International Workshop on Software PROtection (SPRO 2015)

The International Workshop on Software PROtection (SPRO 2015) will be held in Florence, Italy, on May 19th, 2015 (co-located with ICSE 2015). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry and government that presents research on all aspects in Software Protection. Topics of specific interest include new software protection techniques and supporting compiler technology, compiler techniques for attacking software protection, evaluation techniques, and industrialisation thereof. A non-exhaustive list of topics is presented on https://aspire-fp7.eu/spro/call-for-papers/.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE ICSE workshop proceedings. Submissions can be of two types: regular papers or short papers. Short papers can be initial works of PhD students or opinion pieces from recognized experts. Regular papers must follow the ICSE 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines and must have a maximum length of seven (7) pages; short papers must have a maximum length of four (4) pages. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. Articles must be novel: IEEE does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. For general author guidelines, see http://2015.icse-conferences.org/submissionguidelines. For submission, check the SPRO official webpage.

Important Dates

Extended submission deadline: 30 January, 2015

Notification of acceptand: 18 February, 2015

Camera-ready papers: 27 February, 2015

Workshop: 19 May, 2015