Call for Papers

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2021, 11:59 PM (AoE, UTC-12)
• Reviews released: August 4, 2021
• Author response due: August 9, 2021
• Acceptance notification: August 12, 2021
• Camera ready due: August 30, 2021 (hard deadline)
• Workshop: November 15, 2021

Overview

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to security and privacy problems. The use of AI and ML in security-sensitive domains, in which adversaries may attempt to mislead or evade intelligent machines, creates new frontiers for security research. The recent widespread adoption of deep learning techniques, whose security properties are difficult to reason about directly, has only added to the importance of this research. The AISec workshop, now in its 14th year, is the leading venue for presenting and discussing new developments in the intersection of security and privacy with AI and machine learning.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Theoretical topics related to security

• Adversarial learning
• Security of deep learning systems
• Robust statistics
• Learning in games
• Economics of security
• Differential privacy

Security applications

• Computer forensics
• Spam detection
• Phishing detection and prevention
• Botnet detection
• Intrusion detection and response
• Malware identification and analysis
• Data anonymization/de-anonymization
• Security in social networks
• Big data analytics for security
• User authentication

Security-related AI problems

• Distributed inference and decision making for security
• Secure multiparty computation and cryptographic approaches
• Privacy-preserving data mining
• Adaptive side-channel attacks
• Design and analysis of CAPTCHAs
• 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 purpose of fraud detection)
• Model confidentiality

Submission Guidelines

We invite the following types of papers:

• Original research papers on any topic in the intersection of AI or machine learning with security, privacy, or related areas.
• Position and open-problem papers discussing the relationship of AI or machine learning to security or privacy. Submitted papers of this type may not substantially overlap with papers that have been published previously or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference/workshop proceedings.
• Systematization-of-knowledge papers, which should distill the AI or machine learning contributions of a previously-published series of security papers.

Paper submissions must be at most 10 pages in double-column ACM format (note: pages must be numbered), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages overall. Papers should be in LaTeX and we recommend using the ACM format. This format is required for the camera-ready version. Please follow the main CCS formatting instructions (except with page limits as described above). In particular, we recommend using the sigconf template, which can be downloaded from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library and/or ACM Press. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions must be in English and properly anonymized.

Submission Site

Submission link: https://aisec2021.hotcrp.com.

All accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and included in the ACM workshop proceedings.

One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings.