Call for Papers
We seek submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems. Practitioners and industry representatives are encouraged to submit papers.
Topics
We welcome contributions within, but not limited to, the following areas:
Access control and authentication
AI for cybersecurity
Applied cryptography
Audit and risk analysis
Big data security and privacy
Cloud security and privacy
Critical infrastructure protection
Cyber-physical systems security
Data and applications security
Digital forensics
Human aspects of security and privacy
Identity management
Industry networks security
Information security education
Information security management
Information technology misuse and the law
IoT security
Managing information security functions
Mobile security
Multilateral security
Network & distributed systems security
Pervasive systems security
Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
Privacy-enhancing technologies
Quantum computations and post-quantum cryptography
Security and privacy in LLM’s
Side-channel attacks
Surveillance and counter-surveillance
Trust management
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference in-person and will be included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer.
All papers must be written in English. Submissions should be at most 14 pages long including references and appendices. Submissions should not be anonymised. PC members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them.
Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word format (author instructions and templates can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Each paper will receive at least three reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the author registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper at the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one full registration is necessary.
After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the Elsevier journal Computers & Security. Selected papers will undergo at least one further review round. Any papers considered for COSE will be expected to be further developed such that they contain at least 30% new material from what is published in the proceedings.
The following resource may assist with preparing your paper for submission:
Springer 'code of conduct' for authors
Springer instructions for paper preparation
Copyright assignment form (required on submission for review)
Awards
Computers & Security, published by Elsevier, is the sponsor for the Best Paper Award.
The award will carry a prize to the value of $1,000 (USD) and an extended version of the paper will be invited for publication in the journal (the extended version must contain at least 30% new material from what is published in the proceedings).
The best student paper will receive the Yves Deswarte Best Student Paper Award. The paper must be original and carried out principally by the student presenting the paper, and the student must be the lead author. A student who is to be considered for the best paper award must be a full time (as determined by the student’s institution) registered undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student at the time of submission of the paper.
Who is Yves Deswarte?
Yves was a passionate and visionary researcher who made several major research contributions during his career. As an engineer, he contributed to the emergence during the 70’s of two essential technologies: micro-computing and packet switched networks. In the 80’s, he developed innovative distributed architectures that were tolerant to both accidental and malicious threats. During his career at INRIA and CNRS, he was a major actor in computer security in France and at the international level. He co-advised several generations of doctorate students and engineers. He obtained significant research results in this area, e.g., in intrusion tolerance and security assessment and privacy protection. He was in particular a prominent advocate of the concept of a “white” ID card, allowing users to be authenticated while disclosing only a minimum amount of personal information. He obtained the Kristian Beckman Award from IFIP TC-11 and Outstanding Service Awards from IFIP and ESORICS. He also held several responsibilities within IFIP TC-11 and the ESORICS Conference. Unanimously appreciated by his colleagues, Yves was passionate about his work and particularly invested for the success of the students and researchers that he advised during his career.
TC-11 is proud to dedicate this award to his memory, as recognition of his lasting contribution.
The award will carry a prize to the value of €1,000 (EUR).