[Infovis] VizSec 2017 Last Call for Papers and **NEW** Diversity Scholarship **NEW**

[Nicolas Prigent]

The 14th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 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 provides an excellent 
venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range 
of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in 
Phoenix, AZ, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS, on Monday, October 2nd, 2017.

VizSec explores effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains 
such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider 
threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, 
compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and 
penetration testing.

** Technical Papers **

Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are 
solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, 
experiments, or evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on 
technologies and methods that improve cyber security practices, including, 
but not limited to:
 - Situation awareness and/or understanding
 - Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response
 - Computer forensics
 - Recording and reporting results of investigations
 - Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment
 - Reverse engineering and malware analysis
 - Vulnerability management
 - Multiple data source analysis
 - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense
 - Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems 
 - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations
 - 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

When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively 
capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate 
efficiently are particularly desirable.

Submissions including tests and evaluations of existing tools and techniques 
are also considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used 
for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not 
have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested 
in looking at the VizSec Data Sets page.

** Short Papers **

Short papers describing practical applications of security visualization are 
solicited. We encourage the submission of papers discussing the introduction 
of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not 
limited to:
 - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting 
   operational needs
 - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments
 - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a 
   positive impact
 - Lessons learned from operational engagements
 - Insights gained from the transition process

Cyber security practitioners from industry, as well as the research community,
are encouraged to submit short papers.

** Posters **

Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, 
preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec 
community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to 
interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts 
will be made available on the VizSec website.

** Submissions **

The VizSec 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be 
formatted using the IEEE "Conference Style" template that can be found at:

  http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html

All submissions must be in PDF format. To submit your paper or poster 
abstract, login or create an account at:

  https://precisionconference.com/~vizsec17

After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation 
bar and look for the link for "Submit to VizSec 2017" in the list under 
the "VIS 2017" heading.

* Papers * 

Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. 
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. 
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 merit.

Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in 
their submissions. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers 
that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal 
or a conference with proceedings.

The VizSec proceedings will be published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers 
must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.

* Short Papers *

Short papers should be at most 4 pages including the bibliography and 
appendices. Short paper submissions will be reviewed by the Paper Chair(s)
and other members of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the 
VizSec community.

Accepted short paper authors will have time to present their work at VizSec 
during the program.

* Posters * 

Extended abstract should be at most 2 pages including the bibliography. 
Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Poster Chair(s) and other members 
of the organizing committee to determine relevance to the VizSec community.

Accepted authors must present a corresponding poster during the workshop. 
The poster authors can determine the layout by themselves, but the dimensions 
of the posters should not exceed the A0 space (841mmx1189mm or 33.1"x46.8"). 
Additionally, poster authors are requested to give a brief oral preview 
during a plenary "fast forward" session.

Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on VizSec website. 

** Important Dates ** 

All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST.

* Papers and Short Papers * 

July 18, 2017: Submission for Papers and Short Papers
August 15, 2017: Author Notification for Papers and Short Papers
September 12, 2017: Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers

* Posters * 

August 29, 2017: Abstract Submission for Posters
September 9, 2017: Author Notification for Posters

** Diversity Scholarships **

Thanks to the generous donations of our sponsors, we are delighted to announce 
that we will be offering several VizSec 2017 Diversity Scholarship awards to 
help cover the costs of attending VizSec. This scholarship award covers full 
week registration plus a small stipend to help offset travel costs.

All VizSec attendees may apply for the diversity scholarships except for those 
from a country on the OFAC sanctions list at:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/organizers/sanctions.html

Applicants must submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae in PDF format. 
The cover letter should discuss your eligibility for this scholarship and 
how you would benefit from attending VizSec 2017. It should be no more than 2 
pages (letter size) with at least 1 inch margins and 11pt or larger font.

Applications will also be asked to answer the following questions:

- Are you from an underrepresented group in computer science? If so, please 
specify.
- Please let us know your country or countries of citizenship, and the country 
and city you will be traveling from.
- Are you currently a student? If so, please specify the degree and subject 
area you are working on, and where.
- Have you ever attended VizSec or VIS before? If so, when?

To apply for this scholarship, login or create an account at:

https://precisionconference.com/~vizsec17b

After logging in, click the "new submissions" link on the top navigation bar 
and look for the link for "Submit to Diversity Scholarship" in the list under 
the "VizSec 2017" heading.

The application deadline is August 1, 2017 at 5:00pm PDT. Awardees will be 
notified by August 15, 2017, and must register for the conference by the 
early registration deadline on August 25, 2017.

Please visit http://vizsec.org/ for more information