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The International Workshop on AI for Privacy and Security
PrAISe 2016
http://mas.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/praise2016

to be held with ECAI 2016 (http://www.ecai2016.org)
29 August - 2 September, 2016. The Hague, Holland
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DESCRIPTION
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Research in security and privacy is nowadays one of the hottest topics in computer science. This is because these topics are of capital importance to the development of a sustainable, resilient and prosperous cyber world. This includes protecting crucial assets ranging from Critical Infrastructures to individual's Personal Information, and it spans domains like Cloud computing, Social Computing, Electronic Commerce and many more. Approaches that are intelligent and self-adaptable are required to deal with the complexities of effectively protecting these crucial assets in all these domains. This is where research from the AI community can make a difference in security and privacy. Indeed, these two areas are increasingly receiving more and more attention from the AI community.

The focus of the International Workshop on AI for Privacy and Security (PrAISe) is to provide a forum to discuss and advance security and privacy by means of *AI approaches*. Specific topics for this workshop include but are not limited to:
* Cloud Computing Security and Privacy
* Social Software / Social Computing Security and Privacy
* Online Social Networks Security and Privacy
* Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy
* Internet of Things Security and Privacy
* Game-theoretic approaches to Security and Privacy
* Trust modelling in the context of Security and Privacy
* Norms and Normative Systems for Security and Privacy
* Machine Learning and Data Mining for Security and Privacy
* AI approaches for detecting Security and privacy violations
* Access Control
* Adversarial Modelling
* Automated Vulnerability Assessment / Penetration Testing
* Critical Infrastructure Protection
* CyberCrime and CyberWar
* Data Leakage and Exfiltration
* Denial of Service / Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS)
* Digital Forensics
* Distributed collaboration patterns of malicious software and their discovery
* Human Behaviour Modelling and Human Factors
* Insider Threat
* Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems
* Learning/Recommendation/Negotiation of Security and Privacy Policies
* Validation and verification of security and privacy policies
* Multi-party/Multi-agent Access Control
* Privacy and Personal Information Protection
* Resilience and Robustness
* Risk Assessment and Management, and Risk Mitigation Strategies

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper Submission Deadline: JUNE 12, 2016
* Paper Acceptance Notification: JULY 4, 2016
* Camera-ready copies due: JULY 11, 2016
* Workshop Date: AUGUST 30, 2016

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Natalia Criado (King’s College London, UK)
* Ozgur Kafali (North Carolina State University, US)
* Nadin Kokciyan (Bogazici University, Turkey)
* Martin Rehak (Cisco Systems, Czech Republic)
* Jose M. Such (Lancaster University, UK)
* PInar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)

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PROGRAM COMMITEE
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* Vicent Botti (DSIC, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)
* Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
* Ioana Boureanu (Imperial College London)
* Martijn Warnier (Delft University of Technology)
* Jim Blythe (USC Information Sciences Institute)
* Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS)
* Chris Hankin (Imperial College London)
* Salvatore Vitabile (University of Palermo)
* Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso)
* Awais Rashid (Lancaster University)
* Andrea Omicini (Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna)
* Laurent Vercouter (LITIS lab, INSA de Rouen)
* Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool)
* Michael Rovatsos (School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh)
* Lucas Kello (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University)
* Grégory Bonnet (Université de Caen Normandie)
* Gilbert Peterson (US Air Force Institute of Technology)
* Javier Bajo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas)
* Gaurav Misra (Lancaster University)
* Haralambos Mouratidis (University of Brighton)
* Zahia Guessoum (LIP6, Universit de Paris 6)
* Vicenc Torra (U. Skövde)
* Tomas Pevny (Czech Technical University in Prague)
* Ana Garcia-Fornes (DSIC, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)
* Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)
* Dieter Hutter (DFKI, Bremen University)
* Ricard L. Fogues (DSIC, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)
* Pasquale Malacaria (Queen Mary University of London)

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SUBMISSION and REVIEW DETAILS
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Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the Program Committee. Criteria for the selection of papers will include: high quality, clear presentation, novelty of research, relevance to the topics and taking an AI-based approach, coverage of relevant state of the art and the relevance to security and privacy problems.

Submissions must follow ACM format and can be of two types:

- Full Papers (maximum of 8 pages) about completed work or work in progress.
- Position Papers (2-4 pages) reporting views or ambitions, or describing problems.

Papers must be submitted in pdf format via the conference management system, available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=praise16

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PUBLICATION DETAILS
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Workshop proceedings will be published by ACM, in its prestigious International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN.

We are also exploring the possibility of a follow-up special issue in a top-tier journal (currently under negotiation).

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CONTACT
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PrAISe Organising Committee (praise16@easychair.org)