The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing
Data Spaces and Trusted Data Sharing (DSTDS) Track

Updates

June 7, 2024: SAC 2025 DSTDS Track website is open.

The Symposium

The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library. 

The Data Spaces and Trusted Data Sharing (DSTDS) Track

A »Data Space« is a virtual infrastructure using standards and common governance models to facilitate the secure exchange and easy linkage of data in business ecosystems. It thereby provides a basis for the creation and use of smart services and innovative business processes, while at the same time ensuring digital sovereignty of data providers. In recent years, the concept of data spaces has gained increasing interest at a global level and a number of developments and challenges have been highlighted. Data spaces are expected to advance the state of the art in data sharing and monetization by providing a secure and trusted environment. 

The amount of data is constantly growing and managing it will become increasingly important for organizations. In fact, the biggest new opportunities in the data economy are related to cooperation and data transfer between companies and organizations. In order to preserve the value of data and to enable trusted data sharing between different organizations, it is essential to establish a reliable method, along with the technical and software infrastructure for data sharing. With this new track in the context of ACM SAC, we aim to establish a new environment where researchers from industry and academia can discuss and explore the concepts and technical solutions for establishing data spaces and ensuring trusted data sharing.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest include but not limited to the following:

1. Reference architectures for Data Spaces.

2. Building blocks of Data Spaces.

3. Trusted Data Spaces.

4. Examples of successful implementation of Data Spaces.

5. Data Sovereignty and Data Provenance in Data Spaces.

6. Artificial intelligence for Data Spaces.

7. Secure data transmission and relevant technologies.

8. Data governance in Data Spaces

9. Privacy preserving mechanisms for Data Spaces

10. Data modeling and data governance models in Data Spaces

11. Metadata management and broker service for Data Spaces.

12. AI technologies for data sharing.

13. Interoperability for Data Spaces.

14. Ensuring data quality in Data Spaces.

15. Compliance in Data Spaces

SAC No-Show Policy

Paper registration is mandatory to include papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This requirement applies to all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions for inclusion in the ACM digital library. In case of personal circumstances preventing physical attendance, online presentation is allowed, ensuring the paper's inclusion in the ACM digital library.

Track chairs

👤  Amir Shayan Ahmadian, University of Koblenz, Germany

👤  Jan Jürjens, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST (Dortmund) & University of Koblenz, Germany

For more information about the track, please contact Amir Shayan Ahmadian (ahmadian(at)uni-koblenz.de).

Program committee

• Zeyd Boukhers, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Germany

• Gerd Brost, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security, Germany

• Mathias Uslar, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany

• Laszlo Gönczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

• Harri Ketamo, Headai, Finland

• Azim Roussanaly, University of Lorraine, France

• Boris Otto, Technical University Dortmund & Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) Dortmund, Germany

• Jörg Dörr, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) & Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany

• Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Christos Gizelis, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), Greece

• Sandra Geisler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

• Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France

• Sven Peldszus, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

• Qusai Ramadan, University of Southern Denmark & University of Koblenz, Germany

• Katharina Großer, University of Koblenz

Important dates

• 20.09.2024  04.10.2024  13.10.2024      Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts

• 30.10.2024  20.11.2024      Notification of paper acceptance/rejection

• 29.11.2024         Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC

• 06.12.2024         Author registration due date

Submissions

The submission guidelines are announced on the ACM SAC webpage.