Network and IT Security Conference: NDSS 2010

Call for Papers

Important dates

Titles and abstracts of papers due: Friday, September 11, 2009 (11:59 pm EDT)
Full paper and panel submissions due: Friday, September 18, 2009 (11:59 pm EDT)
Author notification: Friday, November 13, 2009
Final version of papers and panels due: Friday, December 18, 2009

Symposium Goals

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium fosters information exchange among research scientists and practitioners of network and distributed system security services. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation (rather than theory). A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technology. The proceedings are published by the Internet Society (ISOC).

How to Submit

Submission instructions are available at: www.softconf.com/a/ndss2010

What to Submit

Both technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. Technical papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers from authors perpetrating such "double submissions" will be immediately rejected from the symposium. The Program Committee reserves the right to share information with other conference chairs and journal editors so as to detect such cases.

Technical papers should not exceed 20 pages, total, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font, single column format, and 1-inch margins on 8.5"x11" or A4 paper). Technical papers must include the authors' name and affiliation.

The Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Technical papers will appear in the proceedings. Panel proposals should be one page and must describe the topic, identify the panel chair, explain the panel format, and list three to four potential panelists. A description of each panel will appear in the proceedings, and may, at the discretion of the panel chair, include written position statements from the panelists.

Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Security of Web-based applications and services
Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
Intrusion prevention, detection, and response
Security for electronic voting
Combating cyber-crime: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud techniques
Privacy and anonymity technologies
Network perimeter controls: firewalls, packet filters, and application gateways
Security for emerging technologies: sensor networks, wireless/mobile (and ad hoc) networks, and personal communication systems
Security for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)
Security for peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
Security for electronic commerce: e.g., payment, barter, EDI, notarization, timestamping, endorsement, and licensing
Implementation, deployment and management of network security policies
Intellectual property protection: protocols, implementations, metering, watermarking, digital rights management
Integrating security services with system and application security facilities and protocols
Public key infrastructures, key management, certification, and revocation
Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between security and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost
Security for collaborative applications: teleconferencing and video-conferencing
Software hardening: e.g., detecting and defending against software bugs (overflows, etc.)
Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures
Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, network management

Trust and Identity

To promote research in the area of Trust and Identity, the Internet Society will present a USD 500 prize for a paper on a significant development in addressing current problems in on-line identity management. Examples of possible topics include:

On-line reputation management
Third party identity provision
Privacy and anonymity technologies
Pseudonimity and user managed identity

Submitting authors should follow the same submission guidelines established for other NDSS 2010 topic areas. ISOC will cover travel, registration fee, and hotel accommodation for the designated author to attend NDSS 2010 and present the paper. The USD 500 cash award is the total prize. In the event of co-authors, the cash award will be divided evenly.

The deadline for full submissions, made electronically in PDF format, is 11:59 pm EST, September 18, 2009. However, titles and abstracts of papers must be received by 11:59 pm EST, September 11, 2009. Each submission will be acknowledged by email; if acknowledgement is not received within seven days, contact the Program Chair. Authors and panelists will be notified of acceptance by November 16, 2009, and given instructions for preparing the camera-ready copy.

A list of NDSS 2010 Program Committee members can be found at Program Committee.