由以色列本－古里安大学主办的第二界国网络安全（密码）和机器学习研讨会现正式向广大从事网络安全、机器学习的老师、同学们征稿。范围涉及到网络安全、机器学习相关研究成果、创业成果等方面的展示。

    具体稿件要求请参见网址：https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~fradmin/cscml18/

    以下为英文邀请函：

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Dear Researchers:

You are cordially invited to submit to the Second International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning (CSCML 2018) that will take place on June 21-22, 2018 in Saal Auditorium (202), located in Alon Building for Hi-Tech (37) at Ben-Gurion University (Marcus Family Campus), Beer-Sheva, Israel:

1. Original Research: submission of a paper of up to 15 pages accompanied by a regular presentation of 15 minutes. Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS, in addition, a special issue of the journal Information and Computation will be dedicated to selected papers from CSCML 2018.

The Symposium starts on the last day of CyberWeek 2018.

https://cyberweek.tau.ac.il/2018/

For those who cannot participate, we plan to have a remote Skype session. The proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS (dblp listed) and in addition, please note, that selected papers will be published in a Special Issue of CSCML 2018 in the journal Information and Computation. 

To avoid last moment load on servers, please submit the title and abstract at your earliest convenience.

2. Entrepreneurship Pitch: submission of a Powerpoint/PDF abstract of up to 6 pages accompanied by a presentation of 5 to 10 minutes. Accepted pitches will be presented during the "Entrepreneurship Pitch Track" in front of VCs and industry experts. In addition, the selected 3 best pitches will get an excellence of innovation certificate.

3. Student Research: submission of an abstract of up to 3 pages accompanied by a short presentation. Those submissions that are accepted will be gathered in a technical report. Please note, that the deadline for Student Research Submission is LATER than March 18, 2018.

4. "Capture the Flag" Hackathon on cybersecurity is planned to take place during the first day of the symposium.

Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2018 (please follow the updates on the website)

Authors Notification Due: April 8, 2018

Camera-Ready Copy Due: April 13, 2018

Early Registration Due: June 1, 2018

Conference Date: 21-22 June, 2018

Scope of Conference: 

 Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography and machine learning systems and networks, and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cyber Security Design: Secure Software Development Methodologies, Formal methods, semantics, and verification of secure systems, Fault tolerance, reliability, availability of distributed secure systems, Game-theoretic approaches to secure computing, Automatic recovery self-stabilizing, and self-organizing systems, Communication, authentication and identification security, Cyber security for Mobile and Internet of Things, Cyber security of corporations, Security and privacy for cloud, Edge and Fog computing, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

• Cryptography: Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction, Secure multi-party computation, Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity, Post-quantum cryptography and security

• Machine Learning & Big Data, Anomaly detection and malware identification, Business Intelligence and Security, Digital Forensics, Digital Rights Management, Trust management and Reputation Systems, Information retrieval, Risk analysis, DoS

The Symposium is an international forum for researchers, entrepreneurs, and practitioners in the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography and machine learning systems and networks; and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results. 

Friday, June 22nd, will be dedicated to networking during a field seminar in the Negev. Networking among the researchers, the entrepreneurs, the VCs and the industry participants.

Please be sure to spread the word to anyone you think may be interested in submitting and/or attending. 

We're looking forward to meeting you at CSCML 2018!

https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~fradmin/cscml18/

Please note, that the website is still under construction.

The PDF version of the Call for Papers can be found here:

https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~fradmin/cscml18/cscml18March.pdf

We apologize for possible duplicates of this message.

Sitaram Chamarty and Itai Dinur

Program Committee Chairs

Shlomi Dolev and Sachin Lodha

General Chairs

In the name of the Steering Committee:

Orna Berry, DELLEMC, Israel

Shlomi Dolev, Chair, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Yuval Elovici, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland, USA

Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA, USA

Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA

Kalyan Veeramachaneni, MIT, USA

Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM, Israel

Moti Yung, Columbia University and Snapchat, USA

Timi Budai

Organizing Chair, CSCML 2018

Organizing Chair, CSCML 2018

Computer Science Department, BGU

http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~frankel/

fradmin@cs.bgu.ac.il 

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