Original contributions on technical, legal, social and economical aspects of protecting systems that are intended to work or have been working during a long period of time are solicited for submission to PLLS 2018. Submissions are welcome on any topics related to long-term security, including, but not limited to:
The proceedings of PLLS 2018 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX and must use the Springer LNCS format with the default margins and font, except that page numbers must be displayed. This can be done by putting \pagestyle{plain} into the preamble.
Submissions may contain at most 16 pages including the title page, bibliography, and figures. Optionally, clearly marked supplementary material may be supplied, following after the main body of the paper or in separate files. Reviewers are not required to read or review the supplementary material. The submissions have to be intelligible without it.
Submissions should begin with a title and abstract, followed by an introduction that summarizes the contribution in a manner that is understandable to a general audience. As all submissions will be blind-reviewed, they must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, or obvious references.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate works that are published or have been submitted in parallel to any other journal, conference or workshop with published proceedings. All submissions to PLLS 2018 are viewed as active throughout the entire review period and may not be submitted to any other journal, conference or workshop with published proceedings before the notification date. Accepted submissions cannot appear in the proceedings of any other conference or workshop. Papers must be submitted electronically.
All accepted papers must conform to the Springer publishing requirements.
All papers have to be submitted through EasyChair: Submit/revise a paper