Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (max. 22 pages, including references) 
• Short papers (max. 11 pages, including references) 
• SoK papers (max. 22 pages, including references) 
• Workshop papers (max. 18 pages, including references) 

List of Topics

Include, but are not limited to

• Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
• Automated Vulnerability Repair
• Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
• Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
• Cloud Security
• Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy
• Digital Forensics
• Human Factors in Security and Privacy
• Identity Management
• Incident Response
• Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
• Machine Learning for Security and Privacy
• Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
• Offensive AI
• Mobile Security
• Network Security
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Process based Security Models and Methods
• Risk analysis
• Side Channel Attacks
• Software Security
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy
• Security and Privacy for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Resilience in Critical Infrastructures
• Security and Privacy Awareness
• Security by Design
• Threats and Attack Modelling
• Trusted Computing
• Trust Models and Trust Management
• Usable Security and Privacy
• Web Application Security and Privacy

Committees

Program Committee

The program committee of ARES 2025 can be found here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/

Organizing committee

• General Chair 2026

  Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden

• Program Committee Chairs 2026

  Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden

  Andreas Ekelhart, University of Vienna, Austria

• Workshop Chair 2025

  Zeeshan Afzal

• EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2026

  Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Proceedings Chairs 2026

• Buse Atli, Linköping University, Sweden

Publication

ARES 2026 proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 

Venue

The conference will be held at Linköping University, Sweden. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to gurjot.singh@liu.se