Please, find below the extended call for papers for PPREW 2014.

Apologies for any duplicates you may receive.

Best regards,

Todd McDonald,

PPREW 2014 co-chair

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Extended Submission Deadline: 8 November

3rd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW 2014)
Collocated with Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2014)
The US Grant, San Diego, CA
January 25, 2014
http://www.pprew.org

Important Dates:
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Paper Submission:  November 8, 2013
Author Notification: December 1, 2013
Camera Ready: December 20, 2013

Workshop Aims:
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Program protection and reverse engineering are dualisms of good and evil. Beneficial uses of reverse engineering abound: malicious software needs to be analyzed and understood in order to prevent their spread and to assess their functional footprint; owners of intellectual property (IP) at times need to recover lost or unmaintained designs. Conversely, malicious reverse engineering allows illegal copying and subversion and designers can employ obfuscation and tamper-proofing on IP to target various attack vectors. In this sense, protecting IP and protecting malware from detection and analysis is a double-edged sword: depending on the context, the same techniques are either beneficial or harmful. Likewise, tools that deobfuscate malware in good contexts become analysis methods that support reverse engineering for illegal activity.
PPREW invites papers on practical and theoretical approaches for program protection and reverse engineering used in beneficial contexts, focusing on analysis/deobfuscation of malicious code and methods/tools that hinder reverse engineering. Ongoing work with preliminary results, theoretical approaches, tool-based methods, and empirical studies on various methods are all appropriate. Studies on either hardware/circuit based methods or software/assembly based mechanisms are within scope of the workshop. We expect the workshop to provide exchange of ideas and support for cooperative relationships among researchers in industry and academia.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following.

- Obfuscation / Deobfuscation
- Tamper-proofing / Hardware-based protection
- Theoretical proofs for exploitation or protection
- Software watermarking / Digital fingerprinting
- Reverse engineering tools and techniques
- Side channel analysis and vulnerability mitigation
- Program / circuit slicing
- Information hiding and discovery
- Theoretical analysis frameworks:
  o Abstract Interpretation
  o Term Rewriting Systems
  o Machine Learning
  o Large Scale Boolean Matching
- Component / Functional Identification
- Program understanding
- Source code (static/dynamic) analysis techniques

Submission Guidelines:
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Original, unpublished manuscripts of up to 12-pages including figures and references must follow the ACM proceedings format. SIGPLAN conference paper templates are available for LaTeX and Word at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author (use the 9 pt template). Submissions must be in PDF. See workshop website (http://www.pprew.org) for more details.

Submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Re-publication Policy and the ACM Policy on Plagiarism. Concurrent submissions to other conferences, workshops, journals, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines may not be considered.

All accepted papers will appear in formal proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library

Workshop Steering Committee:
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Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy

J. Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, USA

Arun Lakhotia, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, USA
Roberto Giocabazzi, University of Verona, Italy

Program Committee:
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Jack Davidson, University of Virginia, USA

Saumya Debray, University of Arizona, USA
Jean-Yves Marion, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Nancy (INPL), France
Sylvain Guilley, TELECOM-ParisTech, France
Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Mathias Payer, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Andy King, University of Kent, UK
Stacy Prowell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Guillaume Bonfante, Loria, France