Friday, October 13, 2017

[Mycolleagues] 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) | Call for Participation

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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