[Infovis] Call for Papers: International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 2013

Sophie Engle sjengle at cs.usfca.edu
Sun Feb 24 01:38:32 CET 2013


VIZSEC 2013 (Co-Located with IEEE VIS)
October 14, 2013 in Atlanta GA, USA
http://www.vizsec.org/


CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security
(VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners
from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the
cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and
analysis techniques. VizSec will provide an excellent venue for
fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of
security- and privacy-related topics. Accepted papers will appear in
the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference
Proceedings Series.

Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate
domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces
for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct
benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider
threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing 'user assisted'
attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and
penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human
time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly
interested in visualization and interaction techniques that
effectively capture human analyst insights so that further processing
may be handled by machines, freeing the analyst for other tasks. For
example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze
a new piece of malicious software and then facilitate generating a
signature for future machine processing. When appropriate, research
that incorporates multiple data sources, such as network packet
captures, firewall rule sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs,
and/or intrusion detection system logs, is particularly desirable.

TECHNICAL PAPERS

Full papers offering novel contributions in security visualization are
solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical
experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We
encourage papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve
cyber security practices, including, but not limited to:

- Situational awareness / understanding
- Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response
- Computer forensics
- Recording and reporting results of investigation
- Reverse engineering and malware analysis
- Multiple data source analysis
- Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense
- Evaluation / User testing of VizSec systems
- Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security
visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human
factors perspective)
- Modeling system and network behavior
- Modeling attacker and defender behavior
- Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks
- Predicting future attacks or targets
- Security metrics and education
- Software security
- Mobile application security
- Social networking privacy and security

POSTERS

Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in
progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to
the VizSec community. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available
on this website.

AWARDS

There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program.
The best paper award will be given to the paper judged to have the
highest overall quality. A key element of the best paper selection
process will be whether the results are believed to be repeatable by
other scientists based on the algorithms and data provided in the
paper. This award will be chosen by the program committee.

DATA

If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization,
you may be interested in looking at the VAST 2012 Challenge data. VAST
2011 also had cyber security data if you are looking for additional
data.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers

Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and
appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices
or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these
guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their papers will be presented at the conference, preferably by
themselves or by prior arrangement through a delegate.

Posters

Poster submissions consist of an extended abstract of at most 2 pages
including figures and references. Authors must present a corresponding
poster during the designated poster session. Poster authors have the
opportunity to give a brief oral preview during a plenary "fast
forward" session.

Formatting

The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG
Proceedings Templates provides Word and LaTeX templates. (If you are
using LaTeX, please use Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style.)

Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and
terms. ACM invites authors to submit an image representation of their
article. The image must be selected from the article body and can be
any of the following: art, graphic, table, figures, etc. (Image files
are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi and in jpg format.)
Authors must supply a caption with the image. The caption length
should be no more than 512 characters.

Submission

Submit papers and poster abstracts using EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2013

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers
July 8, 2013: Submission for Papers
August 16, 2013: Author Notification for Papers
August 30, 2013: Camera Ready Submission
October 1, 2013: Papers Available in ACM Digital Library

Posters
August 23, 2013: Abstract Submission for Posters
September 15, 2013: Author Notification for Poster

COMMITTEE

General Chair
John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Chairs
Daniel Quist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis

Publications / Publicity Chair
Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco

Poster Chair
Fabian Fischer, University of Konstanz

CONTACT

Website: http://www.vizsec.org/
Email: vizsec2013 at easychair.org
Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec


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