EuroSec seeks contributions on all aspects of systems security. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• new attacks, evasion techniques, and defenses
• operating systems security
• network/distributed systems security
• hardware architectures
• trusted computing and its applications
• identity management, anonymity
• small trusted computing bases
• mobile systems security
• measuring security
• malicious code analysis and detection
• Web security
• systems-based forensics
• systems work on fighting spam/phishing

In accordance with the spirit of the EuroSys conference we also seek:

• Quantified or insightful experience with existing systems
• Reproduction or refutation of  previous results
• Negative results
• Early ideas

You are hereby invited to submit papers of up to 8 single-spaced pages (including figures, tables and references). Submission information: http://www.ics.forth.gr/dcs/eurosec09/

For convenience, we allow authors to indicate potential conflicts of interest (e.g., to exclude PC members from within their research group).  EuroSec explicitly encourages members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a major conference. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Only original, novel work will be considered for publication. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of EuroSec in the  ACM Digital Library. EuroSec will be held on the 31st  of March, 2009, in Nuremberg, Germany.

Important dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: January 19th, 2009
• Notification of Acceptance : February 16th, 2009
• Final Paper Due: March 2nd, 2009
• Workshop Date: March 31st, 2009

Organization

• Program Co-chairs:
  • Evangelos Markatos (FORTH and Univ. of Crete)
  • Manuel Costa (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
• Publicity Co-chairs:
  • Thorsten Holz (Universitat Mannheim)
  • Sotiris Ioannidis (FORTH)

• Program Committee:
  • Kostas Anagnostakis (Institute for Infocomm Research)
  • John Aycock (University of Calgary)
  • Herbert Bos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Manuel Costa (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
  • Jedidiah Crandal (U of New Mexico)
  • Marc Dacier (Symantec)
  • Leendert van Doorn (AMD)
  • Kevin Elphinstone (U of New South Wales)
  • Jon Giffin (Georgia Tech)
  • Ashvin Goel (U. of Toronto)
  • Hermann Hartig (TU Dresden)
  • Gernot Heiser (UNSW / NICTA / Open Kernel Labs)
  • Thorsten Holz (Universitat Mannheim)
  • Sotiris Ioannidis (FORTH)
  • Angelos Keromytis (Columbia)
  • Engin Kirda (Eurecom Institute)
  • Christopher Krugel (UC Santa Barbara and TU Vienna)
  • Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech)
  • Zhenkai Liang (CMU)
  • Evangelos Markatos (FORTH and Univ. of Crete)
  • Niels Provos (Google)
  • R Sekar (Stony Brook)
  • Angelos Stavrou (George Mason University)
  • Wietse Venema (IBM TJ Watson)
  • Michael Waidner (IBM Tivoli Software, Somers, NY)
  • Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano)

The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer and communications security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. All topics related to computer and communications security are of interest. Authors interested in submitting but unsure if their topic is in scope should assume that it probably is in scope but should contact the program chairs if further guidance is desired.

Submissions must be made to the submission web site,  by the deadline of April 14, 2008. Submitted papers may not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.

Submissions must be at most ten pages in double-column ACM format (note: pages must be numbered), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices and at most 12 pages overall. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be anonymized (an author’s name should only occur in references to that author’s related work, which should be referenced in the third person and not overtly distinguishable from the referenced work of others). Only pdf or postscript files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Accepted papers will be published by ACM Press in a conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. Final proceedings versions will be 10 pages in double-column ACM format; although authors will have the option of buying a limited number of additional pages.

Important Dates.

• Paper submission due: April 14, 2008
• Acceptance notification: July 8, 2008
• Final papers due: August 10, 2008

Organization

• General Chair:
  • Peng Ning (North Carolina State University)
• Program Chairs:
  • Paul Syverson (Naval Research Lab, USA)
  • Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin)

Full details can be found on the call for papers section of the conference website.