ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - 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 security 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 security 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 Secure and 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. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chair
Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy

Program Committee Chairs
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 31, 2017 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 22, 2017
Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017
Conference: August 29 - September 2, 2017

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SUBMISSION
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The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals.

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)

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.

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

The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
David, Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK
Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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, US
Hannes Federrath University of Hamburg, Germany
Christophe, Feltus Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany
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
Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria
Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US
Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK
Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US
Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria
Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany
Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands
Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria
Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany
Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria
Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Jon A. Solworth University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US
Oliver Theel Carl von Ossietzky, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden
Emmanouil, Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
Corrado Aaron, Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy
Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria
Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University ,US
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US
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