Keynote Speakers

Call For Papers       

ASSS aims to provide a platform for professionals from academia and industry to share advanced techniques, experiences and lessons learned for securing software and systems.

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the ones listed below.

- Code Obfuscation
- Anti-Debugging and Anti-Simulation
- Evaluation Methodologies
- Blockchain-based Methods
- Intrusion Detection / Firewall
- Malware Analysis
- Software Vulnerability
- Software Attack and Defenses
- Static and Dynamic Program Analysis
- Hardware-based Attacks and Defenses
- Formal Methods
- AI-based Security Techniques
- Adversarial learning
- Security testing
- Application security

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	15 September 2025
Acceptance Notification	15 October 2025
Camera-ready Copy Due	30 October 2025
Conference	28-30 November 2025

Author Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original papers. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asss2025) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 20 pages (excluding well-marked references and appendix) in Springer LNCS/CCIS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), including tables, figures, references and appendices.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized, or will be rejected automatically. The submission should avoid obvious self-references and should be appropriately blinded.

Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. A best paper award will be granted.

ASSS 2025 Submission Link

The proceeding of this year's conference will be published by Springer. Author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS/CCIS publications can be found via the following link.

Springer LNCS/CCIS Author Information

Journal Special Issues

Selected papers from ASSS 2025 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) for special issues:

Organising Committee

General Chairs

Keke Gai, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland, Australia

Program Chairs

Weizhi Meng, Lancaster University, UK
Qingni Shen, Peking University, China
Tao Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology, China
Jing Yu, Minzu University of China, China

Publicity Chairs

Publication Chair

Wei-Yang Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Program Committee

Steering Committee

Weizhi Meng, Lancaster University, UK

Accepted Papers

 Conference Schedule (Hybrid Conference)

Registration Information

Venue

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