Connectionists: 4th CfP: ACM SACMAT 2021 - Symposium of Access Control Models and Technologies

[Marinella Petrocchi]

Apologies for cross-posting

ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies -- SACMAT 2021
June 16-18, 2021, Barcelona, Spain
http://sacmat.dista.uninsubria.it/2021/about.php

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Important dates
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* Paper submission: February 15, 2021 (11:59 pm AOE)
* Rebuttal: March 30 - April 2nd, 2021
* Notifications: April 15th, 2021
* Systems demo and Poster submissions: April 19th, 2021
* Systems demo and Poster notifications: April 27th, 2021
* Panel Proposal: TBD
* Camera ready: May 4th, 2021
* Conference date: June 16 – June 18, 2021

* Call for Research Papers

Papers offering novel research contributions are solicited for 
submission. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and 
published by the ACM in the symposium proceedings. In addition to the 
regular research track, this year SACMAT will again host the special 
track --  "Blue Sky/Vision Track". Researchers are invited to submit 
papers describing promising new ideas and challenges of interest to the 
community as well as access control needs emerging from other fields. We 
are particularly looking for potentially disruptive and new ideas which 
can shape the research agenda for the next 10 years. We also encourage 
submissions to the newly introduced “Work-in-progress Track” to present 
ideas that may have not been completely developed and experimentally 
evaluated.
Topics of Interest
Submissions to the regular track covering any relevant area of access 
control and computer security are welcomed. Areas of interest include, 
but are not limited to, the following:

Systems:
* Operating systems
* Cloud systems and their security
* Distributed systems
* Fog and Edge-computing systems
* Cyber-physical and Embedded systems
* Mobile systems
* Autonomous systems (e.g., UAV security, autonomous vehicles, )
* IoT systems (e.g., home-automation systems)
* WWW

Network:
* Network systems (e.g., Software-defined network, Network function 
virtualization)
* Corporate and Military-grade Networks
* Wireless and Cellular Networks
* Opportunistic Network (e.g., delay-tolerant network, P2P)
* Overlay Network
* Satellite Network

Privacy and Privacy-enhancing Technologies:
* Mixers and Mixnets
* Anonymous protocols (e.g., Tor)
* Online social networks (OSN)
* Anonymous communication and censorship resistance
* Access control and identity management with privacy
* Cryptographic tools for privacy
* Data protection technologies
* Attacks on Privacy and their defenses

Authentication:
* Password-based Authentication
* Biometric-based Authentication
* Location-based Authentication
* Identity management
* Usable authentication

Mechanisms:
* Blockchain Technologies
* AI/ML Technologies
* Cryptographic Technologies
* Programming-language based Technologies
* Hardware-security Technologies (e.g., Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone)
* Economic models and game theory
* Trust Management
* Usable mechanisms

Data Security:
* Big data
* Databases and data management
* Data leakage prevention
* Data protection on untrusted infrastructure

Policies and Models:
* Novel policy language design
* New Access Control Models
* Extension of policy languages
* Extension of Models
* Analysis of policy languages
* Analysis of Models
* Policy engineering and policy mining
* Verification of policy languages
* Efficient enforcement of policies
* Usable access control policy

* Regular Track Paper Submission and Format
Papers must be written in English. Authors are required to use the ACM 
format for papers, using the two-column SIG Proceedings Template (the 
sigconf template for LaTex) available in the following link: 
https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions
The length of the paper in the proceedings format must not exceed twelve 
US letter pages formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper and be no more than 5MB 
in size. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their 
submission will print easily on simple default configurations. The 
submission must be anonymous, so information that might identify the 
authors - including author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or 
obvious self-citations - must be excluded. It is the authors' 
responsibility to ensure that their anonymity is preserved when citing 
their own work. Submissions should be made to the EasyChair conference 
management system by the paper submission deadline of February 15, 2021 
11:59 pm AOE:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacmat21

All submissions must contain a significant original contribution. That 
is, submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have 
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, 
conference, or workshop. In particular, simultaneous submission of the 
same work is not allowed. Wherever appropriate, relevant related work, 
including that of the authors, must be cited. Submissions that are not 
accepted as full papers may be invited to appear as short papers. At 
least one author from each accepted paper much register for the 
conference prior to the camera-ready deadline.

* Blue Sky Track Paper Submission and Format
All submissions to this track should be in the same format as for the 
regular track, but the length must not exceed ten US letter pages, and 
the submission are not required to be anonymized (optional). Submissions 
to this track should be submitted to the EasyChair conference management 
system by the same deadline as for the regular track.

