Language

Papers may be written in French or in English. English translations of the title and abstract are required for submissions in French.

Audience

C&ESAR targets a diverse audience of decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers, in particular:

• Decision-makers seeking:
  • A comprehensive and well-structured overview of cybersecurity challenges and strategic solutions;
• “Technology scouts” of operational units looking to:
  • Benchmark the state of practice (understanding peer strategies and industry standards),
  • Identify mature technologies capable of solving immediate operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of innovation units interested in:
  • Staying at the forefront of the state of the art within their specialty,
  • Understanding the operational problems faced by others in their community,
  • Identifying promising technologies to be matured that may help solving some of their operational problems;
• Engineers and researchers of research units seeking to:
  • Expand their knowledge of the state of the art in related specialties,
  • Gain exposure to real-world operational problems to ground and direct their research.

Selection criteria

All submissions are evaluated based on:

• Relevance to C&ESAR’s intended audience;
• Clarity and pedagogical value;
• Adherence to the guidelines and objectives of this call for papers.

Additional criteria:

• Original research papers: Must be original, unpublished, and innovative. Highly specialized papers are welcome if they contribute to explain and analyze the state of the art or practice and their deficiencies.
• Practice papers: Must have a high didactic quality, operational relevance, and accessibility for a broad professional audience.
• SoK papers: Must present a thorough analysis of scientific and industrial literature, accompanied by a clear synthesis that provides new perspectives on the domain.
• Extended abstracts: Must clearly identify and cite the original publication(s). Evaluation is highly selective, emphasizing didactic quality and the ability to bridge complex findings for a broader audience.
• Replication papers: Must clearly identify and cite the replicated work. They must add value (e.g., at the clarity level, by providing a better explanation of the work; at the pedagogical level, by providing additional explanations facilitating the replication; at the scientific level, by exploring the limitations of the original work, or by replicating it in a different setting).

• Work in Progress (WiP): Criteria are adapted to focus on novelty and potential impact for the intended audience of C&ESAR. While these papers may be preliminary or incomplete, they must succeed in exposing the audience to promising and original concepts.