DBSEC’22 Call For Papers ******************************************************** 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2022) Newark, NJ, USA -- July 18-20, 2022 http://cs.iit.edu/~dbsec2022/ ******************************************************** DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 36th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2022) will be held in Newark, NJ, USA (though it might get converted into hybrid mode, given current international travel restrictions). The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - distributed and decentralized security - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational and social aspects of security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management and audit - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - web security - wireless and mobile security Paper Submissions Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and therefore the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2022 (Will be made available around mid-February) Papers must be received by the deadline of April 22, 2022 (AOE, Firm). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2022 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2022. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2022, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2022, the paper will be rejected without review and the other conference/journal will be notified as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. DBSec2022 will have best paper and best student paper awards. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Security. IFIP author code of conduct: http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/publications/ifip%20author%20code%20of%20conduct.pdf IFIP referee code of conduct: http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/publications/ifip%20referee%20code%20of%20conduct.pdf Important Dates ● Paper Submission due: April 22, 2022 (11:59 PM AOE) - Firm ● Notification to authors: May 18, 2022 ● Final papers due: May 27, 2022 General Co-chairs ● Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA ● Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Program Co-chairs ● Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India ● Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA IFIP WG 11.3 Chair: ● Sara Foresti – Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Chair ● Hafiz Asif, Rutgers University, USA Local Arrangement Chair ● Lan Yao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at: http://cs.iit.edu/~dbsec2022/ If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at yuan.hong@iit.edu.