OVERVIEW

The last decade has been a critical one regarding cybersecurity, with studies estimating the cost of cybercrime to be up to 1 percent of the global GDP in 2020. The capability to detect, analyze, and defend against threats in (near) real-time conditions is not possible without employing machine learning techniques and big data infrastructures. This gives rise to cyberthreat intelligence and analytic solutions, such as (informed) machine learning on big data and open-source intelligence, to perceive, reason, learn, and act against cyber adversary techniques and actions. Moreover, organisations’ security analysts have to manage and protect systems and deal with the privacy and security of all personal and institutional data under their control. The aim of this workshop is to provide researchers with a forum to exchange and discuss scientific contributions, open challenges and recent achievements in machine learning and their role in the development of secure systems.

The workshop follows the success of the two previous editions (MLCS 2019 and MLCS 2020) co-located with ECML-PKDD 2019 and ECML-PKDD 2020 - in both editions the workshop gained strong interest, with an attendance between 30 and 40 participants.



CALL FOR PAPERS

MLCS welcomes both research papers reporting results from mature work, recently published work, as well as more speculative papers describing new ideas or preliminary exploratory work. Papers reporting industry experiences and case studies will also be encouraged. However, it should be noticed that papers based on recently published work will not be considered for publication in the proceedings.

Topics

All topics related to the contribution of machine learning approaches to the security of organisations’ systems and data are welcome.

Paper submission

MLCS welcomes both research papers reporting results from mature work, recently published work, as well as more speculative papers describing new ideas or preliminary exploratory work. Papers reporting industry experiences and case studies will also be encouraged. However, it should be noticed that papers based on recently published work will not be considered for publication in the proceedings.

Submissions are accepted in two formats:

Regular research papers with 12 to 16 pages including references. To be published in the proceedings, research papers must be original, not published previously, and not submitted concurrently elsewhere.
Short research statements of at most 6 pages. Research statements aim at fostering discussion and collaboration. They may review research published previously or outline new emerging ideas.


All submissions should be made in PDF using the EasyChair platform at link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mlcs2021ecmlpkdd
All regular workshop papers (except papers reporting recently published work) will be published in the workshop proceedings. Research statements will be published online in the workshop program page.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: June, 23 2021

Paper author notification: July, 21 2021

Camera Ready Submission: July,31 2021

Workshop: September,13 2021

WEB PAGE

https://mlcs.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/