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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Software ProtectIon and Reverse engIneering Track (SPIRIT 2025)
In conjunction with the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
Held in Catania, Italy, March 31 - April 4, 2025

For more details, please visit the SPIRIT 2025 official website: https://sites.google.com/view/spirit2025/
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The Software ProtectIon and Reverse engIneering Track (SPIRIT 2025) invites academia, industry, and governmental entities to submit original research papers on software protection techniques, their analysis, and reverse engineering.

We seek submissions tackling the many aspects of software security, including but not limited to:

- software protection techniques
- code and data obfuscation
- software diversity
- software tampering detection, avoidance, and reaction
- software similarity and plagiarism detection
- software licensing and watermarking
- hardware-based software protection
- software attestation with or without hardware root of trust
- software protection analysis & reverse engineering
- reversing methods against specific software protection techniques
- applications of AI systems for attacking or improving software protections
- software security metrics and evaluation methodologies
- empirical studies on the effectiveness of software protections
- threat modelling and formal methods for software protection
- applied software protections
- code and data protection in video games, mass media, and streaming services
- software protection techniques applied to IoT, mobile, and cloud scenarios
- best practices from and for the industry
- build process integration of software protection tools

Papers pointing the research community to new research directions in software security and privacy are especially welcome.

The Track Chairs, in conjunction with the Track Program Committee, will select the best paper, and its authors will be awarded a physical (paper) and digital certificate.

Papers that receive positive reviews but are not accepted due to space limitations will be invited to a poster session. The length of poster papers is 2 pages (included in the registration) + 1 page (at an extra charge).

After the conference, authors of top-quality papers may be invited to submit their work in an extended form to a special issue of a Scopus-indexed journal.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions include regular papers and SRC abstracts.
The author kit with the templates is available at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/authorkit.php

Regular papers are original research articles or systematization of knowledge on a software protection topic (10 pages max – 8 pages no extra fees, up to 2 extra pages with fees).
Submissions must use the ACM SAC procedure at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php

SRC (Student Research Competition) abstracts are short articles written by students (2 pages max).
Submissions must use the ACM SAC procedure at: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php

Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library. Authors are encouraged to consider diversity and inclusion in their submissions (see https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/about).

Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented by a registered author. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk immediate rejection. For questions about these policies, please contact the chairs.

Important Dates
- September 20, 2024 Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts
- October 30, 2024 Notification of papers/SRC acceptance/rejection
- November 29, 2024 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC
- December 6, 2024 Author registration due date
- Tuesday, April 1, 2025 SRC Posters Exhibit
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Non-SRC Posters Program
- Thursday, April 3, 2025 SRC Oral Presentations

Program Chairs
- Leonardo Regano, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
- Daniele Canavese, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy