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CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
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5th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2019)</p>
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Washington, DC, USA, June 12, 2019</p>
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<a href="https://cns2019.ieee-cns.org/workshop/spc-5th-ieee-workshop-security-and-privacy-cloud-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">https://cns2019.ieee-cns.org/workshop/spc-5th-ieee-workshop-security-and-privacy-cloud-2019</a></p>
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Cloud computing is today the reference paradigm for large-scale data</p>
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storage and processing due to the convenient and efficient network</p>
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access to configurable resources that can be easily adjusted according</p>
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to the users’ needs. Although the benefits of cloud computing are</p>
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tremendous, security and privacy concerns have still a detrimental</p>
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impact on the adoption and acceptability of cloud services.</p>
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In fact, users as well as companies that rely on cloud storage and</p>
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computation services lose the direct control over the systems</p>
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managing their data and applications, thus putting the</p>
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confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data at risk.</p>
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and</p>
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practitioners who are interested in discussing the security,</p>
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privacy, and data protection issues emerging in cloud scenarios,</p>
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and possible solutions to them.</p>
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SPC 2019 is the fifth workshop in this series and will be held</p>
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in Washington, DC, USA, on June 12, in conjunction with the</p>
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IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security</p>
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(IEEE CNS 2019).</p>
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The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and</p>
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government presenting novel research, as well as experimental</p>
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studies, on all theoretical and practical aspects of security,</p>
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privacy, and data protection in cloud scenarios.</p>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</p>
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- Anonymity in cloud scenarios</p>
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- Applied cryptography in cloud scenarios</p>
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- Cloud-based biometric systems</p>
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- Data and application security</p>
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- Data and system integrity</p>
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- Data availability in outsourcing scenarios</p>
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- Data protection</p>
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- Efficient access to outsourced data</p>
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- Key management in cloud scenarios</p>
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- Privacy</p>
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- Privacy of accesses</p>
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- Secure computation over encrypted data</p>
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- Security and trust metrics</p>
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- Security and privacy in crowdsourcing</p>
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- Security and privacy in multi-clouds and federated clouds</p>
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- Security and privacy in data outsourcing</p>
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- Security and privacy in the Internet of Things</p>
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- Security and privacy of big data</p>
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- Security and privacy of distributed computations</p>
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- Security and privacy of fog computing</p>
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- Security and privacy policies</p>
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- Selective information sharing</p>
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- Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management</p>
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PAPER SUBMISSIONS</p>
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Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have</p>
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been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal</p>
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or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most</p>
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9 pages in the IEEE 8,5"x11" two-column format</p>
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(<a href="http://cns2019.ieee-cns.org/authors/submission-instructions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">http://cns2019.ieee-cns.org/authors/submission-instructions</a>).</p>
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Font size should be no smaller than 10 points.</p>
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Submissions should not be anonymized.</p>
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The workshop will also consider short submissions of up to 4 pages</p>
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for results that are preliminary or that simply require few pages.</p>
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Papers should be submitted for review through EDAS</p>
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(<a href="https://edas.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline">https://edas.info/</a>). Only PDF files will be accepted.</p>
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Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without</p>
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consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the</p>
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deadline of March 7, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time).</p>
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Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers</p>
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will be presented at the workshop. Accepted and presented</p>
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papers will be included in the IEEE CNS 2019 conference</p>
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proceedings and also in IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting</p>
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and Indexing (A&I) databases.</p>
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IMPORTANT DATES</p>
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Paper submission due: March 7, 2019</p>
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Notification to authors: April 5, 2019</p>
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Camera ready due: April 12, 2019</p>
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PC CHAIRS</p>
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Massimiliano Albanese</p>
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George Mason University, USA</p>
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Pierangela Samarati</p>
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Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy</p>
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PUBLICITY CHAIR</p>
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Luan (Keith) Pham</p>
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George Mason University, USA</p>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE</p>
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To be announced</p>
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