SPSM'15 CFP -- Submission Deadline June 8

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Mobile devices such as smartphones and Internet tablets have achieved computing and networking capabilities comparable to traditional personal computers. Their successful consumerization has also become a source of pain for adopting users and organizations. For example, the widespread presence of information-stealing applications raises substantial security and privacy concerns. The operating systems supporting these new devices have both advantages and disadvantages with respect to security. On one hand, they use application sandboxing to contain exploits and limit privileges given to malware. On the other hand, they routinely collect and organize many forms of security- and privacy-sensitive information and make that information easily accessible to third-party applications.

Recognizing smartphone security and privacy as an emerging area, this workshop intends to provide a venue for interested researchers and practitioners to get together and exchange ideas. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following subject categories:
• 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
• 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 publication. Submissions that discuss a real-world problem without a solution are encouraged.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission: June 8, 2015
Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2015
Final Manuscript due: July 28, 2015
Workshop Date: Oct 12, 2015

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit either
• Full research papers (up to 12 pages including references) that present relatively complete and mature research results on security and privacy in smartphones and mobile devices;
• Short Papers (up to 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 (up to 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 (available at the ACM Website) 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccsspsm2015
Conference website: http://www.spsm-workshop.org/2015/
Program Co-chairs
David Lie, University of Toronto
Glenn Wurster, BlackBerry
Technical Program Committee
David Barrera, ETH Zurich
Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge
Eric Bodden, TU Darmstadt
Hao Chen, UC Davis
Mark Contois, Amazon Lab126
Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto
Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University
Suman Jana, Stanford University
Mohammad Mannan, Concordia University
Franziska Roesner, U of Washington
Fred Rush, Coherent Logix
Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft Research
Natalie Silvanovich, Google
Paul Theriault, Mozilla
Rob Wood, NCC Group
Steering Committee
N. Asokan, Aalto University and University of Helsinki
William Enck, North Carolina State University
Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University
Patrick Traynor, University of Florida

David Lie
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Associate Professor
Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
Canada Research Chair in Secure and Reliable Computer Systems
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto