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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">                           (ICISS-2024)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">                      December 16 - 20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">                       LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://iciss.isrdc.in">https://iciss.isrdc.in</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- submission deadline has been extended to July 24, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- double-blind review, best paper award, proceedings as LNCS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- exceptionally good papers will be invited to Sadhana journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+ pre-conference winter school (Security Challenges with GenAI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+ hands-on tutorial: Malware Hunt by KASPERSKY Labs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Anoop Singhal, NIST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Kari Konstiainen, ETH Zurich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Vincenzo Piuri, Univ of Milan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">    Pierangela Samarati, Univ of Milan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. This<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   OS, VM, containers, cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   IoT, RFID, SCADA systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Communication Protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Honeypot, Botnet, etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Authentication, MFA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Authorization model/policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   PKI & Trust management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Information flow control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   API security, WAF, OWASP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Malware, Ransomware, APTs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">HARDWARE SECURITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Remote attestation, PUFs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PRIVACY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   PETs, anonymization tech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Deidentification attacks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Surveillance & Censorship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Inference, correlation attacks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">BLOCKCHAIN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Cryptocurrency, stablecoins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Interoperability, scalability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Smart contracts, concurrency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">SECURITY IN AI/ML<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Adversarial learning/inputs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Prompt injection, RLHF strategies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Model stealing, poisoning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Security-by-design, SBOM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">S&P USE CASES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   e-voting, e-gov, smart cities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">   COVID-19 contact tracing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">to authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">select few exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">detailed submission guidelines provided on the website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Detailed Guidelines:
<a href="https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/">https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Past Proceedings:
<a href="https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss">https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss">https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A hands-on tutorial on Malware Hunt will be be delivered by the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Atul Prakash, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 (firm deadline, AoE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">     Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PhD Forum Track:
<a href="https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/">https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tutorials Track:
<a href="https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/">https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Demo Track:
<a href="https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/">https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">[CFPv4.4; 24-JULY-2024]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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