CALL FOR PAPERS
Digital Threats: Research and Practice
Special Issue on Situational Awareness
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31, 2020
Guest Editors
Tim Shimeall, CERT
Josiah Dykstra, NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center
Neil Rowe, Naval Postgraduate School
Situational awareness is a foundational component in the prevention, identification, mitigation, and elimination of digital threats. Situation awareness refers to gathering information, perceiving and understanding the state of the world, and predicting states of the world forward in time. The goal of this special issue is to promote the exchange of research and practice related to knowing what digital systems should be doing, tracking what is happening, inferring when “should be” and “is” do not match, and helping to do something about the difference. To facilitate further research in situational awareness, this special issue especially welcomes research articles, new open access datasets, metrics and measurements, and real-world experiences and evaluations, to broaden research support effective situational awareness.
The topics of interest of this special issue include but are not limited to:
- Tools for situational awareness
- Individual performance of situational awareness
- Team performance of situational awareness
- Field evaluations of situational awareness
- Case studies of situational awareness
- Critical situational awareness information required to achieve goals
- Measurement of situational awareness
- Effect of situational awareness on security performance
- Automation for situational awareness
- Prediction and forecasting of future cyber events
- Visualization and sonification for situational awareness
- Situational awareness benchmarks
- Situational awareness datasets
- Situational awareness open repositories
- Machine learning for situational awareness
- Training and education of situational awareness
- Situational awareness in SOCs and CSIRTs
- Situational awareness for cyber operations
- Negative results and lessons from research and practice in situational awareness
Expected contributions – We welcome three types of research contributions:
- Research manuscripts reporting novel methodologies and results (up to 25 pages).
- Benchmarks, datasets, repositories, and demonstration systems that enable further research and facilitate research on situational awareness. These papers should be of interest to the broad cybersecurity research community (10 pages + links to such systems).
- Practitioners are welcome to submit a journal style research paper or a “Field Notes” paper. A “Field Notes” paper is a short case report, emphasizing a particular development or application over a rigorous study or proof of security.
To submit to this special issue, please visit ACM Manuscript Central at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dtrap and select paper type “Special Issue on Situational Awareness.” DTRAP author guidelines are available atdtrap.acm.org/authors.cfm.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: July 31, 2020
- First Decision Notification: September 15, 2020
- Revisions Due: October 30, 2020
- Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2020
- Publication: Early 2021 (tentative)
For questions or further information, please contact dtrap_SA@acm.org.