2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '20)

July 15–17, 2020, Boston, MA, USA

Call for Papers

The 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '20) seeks original, high-quality submissions that improve and further the knowledge of computing systems, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. We are interested in systems of all scales, from small embedded mobile devices to data centers and clouds. The scope of USENIX ATC covers all practical aspects related to systems software, including but not limited to: operating systems; runtime systems; parallel and distributed systems; storage; networking; security and privacy; virtualization; software-hardware interactions; performance evaluation and workload characterization; reliability, availability, and scalability; energy/power management; bug-finding, tracing, analyzing, and troubleshooting.

We welcome experience submissions that clearly articulate lessons learned, as well as submissions that refute prior published results. We value submissions more highly if they are accompanied by clearly defined artifacts not previously available, including traces, original data, source code, or tools developed as part of the submitted work. We particularly encourage new ideas and approaches.

Topics of Interest :

• Innovative security or privacy functionality and design
  
• Field studies of security or privacy technology
  
• Usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy features
  
• Security testing of new or existing usability features
  
• Longitudinal studies of deployed security or privacy features
  
• Studies of administrators or developers and support for security and privacy
  
• The impact of organizational policy or procurement decisions
  
• Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features
  
• Foundational principles of usable security or privacy
  
• Ethical, psychological, sociological aspects of usable security and privacy
  
• Usable security and privacy implications/solutions for specific domains (e.g., IoT, medical, vulnerable populations)
  
• Replicating or extending important previously published studies and experiments

Paper Submission

Papers must be submitted before the aforementioned submission deadline via the USENIX ATC '20 submission site, which will be available soon. Submissions must be in PDF format. No extensions will be given. There is no separate deadline for abstracts registration. Submissions must strictly adhere to the policies specified below. By submitting, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper if accepted. Submissions accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX ATC '20 website. Rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.

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