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Scope
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The organizers of the workshop solicit papers discussing the technical and operational difficulties of anti-malware testing. This may include surveys and position papers, proposals for innovative approaches, quantitative analysis of testing, and field reports or research results on testing. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics that may be covered:

- Static file sample testing (“On-demand testing”)
- Malware sample storage and labelling
- Sample selection for static testing
- Dynamic testing using malicious URL
- URL samples selection
- Internal testing for product improvement
- User-experience evaluation and testing
- Comparative testing
- Remediation testing
- Automated testing facilities
- Testing with human subjects
- Testing “in-the-cloud” anti-malware products
- Measuring anti-malware vendor responsiveness (“time to protect”)
- Interpretation and validation of test results
- Economics of anti-malware testing

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Paper submission
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Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with publically available proceedings. Papers must be written in English. Maximum paper length will be 4-6 printed pages in IEEE 2-column style. Authors of accepted papers must register for the workshop (minimum one registration per paper) and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers selected for presentation at the conference will be published in the hard-copy proceedings distributed to all conference participants and will be made available on-line by IEEE Xplore. All paper submissions will be handled through the Easy Chair conference management system.

See Call for Papers for more details: http://www.secsi.polymtl.ca/water2014/cfp.html