************************************************************ International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data (SocialSec 2015), Hangzhou, China, 16-18 November, 2015 http://anss.org.au/socialsec2015/ ************************************************************ Important Dates =============== Submission: 14 August 2015 (Firm Deadline) Author Notification: 30 August 2015 Registration and camera-ready due: 10 September 2015 Conference: 16-18 November 2015 Special Issues =============== Selected papers will be invited to the following journal special issues: [1] "Embedded Device Forensics and Security: State of the Art Advances" in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing (Impact Factor: 0.68) http://acmtecs.acm.org/special-issues/15/edfs2015.html [2] "Security and Privacy in Social Networks" in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Impact Factor: 0.784) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2015.html#NSS2015 [3] "Advance in Secure Data Storage and Computation in Cloud" in Security and Communication Networks (pending, Impact Factor: 0.433) Keynote Speeches ================ Keynote 1: Data-Driven Privacy Analysis Professor Keith W. Ross Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, NYU Shanghai & Leonard J. Shustek Professor of Computer Science, CSE Dept, NYU Keynote 2: Identifying Propagation Sources in Social Networks Professor Wanlei Zhou Alfred Deakin Professor, Chair of Information Technology, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Conference Outline ================== Social Networks and Big Data have pervaded all aspects of our daily lives. With their unparalleled popularity, social networks have evolved from the platforms for social communication and news dissemination, to indispensable tools for professional networking, social recommendations, marketing, and online content distribution. Social Networks, together with other activities, produce Big Data that beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools to capture, manage, and process within a tolerable elapsed time. Due to their scale, complexity and heterogeneity, a number of technical and social challenges in Social Networks and Big Data must be addressed. It has been widely recognized that security and privacy are the critical issues. On one hand, Social Networks and Big Data have been the effective platform for the attackers to launch attacks and distribute malicious information. On the other hand, privacy leakage through Social Networks and Big Data has become common exercise. The aim of SocialSec 2015 is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interactions between researchers and developers with the security and privacy communities in Social Networks and Big Data, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. Conference Topics ================= The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy in Social Networks and Big Data. Papers describing case studies, implementation experiences, and lessons learned are also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -Attacks in/via Social Networks -Information control and detection -Malicious behaviour modelling in Social Networks -Malicious information propagation via Social Networks -Phishing problems in Social Networks -Privacy protection in Social Networks -Big Data analytics for threats and attacks prediction -Spam problems in Social Networks -Trust and reputations in Social Networks -Big Data outsourcing -Big Data forensics -Big SociaData -Security and privacy in Big Database -Applied Cryptography for Big Data -Big Data system security -Mobile Social Networks security -Security and privacy in cloud -Forensics in Social Networks and Big Data Instructions for authors ======================== Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snab2015 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in A4 format, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please refer to http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html for preparing the submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Conference Organisation ======================= General Chairs -------------- Jifeng He, East China Normal University, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Program Chairs -------------- Wenzhi Chen, Zhejiang University, China Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Publicity Chairs ---------------- Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Yingjie Xia, Zhejiang University, China Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Man Ho Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Joonsang Baek, KUSTAR, UAE Filipe Beato, University of Leuven, Belgium Ero Balsa, University of Leuven, Belgium Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Richard Chbeir, CNRS, France Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Reza Curtmola, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Yong Ding, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Alban Gabillon, University of Polynésie Française, French Polynesia Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, TELECOM Bretagne, France Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA Jin Han, Twitter, US Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, US Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan Ashish Kundu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Jinguang Han, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics , China Alejandro Hevia, Universidad de Chile, Chile Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Joseph K. Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Rongxing Lu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Carlos Maziero, Federal Technological University, Brazil Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Thorsten Strufe, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Chunhua Su, JAIST, Japan Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Pedro García-Teodoro, University of Granada, Spain Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Qian Wang, Wuhan University, China Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Sheng Wen, Deakin University, Australia Qianhong Wu, Beihang Univerisity, China Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia Tsz Hon Yuen, Huawei, Singapore Yong Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Zhenfeng Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Mingwu Zhang, Hubei University of Technology, China Contact Information =================== For further information regarding to the conference, please send email to xyhuang81@gmail.com