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<div>A reminder that NSPW 2019 papers are due in one week!</div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br></div><div>Apologies for cross posting. </div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> <span class="gmail-il">2019</span>: Call for Papers</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" lang="EN-GB">San Carlos, Costa Rica</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)" lang="EN-GB">September 23-26, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.nspw.org/" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB">www.<span class="gmail-il">nspw</span>.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Submission deadline:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span><b>April 12, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span> 23:59 (UTC -11) firm</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Format:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>PDF file (ACM SIG formatting) via Easychair</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Author responses:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>May 24 - June 3, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Notification of acceptance:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>June 12, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Pre-proceedings deadline:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>July 8, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Invitations sent:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>July 15, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Early registration:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>July 29, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Late registration:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>August 5, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Workshop:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>September 23-26, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span><br>Final version:<span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"> </span>November 15, <span class="gmail-il">2019</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">The New Security Paradigms Workshop (<span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span>)
seeks embryonic, disruptive, and unconventional ideas on information
and cyber security that benefit from early feedback. Submissions
typically address current limitations of information security, directly
challenge long-held beliefs or the very foundations of security, or
discuss problems from an entirely novel angle, leading to new solutions.
We welcome papers both from computer science and other disciplines that
study adversarial relationships, as well as from practice. The workshop
is invitation-only; all accepted papers receive a 1 hour plenary time
slot for presentation and discussion. In order to maximize diversity of
perspectives, we particularly encourage submissions from new <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> authors, from Ph.D. students, and from non-obvious disciplines and institutions.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">In <span class="gmail-il">2019</span>, <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span>
invites theme submissions around “Social manipulation through
technology” next to regular submissions. Recently, a new type of concern
is emerging in the cybersecurity community: how should the field deal
with the possibility of manipulating <i>societies</i> or subgroups
within a society via information and communication technology (e.g.
trolling, fake news, election manipulation)? What are new paradigms that
could help in this context? </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">What are the motives, origins and characteristics of such manipulations?</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">What are the effects on social systems in terms of culture, politics, communication, media, trust, power?</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">What can and should our field do, if anything, to safeguard the values embedded in our societies against such manipulations?</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">How do current technical and social arrangements enable or facilitate manipulation?</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">What new technical or social protections might we put in place? What new social media could help, or hurt?</span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">For
the theme, we particularly invite cross-disciplinary submissions that
may be having trouble finding the right venue, and submissions
(co-)authored by social and political scientists. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> <span class="gmail-il">2019</span>
will be held at Hotel Tilajari in San Carlos, Costa Rica. As in the
past, this choice of venue is designed to facilitate interactions
between the invited attendees throughout the workshop.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><h2 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-GB">Submission Instructions</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></h2><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> accepts three categories of submissions:</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Regular Submissions</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> present
a new approach (paradigm) to a security problem or critique existing
approaches. While regular submissions may present research results
(mathematical or experimental), unlike papers submitted to most computer
security venues, these results should not be the focus of the
submission; instead, the change in approach should be the focus.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Theme Submissions</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> are
focused on “Social manipulation through technology”, and should explain
the connection with the theme in the justification statement (see
below). </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">They follow the format of a regular submission.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Panel Proposals</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> describe
a debatable topic of interest to the security community that merits
significant discussion. Proposals should describe the major perspectives
on the chosen topic. They should also present the background of the
panelists, explaining how they are the right people to discuss the
chosen topic at <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span>.</span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Submissions must be made in PDF format, 6-15 pages, </span><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB">ACM SIG formatting</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">, through EasyChair, as linked on the <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> site. <b>Submissions must include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation, justification statement and attendance statement.</b> Papers
not including these risk rejection without review. The justification
statement briefly explains why the submission is appropriate for <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span>
and the chosen submission category. The attendance statement must
specify which author(s) will attend upon acceptance/invitation.
Submissions <i>should not</i> be blinded. Organizers and PC members are
allowed to submit, but will not be involved in the evaluation of their
own papers. All submissions are treated as confidential as a matter of
policy. <span class="gmail-il">NSPW</span> does not accept previously published or concurrently submitted papers.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Authors
may submit review responses during the review process indicating the
changes they wish to commit to. Papers are accepted conditionally and
are shepherded, with final proceedings being published after the
workshop.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><h2 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-GB">Attendance</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></h2><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">The
workshop itself is invitation-only, with typically 30-35 participants
consisting of authors of about 12 accepted papers, panelists, program
committee members, and organizers. One author of each accepted paper
must attend; additional authors may be invited if space permits. All
participants must commit to a “social contract”: no one arrives late, no
one leaves early, no electronic distractions (including laptops,
tablets, and mobile devices), and all attend all sessions of the 2.5 day
program, sharing meals in a group setting and complying with the code
of conduct. The workshop is preceded by an evening reception allowing
attendees to meet each other beforehand.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Financial Aid: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Financial
aid may be available, especially for U.S.-based students and junior
faculty. We encourage submissions from students and junior faculty, even
if support is required to attend.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Program Committee Co-chairs:</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-m_155776402436474895apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Wolter Pieters, <i>Delft University of Technology</i>, <a href="mailto:w.pieters@tudelft.nl" style="color:purple" target="_blank">w.pieters@tudelft.nl</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Elizabeth Stobert, <i>National Research Council of Canada</i>, <a href="mailto:elizabeth@stobert.ca" style="color:purple" target="_blank">elizabeth@stobert.ca</a></span></div></div>
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