Call for Papers
18th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2018)
Barcelona, Spain
July 24–27, 2018
General information: https://petsymposium.org/
Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2018.4/
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 18th PETS event will be organized by Eticas and held in Barcelona, Spain July 24–27 2018. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
PoPETs, a scholarly, open access journal for timely research papers on privacy, has been established as a way to improve reviewing and publication quality while retaining the highly successful PETS community event. PoPETs is published by De Gruyter Open, the world's second largest publisher of open access academic content, and part of the De Gruyter group, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.
Papers submitted to PETS/PoPETs should present novel practical and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies. While PETS/PoPETs has traditionally been home to research on anonymity systems and privacy-oriented cryptography, we strongly encourage submissions on a number of both well-established and emerging privacy-related topics, for which examples are provided below.
PoPETs also solicits submissions for Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers. These are papers that critically review, evaluate, and contextualize work in areas for which a body of prior literature exists, and whose contribution lies in systematizing the existing knowledge in that area. To be suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions. SoK papers will follow the same review process as other submissions, and will be published in PoPETs and presented at the PETS 2018 event.
Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months on a predictable schedule. The four submission deadlines for the 2018 volume of PoPETs are in May 2017, Aug 2017, Nov 2017, and Feb 2018. Papers accepted for an issue in the 2018 volume will be presented at PETS 2018. Note that accepted papers must be presented at PETS.
Authors are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised versions.
Submit papers for PoPETs 2018, Issue 4 at https://submit.petsymposium.org/2018.4/. Submitted papers must be anonymized, and may be at most 15 pages excluding bibliography and appendices and 20 pages total. Reviews are double blind. Please see the submission guidelines and our FAQ for more information about the process.
Important Dates for PETS 2018
All deadlines are 23:59:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11)
Issue 1:
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2017 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 10 – 12, 2017
Author notification: August 1, 2017
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by
the shepherd): September 15, 2017
Issue 2:
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2017 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 9 – 11, 2017
Author notification: October 31, 2017
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by
the shepherd): December 15, 2017
Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2017 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 8 – 10, 2018
Author notification: February 1, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by
the shepherd): March 15, 2018
Issue 4:
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2018 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 9 – 11, 2018
Author notification: April 30, 2018
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by
the shepherd): June 15, 2018
Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than these major revision resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.
Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
- Behavioural targeting
- Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
- Crowdsourcing for privacy
- Cryptographic tools for privacy
- Data protection technologies
- Differential privacy
- Economics of privacy and game-theoretical approaches to privacy
- Empirical studies of privacy in real-world systems
- Forensics and privacy
- Human factors, usability and user-centered design for PETs
- Information leakage, data correlation and generic attacks to privacy
- Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, ethnography, psychology, medicine, biotechnology, human rights
- Location and mobility privacy
- Machine learning and privacy
- Measuring and quantifying privacy
- Mobile devices and privacy
- Obfuscation-based privacy
- Policy languages and tools for privacy
- Privacy in cloud and big-data applications
- Privacy in social networks and microblogging systems
- Privacy-enhanced access control, authentication, and identity management
- Profiling and data mining
- Reliability, robustness, and abuse prevention in privacy systems
- Surveillance
- Systems for anonymous communications and censorship resistance
- Traffic analysis
- Transparency enhancing tools
- Web privacy
- General Chair (gc18@petsymposium.org)
- Gemma Galdón Clavell, Eticas
- Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets18-chairs@petsymposium.org)
- Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
- Damon McCoy, New York University
- Carmela Troncoso, EPFL
- Program Committee/Editorial Board:
- Gunes Acar, KU Leuven
- Gergely Ács, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- William Aiello, University of British Columbia
- Mashael Al-Sabah, Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Abdelrahaman Aly, KU Leuven
- Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
- Hadi Asghari, TU Delft
- Shehar Bano, University College London
- Kevin Bauer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania
- Sonja Buchegger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Kelly Caine, Clemson University
- Aylin Caliskan, Princeton University
- Jean Camp, Indiana University Bloomington
- Sherman S.M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Christopher Clifton, Purdue University
- Scott Coull, FireEye
- Jed Crandall, University of New Mexico
- Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London
- Rinku Dewri, University of Denver
- Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven
- Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project
- Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven
- Giulia Fanti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- David Fifield, University of California, Berkeley
- Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University
- Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology
- Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London
- Yossi Gilad, MIT
- Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo
- Thomas Groß, Newcastle University
- Jens Grossklags, Technical University Munich
- Seda Gurses, KU Leuven
- Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein
- Ryan Henry, Indiana University Bloomington
- Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Amir Herzberg, Bar Ilan University
- Mireille Hildebrandt, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota
- Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Yan Huang, Indiana University Bloomington
- Kévin Huguenin, Université de Lausanne
- Mobin Javed, Lahore University of Management Sciences and ICSI
- Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Dali Kaafar, Data61-CSIRO
- Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington
- Aniket Kate, Purdue University
- Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt
- Florian Kershbaum, University of Waterloo
- Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute
- Markulf Kohlweiss, University of Edinburgh
- Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi
- Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University
- Susan Landau, Tufts University
- Peeter Laud, Cybernetica
- Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh
- Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin
- Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University
- Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University
- Nick Mathewson, The Tor Project
- Aleecia McDonald, Stanford University
- Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Columbia Journalism School
- Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London
- Prateek Mittal, Princeton University
- Takao Murakami, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Steven Murdoch, University College London
- Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
- Muhammad Naveed, University of Southern California
- Shirin Nilizadeh, UCSB
- Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University
- Cristina Onete, University of Limoges/XLIM
- Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA
- Paul Pearce, UC Berkeley
- Adrian Perrig, ETHZ
- Bart Preneel, KU Leuven
- Ananth Raghunathan, Google
- Kasper Rasmussen, University of Oxford
- Joel Reardon, University of Calgary
- Michael Reiter, UNC Chapel Hill
- Alfredo Rial, University of Luxembourg
- Narseo Vallina Rodriguez, IMDEA Networks Institute
- Franziska Roesner, University of Washington
- Thomas Roessler, Google
- Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo
- Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische University Darmstadt
- Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research
- Peter Schwabe, Radboud Univeristy Nijmegen
- Claudio Soriente, NEC
- Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden
- Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Abhradeep Thakurta, UC Santa Cruz
- Michael Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
- Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine
- Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley
- Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University
- Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt
- Tao Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Tara Whalen, Google
- Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA
- Joss Wright, Oxford Internet Institute
- Matthew Wright, RIT
- HotPETs Chairs (hotpets18@petsymposium.org)
- Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven
- Susan McGregor Columbia
- PET Award Chairs (award-chairs18@petsymposium.org)
- Matthew Wright, RIT
- Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische University Darmstadt
- Sponsorship Chair (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)
- Steven Murdoch, University College London
- Publicity Chairs (publicity18@petsymposium.org)
- Kat Hanna
- Wouter Lueks, EPFL
- Publications Chairs (publication18@petsymposium.org)
- Marc Juarez, KU Leuven
- Philipp Winter, UC San Diego / CAIDA
- Video Chair (video18@petsymposium.org)
- Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Web Chairs
- Ian Goldberg, Univerity of Waterloo
- Kat Hanna
- Stipend Chairs (pets2018-stipend@petsymposium.org)
- Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project
- Andrei Serjantov
- Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London
- Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota
- Damon McCoy, New York University
- Nikita Borisov, UIUC
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations
for the 2018 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing
Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to
researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design,
implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded
at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award monument.
Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2016 until March 30, 2018.
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
The Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2018 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at
PETS 2018. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting
the work at PETS 2018 are eligible for the award.
HotPETs
As with the last several years, part of the symposium will be devoted to
HotPETs — the "hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a
formative state. Further information will be published on the PETS 2018
website soon.