AISec 2011 - 4th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security

4th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security

Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2011

http://tsig.fujitsulabs.com/~aisec2011

Call for Papers

1.Overview

The ubiquitous nature of information and communication today is often
cited as the cause of many security and privacy problems including
identity and reputation management, viruses/worms and phishing/pharming.
There is strong evidence, however, that this abundance of information
and communication has at least as many security and privacy benefits as
costs.

Consider for example, the use of machine learning algorithms to detect
network intrusions, crowd-based approaches to anonymous communication
and the use of data mining algorithms to determine content sanitization.
All of these efforts benefit from recent advances in AI, which have
often been driven by increases in the amount of available data.

To fully realize the security and privacy benefits of today's ubiquitous
information, the security community needs expertise in the tools and
techniques for managing that information, namely, artificial
intelligence technology, and the AI community needs an understanding of
security and privacy problems. To facilitate an exchange of ideas
between these two communities, we are holding the fourth workshop in
"AISec" in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS), on the new field of security and privacy
solutions that leverage AI technologies. Our full-day workshop will be a
mix of technical papers and position papers with ideas for AISec's
future.

2.Topics

We invite original research papers describing the use of AI or Machine
Learning in security and privacy problems. We also invite position
papers discussing the role of AI or Machine Learning in security and
privacy. Submitted papers may not substantially overlap papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or
conference with proceedings.

Research submissions should be at most 8 pages excluding the
bibliography and well-marked appendices using double-column, and
reasonable margins on letter-size paper, and at most 10 pages total.
Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper
should be intelligible without them. Position papers should be at most 4
pages long in total using the same guidelines as above. Submissions need
not be anonymized. We recommend the use of the ACM SIG Proceedings
templates for submission.

Submissions can be made through EasyChair following this link

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Adversarial Learning

* Robust Statistics

* Online Learning

* Spam detection

* Botnet detection

* Intrusion detection

* Malware identification

* Privacy-preserving data mining

* Design and analysis of CAPTCHAs

* Phishing detection and prevention

* AI approaches to trust and reputation

* Vulnerability testing through intelligent probing (e.g. fuzzing)

* Content-driven security policy management & access control

* Techniques and methods for generating training and test sets

* Anomalous behavior detection (e.g. for the purposes of fraud prevention, authentication)

3.Tentative Schedule

Submissions due: July 6, 2011 (23:59 PDT)
Acceptance notification: August 4, 2011
Final manuscript due: August 19, 2011
Workshop date: October 21, 2011

4.Submission Guidelines

Submissions can be made by the deadline of July 6, 2011, through the
website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisec2...

Research submissions should be at most 8 pages excluding the
bibliography and well-marked appendices using double-column, and
reasonable margins on letter-size paper, and at most 10 pages total.
Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the
paper should be intelligible without them. Position papers should be
at most 4 pages long in total using the same guidelines as above.
Submissions need not be anonymized. We recommend the use of the ACM
SIG Proceedings templates for submission.

5.Organization

General Chair

* Yan Chen (Northwestern University)

Program Co-Chairs

* Alvaro A. Cardenas (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)

* Rachel Greenstadt (Drexel University)

* Ben Rubinstein (Microsoft Research)

Program Committee

* Dirk Balfanz (Google)

* Christos Dimitrakakis (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

* Giorgio Giacinto (University of Cagliari)

* Guofei Gu (Texas A&M University)

* Justin Ma (UC Berkeley)

* Blaine Nelson (University of Tubingen)

* Roberto Perdisci (University of Georgia)

* Konrad Rieck (TU Berlin)

* Fabio Roli (University of Cagliari)

* Elaine Shi (PARC and UC Berkeley)

* Robin Sommer (ICSI and LBNL)

* Jessica Staddon (Google)