ARES CONFERENCE

The 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES – The International Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability.

ARES highlights the various aspects of dependability – with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.

ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.

ARES emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc.

ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.

The acceptance rate of the ARES 2024 conference was 20,5% (full papers only).

ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

Author Notification: May 02, 2025

Camera Ready Upload to submission publisher system: June 13, 2025 (AoE)

Camera-ready Deadline (100% completed in publisher system): June 20, 2025 (AoE)

Conference: August 11 – August 14, 2025

SCOPE

TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
• Automated Vulnerability Repair
• Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
• Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
• Cloud Security
• Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy
• Dependability, and Resilience
• Digital Forensics
• Human Factors in Security and Privacy
• Identity Management
• Incident Response and Prevention
• Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
• Machine Learning for Security and Privacy
• Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
• Mobile Security
• Network Security
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• Process based Security Models and Methods
• Risk analysis
• Side Channel Attacks
• Software Security
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy
• Security and Privacy for IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Critical Infrastructures
• Security and Privacy Awareness
• Security Requirements and Secure Design of Applications
• Usable Security and Privacy
• Threats and Attack Modelling
• Trusted Computing
• Trust Models and Trust Management
• Web Application Security and Privacy

SUBMISSON

ARES 2025 will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS).

The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2025.

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines:

For the main conference as well as the workshops, submission papers are classified into 4 categories representing original, previously unpublished work:

• full paper (max. 22 pages, including references)
• short paper (max. 11 pages, including references)
• SoK paper (max. 22 pages, including references)
• workshop paper (max. 18 pages, including references)

FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS/TEMPLATE

Please read the formatting instructions here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference.

Publishing preprints to arXiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission.

Important Note:

To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2025 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be checked for plagiarism. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism!

In case you include previous work in your paper make sure to add the sources accordingly. In case you have questions regarding self-plagiarism please send us an email (ares@ugent.be). If you don’t want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chair: Bjorn De Sutter, Ghent University, Belgium

Program Committee Chairs: Sebastian Schrittwieser, University of Vienna, Austria; Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy

Workshop Chairs: Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium; Bart Coppens, Ghent University, Belgium

EU Symposium Workshop Chair: Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

Organisation & Local Chairs: Vicky Wandels, Ghent University, Belgium; Inge Lason, Ghent University, Belgium

Proceedings Chair: Vincent Naessens, KU Leuven, Belgium

Conference Management: Vicky Wandels, Ghent University, Belgium; Eneko Illarramendi, Ghent University, Belgium

Program Committee: see https://2025.ares-conference.eu//conference/committee/