NISK 2018: 11th Norwegian Information Security Conference 2018 Svalbard Longyearbyen, Norway, September 18-20, 2018

NISK 2018 – Call for Papers
The 11th Norwegian Information Security Conference

The 11th annual Norwegian Information Security Conference, NISK
2018, takes place at Svalbard 18-20 September 2018, co-located
with the NIKT conferences.

The aim of the NISK conference series is to be the principal
Norwegian research venue for presenting and discussing
developments in the field of ICT security and privacy,
and bringing together people from universities,
industry, and public authorities.   

We invite both national and international contributions by
researchers, practitioners, and PhD- and Master thesis students
presenting new problems and solutions within topics on ICT security.

The accepted and presented papers will
be collected and published in the open access NISK
journal publication (level 1). Several NISK proceedings of recent years
can be found at the Bibsys Open Journal System.

Student travel- and conference fee grants may be given for either full or short articles accepted. 
For  national PhD-students by application to the COINS network.
Two grants for national Master-students available by application to the program chairs,
with priority for accepted papers.

Submission Guidelines

The submission web page for NISK 2018 is here https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nisk2018

The following NISK categories are welcome:

• Full papers up to 16 pages.
      Regular research papers with original content not published before nor submitted for publication
       elsewhere.  Double-blind peer review by 3 reviewers.
• Short papers up to 4 pages.
      Extended abstracts for presentations on preliminary research results, or reviews/tutorials
      of state of the art, or analyses of new problems, or current standardisation activities, etc.
      Peer review by 2 reviewers.
• Posters and demos proposals up to 2 pages of description.
      The posters and demos can be presented and published by the authors in the conference area.
      Review and selection will be done by the program chairs. 

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal.
Contributions can be written in English or Norwegian.  Each contribution must be a single pdf file. 

Papers accepted for publication will be requested to be formatted using the easychair LaTeX style
template that can be downloaded here https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors

The submitted papers will be evaluated through a double-blind reviewing process,
with the easychair registered identities of the authors withheld from the reviewers.  The authors
are themselves responsible for the anonymity of their submitted paper content.

PC members can submit contributions to the conference. At least one author per accepted contribution
must register as a participant at the conference. Full and short papers must be presented
at the conference in order to be formally published in the Open Access NISK journal. 
The authors will retain all rights to the published article, no copyright transfer agreement will be requested.

Important Dates

1. Abstracts submission within  April 7 April 11, 2018

2. Regular papers submission within April 17 April 22, 2018  Extended

3. Author notification within May 24, 2018

4. Short papers, Posters, and Demos submission within May 28, 2018

5. Camera-ready papers submission within June 13, 2018

6. Conference registration within June 13, 2018

• The Conference: Tuesday Sep 18 -- Thursday Sep 20, 2018

Program Committee

• Stig F. Mjølsnes, NTNU (chair)
• Ragnar Soleng, UiT (co-chair)
• Anders Andersen, UiT
• Martin Eian, Mnemonic as
• László Erdődi, UiO
• Danilo Gligoroski, NTNU
• Tor Helleseth, UiB
• Martin Jåtun, Sintef
• Audun Jøsang, UiO
• Geir Køien, UiA
• Hanno Langweg, NTNU
• Chunlei Li, UiB
• Marie Moe, Sintef
• Mohsen Toorani, UiB
• Leif Nilsen, Thales as
• Nils Nordbotten, FFI
• Vladimir Oleshchuk, UiA
• Ruxandra-Florentina Olimid, NTNU
• Tord Reistad, Statens Vegvesen
• Sondre Rønjom, NSM
• Einar Snekkenes, NTNU
• Christian Tellefsen, Thales as
• Svein Willassen, Confrere as
• Øyvind Ytrehus, Simula@UiB
• Lasse Øverlier, FFI

Publication

NISK 2018 proceedings will be published in Bibsys open access NISK journal https://ojs.bibsys.no/

Venue

The conference will be held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.  See the NIKT web site for detailed information about the organisation and registration.

Contact

Questions about NISK submissions can be emailed to the program chairs.