4th Automotive Cyber-Security Workshop

Event Dates

Jun 30, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025

Location

Venice, Italy

Submission Deadline

Feb 19, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a paper to the 2025 Automotive

Cyber Security Workshop (ACSW’25) co-located with the 10th IEEE European

Symposium on Security and Privacy (Venice, Italy, June 30, 2025).

Conference website https://acsw.unimore.it/

Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw25

Submission deadline Extended to February 19th, 2025 AoE (firm)

Author Notification March 24th, 2025

The workshop will take place on June 30, 2025 (pre-conference workshop)

in Venice, Italy.

*Call for Papers*

The fourth edition of the Automotive Cyber Security Workshop aims to

bring together researchers and practitioners, interested in all aspects

of automotive systems security, to contribute with and discuss new

advances in the field of automotive cybersecurity. The Automotive Cyber

Security Workshop aims to present recent advances in the

state-of-the-art for cybersecurity of road vehicles, bringing together

researchers and practitioners across all areas of computer security

focusing on automotive systems.

All papers discussing security and privacy issues of modern vehicles are

welcome for submission. ACSW particularly welcomes papers focusing on

the security of communication networks found inside and outside the

modern vehicles, on the privacy issues related to modern infotainment

systems, and on the forensic analysis of modern vehicle components.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

– Hardware security and privacy in automotive components

– Forensic analysis of automotive components

– Firmware analysis and vulnerability assessment in automotive contexts

– Reverse engineering of automotive components and proprietary protocols

– Privacy-preserving applications in modern vehicles

– Secure and privacy-preserving communications for in-vehicle

communication protocols

– Intrusion detection and prevention systems for automotive systems

– Replication and Reproduction of security and privacy-preserving

solutions for automotive systems

– Secure and privacy-preserving communications for Vehicle-to-Vehicle

(V2V) and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) applications

– Secure and privacy-preserving applications in Cooperative

Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS)

– Security and privacy for automotive-related infrastructures

– Security and privacy in automotive-related industries

– Vulnerability assessment and attack simulations of automotive systems

[new this year – Replication and Reproduction track] This year, we are

inviting studies that confirm, challenge, or clarify the findings of

previous research. These papers must include the prefix “R+R:” in their

title and select the dedicated track in the submission form. We strongly

encourage authors to adhere to the well-known guidelines on

reproducibility (same experimental setup, conducted by a different team,

utilizing original artifacts) and replicability (different experimental

setup, conducted by a different team, re-implementing original

artifacts). However, submissions must go beyond merely re-running the

original artifacts or re-implementing existing methods. We are seeking

contributions that not only replicate previous studies but also

critically analyze, refine, and expand upon their findings and

limitations. This includes, but is not limited to:

– Verifying the validity and reliability of existing research results

across diverse contexts,

– Extracting lessons learned from applying research outcomes in

real-world or industrial settings, and

– Adapting artifacts to address modern cybersecurity challenges.

Reproducibility and replication submissions will be subject to the same

rigorous scientific standards as other technical paper submissions. They

will undergo full program committee review, be included in the

proceedings, and have to be presented during the technical program of

the conference. We particularly encourage authors of these papers to

provide the software and data artifacts used in their studies, making

them publicly available to the entire community.

*Important Dates*

– Submission deadline for papers: February 3rd, 2025

– Author notification: March 24th, 2025

– Workshop day: June 30th, 2025

*Submission Instructions – Page Limit and Formatting*

Instructions regarding page limits and formatting can be found on the

workshop web page: https://acsw.unimore.it/submission.html.

Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, through

EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw25).

*Review Process*

Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process, so

authors must make sure that initial submissions do not contain

information that might reveal their identity (e.g., author names,

affiliations, email addresses or obvious self references). It is the

author’s responsibility to ensure that their anonymity is preserved when

citing their own work. Failures to adhere to these requirements can be

grounds for rejection.

*Submission and Proceedings*

Accepted articles in the regular and short paper tracks will be

published through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE

EuroS&P 2025 proceedings. Authors can choose to have their paper

excluded from the proceedings. At least one author for each accepted

paper is expected to register and participate in the workshop for

presentation.

All submissions considered for inclusion in the proceedings must contain

an original contribution and should not be concurrently submitted to

other workshops, conferences, or journals. These requirements are

relaxed for papers which will not be included in the proceedings.

*Organizing Committee*

– Pal-Stefan Murvay, Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica

University of Timișoara, Romania

– Dario Stabili, Department of Engineering ¨Enzo Ferrari¨, University

of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

*Program committee*

– Daniele Antonioli, EURECOM, France

– Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova, Italy

– Meryem Benyahya, Université de Genève, Switzerland

– Jeremy Bryans, Coventry University, UK

– Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy

– Denis Donadel, University of Verona, Italy

– Giovanni Gambigliani Zoccoli, University of Modena and Reggio

Emilia, Italy

– Bela Genge, Bitdefender, Romania

– Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania

– Niclas Ilg, Bosch Research, Germany

– Konstantinos Kalogiannis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

– Wenjuan Lu, Block Harbor Security, USA

– Francesco Marchiori, University of Padova, Italy

– Ryo Kurachi, Nagoya University, Japan

– Stefano Longari, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

– Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

– Ilaria Matteucci, CNR, Italy

– Mario Raciti, University of Catania, Italy

– Samuel Woo, Dankook University, Korea

*Contacts*

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

– Pal-Stefan Murvay (pal-stefan.murvay@aut.upt.ro)

– Dario Stabili (dario.stabili@unimore.it)