NSPW 2025: Call for Papers

NSPW 2025 invites three types of submissions:

1. Regular submissions: Present a new approach (paradigm) to a security problem or critique existing approaches. While regular submissions may present research results, the change in approach should be the focus.
2. Theme Submissions: Focused on “Trusting” and should explain the connection with the theme in the justification statement. They follow the format of a regular submission.
3. Implementation Submissions: Explore implementing previous NSPW submissions. These submissions should clearly cite which previous work(s) is being referenced and how the current submission extends beyond the original scope.

The theme for NSPW 2025 is Trusting.

Relevant Topics for the Theme "Trusting"

• Novel paradigms for conceptualising trust and trusting in computer security
• Trust decisions in a world of deepfakes and misinformation
• Detection of breach of trust, intrusion and misinformation
• Trust boundaries and threat modeling
• Trust in changing threat landscapes and technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence
• Trust evaluation
• Social configuration of trust and mistrust in organisations
• Trust and mistrust as methodological problems in studies of computer security
• The consequences of not trusting
• Audits and certifications
• Authentication and authorization
• Reputation systems and reviewer/recommender systems
• Anomaly detection
• Formal verification and testing
• Privacy
• Decentralized trust
• Zero trust architectures
• Human, social and organisational understandings of trust in technologies

Other interpretations of trusting are welcome.

Submission Instructions

• Confidentiality: All submissions are treated as confidential.
• Prior Publication: NSPW does not accept previously published or concurrently submitted papers.
• Due Date: April 25, 2025, 11:59 PM AoE
• Response Date: May 30, 2025
• Format: PDF format, 6-15 pages, ACM “sigconf” formatting.
• Submission System: Submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nspw2025

Special Submission Instructions

Each paper requires two separate EasyChair submissions:

1. Cover page: with authors’ names, affiliation, and the participation statement.
2. Anonymous PDF paper: with a justification statement.

The participation statement must specify which author(s) will attend upon acceptance/invitation, that all authors will engage in good faith with the feedback given in the review and revision periods, and that all authors will abide by the NSPW code of conduct.

The justification statement (clearly marked as part of the PDF submission) briefly explains why the submission is appropriate for NSPW and the chosen submission category. The justification statement will not appear in the final publication.

To support double-blind reviewing, the cover page should not be part of the PDF submission but will be submitted separately on EasyChair. Submissions that do not include both statements risk rejection without review. In addition, submissions should blind author identity where possible (e.g., using the LaTeX anonymous=true option and avoiding self-referencing).

Organizers and Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but will not be involved in evaluating their papers.

Publication

NSPW'25 papers will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. Note: ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here.

Social Contract and Code of Conduct

• Acceptance to the workshop is conditional on engagement with the revision, presentation, and discussion process.
• All participants must commit to a “social contract”: no one arrives late, no one leaves early, no electronic distractions (including laptops, tablets, and mobile devices), attend all sessions of the 2.5-day program, share meals in a group setting, and comply with the code of conduct.
• The workshop is preceded by an evening reception.
• NSPW is making arrangements for (some) child care during the event. If interested, please email general-chairs@nspw.org for planning purposes.
• The NSPW code of conduct can be found at: https://www.nspw.org/conduct.