* Work-in-progress Track Paper Submission and Format
Authors are invited to submit papers in the newly introduced 
work-in-progress track. This track is introduced for (junior) authors, 
ideally Ph.D. and Masters students, to obtain early, constructive 
feedback on their work. Submissions in this track should follow the same 
format as for the regular track papers while limiting the total number 
of pages to six US letter pages. Paper submitted in this track should be 
anonymized and can be submitted to the EasyChair conference management 
system by the same deadline as for the regular track.

* Call for Lightning Talk
Participants are invited to submit proposals for 5-minute lightning 
talks describing recently published results, work in progress, wild 
ideas, etc. Lightning talks are a new feature of SACMAT, introduced this 
year to partially replace the informal sharing of ideas at in-person 
meetings. Submit at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacmat21 by 
May 28, 2021 (the early registration deadline). Notification of 
acceptance on June 2, 2021.

* Call for Posters
SACMAT 2021 will include a poster session to promote discussion of 
ongoing projects among researchers in the field of access control and 
computer security. Posters can cover preliminary or exploratory work 
with interesting ideas, or research projects in early stages with 
promising results in all aspects of access control and computer 
security. Authors interested in displaying a poster must submit a poster 
abstract in the same format as for the regular track, but the length 
must not exceed three US letter pages, and the submission should not be 
anonymized. The title should start with "Poster:". Accepted poster 
abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.

Submissions for posters should be emailed to the poster chair, Dr. Diego 
Perino (Diego.perino at telefonica.com), by Apr 19, 2021, 5PM PDT. The 
subject line should include "SACMAT 2021 Poster:" followed by the poster 
title.

* Call for Demos
A demonstration proposal should clearly describe (1) the overall 
architecture of the system or technology to be demonstrated, and (2) one 
or more demonstration scenarios that describe how the audience, 
interacting with the demonstration system or the demonstrator, will gain 
an understanding of the underlying technology. Submissions will be 
evaluated based on the motivation of the work behind the use of the 
system or technology to be demonstrated and its novelty. The subject 
line should include "SACMAT 2021 Demo:" followed by the demo title.

Demonstration proposals should be in the same format as for the regular 
track, but the length must not exceed four US letter pages, and the 
submission should not be anonymized. A two-page description of the 
demonstration will be included in the conference proceedings. 
Submissions should be emailed to the Demonstrations Chair, Dr. Diego 
Perino (Diego.perino at telefonica.com), by Apr 19, 2021, 5pm PDT.

* Financial Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure:
In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own 
judgements of potential bias, ACM SACMAT requires authors and PC members 
to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in 
relation to the work described.

* Definition
For the purposes of this policy, competing interests are defined as 
financial and non-financial interests that could directly undermine, or 
be perceived to undermine the objectivity, integrity and value of a 
publication, through a potential influence on the judgements and actions 
of authors with regard to objective data presentation, analysis and 
interpretation.

Financial competing interests include any of the following:
Funding: Research support (including salaries, equipment, supplies, and 
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Employment: Recent (while engaged in the research project), present or 
anticipated employment by any organization that may gain or lose 
financially through this publication.

Personal financial interests: Ownership or contractual interest in 
stocks or shares of companies that may gain or lose financially through 
publication; consultation fees or other forms of remuneration (including 
reimbursements for attending symposia) from organizations that may gain 
or lose financially; patents or patent applications (awarded or pending) 
filed by the authors or their institutions whose value may be affected 
by publication. For patents and patent applications, disclosure of the 
following information is requested: patent applicant (whether author or 
institution), name of inventor(s), application number, status of 
application, specific aspect of manuscript covered in patent 
application.

It is difficult to specify a threshold at which a financial interest 
become significant, but note that many US universities require faculty 
members to disclose interests exceeding $10,000 or 5% equity in a 
company. Any such figure is necessarily arbitrary, so we offer as one 
possible practical alternative guideline: "Any undeclared competing 
financial interests that could embarrass you were they to become 
publicly known after your work was published."

We do not consider diversified mutual funds or investment trusts to 
constitute a competing financial interest. Also, for employees in 
non-executive or leadership positions, we do not consider financial 
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Non-financial competing interests: Non-financial competing interests can 
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to declare any unpaid roles or relationships that might have a bearing 
on the publication process. Examples of non-financial competing 
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• Unpaid membership in a government or non-governmental organization
• Unpaid membership in an advocacy or lobbying organization
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• Writing or consulting for an educational company
• Acting as an expert witness

* Conference Code of Conduct and Etiquette

ACM SACMAT will follow the ACM Policy Against Harassment at ACM 
Activities. Please familiarize yourself with the ACM Policy Against 
Harassment and guide to Reporting Unacceptable Behavior.

* AUTHORS TAKE NOTE
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affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. 
(For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM 
Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication 
date remains the first day of the conference.)


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Marinella Petrocchi
Senior Researcher
@Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT)
National Research Council (CNR)
Pisa (Italy)