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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security
Co-located with the 40th International Information Security and
Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025), Maribor (Slovenia)

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Important dates:
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Deadline for submission: 31 January 2025
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025
Delivery of camera-ready papers: 21 March 2025

Website: https://ifiptc11.org/wg114-events/wg114-workshop

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wndss2025

Organizers: IFIP WG11.4 /Network & Distributed Systems Security/

Proceedings published by Springer Nature (together with IFIP SEC)

Background:
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Working Group 11.4 /Network & Distributed Systems Security/
(https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg114) of the International Federation for
Information Processing (IFIP, https://ifip.org/) is organizing a
workshop. The workshop will be co-located with the 40th International
Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025,
https://sec2025.um.si/), the flagship conference of IFIP Technical
Committee 11 /Security and Privacy Protection in Information
Processing Systems/. The workshop is open to all; membership in IFIP
or in WG11.4 is not necessary. Attending the workshop requires
registration at the IFIP SEC conference (options for registering
either for the whole conference or only for the workshop are
available).


Call for papers:
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The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among
researchers, practitioners, regulators, students, and any other
interested parties. The scope of the workshop covers the security of
computer networks and of distributed systems. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

- Attacks on networks and distributed systems
- Distributed defense strategies against cyberattacks
- Distributed identity and access management
- Federated learning
- Mobile and wireless network security
- Privacy and data protection
- Public key infrastructures
- Secure multiparty computation
- Security and privacy in cloud computing, edge computing & IoT
- Security and privacy in Distributed Ledger Technologies
- Security and privacy in emerging networks and distributed
  technologies (e.g., 6G and beyond, digital twins, metaverse, quantum
  computing and networking)
- Security and privacy in networked cyber-physical systems (e.g.,
  connected autonomous mobility, smart homes, body-area networks)
- Security and privacy in web applications and services
- Security and privacy of distributed applications
- Security and privacy of distributed Artificial Intelligence
  applications, including machine learning and generative AI
- Security of critical infrastructures
- Security of network protocols
- Security protocols
- Surveillance and Cyber-resilience


Submission guidelines:
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Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to
another conference, workshop, or journal for consideration. Submitted
papers must be written in English. Submissions should not be
anonymised. Beyond technical papers and papers presenting the results
of completed research, also work-in-progress papers, position papers,
survey papers, and papers discussing non-technical aspects are of
interest. Submissions must be either full papers of at most 14 pages,
or short papers of at most 10 pages. In both cases, the page count
includes figures, tables, references, and appendices (if any). Authors
must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For
camera-ready papers, Latex or Word format must be used. Author
instructions and templates can be found at
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register, following
the rules of the main conference, and present the paper at the
workshop.

Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair conference system, which
can be found at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wndss2025

Best student paper award:
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The aim of the best student paper award is to reward the best paper
accepted to and presented at the workshop, the main author of which is
a student. To be eligible, the main author of the paper must be a
Bachelor or Master student at the time of the workshop, or he/she must
have been a Bachelor or Master student when the work reported in the
paper was carried out. During the submission process, papers eligible
for the best student paper award should be marked as such in the
submission system, and proof of the main author's student status has
to be uploaded along with the paper itself. Based on the number of
accepted student papers, the workshop chairs reserve the right to
decide on the number of student papers to be rewarded, which could be
0, 1, or more.