Conference 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 behavior modeling 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
• Security of AI
• Security of blockchain

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.

Due to the concern of COVID-19, SocialSec 2021 will provide online presentation option for authors who cannot or choose not to attend SocialSec 2021 physically.

SocialSec 2021 Submission Link

We will publish our proceedings with Springer as a volume of the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. Author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for CCIS publications can be found via the following link. Papers of high quality will be recommended to special issues of "Security and Communication Networks" (SCI-Indexed Journal, CCF C).

Springer CCIS Author Information

Download templates in latex and word format in the following.

Latex Sample

Word Sample