CALL FOR PAPERS -The 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST2024) August 28-30, 2024, Sydney, Australia / In-person -Conference IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship (pending approval)

The 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST2024) provides a premier forum for sharing advances in cybersecurity research and security applications. PST2024 will be held in Sydney, Australia. It will offer three days of keynotes and technical presentations on themes of privacy, security, and trust, together with the special Emerging Technologies and Trends track.

PST TECHNICAL SCOPE

• Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Network and Wireless Security
• Cloud Security, Web Security and Privacy
• Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy
• Operating Systems Security
• Intrusion Detection / Prevention Technologies
• Secure Software Development and Architecture
• PST Challenges in e-Services, e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce
• Digital Forensics
• Security Analytics and Data Mining
• Cryptographic Technologies
• Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies
• Continuous Authentication
• Security and Privacy Challenges in Blockchain and its Applications
• Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in eBusiness Strategy
• Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation
• Digital Rights Management
• Identity and Trust Management
• Human-Computer Interaction and PST
• Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft
• Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance
• Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity
• Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments
• Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability
• Access Control and Capability Delegation
• Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems • Security and Privacy Challenges in Blockchain Technology
• Security and Privacy Challenges in ML-enabled Systems
• General Cybersecurity

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The following paper categories are welcome -- Full & Short papers: High-quality papers in all PST-related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as 'regular' full papers of up to 10 pages or 'short' papers of up to 5 pages. Authors MUST ensure to select the track (Privacy, Security, or Trust) or special track most relevant to their research when submitting their paper. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pst2024


IMPORTANT DATES Paper

submission deadline: 11:59 pm, AoE, May 1, 2024
Final camera-ready paper due: July 17, 2024
Early-bird Registration ends: August 2, 2024 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2024
Author Registration: July 17, 2024
Conference date: August 28-30, 2024


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

Up to 14 elected papers presented at the PST2024 will be recommended (after a significant extension with 40% new material) for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Intelligence (CI) based on the topic suitability (to be confirmed). The final acceptance depends on several additional rounds of reviews performed by the journal editor(s).

Please visit the conference website or contact the PST2024 Conference office at pst2024@easychair.org for registration and current conference information.

PUBLICATION

The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore as in previous editions of the conference.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference General Chair: Jiankun Hu, UNSW, Australia and Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Technical Program Chairs: Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, UNSW, Australia and Veronika Kuchta, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Industry Day Chair: Sanjay Jha, UNSW, Australia
Local Chairs: Nadeem Ahmed, University of New South Wales, Australia and Abuadbba, Sharif, CSIRO's Data61, Australia
Track Chairs
− Privacy: Xingliang Yuan, University of Melbourne, Australia, Jianbing Ni, Queen’s University, Canada
− Security: Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China, Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIT Delhi, India − Trust: Arash Shaghaghi, University of New South Wales, Australia, Carol Fung, Concordia University, Canada
− Emerging Technologies and Trends Track: Rongxing Lu University of New Brunswick Canada, Xiaohui Liang, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
− Publicity Chairs: Xichen Zhang, Saint Mary’s University, Canada, Sajjad Dadkhah, Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, Canada, Min Wang, University of Canberra, Australia
− Finance Chairs: Golnoush Abaei, RMIT University, Australia