Due to the current COVID-19 pandamic, NSS2020 will be held virtually online. All accepted papers will be presented in our online conference.

Conference Topics

Areas of interest for NSS 2020 include but are not limited to:

• Active Defense Systems
• Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems
• Applied Cryptography
• Authentication
• Privacy and Anonymity Technologies
• Secure Cryptographic Protocols and Applications
• Security Notions, Approaches, and Paradigms
• Steganography and Steganalysis
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
• Smart Contract
• Digital Forensics
• Cyber Hacking and Protection
• Hardware Security
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Ai/Machine Learning Security
• Software Security
• Security Policy
• Security and Privacy in Social Networks
• Trusted Computing
• Watermarking and Digital Rights Management
• Location Privacy
• Security For Critical Infrastructures
• Rfid/Nfc Security
• Security Infrastructure
• Security and Privacy For Digital Health
• Viruses and Malware
• Intellectual Property Rights Protection
• Cyber-Physical Security

Author Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding appendices and bibliography and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

NSS 2020 Submission Link

We will publish our proceedings with Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS publications can be found via the following link.

Springer LNCS Author Information

Camera Ready Instructions

October 30 2020 is a firm deadline for the production of the proceedings. You must submit all required sources and forms to the dedicated NSS2020 email: nss2020publication@gmail.com

1. FINAL PAPER:

Please follow the instructions.
(1) either a zipped file containing all your LaTeX sources or a Word file, and
(2) the PDF version of your camera-ready paper.

The page limit for a FULL paper is 16 pages, plus 4 pages appendix. The page limit for a SHORT paper is 12 pages, plus 4 pages appendix. Up to 5 extra pages with over-length fee (100 USD per page) may be acceptable.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers.
You can now include ORCID for authors in your paper.
Authors who have included their email addresses in their papers will receive an email roughly four weeks after publication of the proceedings, linking them to their personal My Springer page. From here, they will be able to download the pdf of the entire volume. In addition, authors are entitled to a substantial discount off Springer publications. Details are given on the MySpringer page.

2. COPYRIGHT:

The corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
Note that this is the profiled version for NSS2020. Please make sure that you use this profiled version instead of previous versions of the form. You can scan the form into PDF or any other standard image format.

Content to Publish Form

Journal Special Issues

Selected papers presented at the NSS 2020 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) for the special issue in the following SCI-Indexed Journals:

	Security and Communication Networks Impact Factor: 1.288 Special Issue on Security, Trust, and Privacy in Machine Learning-Based Internet of Things Learn more
	Sensors Impact Factor: 3.031 Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments Learn more
	Multimedia Tools and Applications Impact Factor: 2.600 Special Issue on Blockchain-based multimedia security Learn more
	Journal of Information Security and Applications Impact Factor: 2.327 Special Issue on Trends in Cybersecurity Learn more