ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)
August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES – The International Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability – with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.

ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.

ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.

Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).

ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2)
l papers only).

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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chairs 2018
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Program Committee Chairs 2018
Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands
Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 30, 2018
Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018
Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018

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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.

For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work:
-full paper (10 pages)
-short paper (6 pages)
-workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)

Formating Instructions / template:
Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/).
Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template!

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.

Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.

Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors’ names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference.

The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018

Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission.

Important Note:
To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don’t want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us.


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain

Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States

Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France

Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil

David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom

Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece

Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany

Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma – La Sapienza, Italy

Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France

Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany

Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway

Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany

Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria

Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France

Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria

Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom

Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy

Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany

Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States

Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria

Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany

Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland

Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany

Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany

Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States

Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom

Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria

Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States

Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany

Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy

Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy

Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Availability, Dependability, and Resilience
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Business Continuity & Resilience
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Cryptography
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications
Dependability Aspects of e-Government
Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software
Designing Security Requirements
Digital Forensics
E-Commerce Dependability
Identity Management
IPR of Security Technology
Incident Response and Prevention
Information Flow Control
Information Hiding and Steganograhpy
Interoperability Aspects
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy
Mobile Security
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Process based Security Models and Methods
Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures
Resilience of Computing Systems
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things
RFID Security and Privacy
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Safety Critical Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security and Usability
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security in Electronic Payments
Security in Electronic Voting
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Software Security
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trust Models and Trust Management
Wireless Security