Call For Papers
7TH ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 2017
March 22-24 2017, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Data and applications security and privacy has rapidly expanded as a research field with many important challenges to be addressed. The goal of the ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY) is to discuss novel, exciting research topics in data and application security and privacy, and to lay out directions for further research and development in this area.

The conference seeks submissions from diverse communities, including corporate and academic researchers, open-source projects, standardization bodies, governments, system and security administrators, software engineers and application domain experts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Application-layer security policies
Access control for applications
Access control for databases
Data-dissemination controls
Data forensics
Enforcement-layer security policies
Privacy-preserving techniques
Private information retrieval
Search on protected/encrypted data
Secure auditing
Secure collaboration
Secure data provenance
Secure electronic commerce
Secure information sharing
Secure knowledge management
Secure multiparty computation
Secure software development
Securing data/apps on untrusted platforms
Securing the semantic web
Security and privacy in GIS/spatial data
Security and privacy in healthcare
Security and privacy in the Internet of Things
Security policies for databases
Social computing security and privacy
Social networking security and privacy
Trust metrics for applications, data, and users
Usable security and privacy
Web application security
Instructions for Paper Authors

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed.

Submissions must be at most 10 pages in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages overall. Submissions must be anonymized and avoid obvious self-references. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without review. Submissions should be made electronically at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmcodaspy2017

Submissions that are not accepted as full papers may be invited to appear as short papers (8 pages) or posters.

Instructions for Poster Authors

The CODASPY 2017 posters track seeks to quickly disseminate novel, on-going security and privacy research at an initial stage.

Poster submissions must include a three-page poster paper and a one-page slide with the poster contents (submitted as attachment), both as PDF files. Poster papers should use the same format as full-length papers. Accepted poster papers will be included in the posters section of the conference proceedings. Submissions should be made electronically at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codaspyposter2017

Instructions for Industrial Position Paper Authors

The CODASPY 2017 industry position papers track seeks to introduce on-going security and privacy practices from the industry sector. Also, industry participants will have an opportunity to meet many students and researchers within the data and application security and privacy field.

Position paper submissions must include a 2-4 page paper as a PDF file. Position papers should use the same format as full-length papers. Accepted position papers will be included in the industry papers section of the conference proceedings. Submissions should be made electronically at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmcodaspy2017

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: September 8th, 2016 23:59 anywhere in the world

Paper submission deadline: September 15th, 2016 23:59 anywhere in the world

Poster submission deadline: September 29th, 2016 23:59 anywhere in the world

Notification to (conference) authors: November 24th, 2016

Camera-ready papers and posters: TBA