CALL FOR PAPERS



The 2nd International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec'2019)



August 9-11, 2019, Nanjing, China



Website: http://www.sci-cs.net



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PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2019

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The 2nd International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec'2019) will be held August 9-11, 2019 in Nanjing, China. The conference is organized by the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. This new forum aims to catalyze the research collaborations between the relevant communities and disciplines that can work together to deepen our understanding of, and build a firm foundation for, the emerging Science of Cyber Security. Publications in this venue would distinguish themselves from others by taking or thinking from a holistic perspective about cyber security, rather than the building-block perspective. Each submission will be reviewed (double blind) by at least 3 reviewers. The program committee plans to select and award a Best Paper and a Best Student Paper. The post-conference proceedings will be published in Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers from the ones published in the post-conference proceedings will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Information Systems Frontier journal (officially approved; see http://organ-assoc.business.utsa.edu/isfrontiers/forthcoming.html), which requires substantial new materials and has its own review process.



TOPICS OF INTERESTS

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The conference solicits high-quality, original research papers that can justifiably help achieve the ultimate Science of Cyber Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:



Cybersecurity Dynamics

Cybersecurity Metrics and Their Measurements

First-principle Cybersecurity Modeling and Analysis (e.g., Dynamical Systems, Control-Theoretic, and Game-Theoretic Modeling)

Cybersecurity Data Analytics

Quantitative Risk Management for Cybersecurity

Big Data for Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Economics Approaches for Cybersecurity

Social Sciences Approaches for Cybersecurity

Statistical Physics Approaches for Cybersecurity

Complexity Sciences Approaches for Cybersecurity

Experimental Cybersecurity

Macroscopic Cybersecurity

Statistics Approaches for Cybersecurity

Human Factors for Cybersecurity

Compositional Security

Biology-inspired Approaches for Cybersecurity

Synergetics Approaches for Cybersecurity





SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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Submissions must be written in English and in the PDF format. Submissions should be made anonymous (i.e., no author names and affiliations information). The length limit is 15 pages (everything included). Authors should use Springer's template which is available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Submission of a paper is regarded as a commitment that at least one of its authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.



CONFERENCE IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2019

Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2019

Pre-conference version due: August 5, 2019

Conference dates: August 9-11, 2019

Post-conference camera-ready version due: September 5, 2019



SPECIAL ISSUE IMPORTANT DATES

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Invited paper submission deadline: November 5, 2019

Notification of first round review: January 15, 2020

Revised paper due: February 20, 2020

Notification of second round review: March 20, 2020

Final version due: April 20, 2020


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

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Prof. Gene Tsudik (UCI, USA)



COMMITTEES

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General Chair:

Guo-Ping Jiang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)



Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Feng Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Jia Xu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Moti Yung (Google and Columbia University, USA)



Publicity Co-Chairs:

Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Guen Chen (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Wenlian Lu (Fudan University, China)

Sheng Wen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Xiaofan Yang (Chongqing University, China)



Organization Committee Chair

Geng Yang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)



Web Chair

Yaqin Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)



Guest Editors for Information Systems Frontiers Special Issue

Jingguo Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

Shouhuai Xu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Moti Yung (Google and Columbia University, USA)



CONTACTS

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E-mail:

Feng Liu liufeng@iie.ac.cn

Jia Xu xujia@njupt.edu.cn

Shouhuai Xu shouhuai.xu@utsa.edu