Call For Papers
38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
May 22-24, 2017
The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Ca
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/
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 We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel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
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/workshops.html .
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59:59 EST (UTC-5).
Abstract submission deadline November 4, 2016 No Extensions
Paper submission deadline November 11, 2016 No Extensions
Early-reject notification and author appeal period January 13, 2017
Acceptance notification February 9, 2017
Camera-ready deadline TBD
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 William Enck of North Carolina State University. For
more information see
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/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.
New this year: Submitted papers must submit an abstract by the
Abstract Deadline. This new process is designed to facilitate a faster
and more efficient bidding process. Only papers that have had
abstracts submitted by the deadline will be eligible for review.
Reviews from Prior Submissions (New this Year)
Based on USENIX Security 2015 CFP
The rapidly increasing number of papers being submitted to security
conferences has put a strain on both authors' and reviewers' time,
with both sides concerned about the implications on the fairness of
the process. Concerned reviewers worry that authors will give in to
the temptation to resubmit rejected papers without addressing prior
reviewers' concerns, hoping that different reviewers will lead to a
different outcome. Authors are concerned that reviewers who helped to
reject an earlier draft of a paper will not read an improved draft as
diligently as they would read an unfamiliar submission and may miss or
disregard improvements.
In the long-term, we aim to address these concerns by changing the submission process. (See the draft plan and discussion at https://ieee-security.github.io/ongoing-submission-plan/). In the short-term, for SP2017, authors may optionally document:
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.
Early Rejection and Appeals
There will be no conventional rebuttal process. Papers that receive
substantially negative initial reviews will be rejected early. The
authors of early-rejected papers, and only such papers, will receive a
copy of their initial reviews. Authors who substantively disagree with
the reviews can appeal to the PC chairs. Authors' appeals must clearly
and explicitly identify concrete disagreements with factual statements
in the initial reviews that should be adjudicated by a special
arbitration reviewer who may be recruited by the PC chairs. Appealing
a submission that was rejected early will keep it under consideration,
and it cannot be withdrawn or resubmitted elsewhere until the final
notification of acceptance or rejection.
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.
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.
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.
Authors seeking ways to reduce the ethical risks of their experiments
may optionally consider reaching out to the Ethics Feedback Panel for
Networking and Security. The panel's mission is to help researchers
identify ethics-related risks, find prior research that provides
precedent or data to inform ethical decision making, to suggest ways
to improve experimental designs to reduce ethical risks, and provide
any other information that may assist the researchers in meeting their
ethical obligations. The best time to reach out to this panel is
before conducting your experiments, but they may be able to assist if
concerns arise during an experiment. Contact the program co-chairs if
you have any questions. Page Limit and Formatting
Submitted papers may include up to 15 pages of text and up to 5 pages
for references and appendices, totaling no more than 20 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.
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.
Bulk Submissions
Special rules apply to all submissions by authors who submit more than
3 non-SoK papers. The title of every submission from such an author
must start with "BULK SUBMISSION:". If the paper has been previously
considered at other conferences, journals, or workshops, the submitted
version must include an appendix that lists:
the year and full name of those venues,
the complete set of reviews, and
detailed description of the changes made since.
This appendix does not count towards the page limit. By their
submission, the authors of these papers acknowledge and accept that
the PC chairs may solicit further information about them (e.g., to
verify the contents of the appendix) and pass such information on to
the PC. Failure to comply with these rules will result in automatic
rejection of the bulk submissions without consideration.
Conference Submission Server
Papers must be submitted at https://oakland17.hotcrp.com/ and may be
updated at any time until the submission deadline. The submission site
will open October 10, 2016.
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.
For more information, contact the program co-chairs at:
oakland17-pcchairs@ieee-security.org if you have any questions.
Program Committee
Chairs
Úlfar Erlingsson Google
Bryan Parno Microsoft Research
Members
Michael Backes CISPA, Saarland University, and MPI-SWS
Davide Balzarotti EURECOM
Gilles Barthe IMDEA
Lujo Bauer CMU
Karthikeyan Bhargavan INRIA
Joseph Bonneau Stanford
Nikita Borisov UIUC
Herbert Bos VU University
Kevin Butler University of Florida
Srdjan Capkun ETH Zurich
Stephen Checkoway UIC
Haibo Chen SJTU
Manuel Costa MSR
Cas Cremers Oxford
Srini Devadas MIT
Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland
David Evans University of Virginia
Cedric Fournet MSR
Matt Fredrikson CMU
Roxana Geambasu Columbia
Saikat Guha MSR
Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Hicks University of Michigan
Michael Hicks University of Maryland
Jason Hong CMU
Amir Houmansadr UMass
Rob Johnson Stony Brook
Brent Kang KAIST
Brad Karp UCL
Jay Lorch MSR
Matteo Maffei CISPA Saarland
Sergio Maffeis Imperial
Michelle Mazurek University of Maryland
James Mickens Harvard
Andrew Miller UIUC
Ilya Mironov Google
Cristina Nita-Rotaru Northeastern
Alina Oprea Northeastern
Marcus Peinado MSR
Frank Piessens KU Leuven
Niels Provos Google
Mariana Raykova Yale
Franziska Roesner University of Washington
Ulrich Rührmair Munich
Andrei Sabelfeld Chalmers
Vyas Sekar CMU
Simha Sethumadhavan Chip Scan/Columbia
Nigel Smart University of Bristol
Alex Snoeren UCSD
Nikhil Swamy MSR
Gang Tan Penn State
Abhradeep Thakurta Apple
Kurt Thomas Google
Carmela Troncoso IMDEA
Giovanni Vigna UCSB
Bogdan Warinschi University of Bristol
Robert Watson Cambridge
Emmett Witchel UT Austin
Tao Xie UIUC
Yinqian Zhang Ohio State