Call for Papers

NSS 2025: 19th International Conference on Network and System Security

Areas of interest for NSS 2025 include but are not limited to：

• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Network Infrastructure Security
• NFV/SDN Security
• Network Attacks and Defenses
• Secure Networked Systems
• Distributed Systems Security
• Cloud Security
• Mobile Security
• Malware/Ransomware Analysis and Detection
• Digital Forensics
• Analysis of Network Security Protocols
• Program and Binary Analysis
• Formal Verification for Network Systems and Protocols
• Fuzzy Testing
• Privacy-enhancing Techniques and Anonymity
• Cryptographic Protocols with Networks and Systems
• Blockchain Protocols and Systems
• Smart Contract Security
• Blockchain Powered Applications and Services
• Trustworthy Machine Learning and AI
• Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
• Federated Learning Protocols and Systems
• Hardware Security
• Cyber-Physical Systems Security
• Internet of Things Security
• Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
• Confidential Computing and Its Applications
• Watermarking and Digital Rights Management
• Security and Privacy For Digital Health
• Human Factors in Network and System Security

SocialSec 2025: 11th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data

Areas of interest for SocialSec 2025 include but are not limited to：

• Attacks in/via social networks
• Security and privacy in big databases
• Information control and detection
• Applied cryptography for big data
• Malicious behavior modeling in social networks
• Big data system security
• Malicious information propagation via social networks
• Mobile social networks security
• Phishing problems in social networks
• Security and privacy in cloud
• Privacy protection in social networks
• Forensics in social networks and big data
• Big data analytics for threats and attacks prediction
• Privacy and Security of AI
• AI for Privacy and Security
• Spam problems in social networks
• Security of blockchain
• Trust and reputations in social networks
• Privacy and Security in Cooperative AI
• Big data outsourcing
• Users Behavior
• Big data forensics
• Security and Privacy in Metaverse

Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth - AoE)

• NSS 2025 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025
• NSS 2025 Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): July 6, 2025
• SocialSec 2025 Paper Submission Deadline: July 13, 2025
• Notification to authors (NSS & SocialSec): August 20, 2025
• Authors registration due (NSS & SocialSec): September 1, 2025
• Camera-ready papers due (NSS & SocialSec): September 1, 2025
• Conference Dates (NSS & SocialSec): December 5-7, 2025

Author Instructions

Submissions must be made through the Conference's EasyChair system:

• NSS 2025 Submission Link
• SocialSec 2025 Submission Link

Proceedings will be published with Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Authors are invited to submit original papers that have not been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column), excluding appendices and bibliography, and up to 20 pages in total. Papers must use at least 11-point fonts and have reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting the guidelines risk rejection.

Detailed author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS publications can be found here: Springer LNCS Author Information.

Journal Recommendations

Selected papers will be invited for extended submission to the following journals:

• Computers & Electrical Engineering (CEE)
  • SI: Protection Technologies for Data Security and Compliance
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• Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSI)
  • SI: Advancing Secure AI: Privacy, Integrity, and Trustworthiness
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• International Journal of Information Security (IJIS)
  • SI: Emerging Encryption Techniques for Big Data Security
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• Symmetry
  • SI: Applications Based on Symmetry in Adversarial Machine Learning
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• IET blockchain (No publication fees)
  • SI: Post-quantum security and privacy in Blockchain infrastructures
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More journal special issues will be announced soon.