diego
Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology
Ruby Lee Princeton University
Kirill Levchenko UC San Diego
Ben Livshits Imperial College London
Jay Lorch Microsoft Research
Long Lu Northeastern University
Matteo Maffei TU Wien
Bruce Maggs Duke University and Akamai Technologies
Michelle Mazurek University of Maryland
Andrew Miller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prateek Mittal Princeton University
Payman Mohassel Visa Research
Greg Morrisett Cornell University
Michael Naehrig Microsoft Research, USA
Arvind Narayanan Princeton University
Muhammad Naveed University of Southern California
Cristina Nita-Rotaru Northeastern University
Marcus Peinado Microsoft Research
Adrian Perrig ETH Zurich
Christina Pöpper New York University Abu Dhabi
Mariana Raykova Yale University
Rob Reeder Google
Ulrich Rührmair Ruhr University Bochum
Andrei Sabelfeld Chalmers University of Technology
Prateek Saxena National University of Singapore
Simha Sethumadhavan Columbia University/Chip Scan
Hovav Shacham UC San Diego
Elaine Shi Cornell
Asia Slowinska IBM Security
Matthew Smith University of Bonn, Fraunhofer FKIE
Adam Smith Pennsylvania State University
Alex Snoeren UC San Diego
Deian Stefan UC San Diego
Gianluca Stringhini University College London
Cynthia Sturton University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gang Tan Pennsylvania State University
Stefano Tessaro University of California, Santa Barbara
Kurt Thomas Google
Carmela Troncoso IMDEA Software Institute
Dan Wallach Rice University
XiaoFeng Wang Indiana University
Tao Xie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao Virginia Tech
Yinqian Zhang The Ohio State University