As the digital era matures, cyber security evolves and software vulnerabilities diminish, people however, as individuals, are more exposed today than ever before. In the context of digital privacy and security, attacker breach defences to access sensitive data and resources.

The event will take place at the Lusofona University of Porto (ULP) the 20th and 21st January, 2021. This conference is promoted by the Informatics Engineering course and in the scope of the Network Supplements.

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Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

In order to allow a diversity of contributions, the DPSC2021 will accept full/short research papers and posters. 

Full papers should be no longer than twelve pages, including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. Short papers (previously work-in-progress papers) should be no longer than six pages. A poster should be not larger than A2 size (420 x 594 mm or 16.5 x 23.4 in). It should be visually appealing and portray ideas with diagrams. Use of text should be limited. 

Full/short papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS template. 

Posters should follow IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. Presenters will be provided with materials to display the posters. A poster slam session will be arranged to allow presenters to talk about their posters and invite conference participants to visit their stands. 

The manuscripts should present an idea on one or several topics of the conference and be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page (EasyChair system). All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.

List of Topics

• The main objectives of this conference with regard to security, privacy, hacking, and cyber warfare are as follows: Encouraging the study, improve the practice, and advance the knowledge; Providing the intended audiences with the technological advancements; Transferring the knowledge; Encouraging the applied research.

  The Digital Privacy and Security Conference 2020 scope covers the following areas (but not limited to): Cyber SecurityComputer ForensicsPrivacy TrustHacking TechniquesCyber WarfareCryptographyCybercrimeDatabase SecurityFormal Methods Application in Security and ForensicsWired and Wireless Network Security and investigationMobile Network SecurityGames for Cybersecurity Training and AwarenessData Encryption Applications

Committees

Program Committee

• Hugo Azevedo Barbosa (Lusofona University of Porto, Portugal) (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal)

• Óscar Ferreira Ribeiro (Lusofona University of Porto, Portugal) 

• José Lobinho Gomes (Lusofona University of Porto, Portugal) (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal)

• João Ulisses (University of Vigo, Spain)

• Günther Pernul (University of Regensburg, Germany)

• João Paulo Magalhães (ESTG - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)

• Kiavash Satvat (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)

• Esma Aïmeur (University of Montreal, Canada)

• Weizhi Meng (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

• Nader Safa (Coventry University, United Kingdom)

• Cihangir Tezcan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

• Antonella Santone (University of Molise, Italy)

• Tony Thomas (Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India)

• Nuno Santos (IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Miguel Frade (CIIC/ESTG - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal)

• Leonardo Oliveira (University Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

• Gaurav Sharma (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

• Cristian Raventos (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)

• Ania Cravero (University of La Frontera, Chile)

• Teresa Guarda (State University Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador)

• Raylin Tso (National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Republic of China)

• Galvão Meirinhos (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal)

• Tiago Pedrosa (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal)

• Hélder Gomes (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

• Luís Antunes (C3P, University of Porto, Portugal)

Organizing committee

• Carla Moreira Cordeiro (ULP)
• Hugo Azevedo Barbosa (ULP) (FEUP)

Invited Speakers

• Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto
• Nicolas Sklavos (Greece)
• Nuno Nunes
• More names: Coming soon

Publication

Possibility of all the published research paper in Proceedings DPSC2021 receive EOI - Electronic Object Identifier. 

Conference EOI :10.11228/dpsc 

DPSC2021 Proceedings EOI: http://eoi.citefactor.org/10.11228/dpsc 

Indexing in Google Scholar.

The author can directly type EOI in google to get the results.

Venue

The conference will be held in Lusofona University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to  hugo.barbosa@ulp.pt