Call for Papers

Important Dates (AoE)

  • Cycle 1:
  • Cycle 2:
  • Camera ready deadline: Apr 30, 2025
  • Conference: July 9 to 11, 2025

General Information

The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in the broader areas of intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Topics of Interest

DIMVA solicits submissions of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on malware analysis, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and related systems security topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intrusions

  • Novel approaches and domains
  • Insider detection
  • Prevention and response
  • Data leakage, exfiltration, and poisoning
  • Result correlation and cooperation
  • Evasion and other attacks
  • Potentials and limitation
  • Operational experiences
  • Privacy, legal, and social aspects
  • Targeted attacks
  • Analysis or detection of cryptocurrency heists

Malware

  • Automated analyses
  • Behavioral models
  • Prevention and containment
  • Classification
  • Lineage
  • Forensics and recovery
  • Underground economy
  • Vulnerabilities in malware
  • Financially targeted malware (e.g., ransomware, DeFi)

Vulnerability detection

  • Vulnerability prevention
  • Vulnerability analysis
  • Exploitation and defenses
  • Hardware vulnerabilities
  • Situational awareness
  • Active probing
  • Vulnerabilities in decentralized systems

Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity. We expect all papers to provide enough details to enable reproducibility of the experimental results. We encourage papers that bridge research in different communities. We also welcome experience papers that clearly articulate lessons learnt.

Types of Submissions Solicited

We invite full papers for submission that present novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices.

Papers that do not follow these formatting guidelines may be rejected without review.

While we do not accept short papers, we encourage authors to submit a poster instead, presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. Accepted posters will be invited to submit a poster paper to accompany the poster. Poster papers should be at least 4 pages, but no more than 6 pages long in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings. The title of Poster papers must start with the words "Poster".

Submission Guidelines

DIMVA 2025 will adopt a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations must be excluded from the paper. Furthermore, authors should avoid obvious self-references, and should cite their own previous work in third person, whenever necessary. Papers that are not properly anonymized risk being rejected without review.

Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to physically present the submitted work at the conference, for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit code appropriately anonymized, using, e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science/.

Ethical considerations

Submissions that report experiments with data gathered from human subjects should disclose whether the research received approval from an institutional ethics review board (IRB), if applicable, and what measures were adopted to minimize risks to privacy.

Submissions that describe experiments related to vulnerabilities in software or systems should discuss the steps taken to avoid negatively affecting any third-parties (e.g., in case of probing of network devices), and how the authors plan to responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the appropriate software or system vendors or owners before publication.

If you have any questions, please contact the program chairs at pc-chairs@dimva.org.


Committee

Program co-chairs (email: pc-chairs@dimva.org)

Program committee

  • TBD

Publication chair

  • Michele Carminati

Poster chair

  • Tarini Saka

General chair

Steering committee

  • Ulrich Flegel (co-chair)
  • Michael Meier (co-chair)
  • Magnus Almgren
  • Sébastien Bardin
  • Leyla Bilge
  • Gregory Blanc
  • Herbert Bos
  • Danilo M. Bruschi
  • Roland Bueschkes
  • Juan Caballero
  • Lorenzo Cavallaro
  • Hervé Debar
  • Sven Dietrich
  • Mathias Fischer
  • Giorgio Giacinto
  • Cristiano Giuffrida
  • Daniel Gruss
  • Bernhard Haemmerli
  • Thorsten Holz
  • Marko Jahnke
  • Klaus Julisch
  • Christian Kreibich
  • Christopher Kruegel
  • Pavel Laskov
  • Federico Maggi
  • Clémentine Maurice
  • Nuno Neves
  • Roberto Perdisci
  • Michalis Polychronakis
  • Konrad Rieck
  • Jean-Pierre Seifert
  • Robin Sommer
  • Urko Zurutuza

Venue: Graz University of Technology

Front view of Graz University of Technology

DIMVA will be held in the Aula of the historic main building of Graz University of Technology (aka "old campus"). You can reach it via tram lines 1 or 7 from station "Mayffredygasse" within 3 minutes, via tram line 3 from stations "Mandellstraße" or "Rechbauerstraße" within 3-4 minutes, or via tram line 6 from station "Dietrichsteinplatz" within 8 minutes. Navigation via Google Maps works fine in Graz. You can buy tickets via the OEBB website or app, or at the ticket machine inside the trams.

As the campus is located right in the city center, there are many hotels and apartments around so that it is easy to find an accommodation that meets your expectations.

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