8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy will be held on March 19-21, 2018, in Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Data and applications security and privacy has rapidly expanded as a research field with many important challenges to be addressed. The goal of the ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY) is to discuss novel, exciting research topics in data and application security and privacy, and to lay out directions for further research and development in this area.

The conference seeks submissions from diverse communities, including corporate and academic researchers, open-source projects, standardization bodies, governments, system and security administrators, software engineers and application domain experts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Application-layer security policies
Access control for applications
Access control for databases
Data-dissemination controls
Data forensics
Enforcement-layer security policies
Privacy-preserving techniques
Private information retrieval
Search on protected/encrypted data
Secure auditing
Secure collaboration
Secure data provenance
Secure electronic commerce
Secure information sharing
Secure knowledge management
Secure multiparty computation
Secure software development
Securing data/apps on untrusted platforms
Securing the semantic web
Security and privacy in GIS/spatial data
Security and privacy in healthcare
Security and privacy in the Internet of Things
Security policies for databases
Social computing security and privacy
Social networking security and privacy
Trust metrics for applications, data, and users
Usable security and privacy
Web application security


Instructions for Paper Authors
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed.

Submissions must be at most 10 pages in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages overall. Submissions must be anonymized and avoid obvious self-references. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without review.

Submissions should be made electronically at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codaspy2018

Submissions that are not accepted as full papers may be invited to appear as short papers (8 pages) or posters.


Instructions for Poster Authors
The CODASPY 2018 posters track seeks to quickly disseminate novel, on-going security and privacy research at an initial stage.

Poster submissions must include a three-page poster paper and a one-page slide with the poster contents (submitted as attachment), both as PDF files. Poster papers should use the same format as full-length papers. Accepted poster papers will be included in the posters section of the conference proceedings. Submissions should be made electronically at: TBD

Instructions for Industrial Position Paper Authors
The CODASPY 2018 industry position papers track seeks to introduce on-going security and privacy practices from the industry sector. Also, industry participants will have an opportunity to meet many students and researchers within the data and application security and privacy field.

Position paper submissions must include a 2-4 page paper as a PDF file. Position papers should use the same format as full-length papers. Accepted position papers will be included in the industry papers section of the conference proceedings. Submissions should be made electronically at: TBD


Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline (extended): September 25, 2017, 23:59 anywhere in the world
Paper submission deadline (extended): September 25, 2017, 23:59 anywhere in the world
Poster submission: TBA
Notification to (conference) authors: November 21, 2017
Camera-ready papers and posters: TBA


Program Chairs
Gabriel Ghinita (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Ram Krishnan (University of Texas at San Antonio)


Program Committee
Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University
Vijay Atluri Rutgers University
Elisa Bertino Purdue University
Barbara Carminati University of Insubria
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London
Naranker Dulay Imperial College London
Manuel Egele Boston University
Elena Ferrari University of Insubria
Philip Fong University of Calgary
Debin Gao Singapore Management University
Gabriel Ghinita University of Massachusetts at Boston
Hannes Hartenstein KIT
Christian Jensen Technical University of Denmark
Martin Johns SAP Research
Murat Kantarcioglu University of Texas at Dallas
Alexandros Kapravelos North Carolina State University
Guenter Karjoth Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts
Florian Kelbert Imperial College London
Ram Krishnan University of Texas at San Antonio
Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
Adam Lee University of Pittsburg
Qi Li Tsinghua University
Ninghui Li Purdue University
Fabio Martinelli IIT-CNR
Martín Ochoa SUTD
Jaehong Park University of Alabama in Huntsville
Alexander Pretschner Technische Universität München
Indrajit Ray Colorado State University
Vassil Roussev University of New Orleans
Anna Squicciarini The Pennsylvania State University
Scott Stoller Stony Brook University
Hassan Takabi University of North Texas
Mahesh Tripunitara University of Waterloo
Shambhu Upadhyaya SUNY at Buffalo
Danfeng Yao Virginia Tech
Roland Yap National University of Singapore
Ting Yu Qatar Computing Research Institute
Chuan Yue Colorado School of Mines
Junyuan Zeng The University of Texas at Dallas