The 2024 International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2024) is the 26^th edition of a series of a highly successful international conference on information and communications security, since 1997.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references, for double blind reviews.

• Full papers 20 pages, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices
• Short papers 12 pages, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices.

List of Topics

• Access control and authorization
• AI-based security and privacy
• Anonymity
• Applied cryptography
• Threat scenarios, attack models and security analysis
• Attestation
• Authentication
• Biometrics security and privacy
• Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
• Cloud computing and virtualization security
• Cybercrime
• Cyber deception and fraud
• Cyber incident response and recovery
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Cyber physical systems security
• Cyber resilience
• Cyber security education, training, and awareness
• Cyber threat intelligence
• Data security and privacy
• Digital forensics
• Digital rights management
• Digital watermarking
• Distributed systems security
• Economics of security and privacy
• Edge and fog computing security
• Embedded systems security
• Emergency response and recovery
• Formal methods for security
• Hardware security
• Identity management
• Information security management
• Internet censorship and defense
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Malware and unwanted software
• Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news
• Mobile security and privacy
• Online safety and child protection
• Online social media security, privacy, and trust
• Operating systems security
• Network security
• Privacy enhancing technologies and mechanisms
• Risk management
• Security of communication protocols
• Secure information flow
• Security management
• Security and privacy for the (Industrial) Internet of Things
• Security and privacy of AI (e.g., adversarial machine learning and federated learning)
• Security and privacy metrics and policies
• Security operations and incident management
• Security visualization
• Secure systems design and architectures
• Side channel attacks
• Software and application security
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Trusted computing
• Trust management and reputation
• Usable security and privacy
• Vulnerability detection and prevention
• Web security and privacy

Committees

Program Committee

• Program Committee co-Chair: Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Program Committee co-Chair: Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus
• Habtamu                Abie                                     Norsk Regnesentral
• Aida                        Akbarzadeh                        Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Massimiliano         Albanese                            George Mason University
• Cristina                   Alcaraz                                University of Malaga
• Ahmed                   Amro                                   Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Marios                    Anagnostopoulos             Aalborg University
• Giovanni                Apruzzese                          University of Liechtenstein
• Vijay                        Atluri                                   Rutgers University
• Osama                    Bajaber                               Virginia Tech
• Reinhardt              Botha                                   Nelson Mandela University
• Sherman                Chow                                   Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Nathan                   Clarke                                  University of Plymouth
• Marijke                   Coetzee                              North-West University
• Mauro                     Conti                                   University of Padua
• Ashok Kumar         Das                                      Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Hervé                      Debar                                  Telecom Sud-Paris
• Vassiliki                  Diamantopoulou               University of the Aegean
• Virginia                   Franqueira                         University of Kent
• Steven                    Furnell                                University of Nottingham
• Debin                      Gao                                      Singapore Management University
• Joaquin                   Garcia-Alfaro                     Telecom Sud-Paris
• Vasileios                 Gkioulos                             Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Dieter                     Gollmann                           Hamburg University of Technology
• Yong                        Guan                                   Iowa State University
• Maritta                   Heisel                                  University of Duisburg-Essen
• Marko                     Hölbl                                   University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
• Xinyi                        Huang                                 Fujian Normal University
• Martin Gilje           Jaatun                                 SINTEF
• Nasrine                   Kaaniche                             Telecom Sud-Paris
• Christos                  Kalloniatis                          University of the Aegean
• George                   Kambourakis                     University of the Aegean
• Maria                      Karyda                                University of the Aegean
• Georgios                Kavallieratos                      Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Elif Bilge                 Kavun                                  University of Passau
• Spyros                    Kokolakis                            University of the Aegean
• Romain                   Laborde                              Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
• Costas                     Lambrinoudakis                University of Piraeus
• Shujun                    Li                                          University of Kent
• Kaitai                       Liang                                    Delft University of Technology
• Antonio                  Lioy                                      Politecnico di Torino
• Giovanni                Livraga                                University of Milan
• Javier                      Lopez                                  University of Malaga
• Kangjie                    Lu                                         University of Minnesota
• Rongxing                Lu                                         University of New Brunswick
• Bo                            Luo                                      University of Kansas
• Michail                   Maniatakos                        NYU-Abu Dhabi
• Daisuke                   Mashima                            Advanced Digital Sciences Center
• Sjouke                     Mauw                                 University of Luxembourg
• Weizhi                    Meng                                   Technical University of Denmark
• Aleksandra            Mileva                                 University Goce Delcev
• Chris                        Mitchell                              Royal Holloway, University of London
• Haris                       Mouratidis                         University of Essex
• Jianbing                  Ni                                         Queen's University
• Rolf                          Oppliger                             eSECURITY Technologies
• Pankaj                     Pandey                                Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Maria                      Papadaki                            University of Derby
• Panos                      Papadimitratos                 KTH
• Constantinos         Patsakis                              University of Piraeus
• Michalis                  Pavlidis                               University of Brighton
• Günther                  Pernul                                 University of Regensburg
• Stjepan                   Picek                                    Radboud University
• Sandeep                 Pirbhulal                             Norsk Regnesentral
• Nikolaos                 Pitropakis                           Edinburgh Napier University
• Joachim                  Posegga                              University of Passau
• Kai                           Rannenberg                        Goethe University Frankfurt
• Panagiotis              Rizomiliotis                        Harokopio University
• Rodrigo                  Roman                                University of Malaga
• Andrea                   Saracino                             Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• Nitesh                     Saxena                                Texas A&M University
• Savio                       Sciancalepore                    Eindhoven University of Technology
• Georgios                Spathoulas                         University of Thessaly
• Azadeh                   Tabiban                              University of Manitoba
• Aggeliki                   Tsohou                               Ionian University
• Ding                        Wang                                  Nankai University
• Boyang                   Wang                                  University of Cincinnati
• Edgar                      Weippl                                University of Vienna & SBA Research
• Daoyuan                Wu                                       The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Toshihiro                Yamauchi                           Okayama University
• Guomin                  Yang                                    Singapore Management University
• Xun                          Yi                                          RMIT University
• Nicola                     Zannone                             Eindhoven University of Technology
• Tianwei                   Zhang                                  Amazon Web Services
• Qingchuan             Zhao                                    City University of Hong Kong
• Ziming                     Zhao                                    University at Buffalo

Organizing committee

• General co-Chair: Christos Kalloniatis, , University of the Aegean
• General co-Chair: Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus
• Publicity Chair: Georgios Kavallieratos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Web co-chair: Alexandros Pallis
• Web co-chair: Panteleimon Kalligeros
• Local Arrangements co-Chair: Aikaterini-Georgia Mavroeidi
• Local Arrangements co-Chair: Aikaterini Vgena
• Local Arrangements co-Chair: Stavros Stavridis

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in the conference's proceedings. It is planned to have these published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as post-proceedings. Pre-proceedings will be made available shortly before and during the event. Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference and give a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in the conference proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held in the premises of the University of the Aegean, in Mytilene, Greece.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to one of the program committee chairs at: sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no or xenakis@unipi.gr