The Computer Security track (15th edition)

The Security Track reaches its fifteenth 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

Best Papers

• Best papers of SEC@SAC03 in special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), 16(1), 2004
• Best papers of SEC@SAC04 in special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS), 13(5), 2005
• Best papers of SEC@SAC06 in special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS), 17(3), 2009
• Best papers of SEC@SAC13 in special issue of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer), 14(2), 2015

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.
• Sergio MAFFEIS
  Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.

Program Committee (tentative)

• Karthikeyan Bhargavan (INRIA, France)
• Denis Butin (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
• Cormac Callanan (Aconite Internet Solutions, Ireland)
• Lorenzo Cavallaro (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
• Nicholas Carlini (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Véronique Cortier (CNRS, Loria, France)
• Philippe De Ryck (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Lieven Desmet (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Adam Doupé (Arizona State University, USA)
• Dario Fiore (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
• Flavio Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Rosario Giustolisi (University of Luxembourg)
• Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg, Germany)
• Pekka Jappinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)
• Limin Jia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany)
• Sokratis K Katsikas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
• Matteo Maffei (Saarland University, Germany)
• Marius Minea (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
• Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
• Chris Novakovic (Imperial College London, UK)
• David Nowak (CNRS & Lille 1 University, France)
• Kenneth Radke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Tamara Rezk (Inria, France)
• William Robertson (Northeastern University, USA)
• Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Hossain Shahriar (Kennesaw State University, USA)
• Haya Shulman (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
• Deian Stefan (UC San Diego and GitStar, USA)
• Ruoyu Wang (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

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 2016 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-citation must be in third person, such as "Smith et al. [citation] showed...". 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.

There is a symposium-wide paper management system for SAC 2016, 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 2016 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. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper, poster, or SRC abstract in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for including the work in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

Student research abstract competition

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts here (minimum of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at SAC 2016 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.