Call for Papers
Topics of Interest
Submissions covering any relevant area of access control are welcomed. Areas include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Call for Research Papers
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. We also encourage submissions to the
"Work-in-progress Track" to present ideas that may have not been completely developed and experimentally
evaluated. In addition to the regular research track, this year SACMAT will again host the 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.
Submission Cycles
ACM SACMAT 2023 Regular and Work-in-progress Tracks will have two submission cycles.
Authors submitting papers in the first submission cycle will have the opportunity to receive a major
revision verdict in addition to the usual accept and reject verdicts. Authors can decide to prepare a
revised version of the paper and submit it to the second submission cycle for consideration. Major
revision papers will be reviewed by the program committee members based on the criteria set forward by
them in the first submission cycle.
Paper Submission and Format
Regular Track Paper
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) available in the following
link:
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 by the paper submission deadline to the EasyChair conference
management system.
When submitting papers, please pay attention to the submission cycle you are submitting in.
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
must register
(with a full registration) for the conference prior to the camera-ready deadline and is expected
to
(physically) present it at the conference (remote presentations are possible only as exceptional
cases, e.g., last minute
positive COVID).
Work-in-progress Track
Authors are invited to submit papers in the newly introduced work-in-progress track. This track is
introduced for
(junior) authors, ideally Ph.D. and Master's students, to obtain early, constructive feedback on
their work.
Submissions in this track should follow the same format as for the regular track papers while
limiting the total
number of pages to six US letter pages.
Paper submitted in this track should be anonymized and can be submitted by the same
deadline as for the
regular track to the EasyChair conference management system.
Blue Sky Track
All submissions to this track should be in the same format as for the regular track, but the
length must not exceed ten US letter pages, and the submissions are not required to be anonymized
(optional). Submissions
to this track should be submitted by the same deadlines as the ones for the second cycle of the
regular track to
the EasyChair conference
management system.
Other Calls
Call for Demos
A 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.
Call for Posters
SACMAT 2023 will include a poster session to promote discussion of ongoing projects among researchers in
the
field of access control and computer security. 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 and
computer security.
Authors interested in displaying a poster must submit a poster abstract in the same format as for the
regular track,
but the length must not exceed three US letter pages, and the submission should not be anonymized.
Accepted poster
abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.
Call for Lightning Talks
Participants are invited to submit proposals for 5-minute lightning talks describing recently published
results,
work in progress, wild ideas, etc.
Financial Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure
In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgements of potential bias, ACM SACMAT
requires authors and PC members to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to
thework described.
For the purposes of this policy, competing interests are defined as financial and non-financial interests
that could directly undermine, or be perceived to undermine the objectivity, integrity and value of a
publication, through a potential influence on the judgements and actions of authors with regard to objective
data
presentation, analysis and interpretation.
Financial competing interests include any of the following:
- Funding: Research support (including salaries, equipment, supplies, and other
expenses) by organizations that may gain or lose financially through this publication. A specific role for
the funding
provider in the conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation
of
the
manuscript, should be disclosed.
- Employment: Recent (while engaged in the research project), present or anticipated
employment by any organization that may gain or lose financially through this publication.
-
Personal financial interests: Ownership or contractual interest in stocks or shares of companies
that
may gain or lose financially through publication; consultation fees or other forms of remuneration
(including
reimbursements for attending symposia) from organizations that may gain or lose financially; patents or
patent applications (awarded or pending) filed by the authors or their institutions whose value may be
affected by
publication. For patents and patent applications, disclosure of the following information is requested:
patent applicant (whether author or institution), name of inventor(s), application number, status of
application,
specific aspect of manuscript covered in patent application.
It is difficult to specify a threshold at which a financial interest become significant, but note that
many US universities require faculty members to disclose interests exceeding $10,000 or 5% equity in a
company.
Any such figure is necessarily arbitrary, so we offer as one possible practical alternative guideline:
"Any undeclared competing financial interests that could embarrass you were they to become publicly
known after
your work
was published."
We do not consider diversified mutual funds or investment trusts to constitute a competing financial
interest. Also, for employees in non-executive or leadership positions, we do not consider financial
interest
related to stocks or shares in their company to constitute a competing financial interest, as long as
they
are
publishing under their company affiliation.
-
Non-financial competing interests: Non-financial competing interests can take different forms,
including personal or professional relations with organizations and individuals. We would encourage
authors
and PC
members to declare any unpaid roles or relationships that might have a bearing on the publication process.
Examples
of non-financial competing interests include (but are not limited to):
- Unpaid membership in a government or non-governmental organization
- Unpaid membership in an advocacy or lobbying organization
- Unpaid advisory position in a commercial organization
- Writing or consulting for an educational company
- Acting as an expert witness
Conference Code of Conduct and Etiquette
ACM SACMAT will follow the ACM Policy Against Harassment at ACM Activities. Please familiarize yourself with the
ACM
Policy Against Harassment and Guide
to
Reporting Unacceptable Behavior.
Notes for Authors
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.)
