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Conference

5th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

March 2-4, 2015
Holiday Inn San Antonio - Riverwalk
San Antonio, Texas, USA
www.codaspy.org

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 computations
- 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 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 http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates/) 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 risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Submissions should be made electronically at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codaspy15

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 2015 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codaspy2015posters

INSTRUCTIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL POSITION PAPER AUTHORS

The CODASPY 2015 industry position papers track seeks to introduce on-going security and privacy practices from industry sector. Also, industry participants will have an opportunity to meet many students and researchers in 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codaspy2015.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:                                    Sep. 15 Sep 22 (Monday) 2014 (11:59PM EST)
Poster submission:                                   Sep. 29 Oct 10 (Friday) 2014 (11:59PM EST)
Notification to authors:                              Nov. 24 (Monday) 2014
Camera-ready papers and posters:       Dec. 22 Jan 11 (Sunday) 2015

ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio
Program Chair: Anna Squicciarini, The Pennsylvania State University
Poster Chair: Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Workshop Chair: Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Web/Publicity Chair: Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio
Local Arrangement Chair: Suzanne Tanaka, University of Texas at San Antonio

Technical Program Committee:

Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria
William Enck, North Carolina State University
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria
Philip W. L. Fong, University of Calgary
Debin Gao, Singapore Management University
Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Hannes Hartenstein, KIT
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh
Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas
Guenter Karjoth, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts
Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio
Ashish Kundu, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Qi Li, ETH
Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg
Günther Pernul, Universitt Regensburg
Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universität München
Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt
Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Seung-Hyun Seo, Korea University
Mohamed Shehab, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hassan Takabi, University of North Texas
Mahesh Tripunitara, The University of Waterloo
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University
Danfeng Yao, Virginia Tech
Chuan Yue, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Xinwen Zhang, Samsung
Sencun Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University

Posters Committee:

Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh (Chair)
Omar Chowhudry, Carnegie Mellon University
William Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amir Houmansadr, UMass Amherst
Wouter Kuijper, Nedap N.V., Netherlands
Silvio Ranise, FBK-CIT, Trento, Italy
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology