Call for Presentation -- Blockchain @SACMAT (https://blockchain-conf.github.io/)

The objective of this one-day workshop is to bring blockchain researchers and practitioners together and discuss opportunities to exploit blockchain and DLTs across a variety of application domains. Furthermore, this workshop will also examine the state-of-art in blockchain research, and challenges to be solved in order to improve usability and adoption of the technology. The workshop aims to provide a balanced outlook and is designed for wide audience of industrial and academic participants. There will be a broad range of talks to cater to both beginners and advanced blockchain users. Furthermore, the talks will range from applications and experiences using DLTs to theoretical, technical, and system-oriented topics.

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Call for Research Papers (download a PDF version)

Papers offering novel research contributions are solicited for submission. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and published by the ACM in the symposium proceedings. In addition to the regular research track, this year SACMAT will again host a special track -- "Blue Sky/Vision Track". Researchers are invited to submit papers describing promising new ideas and challenges of interest to the community as well as access control needs emerging from other fields. We are particularly looking for potentially disruptive and new ideas which can shape the research agenda for the next 10 years. We encourage submissions that present ideas that may have not been completely developed and experimentally evaluated.

Topics of Interest

Submissions to the regular track covering any relevant area of access control are welcomed. Areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Access control for edge computing
• Applications
• Applied machine learning for access management
• Attribute-based systems
• Authentication
• Big data
• Biometrics
• Blockchain
• Cloud computing and network access control management
• Cryptographic approaches
• Cyber attacks and network dynamics
• Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Databases and data management
• Design methodology
• Distributed and mobile systems
• Economic models and game theory
• Enforcement mechanisms
• Hardware enhanced security
• Identity management
• Identification of and protection from data leakage
• Mechanisms, systems, and tools
• Models and extensions
• Obligations
• Privacy-aware access control
• Policy engineering and analysis
• Requirements
• Risk and uncertainty
• Safety analysis
• Theoretical foundations
• Trust management
• Usability

Regular Track Paper Submission and Format

Papers must be written in English. Authors are required to use the ACM format for papers, using the two-column SIG Proceedings Template (the sigconf template for LaTex) in the following link:

https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions

The length of the paper in the proceedings format must not exceed twelve US letter pages formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper and be no more than 5MB in size. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission will print easily on simple default configurations. The submission must be anonymous, so information that might identify the authors - including author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious self-citations - must be excluded. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their anonymity is preserved when citing their own work. Submissions should be made to the EasyChair conference management system by the paper submission deadline of February 17, 2019:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacmat19

All submissions must contain a significant original contribution. That is, submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed. Wherever appropriate, relevant related work, including that of the authors, must be cited. Submissions that are not accepted as full papers may be invited to appear as short papers. At least one author from each accepted paper much register for the conference prior to the camera-ready deadline.

Blue Sky Track Paper Submission and Format

All submissions to the Blue Sky/Vision Track should follow the same ACM format of the regular track but the length of the paper in the proceedings format must not exceed ten US letter pages. Submissions to this track should NOT be blinded for review. Submissions to the Blue Sky track should be submitted to the EasyChair conference management system by the paper submission deadline of February 17, 2019.

After submitting your paper to this track, please email the Program co-Chairs (Dr. Jianwei Niu and Dr. Adam Lee) to confirm that your submission was to the Blue Sky Track.

Call for Posters

SACMAT 2019 will include a poster session to promote discussion of ongoing projects among researchers in the access control field. Posters can cover preliminary or exploratory work with interesting ideas, or research projects in early stages with promising results in all aspects of access control. Authors interested in having a poster must submit a poster extended abstracts of up to three pages (including all sections) formatted like regular research papers, but not anonymized; titles should start with the keyword "Poster:". Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.

Poster submissions should be made at the following easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacmat19posters by Apr 15th, 2019, 5pm PT. Any questions related to poster submissions should be directed to poster session chair, Murtuza Jadliwala (murtuza.jadliwala@utsa.edu)

Call for Demos

The demonstration proposal should clearly describe (1) the overall architecture of the system or technology to be demonstrated, and (2) one or more demonstration scenarios that describe how the audience, interacting with the demonstration system or the demonstrator, will gain an understanding of the underlying technology. Submissions will be evaluated based on the motivation of the work behind the use of the system or technology to be demonstrated and its novelty.
Demonstration proposals should be no longer than four pages and should use the formatting guidelines described above for regular papers. However, demonstration proposals are not subject to double-blind reviewing, hence the author(s) name and affiliation(s) should be included in the submission. A two-page description of the demonstration will be included in the final proceedings. Please e-mail the submission directly to the Demonstrations Chair, Axel Kern (axel.kern@betasystems.com).

Call for Panels

Panel proposals should be no longer than two pages, and should identify potential panelists, indicating those who have confirmed their willingness to participate. We especially solicit panels with participants from industry and/or government. Proposals can be e-mailed to the Panels Chair, Aniket Kate(aniket@purdue.edu) by Apr 1, 2019, 5pm PT.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)