Language

Papers may be written in French or in English. English translations of the title and abstract are required for French submissions.

Audience

C&ESAR targets a diverse audience of decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers, in particular:

• Decision makers interested in:
  • broad and well constructed overview of cybersecurity challenges and solutions;
• “Technology scouts” of operational units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of practice (what others in the same domain do),
  • identifying recent mature technologies that may help solving some of their operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of innovation units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of the art in their specialty,
  • knowing more about the operational problems addressed by others in their community,
  • identifying recent to be matured technologies that may help solving some of their operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of research units interested in:
  • knowing more about the state of the art in specialties related to their own,
  • identifying operational problems related to their research specialties.

Selection criteria

All papers are evaluated based on:

• relevance to C&ESAR’s intended audience;
• clarity and pedagogical value;
• adherence to this call for papers.

Additional criteria:

• Regular & Short Papers must be original, unpublished, and innovative. Highly specialized technical papers will be appreciated if they contribute to explain and analyze the state of the art or practice and their deficiencies.
• SoK Papers must present a thorough analysis of scientific and industrial literature; and a synthesis must accompany this analysis.
• Extended Abstracts must clearly identify and cite the original publications. Their evaluation is more selective, and emphasizes the didactical quality and large audience of the papers.
• Replication Papers must clearly identify and cite the replicated work. They must add value to the replicated work (e.g., at the clarity level, by providing a better explanation of the work; at the pedagogical level, by providing additional explanations facilitating the replication; at the scientific level, by exploring the limitations of the original work, or by replicating it in a different setting).
• Practice Papers evaluation emphasizes their didactical quality and large audience accessibility.
• For papers identified as WiP, the above criteria are adapted to focus on the novelty and impact potential for the intended audience of C&ESAR. WiP papers are assumed less mature than other papers. They may present work that are incomplete or incorrect in some aspects, but will still expose C&ESAR’s audience to interesting and novel ideas and concepts.