Authors are invited to submit original research papers on provable and practical security. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Provable security for asymmetric cryptography
* Provable security for symmetric cryptography
* Provable security for physical attacks
* Privacy and anonymity technologies
* Secure cryptographic protocols and applications
* Security notions, approaches, and paradigms
* Leakage-resilient cryptography
* Lattice-based cryptography and post-quantum cryptography
* Steganography and steganalysis
* Blockchain and cryptocurrency
* IoT security
* Cloud security
* Access control
* Privacy-enhancing technologies
* Database security
* Big data security and privacy
* Biometric security
* Network security
* Formal methods for security
* Embedded systems security
* Lightweight security
* Cyber-physical security
* ML security
Instructions for Authors
Author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for ACM publications can be found via the following link:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Papers should be submitted via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw2025
All the submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Submissions must be fully anonymous with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submissions must be written in English and have at most 20 pages including bibliography using ACM package with no changes to the style. Submissions can exceed 20 pages, but any content beyond 20 pages should be placed in the Appendix. Papers should be sufficiently intelligible and self-contained without appendices so that PC members can make decisions without reading appendices.
In the current model, ACM charges a production fee to conference organizers, but no publication fees are charged to individual authors. Separate OA options are available for an additional fee payable by the organizers. In the new model, all ICPS papers published in the DL will automatically be made OA, and production/OA fees will no longer be charged to conference organizers. Papers that fall into the following categories will be published in the DL at no charge:
If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution participating in ACM’s transformative ACM Open model.
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Note that, by the end of 2024, we expect roughly 50% of papers published in the DL to be covered by ACM Open agreements; by the end of 2025, we expect the proportion to rise to 60%-70%; and, in the longer term, we expect to get to roughly 80%.
If the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries covered by ACM’s agreements with EIFL and Research4Life and/or classified by the World Bank as low-income countries.