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Wed May 9 08:36:21 PDT 2012

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Subject: 	[Ieee_vis] VizSec 2012: CFP
Date: 	Wed, 9 May 2012 11:20:37 -0400
From: 	VizSec 2012 <cfp at vgtc.org>
To: 	ieee_vis at listserv.uni-tuebingen.de

    Call for Papers

The International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 
is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from 
academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber 
security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. 
Co-located this year with VisWeek, the 9th VizSec will provide new 
opportunities for the usability and visualization communities to 
collaborate and share insights on a broad range of security-related 
topics. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part 
of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series.

Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate 
domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces 
for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct 
benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider 
threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing 'user assisted' 
attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and 
penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human 
time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly 
interested in visualization and interaction techniques that effectively 
capture human analyst insights so that further processing may be handled 
by machines, freeing the analyst for other tasks. For example, a malware 
analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of 
malicious software and then facilitate generating a signature for future 
machine processing. When appropriate, research that incorporates 
multiple data sources, such as network packet captures, firewall rule 
sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs, and/or intrusion detection 
system logs, is particularly desirable.

      Technical Papers

Full papers offering novel contributions in security visualization are 
solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical 
experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We 
encourage papers on technologies and methods that have been demonstrated 
to be useful for improving cyber security practices, including but not 
limited to:

  * Situational awareness / understanding
  * Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and
    response
  * Computer forensics
  * Recording and reporting results of investigation
  * Reverse engineering and malware analysis
  * Privacy
  * Multiple data source analysis
  * Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense
  * Evaluation / User testing of VizSec systems
  * Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security
    visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human
    factors perspective)
  * Modeling system and network behavior
  * Modeling attacker and defender behavior
  * Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks
  * Predicting future attacks or targets
  * Security metrics and education
  * Lessons learned

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library two weeks prior 
to the conference. The program committee will select an accepted paper 
to receive the VizSec Best Paper award. A key element of the best paper 
selection process will be whether the results are believed to be 
repeatable by other scientists based on the algorithms and data provided 
in the paper.

      Awards

There will be an award for the best paper from the accepted program. The 
best paper award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest 
overall quality. A key element of the best paper selection process will 
be whether the results are believed to be repeatable by other scientists 
based on the algorithms and data provided in the paper. This award will 
be chosen by the program committee.

      Data

If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, 
you may be interested in looking at, and perhaps submitting an entry, 
for this year's VAST Challenge 
<http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2012>.

Last year's challenge 
<http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast11/index.php> also had 
cybersecurity data if you are looking for additional data.

    Submissions

      Papers

Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and 
appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or 
any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines 
will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Submitted papers 
must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that 
are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with 
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers 
will be presented at the conference, preferably by themselves or by 
prior arrangement through a delegate.

      Paper Formatting

The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG Proceedings 
Templates 
<https://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> provides 
Word and LaTeX templates.

Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms 
<https://www.acm.org/about/class/1998>. ACM invites authors to submit an 
image representation of their article. The image must be selected from 
the article body and can be any of the following: art, graphic, table, 
figures, etc. (Image files are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi 
and in jpg format.) Authors must supply a caption with the image. The 
caption length should be no more than 512 characters.

      Submission

Submit papers using EasyChair: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2012

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