FPS 2018: 11th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security Concordia University Montreal, Canada, November 13-15, 2018 |
Conference website | http://fps2018.encs.concordia.ca/ |
Abstract registration deadline | September 3, 2018 |
Submission deadline | September 3, 2018 |
The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be written in English. Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and the appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “Position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (“Position paper” should be mentioned in the title).
Authors must submit their papers by September 3, 2018, using the EasyChair web site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2018) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style (TeX, Word). Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged.
List of Topics
- Access control languages
- Code reverse engineering and vulnerability exploitation
- Computer and network security
- Cryptography & cryptanalysis
- Data mining & watermarking
- Distributed security protocols & policies
- Formal foundations in information or operational security
- Information theoretic security
- Malware, botnet and advanced persistent threats
- Privacy & sensitive data management
- Policy-based distributed information systems
- Policy-based security architectures
- Security & privacy in digital currencies
- Security & privacy in social networks
- Security in sensor networks and RFIDs
- Security of big-data
- Security of cloud computing, grid computing
- Security of distributed embedded middleware
- Security of P2P systems
- Security of service oriented architectures
- Security management and security policies
- Side channel & physical attacks
- Social engineering
- Threat analysis and trust management
Committees
General Chair
- Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France)
PC Chairs
- Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
- Guillaume Bonfante (École des Mines de Nancy, France)
- Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada)
Publications And publicity chairs
- Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University, Canada)
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France)
Organization and Local Organization Chairs
- Amr Youssef (Concordia University, Canada)
- Paria Shirani (Concordia University, Canada)
- Jun Yan (Concordia University, Canada)
Steering Committee
- Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France)
- Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (Telecom Bretagne, France)
- Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada)
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France)
- Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada)
- Pascal Lafourcade (Universite d’Auvergne, France)
- Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France)
- Ali Miri (Ryerson University, Canada)
- Rei Safavi-Naini (Calgary University, Canada)
- Nadia Tawbi (Universite Laval, Canada)
Publication
As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper.
Venue
FPS 2018 will be held in Montreal, Canada. Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or “City of Mary”, it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.