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Call for Participation
The 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec)
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GameSec 2017, the 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security will
take place in Vienna, Austria, on October 23-25, 2017.
http://www.gamesec-conf.org/
The GameSec conference brings together academic, industry and government
researchers to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and present
recent research results that highlight the connections between and among game
theory, control, distributed optimization, and economic incentives within the
context of real world security, trust, and privacy problems. The past editions
of the GameSec conference took place in Berlin-Germany (2010), College Park
Maryland-USA (2011), Budapest-Hungary (2012), Fort Worth Texas-USA (2013), Los
Angeles-USA (2014), London-UK (2015), and New York-USA (2016).
The deadline for early registration is September 28, 2017. Student travel
grants are available for students who are interested in attending the
conference. The deadline for student travel grant applications is September 8,
2017.
The conference features two keynote talks:
- Speaker 1: Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, Dartmouth College, USA.
Biography: V.S. Subrahmanian is The Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor
in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society. Prior to this, we was Professor of
Computer Science for 28 years at the University of Maryland and Director of
the Center for Digital International Government. He has developed data-driven
algorithms that bring game theory and predictive analytics together for a
variety of problems relating to counter-terrorism, cyber-security, and the
airline industry. In cyber-security, he developed adversary models and Pareto
optimal methods to help system administrators decide what vulnerabilities to
patch and what vulnerable software to deactivate. He also extended this model
to one where, additionally, the defender has honeypots that he can install in
a strategic way. More recently, he has been looking at game-theoretic models
in which the defender can provide "fake" scan results that enable a defender
to divert the attack from network nodes containing truly valuable information.
He led the team that won DARPA's 2015 Twitter Bot Challenge in the SMISC
program. His Global Cyber Vulnerability Report is the biggest study to date of
the vulnerability of 44 countries from over 20B malware and telemetry records.
He has written over 300 refereed papers and (co-) authored 6 books. Prof.
Subrahmanian serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Science, ACM
Transactions on Intelligent Systems & Technology. ACM Transactions on
Computational Logic, and more. In addition, he is the editor in chief of IEEE
Intelligent Systems. A fellow of both AAAI and AAAS, he has delivered numerous
invited talks and keynote addresses. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~vs/.
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~vs/.
- Speaker 2: Professor Piet van Mieghem, Technical University Delft,
Netherlands.
Biography: Piet Van Mieghem is professor at the Delft University of Technology
with a chair in telecommunication networks and chairman of the section Network
Architectures and Services (NAS) since 1998. His main research interests lie
in the modelling and analysis of complex networks (such as infrastructural,
biological, brain, social networks) and in new Internet-like architectures and
algorithms for future communications networks. He is the author of four books:
Performance Analysis of Communications Networks and Systems, Data
Communications Networking, Graph Spectra for Complex Networks and Performance
Analysis of Complex Networks and Systems. Currently, he serves on the
editorial board of the OUP Journal of Complex Networks. Professor Van Mieghem
received a Master and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
K.U.Leuven (Belgium) in 1987 and 1991, respectively. Before joining Delft, he
worked at the Interuniversity Micro Electronic Center (IMEC) from 1987 to
1991. During 1993 to 1998, he was a member of the Alcatel Corporate Research
Center in Antwerp, where he was engaged in performance analysis of ATM systems
and in network architectural concepts of both ATM networks (PNNI) and the
Internet. He was a visiting scientist at MIT (department of Electrical
Engineering, 1992-1993) and a visiting professor at UCLA (department of
Electrical Engineering, 2005), at Cornell University (Center of Applied
Mathematics, 2009) and at Stanford University (department of Electrical
Egineering, 2015). He was member of the editorial board of Computer Networks
(2005-2006), the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2008-2012), the Journal
of Discrete Mathematics (2012-2014) and Computer Communications (2012-2015).
https://www.nas.ewi.tudelft.nl/people/Piet/.
The conference program includes 24 full and 4 short papers. The themes of the
conference this year were broad and encompassed work in the areas of network
security, security risks and investments, decision making for privacy,
security games, incentives in security, cybersecurity mechanisms, intrusion
detection, and information limitations in security. The program also includes
a special track on “Data-Centric Models and Approaches” which aims to close
the gap between theory and practice in this domain.
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Kind regards,
GameSec 2017 Organizers:
Bo An (TPC co-chair), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Christopher Kiekintveld (TPC co-chair), University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Stefan Rass (General Chair), Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
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