CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Software PROtection (SPRO 2015)
Florence, Italy, May 19, 2015


https://aspire-fp7.eu/spro/

Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2015 (extended)

General Chair: Paolo Falcarin
Program Chair: Brecht Wyseur

Keynote - "Software Security: Squaring the Circle?": Bart Preneel

The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry and government that presents research on all aspects in Software Protection. Topics of specific interest include new software protection techniques, evaluation techniques, and industrialisation thereof. A non-exhaustive list of topics is presented on https://aspire-fp7.eu/spro/call-for-papers/.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE ICSE workshop proceedings. Submissions can be of two types: regular papers or short papers. Short papers can be initial works of PhD students or opinion pieces from recognized experts. Regular papers must follow the ICSE 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines and must have a maximum length of seven (7) pages; short papers must have a maximum length of four (4) pages. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. Articles must be novel: IEEE does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. For general author guidelines, see http://2015.icse-conferences.org/submissionguidelines. For submission, check the SPRO official webpage.


Important dates:
Submission deadline: 31 January, 2015
Notification of acceptand: 18 February, 2015
Camera-ready papers: 27 February, 2015
Workshop: 19 May, 2015

Program Committee:
Jerome d'nnoville, Gemalto, France
Jean Daniel Aussel, Gemalto, France
Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Mariano Ceccato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Christian Collberg, University of Arizona, USA
Bart Coppens, Ghent University, Belgium
Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy
Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, Belgium
Saumya Debray, University of Arizona, USA
Bjorn De Sutter, Ghent University, Belgium
Werner Dondl, SafeNet Inc., USA/Germany
Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA
Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Yuan Gu, Irdeto
Wulf Harder, SIA QuBalt, Latvia
Pascal Junod, HEIG-VD, Switzerland
Johannes Kinder, Royal Holloway Univ. of London, UK
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Isabella Mastroeni, University of Verona, Italy
Christian Mönch, Conax, Norway
Mattia Monga, University of Milan, Italy
Riccardo Scandariato, Chalmers University, Sweden
Christophe Tartary, University of East London, UK
Clark Thomborson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Gaofeng Zhang, University of East London, UK
Michael Zunke, SafeNet Inc., USA/Germany