SocialSec 2017 Melbourne: Submission Deadline Extended to 20 Sep 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: Extended to 20 September 2017
Author Notification: 30 September 2017
Camera-ready Paper Due: 05 October 2017
Registration Due: 05 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 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 auther 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
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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
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General Chair
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Symeon Papadopoulos, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia

Program Committee Chair
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Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA
Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia

Publicity Chair
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Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, Australia


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