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Call for Papers: DIMVA 2016

13th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment

San Sebastian, Spain July 7-8, 2016

http://dimva2016.mondragon.edu

San Sebastian (Donostia in Basque language) is the 2016 European Capital of Culture with a broad agenda of cultural activities, and also the 2016 European City of the Year. It is a beautiful city famous by its cuisine, boasting more Michelin stars per square metre than any other city on the planet. It is also listed among the World's 20 Best Surf Towns by National Geographic. Would you miss all this?

Important Dates

Paper Submission (Extended): Monday, Feb 8, 2016, 11:59:59pm PST
Acceptance Notification: Monday, Mar 28, 2016
Final Paper Version: Thursday, Apr 28, 2016
Conference: July 7-8, 2016

About DIMVA

The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in intrusion detection, malware detection, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group "Security - Intrusion Detection and Response" (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Types of Submissions Solicited

DIMVA solicits submission of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on malware analysis, intrusion detection, and related systems security topics. Submissions of two types are invited:

FULL PAPERS, presenting novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages in LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices.
SHORT PAPERS, presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. Short papers are limited to 10 pages in LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices. Short papers will be included in the proceedings. The title of short papers should start with the words "Extended Abstract"

Topics of Interest

As per our tradition, DIMVA encourages submissions from the following broad areas:

INTRUSION DETECTION

Novel approaches and domains
Insider detection
Prevention and response
Data leakage and exfiltration
Result correlation and cooperation
Evasion and other attacks
Potentials and limitations
Operational experiences
Privacy, legal and social aspects
Targeted attacks

MALWARE DETECTION

Automated analyses
Behavioral models
Prevention and containment
Classification
Lineage
Forensics and recovery
Underground economy

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

Vulnerability detection
Vulnerability prevention
Vulnerability analysis
Exploitation prevention
Situational awareness
Active probing

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Urko Zurutuza, Mondragon University, Spain (info {at} dimva.org)
Program Chair: Juan Caballero, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain (pc-chair {at} dimva.org)
Publication Chair: Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza (publication-chair {at} dimva.org)

Program Committee

Andrea Lanzi, University of Milan, Italy
Baris Coskun, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Bernhard Haemmerli, Acris GmbH, Switzerland
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, NYU, USA
Christian Rossow, Saarland University, Germany
Corrado Leita, Lastline, UK
Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gianluca Stringhini, University College London, UK
Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jason Polakis, Columbia University, USA
Jean Yves Marion, Lorraine University, France
Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Konrad Rieck, University of Göttingen, Germany
Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Leyla Bilge, Symantec Research Labs, France
Lucas Davi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Manos Antonakakis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Manuel Egele, Boston University, USA
Marco Balduzzi, Trend Micro Research, USA
Martina Lindorfer, SBA Research, Austria
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Michael Meier, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University, USA
Nigel Edwards, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, UK
Pavel Laskov, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Roberto Perdisci, University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, USA
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping university, Sweden
Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH, Greece
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, MIT, USA
Sven Dietrich, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA
Tim Kornau, Google, Switzerland
Ulrich Flegel, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany
Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Yves Younan, Cisco Systems, Canada
Zakir Durumeric, University of Michigan, USA
Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Steering Committe

Chairs

Ulrich Flegel, Infineon Technologies, Germany
Michael Meier, University of Bonn, Germany

Members

Bernhard Haemmerli, Acris GmbH & HSLU Lucerne, Switzerland
Christian Kreibich, ICSI, USA
Christopher Kruegel, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Danilo M. Bruschi, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France
Klaus Julisch, Deloitte, Switzerland
Konrad Rieck, University of Goettingen, Germany
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Marko Jahnke, Federal Office for Information Security, Germany
Pavel Laskov, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL, USA
Roland Bueschkes, RWE AG, Germany
Sven Dietrich, City University of New York - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany