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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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12th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2019)
12-15 September 2019
Sochi, Russia

www.sinconf.org

In Technical Cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) (pending)
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Proceedings by ACM Press; all papers will be inserted into the ACM Digital Library and subsequently indexed by Scopus.
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In succession to the successful SIN 2007 - SIN 2018, the 12th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2019) provides an international forum for presentation of research and applications of security in information and networks. SIN 2019 conference features contributed as well as invited papers, special sessions, workshops, and tutorials on theory and practice.

SIN 2019 will feature the following keynote papers and talks:
- Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, UK
Title: TBA

Future SIN Conferences are scheduled to take place in Turkey (2020) and the UK (2021).

PROPOSALS
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Papers, special sessions, tutorials, and workshops addressing all aspects of security in information and networks are being sought. Researchers and industrial practitioners working on the following and related subjects are especially encouraged: development and realization of cryptographic solutions, security schemes, new algorithms; critical analysis of existing approaches; secure information systems, especially distributed control and processing applications, and security in networks; interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems; information assurance, security, and public policy; detection and prevention of cybercrimes such as fraud and phishing; next generation network architectures, protocols, systems and applications; industrial experiences and challenges of the above. Doctoral students are encouraged to propose papers on ongoing research.

Original papers will be considered; submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee judging its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Authors are also encouraged to propose position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development.

Enterprises and research centers developing, implementing, or using security tools and frameworks are encouraged to propose application / tool demo.

Proposals of half-day tutorials on fundamental to advanced subjects covering practical implementation aspects of security are welcome.

Proposals of special session(s) to be held in the main conference are welcome.

Proposals are invited for workshops to be held in conjunction with SIN 2019 Conference. The workshop proposal theme should be closely related to the conference topics.

Broad areas of interest in security theory, technology and applications will include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Access control and intrusion detection
* Security of cyber-physical systems
* Autonomous and adaptive security
* Security tools and development platforms
* Computational intelligence techniques in security
* Security ontology, models, protocols & policies
* Computer network defense
* Standards, guidelines and certification
* Cryptographic techniques and key management
* Security-aware software engineering
* Industrial applications of security
* Trust and privacy
* Information assurance
* Next generation network architectures
* Malware analysis
* Network security and protocols
* Security challenges in Mobile/Embedded Systems
* Cloud security
* Security Awareness and Education

The conference will feature the following special sessions in 2019:

* Data Analytics and Graph Mining for Cyber Security (chaired by Alexander Tselykh, Southern Federal University, Russia)

The details about the special sessions can be found at http://www.sinconf.org/sin2019

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
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Papers must be submitted electronically via the SIN 2019 Submission Site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIN2019/. Title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and email of the principal author should be included. Maximum length for the proceedings is 8 pages for full paper, 4 pages for short paper, 2 pages for fast abstract and position statement, and 2 pages for demo and tutorial proposals. Extra page charges apply. All papers should be written according to double-column ACM conference format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

All proposals for organizing workshops, tutorials, demos, and special sessions are expected at the conference e-mail sin2019@sinconf.org.

All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in a conference proceedings and placed into ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) by IGI Global (pending). Each accepted paper must be registered to be included in the proceedings. Papers not presented during the conference may be removed from the online proceedings.

Registration fee for the authors: US$ 300 (maximal, subject to discounts in case of external support)

IMPORTANT DATES
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Please consult www.sinconf.org site for the most up-to-date info on the following:

Workshop / Special Session Proposals: 10 June 2019
Tutorial Proposal by: 10 June 2019
Tutorial / Workshop Notification: 30 June 2019
Paper Submission by: 30 June 2019
All Author Notification: 20 July 2019
Author Registration due date: 5 August 2019
All Papers Camera Ready by: 10 August 2019
Tutorial Date: 11 September 2019
Conference Dates: 12-15 September 2019

ORGANIZATION & SPONSORS
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Organized by
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- Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia
- Cardiff University, Wales, UK
- Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey
- The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Rutgers University, Newark, USA
- Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
- Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
- Manipal University Jaipur, India
- Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Supported by
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Southern Federal University, Russia

Sponsored by
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TBA

Hosted by
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- Department of Information Technologies, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia
- Department of Security of Information Technologies and South-Russian Regional Scientific-Educational Center for Information Security Problems, Institute for Computing Engineering and Information Security, Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Venue
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Sochi, Krasnodar Region, Russia

ORGANIZERS
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Honorary Chair: Inna Shevchenko, Rector of Southern Federal University, Russia

Conference Chair: Oleg Makarevich, Southern Federal University, Russia
Conference Co-Chair: Dmitry Popov, Sochi State University, Russia
Conference Co-Chair: Ludmila Babenko, Southern Federal University, Russia
Conference Co-Chair: Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, Wales
Conference Co-Chair: Atilla Elçi, Aksaray University, Turkey
Conference Co-Chair: Ron Poet, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Conference Co-Chair: Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Conference Co-Chair: Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia
Conference Co-Chair: Manoj S. Gaur, MNIT, India
Conference Co-Chair: Rajveer S. Shekhawat, MUJ, India

Program Chair: Maxim Anikeev, Southern Federal University, Russia
Program Co-Chair: Evgeny Abramov, Southern Federal University, Russia
Program Co-Chair: Philipp Reinecke, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Program Co-Chair: Vijay Laxmi, MNIT, India
Program Co-Chair: Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Program Co-Chair: Behnam Rahnama, Medis Inc., Iran
Program Co-Chair: Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Organizing Committee
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Maxim Anikeev, Southern Federal University, Russia
Evgeny Abramov, Southern Federal University, Russia
Olga Peskova, Southern Federal University, Russia
Ekaterina Maro, Southern Federal University, Russia
Ivan Polovko, Southern Federal University, Russia
Evgenia Ishchukova, Southern Federal University, Russia
Ekaterina Tolomanenko, Southern Federal University, Russia
Dmitriy Alekseev, Southern Federal University, Russia
Elena Basan, Southern Federal University, Russia
Alexey Nekrasov, Southern Federal University, Russia
Gennady Veselov, Southern Federal University, Russia
Alexey Samoyolov, Southern Federal University, Russia
Alexey Tselykh, Southern Federal University, Russia
Yury Dreyzis, Sochi State University, Russia
Andrey Kopyrin, Sochi State University, Russia
Arsen Simonyan, Sochi State University, Russia
Simon Simavorian, Sochi State University, Russia
Elena Popova, Sochi State University, Russia
Peter Zegzhda, Peter the Great St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia
Alexander Chefranov, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
Parvez Faruki, MNIT, India
Jyoti Grover, MUJ, India
Behnam Rahnama, Medis Inc., Iran
Nagmeh Moradpoor, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA
Mohammad Dehghani, Medis Inc., Iran
Fatemeh Marzban, Medis Inc., Iran

Logo, certificates & covers designs: Efe Cem Elçi, Turkey

Volunteers Team: Students of Sochi State University and Southern Federal University

Advisory Committee Members:
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bülent Örencik, Beykent University, Turkey
Cetin Kaya Koc, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Edward Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore, India
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Alexander Shelupanov, Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radio Electronics, Russia

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Full list of the IPC is available at www.sinconf.org.

GENERAL INQUIRIES
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For updated information, please refer to www.sinconf.org or the Conference e-mail sin2019@sinconf.org.

Dated 2019-05-17.