MAY 18-20, 2015 AT THE FAIRMONT, SAN JOSE, CA
36th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy
Since 1980, 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 We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy.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:
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.
Given the rapidly expanding and maturing security and privacy community, we hope to increase the acceptance rate of papers that are more far-reaching and risky, as long as those papers also show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and questioning widely-held beliefs.
Following the success of recent years’ conferences, we are also soliciting papers focused on systematization of knowledge (SoK). The goal of this call is to encourage work that evaluates, systematizes, and contextualizes existing knowledge. Such work can provide a high value to our community but may not be accepted because of a lack of novel research contributions. Suitable papers are those that provide important new insights on established, major research areas or support or challenge long-held beliefs with compelling evidence. Papers that survey research areas without providing 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, except instead of emphasizing novel research contributions the emphasis will be on value to the community. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings.
The Symposium is also soliciting submissions for co-located workshops. Further details on submissions can be found at http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2015/workshops.html
All deadlines are 23:59:59 EST (UTC-5).
| Paper submission deadline | November 14, 2014 No Extensions |
| Author response period | January 14-16, 2015 |
| Acceptance notification | February 8, 2015 |
| Shepherded papers approval deadline | February 27, 2015 |
| Camera-ready deadline | March 5, 2015 |
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. Papers may not be withdrawn between the start of the author response period and acceptance notification. Contact the program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy.
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. Contact the program chairs if you have any questions. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review.
Submitted papers may include up to 15 pages of text and up to 5 pages for references and appendices, totalling no more than 20 pages. Camera-ready papers must not exceed 16 pages total including 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. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for rejection.
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.
Papers must be submitted at https://oakland2015.ece.cmu.edu and may be updated at any time until the submission deadline. The submission site will open October 14, 2015.
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. Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the submission guidelines risk rejection without review.
For more information, contact the program co-chairs at: oakland15-pcchairs@ieee-security.org.
| Lujo Bauer | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Vitaly Shmatikov | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Michael Bailey | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| David Basin | ETH Zurich |
| Lujo Bauer | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Konstantin Beznosov | University of British Columbia |
| Joseph Bonneau | Stanford University & EFF |
| Herbert Bos | Vrije Universiteit / VU University Amsterdam |
| Srdjan Capkun | ETH Zurich |
| Hao Chen | UC Davis |
| Shuo Chen | Microsoft Research |
| Nicolas Christin | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Emiliano De Cristofaro | UCL |
| David Evans | University of Virginia |
| Bryan Ford | Yale University |
| Cedric Fournet | Microsoft Research |
| Deepak Garg | MPI-SWS |
| Matt Green | Johns Hopkins University |
| Carl Gunter | University of Illinois |
| Nadia Heninger | University of Pennsylvania |
| Cormac Herley | Microsoft Research |
| Michael Hicks | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Sotiris Ioannidis | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas |
| Trent Jager | Pennsylvania State University |
| Limin Jia | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Ari Juels | Cornell Tech |
| Chris Kanich | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Jonathan Katz | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Yongdae Kim | KAIST |
| Farinaz Koushanfar | Rice University |
| Ralf Kuesters | University of Trier |
| David Lie | University of Toronto |
| Michelle Mazurek | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Jelena Mirkovic | USC ISI |
| Greg Morrisett | Harvard University |
| Andrew Myers | Cornell University |
| Arvind Narayanan | Princeton University |
| Alina Oprea | RSA Labs |
| Bryan Parno | Microsoft Research |
| Frank Piessens | KU Leuven |
| Raluca Ada Popa | MIT |
| Niels Provos | |
| Michael K. Reiter | UNC Chapel Hill |
| Thomas Ristenpart | University of Wisconsin |
| William Robertson | Northeastern University |
| Franziska Roesner | University of Washington |
| Andrei Sabelfeld | Chalmers University |
| Prateek Saxena | National University of Singapore |
| Vyas Sekar | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Vitaly Shmatikov | University of Texas at Austin |
| Matthew Smith | University of Bonn |
| Robin Sommer | ICSI/LBNL |
| Jessica Staddon | |
| Edward Suh | Cornell University |
| Mohit Tiwari | University of Texas at Austin |
| Haining Wang | University of Delaware |
| Robert Watson | University of Cambridge |
| Matthew Wright | University of Texas at Arlington |
| Dongyan Xu | Purdue University |
| Xiaowei Yang | Duke University |
| Vinod Yegneswaran | SRI International |
| Ben Zhao | UC Santa Barbara |