Call for Papers: SocialSec 2017, Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 December 2017

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3rd International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and
Big Data
Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 December 2017
http://nsclab.org/socialsec2017/
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Symposium Outline
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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
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- 13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and
Experience (ISPEC 2017)


Important Dates
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Paper Submission Due: 30 August 2017
Author Notification: 30 September 2017
Camera-ready Paper Due: 10 October 2017
Registration Due: 10 October 2017
Symposium Date: 13-15 December 2017


Symposium Topics
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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
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Submission Website: 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. 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 symposium to present
the work.


Conference Organisation
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General Chair
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Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Program Committee Chair
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Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia

Publicity Chair
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Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, Australia


Contact
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For further information regarding to SocialSec 2017, please contact
nsclab.events@gmail.com.