*********************************************************************************** 3rd International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 December 2017 http://nsclab.org/socialsec2017/ *********************************************************************************** Symposium 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 is beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools to capture, manage, and process within a tolerable elapsed time. It has been widely recognised that security and privacy are the critical challenges for Social Networks and Big Data applications due to their scale, complexity and heterogeneity. The 3rd International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data (SocialSec 2017) will be held in Melbourne, Australia on 13-15 December 2017. It follows the success of SocialSec 2015 in Hangzhou, China and SocialSec 2016 in Fiji. The aim of the symposium 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. Co-located Events ================= - 13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2017) Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Due: 25 September 2017 (Final extension) Author Notification: 01 October 2017 Camera-ready Paper Due: 05 October 2017 Registration Due: 05 October 2017 Symposium Date: 13-15 December 2017 Symposium Topics ================ The symposium 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 - 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 Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialsec2017 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. The page limit is 16 pages excluding appendices and bibliography and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Detailed author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS publications can be found via the following link. Springer LNCS Author Information: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. All papers accepted by SocialSec 2017 will be included in a special track of the ISPEC 2017 conference proceedings, published by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and indexed by EI Engineering, ISI Conference Proceedings Index, Scopus and other major indexing services. Journal Special Issue ===================== Selected papers presented at SocialSec 2017 will be invited to consider submission after significant extension for the following special issue in SCI-Indexed Journal: Special Issue on Social Network Security and Privacy Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) (Impact Factor: 1.133) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2018.html#ISPEC/SocialSec2017 Conference Organisation ======================= General Chair ------------- Symeon Papadopoulos, CERTH-ITI, Greece Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Program Committee Chair ----------------------- Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chair --------------- Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Man Ho Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ero Balsa, University of Leuven, Belgium Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Richard Chbeir, IUT de Bayonne, France Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Pedro García-Teodoro, University of Granada, Spain Thomas Gottron, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Muhammad Khurram Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Jia-Yu Pan, Google, USA Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Neeli Prasad, International Technological University, USA Edoardo Serra, Boise State University, USA Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China Zhenfeng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Venue ===== SocialSec 2017 will be held at Deakin Downtown (http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown) in Melbourne's CBD. Deakin Downtown is located on Level 12 of Tower 2, Collins Square at 727 Collins Street in Docklands. Various public transport options are available. It is only 5 minutes from the Southern Cross Station. Contact ======= For further information regarding to SocialSec 2017, please contact nsclab.events@gmail.com.