Information on Selected Conferences and Journals

Security

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

Submission deadline: early May, Conference dates: late October - early November

Acceptance rate: 2006 - 17.7%, 2005 - 15.3%, 2004 - 13.9%, 2003 - 13.8%, 2002 - 17.6%, 2001 - 17.6%, 2000 - 21.4%

ACM Electronic Commerce (EC)

Submission deadline: November - December, Conference dates: May - June

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 29.2%, 2004 - 16.4%, 2003 - 19.1%, 2002 - %, 2001 - 35.0%, 2000 - 19.3%

ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)

Submission deadline: mid December, Conference dates: early June

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 21.1%, 2004 - 28.1%, 2003 - 36.5%, 2002 - 32.1%, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Submission deadline: July, Conference dates: late October - early November (as a part of CCS)

Acceptance rate: 2004 - %, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)

Submission deadline: June, Conference dates: late October - early November (as a part of CCS)

Acceptance rate: 2004 - 23.3%, 2003 - 32.0%, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)

Submission deadline: late May - early June, Conference dates: December

Acceptance rate: 2004 - 26.1%, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

Submission deadline: March, Conference dates: September

Acceptance rate: 2005 - %, 2004 - 17.0%, 2003 - 16.7%, 2002 - 19.3%, 2000 - 25.3%

IEEE Conference on E-commerce Technology (CEC)

Submission deadline: January - February, Conference dates: July

Acceptance rate: 2004 - %, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)

Submission deadline: November, Conference dates: May

Acceptance rate: 2006 - 12.7%, 2005 - 8.9%, 2004 - 9.9%, 2003 - 14.5%, 2002 - %, 2001 - 17.8%, 2000 - 13.1%

International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)

Submission deadline: late January - early February, Conference dates: June

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 22.2%, 2004 - 12.1%, 2003 - 16.8%

International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS)

Submission deadline: May - July, Conference dates: October - December

Acceptance rate: 2004 - 16.9%, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

USENIX Security Symposium

Submission deadline: February, Conference dates: August

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 14.9%, 2004 - 12.0%, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - 28.9%, 2000 - %

Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)

Submission deadline: late January - early February, Conference dates: late May - early June

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 24.7%, 2004 - %, 2003 - %, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

Cryptography

ASIACRYPT

Submission deadline: May, Conference dates: December

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 15.8%, 2004 - 17.3%, 2003 - 17.6%, 2002 - 19.7%, 2001 - 21.6%, 2000 - 32.1%

CRYPTO

Submission deadline: February, Conference dates: August

Acceptance rate: 2004 - 15.6%, 2003 - 20.1%, 2002 - 22.8%, 2001 - 21.2%, 2000 - 26.7%

EUROCRYPT

Submission deadline: November, Conference dates: May

Acceptance rate: 2004 - 17.5%, 2003 - 23.7%, 2002 - 27.0%, 2001 - 21.3%, 2000 - 26.0%

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)

Submission deadline: September (or later), Conference dates: January - February - March

Acceptance rate: 2006 - 29.7% (for full papers) 2005 - 23.9%, 2004 - %, 2003 - 26%, 2002 - 25.6%, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public key Cryptography (PKC)

Submission deadline: August - September, Conference dates: January - March

Acceptance rate: 2005 - 22.2%, 2004 - 30.2%, 2003 - 24.8%, 2002 - 37.7%, 2001 - 45%, 2000 - 44.3%

Information and Data Management

ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

Submission deadline: November, Conference dates: June

Acceptance rate: 2004 - %, 2003 - 15.2%, 2002 - %, 2001 - %, 2000 - %

ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

Submission deadline: January, Conference dates: August

Acceptance rate: 2004 - %, 2003 - 17.3%, 2002 - 20.1%, 2001 - 23.4%, 2000 - %

Journals

International Journal on Information Security (IJIS)

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