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<td>[Ieee_vis] VizSec 2012: CFP</td>
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<td>Wed, 9 May 2012 11:20:37 -0400</td>
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<td>VizSec 2012 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cfp@vgtc.org"><cfp@vgtc.org></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ieee_vis@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de">ieee_vis@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de</a></td>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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18px; line-height: 27px; ">Technical Papers</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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:</p>
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<li>Situational awareness / understanding</li>
<li>Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation,
and response</li>
<li>Computer forensics</li>
<li>Recording and reporting results of investigation</li>
<li>Reverse engineering and malware analysis</li>
<li>Privacy</li>
<li>Multiple data source analysis</li>
<li>Analyzing information requirements for computer network
defense</li>
<li>Evaluation / User testing of VizSec systems</li>
<li>Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security
visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a
human factors perspective)</li>
<li>Modeling system and network behavior</li>
<li>Modeling attacker and defender behavior</li>
<li>Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks</li>
<li>Predicting future attacks or targets</li>
<li>Security metrics and education</li>
<li>Lessons learned</li>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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18px; line-height: 27px; ">Awards</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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18px; line-height: 27px; ">Data</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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 <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2012"
style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; ">VAST
Challenge</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; "><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast11/index.php"
style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; ">Last
year's challenge</a> also had cybersecurity data if you are
looking for additional data.</p>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
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line-height: 36px; ">Submissions</h2>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; font-family: inherit; color: inherit; font-size:
18px; line-height: 27px; ">Paper Formatting</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">The VizSec proceedings will be published by
ACM. The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates"
style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; ">ACM SIG
Proceedings Templates</a> provides Word and LaTeX templates.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">Authors should apply <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.acm.org/about/class/1998" style="color: rgb(0,
136, 204); text-decoration: none; ">ACM Computing Classification
categories and terms</a>. 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.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
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18px; line-height: 27px; ">Submission</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px;
margin-left: 0px; ">Submit papers using EasyChair: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2012"
style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2012</a></p>
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