The 12th edition of the Computer Security track
at the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
18-22 March 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
The Symposium
For the past twenty-eight 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 2013 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 (12th edition)
The Security Track reaches its twelfth 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:
- software security (protocols, operating systems, etc.)
- hardware security (smartcards, biometric technologies, etc.)
- mobile security (properties for/from mobile agents, etc.)
- network security (anti-DoS tools, firewalls, real-time monitoring, mobile networks, sensor networks, etc.)
- alternatives to cryptography (steganography, etc.)
- security-specific software development practices (vulnerability testing, fault-injection resilience, etc.)
- privacy and anonymity (trust management, pseudonymity, identity management, electronic voting, etc.)
- safety and dependability issues (reliability, survivability, etc.)
- cyberlaw and cybercrime (copyrights, trademarks, defamation, intellectual property, etc.)
- security management and usability issues (security configuration, policy management, usability trials etc.)
- workflow and service security (business processes, web services, etc.)
- security in cloud computing and virtualised environments
Important Dates
28 September 2012, midnight CEST (extended, firm) | Submission of full papers |
10 November 2012 | Notification of Acceptance/Rejection |
30 November 2012 | Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers |
18-22 March 2013 | SAC 2013 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)
This practice will be continued on the basis of appropriateness of the submissions.
Track Program Chairs
- Giampaolo BELLA
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Italy. - Helge JANICKE
Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, UK. - Graham STEEL
INRIA, France
Program Committee
- Manuel Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
- David W Chadwick (University of Kent, UK)
- Steve Chong (Harvard University, USA)
- Bruce Christianson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
- Simon Foley (University College Cork, Ireland)
- Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg, Germany)
- Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
- Joshua Guttmann (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Lalana Kagal (MIT, USA)
- Sokratis K Katsikas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
- Helmut Kurth (ATSEC, Germany)
- Gabriele Lenzini (University of Luxembourg)
- Hannan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
- Jean Martina (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil)
- John McDermott (Naval Research Lab, USA)
- Marius Minea (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
- Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
- Dusko Pavlovic (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
- Kenneth Radke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Alessandro Sorniotti (IBM Research Lab Zurich, Switzerland)
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 2013 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 the deadline stated above.
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 2013 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 accepted paper must register before the paper is included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper MUST be presented by an author or a proxy at the venue: this is a requirement for the paper to be part of the ACM/IEEE digital library
Student research abstract competition
Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (minimum of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at SAC 2013 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.