[TYPES/announce] ESSoS Doct. Symp. - deadline extended!

[Pieter Philippaerts]

[Our sincere apologies if you receive this multiple times]

 

The deadline of the ESSoS PhD Symposium has been extended.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

ESSoS Doctoral Symposium

February 26, 2014, Munich

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: January 13, 2014 January 20, 2014

Notification of Acceptance: January 28, 2014

Camera Ready Version: February 12, 2014

 

 

The ESSoS Doctoral Symposium 2014 will be held in Munich, Germany on
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 in conjunction with the ESSoS 2014 Symposium. 

 

Following the aim of the past ESSoS-DS edition, the scope of the current
event will be focused on providing PhD students an opportunity to discuss
their research in Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) in an
international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field.

NEW in this year's Symposium is the fact that we aim to bring together a
broad range of students: PhD students at the start of their trajectory,
students who are about to finish (What are the pitfalls in the final
stages?) and students in the middle (aiming for the first top-level
publication).

Students will have the occasion to discuss, in a welcoming and informal
atmosphere, the goals already achieved or planned, the research challenges
they are interested in, the projects they are working on, the facilities
they are developing, the problems they want to solve and are solving in
their doctoral work.

 

During the Doctoral Symposium students will receive useful feedback from
senior researchers, industrial partners and experts. It will also be a good
opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students that
are addressing similar topics, or are at a similar stage in their doctoral
work. This way, the students will obtain guidance both on the academic
content of their current work and on potential future research trajectories.
PhD students carrying out research in Engineering Secure Software and
Systems are invited to submit a position paper to the PhD Symposium.

Short papers will be peer-reviewed by the Symposium's program committee
members. The criteria used for accepting a paper include contribution of the
work to the ESSoS field, originality of the work, and overall quality of the
position paper.

 

 

TOPICS

 

PhD proposals fitting into the ESSoS conference topics are especially
encouraged. This includes a diversity of topics, such as (but not limited
to): 

- scalable techniques for threat modeling and analysis of vulnerabilities

- specification and management of security requirements and policies

- security architecture and design for software and systems

- model checking for security

- specification formalisms for security artifacts

- verification techniques for security properties

- systematic support for security best practices

- security testing

- security assurance cases

- programming paradigms, models and DSLs for security

- program rewriting techniques

- processes for the development of secure software and systems

- security oriented software reconfiguration and evolution

- security measurement

- automated development

- trade-off between security and other non-functional requirements

- support for assurance, certification and accreditation 

 

Accepted position papers will be presented during the ESSoS 2014 Doctoral
Symposium and will be published on the ESSoS website. Presenters of the
doctoral Symposium will get an opportunity to present their work in poster
format during the main program of ESSoS 2014. The organizers of the doctoral
symposium intend to publish post-proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium -
details will follow.

 

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

Two types of submissions will be considered: (A) papers reflecting PhD
projects in an early stage and (B) papers that represent PhD projects that
are in the second half or nearly complete. 

 

A) Position papers of PhD students in an early stage of their project should
fulfill the following requirements.

- Length: two to six pages

- Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.

- Content: 

  * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable)

  * affiliation

  * an abstract (maximum 200 words)

  * the problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve, and the
motivation for solving them

  * the aims and objectives of the proposed research

  * the potential contributions to the state-of-the-art

  * the research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals,
including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative
research plan for future work

  * the main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering
Secure Software and Systems

B) Position papers of PhD students in a late to closing stage of their
project - should fulfill the following requirements.

- Length: two to six pages

- Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.

- Content: 

  * Authors' names (PhD student + contributing team members if applicable)

  * affiliation

  * an abstract (maximum 200 words)

  * Scope: the domain, scope and objectives of the proposed research

  * Track record: the results that have been achieved in previous steps
and/or publications

  * The synergy and cohesion between the results, and the approach on how to
complete the thesis

  * The main contribution(s) of the research to the field of Engineering
Secure Software and Systems

C) Some PhD students who a have delivered a top publication in the midst of
their trajectory will be invited to present a testimonial; anybody can
volunteer by sending a short email to the PC Chairs (referring to their
actual top publication).

 

Authors should use the Doctoral Symposium Submission site at EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essosds2014) for the submission
of their manuscripts.

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven,  Leuven, Belgium) and
Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Authors of accepted papers may apply for a grant to cover their registration
for ESSoS 2014. For more information, email to Ghita.Saevels at cs.kuleuven.be

 


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