Call for Papers

17th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2017)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
July 18 – 21, 2017
General information: https://petsymposium.org/
Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.4/

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The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 17th PETS event will be organised by the University of Minnesota and held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 18 – 21, 2017.

Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Submitted papers should present novel practical and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies. While PETS/PoPETs has traditionally been home to research on anonymity systems and privacy-oriented cryptography, we strongly encourage submissions on a number of both well-established and emerging privacy-related topics, for which examples are provided below.

PoPETs, a scholarly, open access journal for timely research papers on privacy, has been established as a way to improve reviewing and publication quality while retaining the highly successful PETS community event. PoPETs is published by De Gruyter Open, the world's second largest publisher of open access academic content, and part of the De Gruyter group, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.

Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months on a predictable schedule. The four submission deadlines for the 2017 volume of PoPETs are in May 2016, Aug 2016, Nov 2016, and Feb 2017. Papers accepted for an issue in the 2017 volume will be presented at PETS 2017. Note that accepted papers must be presented at PETS.

Authors are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised versions.

PoPETs also solicits submissions for Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers. These are papers that critically review, evaluate, and contextualize work in areas for which a body of prior literature exists, and whose contribution lies in systematizing the existing knowledge in that area. To be suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an added value beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions. SoK papers will follow the same review process as other submissions, and will be published in PoPETs and presented at the PETS 2017 event.

Submit papers for PoPETs 2017, Issue 4 at https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.4/. Please see the submission guidelines and view our FAQ for more information about the process.

Important Dates for PETS 2017

All deadlines are 23:59:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11)

Issue 1:
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2016 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 11 – 13, 2016
Author notification: August 1, 2016
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): September 1, 2016

Issue 2:
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2016 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 10 – 12, 2016
Author notification: October 31, 2016
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): November 30, 2016

Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2016 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 9 – 11, 2017
Author notification: February 1, 2017
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): March 15, 2017

Issue 4:
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2017 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 10 – 12, 2017
Author notification: May 1, 2017
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted by the shepherd): June 1, 2017

Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than these major revision resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

• Behavioural targeting
• Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
• Crowdsourcing for privacy
• Cryptographic tools for privacy
• Data protection technologies
• Differential privacy
• Economics of privacy and game-theoretical approaches to privacy
• Empirical studies of privacy in real-world systems
• Forensics and privacy
• Human factors, usability and user-centered design for PETs
• Information leakage, data correlation and generic attacks to privacy
• Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, ethnography, psychology, medicine, biotechnology
• Location and mobility privacy
• Measuring and quantifying privacy
• Obfuscation-based privacy
• Policy languages and tools for privacy
• Privacy and human rights
• Privacy and machine learning
• Privacy in ubiquitous computing and mobile devices
• Privacy in cloud and big-data applications
• Privacy in social networks and microblogging systems
• Privacy-enhanced access control, authentication, and identity management
• Profiling and data mining
• Reliability, robustness, and abuse prevention in privacy systems
• Surveillance
• Systems for anonymous communications and censorship resistance
• Traffic analysis
• Transparency enhancing tools
• Web privacy

General Chair (gc17@petsymposium.org)

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets17-chairs@petsymposium.org)

Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven

Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University

Damon McCoy, New York University

Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Gunes Acar, KU Leuven

Sadia Afroz, UC Berkeley

William Aiello, University of British Columbia

Mashael Al-Sabah, Qatar University

Hadi Asghari, TU Delft

N. Asokan, Aalto University

Adam Aviv, United States Naval Academy

Michael Backes, Saarland University

Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research

Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University

Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania

Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University / EFF

Sonja Buchegger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Kevin Butler, University of Florida

Kelly Caine, Clemson University

Aylin Caliskan, Princeton University

Christopher Clifton, Purdue University

Jedidiah R. Crandall, University of New Mexico

George Danezis, University College London

Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon University

Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London

Rinku Dewri, University of Denver

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Orr Dunkelman, University of Haifa

Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley

Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven

Giulia Fanti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Fifield, University of California, Berkeley

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University

Bryan Ford, EPFL

Vaibhav Garg, VISA

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Thomas Groß, Newcastle University

Jens Grossklags, Penn State

Seda Gurses, KU Leuven

Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein

Ryan Henry, Indiana University Bloomington

Raquel Hill, Indiana University Bloomington

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University Nijmegen

Yan Huang, Indiana University Bloomington

Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington

Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland

Shehar Bano Khattak, University College London

Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh

Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University

Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research

Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington

Albert Kwon, MIT

Susan Landau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Peeter Laud, Cybernetica

Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh

Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania

Marc Liberatore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Aleecia McDonald, Stanford University

Prateek Mittal, Princeton University

Payman Mohassel, Yahoo!/Calgary

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Steven Myers, Indiana University Bloomington

Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University

Muhammad Naveed, University of Southern California

Shirin Nilizadeh, UCSB

Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University

Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley

Adrian Perrig, ETHZ

Rob Reeder, Google

Alfredo Rial, University of Luxembourg

Thomas Roessler, Google

Keith Ross, New York University

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische University Darmstadt

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary

Hovav Schacham, UCSD

Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research

Martin Schmiedeckre, SBA Research

Peter Schwabe, Radboud University Nijmegen

Mohamed Shehab, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Reza Shokri, Cornell Tech

Thomas Shrimpton, University of Florida

Jessica Staddon, NC State University

Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden

Carmela Troncoso, IMDEA Software Institute

Michael Tschantz, University of California, Berkeley

Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh

Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University

Michael Waidner, Technische University Darmstadt

Tao Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Tara Whalen, Google

Philipp Winter, Princeton University

Joss Wright, Oxford Internet Institute

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets16@petsymposium.org)

Sadia Afroz, ICSI / UC Berkeley

Moritz Bartl, Renewable Freedom Foundation

Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven

Sponsorship Chairs (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)

George Danezis, University College London

Steven Murdoch, University College London

PET Award Chairs (award-chairs17@petsymposium.org)

Bryan Ford, EPFL

Carmela Troncoso, IMDEA Software Institute

Publicity Chairs (publicity17@petsymposium.org)

Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven

Kat Hanna

Publications Chair (publication17@petsymposium.org)

Marc Juarez, KU Leuven

Video Chair (video17@petsymposium.org)

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Stipend Chairs (pets2017-stipend@petsymposium.org)

Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois - Urbana–Champaign

Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Andrei Serjantov

Web Chairs

Ian Goldberg, Univerity of Waterloo

Kat Hanna

Submission Guidelines
Full submission guidelines are at https://www.petsymposium.org/authors.php#submission-guidelines.

Papers must be submitted via the PETS 2017 submission server. The URL for Issue 4 is: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2017.4/.

Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2017 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award monument.

Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2015 until March 30, 2017.

Best Student Paper Award
The Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2017 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at PETS 2017. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting the work at PETS 2017 are eligible for the award.

HotPETs
As with the last several years, part of the symposium will be devoted to HotPETs — the "hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a formative state. Further information will be published on the PETS 2017 website soon.