The 20th edition of the Computer Security track
at the 36th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 22 - March 26, 2021, Gwangju, Korea
The Symposium
For over thirty years has the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2021 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 (20th edition)
The Security Track reaches its 20th edition this year, thus appearing among the most established tracks in the Symposium. Its acceptance rate has become more and more selective. 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
- blockchain applications and security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
- security and privacy in the IoT
- adversarial machine learning
Important Dates
28th September 2020, 11:59 pm UTC+0.00 | Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts |
(extended from 15th September 2020) | |
10th November 2020 | Notification of Acceptance/Rejection |
25h November 2020 | Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers and SRC research abstracts |
9th Dicember 2020 | Author registration due |
22nd March -26th March 2021 | SAC 2021 takes place |
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. - Rosario GIUSTOLISI
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Program Committee (growing)
- Tom Chothia (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Anastasija Collen (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
- Jannik Dreier (Université de Lorraine, France)
- Barbara Fila (INSA Rennes, IRISA, France)
- Christian Gehrmann (Lund University, Sweden)
- Christian Hammer (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Lucca Hirschi (Inria & LORIA, France)
- Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany)
- Erisa Karafili (Imperial College, UK)
- Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway)
- Robert Künnemann (CISPA, Germany)
- Oksana Kulyk (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Ilaria Matteucci (CNR, Italy)
- Chris Novakovic (Thought Machine, UK)
- David Nowak (CNRS & Lille 1 University, France)
- Elizabeth Quaglia (Royal Holloway, UK)
- Sasa Radomirovic (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
- Alejandro Russo (Chalmers, Sweden)
- Sebastian Schinzel (Muenster University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Luca Viganò (King's College, UK)
- Ruoyu Wang (Arizona State University, USA)
- Yang Zhang (CISPA, Germany)
- Ruoyu Wang (Arizona State University, 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 peer-reviewed venues, non-peer-reviewed (e.g. arXiv) venues, or other tracks of SAC 2021 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 8 pages. Longer papers (up to 10 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 2021 proceedings. Some papers may only be accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings.
Important Notice - SAC No-Show Policy
Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM 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 2021 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.