SEC@SAC12
The 11th edition of the Computer Security track
at the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 2012, Microsoft Research - University of Trento, Trento, Italy
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Symposium 

For the past twenty-seven years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2012 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by The Microsoft Research -- University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

For the past twenty-seven years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact, and present their research. SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP http://www.acm.org/sigapp); its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the web through the ACM Digital Library http://www.acm.org/dl. More information about SIGAPP and past editions of SAC can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp

The Computer Security track (11th edition)

The Security Track reaches its eleventh edition this year, thus appearing among the most established tracks in the Symposium. The list of issues remains vast, ranging from protocols to work-flows.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Important Dates

Sunday 4th September 2011, midnight CEST (extended, firm) Submission of full papers
12 October 2011 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
2 November 2011 Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers
March 2012 SAC 2012 takes place

Best Papers

The best papers of the 2003 edition are published in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) , vol. 16, no.1, 2004. The best papers of the 2004 edition are published in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS) , vol. 13, no.5, 2005. The best papers of the 2006 edition are published in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS) , vol. 17, no.3, 2009.

This practice will be continued on the basis of appropriateness of the submissions.

Track Program Chairs

Program Committee

Submission Guidelines

The submission guidelines must be strictly followed for a paper to be considered.

Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished research are sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or other tracks of SAC 2012 is forbidden. Each paper must be BLIND in the sense that it must only include its title but not mention anything about its authors. Self-reference must be blind too. All submissions must be formatted using the ACM conference-specific LaTeX style, which can be obtained from the symposium web page. The standard extension of a submission in the stated format is 6 pages. Longer papers (up to 8 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge. All papers must be submitted by 31 August 2011.

There is a symposium-wide paper management system for SAC 2012, which authors must use to submit their papers.

Review and publication of accepted papers

Each paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2012 proceedings. Some papers may only be accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings. According to the authors' guidelines, which can be obtained from the symposium web page, at least one author per paper must register before their paper is included in the proceedings.