Ranking & Metrics
Impact Score is a novel metric devised to rank conferences based on the number of contributing the best scientists in addition to the h-index estimated from the scientific papers published by the best scientists. See more details on our methodology page.
Research Impact Score:11.30
Contributing Best Scientists:175
H5-index:
Papers published by Best Scientists189
Research Ranking (Computer Science)29
Conference Call for Papers
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
Cyber-crime defense and forensics (e.g., anti-phishing, anti-blackmailing, anti-fraud techniques)
Security for future Internet architectures and designs (e.g., Software-Defined Networking)
Implementation, deployment and management of network security policies
Integrating security in network protocols (e.g., routing, naming, and management)
Cyber attack (e.g., APTs, botnets, DDoS) prevention, detection, investigation, and response
Software/firmware analysis, customization, and transformation for systems security
Privacy and anonymity in networks and distributed systems
Security and privacy for blockchains and cryptocurrencies
Public key infrastructures, key management, certification, and revocation
Security for cloud/edge computing
Security and privacy of mobile/smartphone platforms
Security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, industrial control systems)
Security for emerging networks (e.g., home networks, IoT, body-area networks, VANETs)
Security for large-scale, critical infrastructures (e.g., electronic voting, smart grid)
Security and privacy of systems based on machine learning and AI
Security of Web-based applications and services (e.g., social networking, crowd-sourcing)
Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between security and efficiency, usability, cost, and ethics
Usable security and privacy
Trustworthy Computing software and hardware to secure networks and systems
Overview
Top Research Topics at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium?
Computer security (38.17%)
Computer network (16.77%)
World Wide Web (8.97%)
The conference is organized to address concerns in the fields of Computer security, Computer network, World Wide Web, Internet privacy and The Internet.
Computer security study tackled is connected to the field of Android (operating system).
More specifically, the research on Computer network in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium is related to Network packet.
What are the most cited papers published at the conference?
A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection. (1453 citations)
Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software (1411 citations)
DREBIN: Effective and Explainable Detection of Android Malware in Your Pocket. (1246 citations)
Research areas of the most cited articles at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium:
The conference articles primarily tackle Computer security, Computer network, Malware, Android (operating system) and World Wide Web.
Issues in Computer security were discussed in the most cited papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like The Internet and Internet privacy.
The study of Computer network in the most cited articles encompasses disciplines such as Distributed computing, as well as fields such as Network security, all of which overlap with one another.
What topics the last edition of the conference is best known for?
Computer network
Operating system
Computer security
The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:
The primary areas of discussion in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium are Computer security, Computer network, The Internet, World Wide Web and Operating system.
In addition to Computer security research, it aims to explore topics under Protocol (object-oriented programming) and Service (systems architecture).
Topics in Computer network were tackled in line with various other fields like Denial-of-service attack, Distributed computing and Cryptography.
The work on Operating system presented in the event focuses on Android (operating system) in particular.
The most cited articles from the last conference are:
A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection. (1453 citations)
Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software (1411 citations)
Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing. (1002 citations)
Papers citation over time
A key indicator for each conference is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.
The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.
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Top authors and change over time
The top authors publishing at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (based on the number of publications) are:
Wenke Lee (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (13 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
Giovanni Vigna (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
Christopher Kruegel (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
Thorsten Holz (10 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.
The overall trend for top authors publishing at this conference is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the conference for top authors.
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Top affiliations and change over time
Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered
The top affiliations publishing at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (based on the number of publications) are:
University of California, Berkeley (34 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
Georgia Institute of Technology (31 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (23 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
Technische Universität Darmstadt (21 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
Purdue University (20 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.
The overall trend for top affiliations publishing at this conference is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the conference for top affiliations.
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Publication chance based on affiliation
The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions at the conference edition to all articles published within that conference. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the conference.
The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.
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During the most recent 2019 edition, 3.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 30.34% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing at the conference. Another 19.10% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.84% of all publications and 24.72% were from other institutions.
Returning Authors Index
A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of conferences they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same conference from year to year.
The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the conference in relation to all participants in a given year.
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Returning Institution Index
The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.
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The experience to innovation index
Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing at a conference. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a conference, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).
The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:
Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).
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The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
