Call for papers

The PST2013 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) is being held in Tarragona, Catalonia, July 10-12, 2013. PST2013 is the eleventh such annual conference focusing on PST technologies. PST2013 provides a forum for researchers world-wide to unveil their latest work in privacy, security and trust and to show how this research can be used to enable innovation.

PST2013 will include one day of tutorials followed by two days of high-quality research papers whose topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

  • Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Network and Wireless Security
  • Operating Systems Security
  • Intrusion Detection Technologies
  • Secure Software Development and Architecture
  • PST Challenges in e-Services, e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce
  • Network Enabled Operations
  • Digital forensics
  • Information Filtering, Data Mining and Knowledge from Data
  • National Security and Public Safety
  • Cryptographic techniques for privacy preservation
  • Security Metrics
  • Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies
  • Continuous Authentication
  • Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy
  • Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Identity and Trust management
  • PST and Cloud Computing
  • Human Computer Interaction and PST
  • Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance
  • Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft
  • PST and Web Services / SOA
  • Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity
  • Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments
  • Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability
  • Access Control and Capability Delegation
  • Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems

High-quality papers in all PST related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publications elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as 'regular' papers up to 8 pages, or 'short' papers of up to 4 pages. Up to 2 additional pages will be allowed in each category with over-length charges. Every additional page has a cost of 75 €. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submissions. A copy of the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX and additional information about paper submission and conference topics and events can be found at the conference web site. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and by IEEE and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented.

Important Dates:

  • Submission Deadline: March 17, 2013
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2013
  • Final Manuscript Due: June 09, 2013