[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************ 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017, http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu **************************************************************************** ************ DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final a version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted Papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 6, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 6, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu.