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ESORICS 2018 : Twenty-third European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
Barcelona, Spain -- September 3-7, 2018
WWW: https://esorics2018.upc.edu
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Overview
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ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security.
The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European
countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the
academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research
contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the
Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished
research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of
papers discussing industrial research and development.


Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2018
* Notification to authors: June 15, 2018
* Camera ready due: June 25, 2018


Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* access control
* accountability
* ad hoc networks
* anonymity
* applied cryptography
* authentication
* biometrics
* blockchain and finance security
* data and computation integrity
* database security
* data protection
* deep learning for attack and defense
* digital content protection
* digital forensics
* distributed systems security
* embedded systems security
* inference control
* information hiding
* identity management
* information flow control
* information security governance and management
* intrusion detection
* formal security methods
* language-based security
* network security
* phishing and spam prevention
* privacy
* privacy preserving data mining
* risk analysis and management
* secure electronic voting
* security architectures
* security economics
* security metrics
* security models
* security and privacy for big data
* security and privacy in cloud scenarios
* security and privacy in complex systems
* security and privacy in content centric networking
* security and privacy in crowdsourcing
* security and privacy in the IoT
* security and privacy in location services
* security and privacy for mobile code
* security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing
* security and privacy policies
* security and privacy in social networks
* security and privacy in web services
* security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
* security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures
* security verification
* software security
* systems security
* trust models and management
* trustworthy user devices
* usable security and privacy
* web security
* wireless security


Paper Submission Guidelines
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Submissions must be made through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2018

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(LNCS).

All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are
submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point
font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at
most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the
appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All
submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to
the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted.

Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their papers will be presented at the conference.

Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American
Samoa time (UTC-11).


Organisation Committee
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General Chair:

* Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain

Organization Chair:

* Josep Pegueroles, UPC, Spain

Workshop Chair:

* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom-Sud Paris, France

Program Committee Chairs:

* Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
* Jianying Zhou, SUTD, Singapore


Program Committee:

Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany
Carlo Blundo, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Levente Buttyan, BME, Hungary
Jan Camenish, IBM, Switzerland
Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK
Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK
Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany
Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy
Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France
Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain
Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China
Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Josep Lluis Ferrer, UIB, Spain
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Sara Foresti, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy
David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK
Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain
Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & University of Connecticut, USA
Alejandro Hevia, University of Chile, Chile
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway
Kwangjo Kim, KAIST, Korea
Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA
Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA
Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore
Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Mark Manulis, University of Surrey, UK
Kostas Markantonakis, RHUL, UK
Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark
Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK
Refik Molva, EURECOM, France
Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France
Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore
Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Gunther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Christina Popper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium
Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy
Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Ozgur Sinanoglu, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore
Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore
Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland
Luca Vigano', King's College London, UK
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA


Publicity Chairs:

* Giovanni Livraga - Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy
* Rodrigo Roman - University of Malaga, Spain