ACM SACMAT 2024: ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies San Antonio, TX, United States, May 15-17, 2024 |
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Topics: access control authentication security privacy
The ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) is the premier forum for the presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of access control, including models, systems, applications, and theory. The aims of the symposium are to share novel access control solutions that fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments, and to identify new directions for future research and development. SACMAT provides researchers and practitioners with a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of access control.
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 2024 Regular and Work-in-progress Tracks will have one 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: 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 by the paper submission deadline to the EasyChair conference management system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024).
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 (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024).
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 regular track to the EasyChair conference management system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024).
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.
Demonstration proposals should be in the same format as for the regular track, but the length must not exceed four US letter pages, and the submission should not be anonymized. A two-page description of the demonstration will be included in the conference proceedings. Submissions are expected to be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024) by the demo submission deadline.
Call for Posters
SACMAT 2024 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.
Submissions are expected to be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024) by the poster submission deadline.
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.
Submissions are expected to be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsacmat2024) by the lightning talks submission deadline.
Important Dates
Research Papers
Abstract Submission: February 1, 2024 (recommended, but not mandatory)
Submission:
February 5,February 12, 2024(11:59 pm AoE)Rebuttal: March 14-18, 2024
Notification to Authors: March 25, 2024
Camera Ready: April 8, 2024
Demos and Posters
Submission: March 20, 2024 (11:59 pm AoE)
Notification to Authors: April 1, 2024
Camera Ready: April 8, 2024
Lightning Talks
Submission: April 3, 2024 (11:59 pm AoE)
Notification to Authors: April 12, 2024
List of Topics
Submissions covering any relevant area of access control are welcomed. Areas include, but are not limited to, the following:
Authentication:
Biometric-based Authentication
Identity management
Location-based Authentication
Password-based Authentication
Usable authentication
Data Security:
Big data
Data leakage prevention
Data protection on untrusted infrastructure
Databases and data management
Mechanisms:
AI/ML Technologies
Blockchain Technologies
Cryptographic Technologies
Economic models and game theory
Hardware-security Technologies (e.g., Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone)
Programming-language based Technologies
Trust Management
Usable mechanisms
Network:
Corporate and Military-grade Networks
Network systems (e.g., Software-defined network, Network function virtualization)
Opportunistic Network (e.g., delay-tolerant network, P2P)
Overlay Network
Satellite Network
Wireless and Cellular Networks
Policies and Models:
Analysis of Models
Analysis of policy languages
Efficient enforcement of policies
Extension of Models
Extension of policy languages
New Access Control Models
Novel policy language design
Policy engineering and policy mining
Usable access control policy
Verification of policy languages
Privacy and Privacy-enhancing Technologies:
Access control and identity management with privacy
Anonymous communication and censorship resistance
Anonymous protocols (e.g., Tor)
Attacks on Privacy and their defenses
Cryptographic tools for privacy
Data protection technologies
Mixers and Mixnets
Online social networks (OSN)
Systems:
Autonomous systems (e.g., UAV security, autonomous vehicles, etc)
Cloud systems and their security
Cyber-physical and Embedded systems
Design for resiliency
Designing systems with zero-trust architectures
Distributed systems
Fog and Edge-computing systems
IoT systems (e.g., home-automation systems)
Mobile systems
Operating systems
WWW
Venue
The conference will be held in San Antonio, TX (USA), May 15-17, 2024.
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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
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