Annual ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices
(SPSM 2016)
in conjunction with the 23nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
Security (CCS)
October 24, 2016, Vienna, Austria.
http://www.spsm-workshop.org/2016/ 

Call for Papers
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Recognizing the importance of smartphone security and privacy, the Annual ACM
CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM)
provides a venue for researchers and practitioners to get together and exchange
ideas.

[Topics of Interest]
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* Device/hardware security
* OS/middleware security
* Application security
* Authenticating users to devices and services
* Mobile web browsers
* Usability
* Privacy
* Rogue application detection and recovery
* Vulnerability detection and remediation
* Secure application development
* Cloud support for mobile security
* Mobile device management
* Mobile ads
* Dual persona management and isolation

We also encourage novel paradigms and controversial ideas that are not on the
above list. The workshop is to act as a venue for creative debate and
interaction in security- and privacy-sensitive areas of computing and
communication impacted by smartphones. We will favor submissions that are
radical, forward-looking, and open-ended, as opposed to mature work on the verge
of conference or journal publication. Submissions that discuss a real-world
problem without a solution are encouraged.

[Important Dates]
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Manuscript submission
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 (11:59 PM Samoa Time UTC-11)
Acceptance notification
Friday, September 2, 2016
Final manuscript due
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Workshop date
Monday, October 24, 2016

[Submissions] (new page limits effective this year)
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* Full papers (8-10 pages including references) that present relatively mature
  research results on security and privacy in smartphones and mobile devices;
* Short papers (4-6 pages including references) that define new problems in
  security and privacy related to smartphones and mobile devices, or provide
  inspiring visions; or
* Discussion panel proposals (4-6 pages including references) that include a
  proposed topic and list of panel members who are willing to attend and
  participate.

Submissions must be in double-column ACM format with a font no smaller than 9
point. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions need to have their pages
numbered and should not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with
proceedings. All authors and their affiliations must be listed. Each accepted
paper must be presented by one registered author. Submissions not meeting these
guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Accepted papers
will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library.

Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spsm2016 

[Technical Program Committee]
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* Long Lu, Stony Brook University (co-chair)
* Mohammad Mannan, Concordia University (co-chair)
* Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia
* Mihai Christodorescu, Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley
* Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
* Lucas Davi, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
* Manuel Egele, Boston University
* Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham
* Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo
* Suman Jana, Columbia University
* Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* Ian Molloy, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
* Muhammad Naveed, University of Southern California
* Damien Octeau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Xinming Ou, University of South Florida
* Sebastian Porst, Google
* Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
* Kapil Singh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
* Julie Thorpe, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
* Tao Wan, Huawei Canada
* Glenn Wurster, BlackBerry
* Mingyuan Xia, McGill University
* Xiaoyong Zhou, Samsung Research America
* Yajin Zhou, Qihoo 360

(Chairs' contact: spsm2016@easychair.org)