SPME 2014 - 1st ACM Mobicom Workshop on Security and Privacy aspects of Mobile Envrionments (SPME 2014)

Increased adoption of mobile communications technologies (e.g., smartphones and Internet tablets), along with the growing popularity of mobile applications and online social network services (e.g., mobile Facebook, Foursquare, mobile YouTube), dramatically changed the computing and networking landscapes. Such mobile environments, while creating and promoting several new opportunities for users, businesses and enterprises by complementing and often supplanting traditional Internet communication, opened up new challenges with new forms of security risks and privacy threats. Mobile devices security and privacy research has been very active and productive since the inception of smartphones and app markets. Both regulatory and technology efforts are also underway to address some of the privacy and security requirements of mobile systems and services.
The workshop will discuss issues in mobile devices and applications, mobile location-based services, ad-hoc and infrastructure-based mobile networks, with particular focus on theoretical and practical aspects of design, usability and performance evaluation of security and privacy.
This workshop will solicit research papers, work-in-progress papers, industry and regulatory position reports from academia, industry, and government agencies. The proposed workshop seeks to promote dynamic interdisciplinary discussions and collaboration on the various aspects of security and privacy of mobile devices, applications and mobile networking operations.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Mobile networks security
Mobile handsets devices security
Security and privacy of mobile applications
Hardware enabled security
Usability of security and privacy
New economic models of privacy-preserving mobile systems/applications
Mobile identity management systems
Mobile payment systems
Privacy and security threats identification
Censorship resistance in mobile environments
Privacy preserving analytics in mobile environments
Contextual (context-based) security and privacy
Security and privacy in next generation mobile networks
Security and privacy in wearable technologies
We also encourage submissions of controversial ideas, interdisciplinary perspectives and other novel contributions with a potential to trigger constructive discussions and interactions.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: May 25, 2014
Author Notification: July 7, 2014
Camera Ready Due: July 25, 2014
Workshop: September 11, 2014
Submission Guidelines:
Papers must not exceed 5 pages in standard ACM double-column
format and be properly anonymized. Submissions must be original,
previously unpublished work. The SMPE program committee will review
submissions and accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one
of the authors. Detailed instructions on paper formatting can be found on the main conference site.
Submission Site:
Please visit http://crp.mytestbed.net/spme2014/ for submissions.
Please direct all questions to the workshop chairs: chairs-AT-smpe2014.org