Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Abstract

We are pleased to present herein the proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015), held in Denver, Colorado, USA, October 12-16, 2015. We received 660 submissions (not including some initial withdrawals). This is the largest number of submissions received to date by a computer security conference. A Program Committee comprising 120 experts from 20 countries, helped by 338 external reviewers, evaluated these submissions, employing the customary double-blind review procedure. The review process resulted in 128 papers being accepted to the program (with authors from 19 countries), representing an acceptance rate of about 19.4% and providing a very broad coverage of the entire information security area. The review process was organized in three phases. After a first review phase, the authors of each paper were sent at least two preliminary reviews (the vast majority of papers, in fact, got three reviews). Authors were given an opportunity to respond to the comments received. During the second phase, reviews were updated as necessary, and, in some cases, additional reviews were solicited. The first and third phases included comprehensive discussions, and after an intensive final debate, the acceptance decisions were made. This year, we introduced a rebuttal task force, whose 15 members were selected from the Program Committee. The goal of this task force was to go over all the authors' responses (rebuttals) received in the second phase and to ensure that the reviewers properly addressed all valid concerns that the authors had raised. We hope that most authors benefitted from the feedback received from the CCS reviewers, and that the review process has helped them improve their papers (while we are also aware that due to the short reviewing time, at a conference of CCS scale it is unavoidable that a handful of reviews may be possibly lacking in some respect).