ACM ASIACCS 2027 | 12-16 July Macau

The 22st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2027) seeks paper submissions presenting novel contributions related to all real-world aspects of security and privacy. We seek articles presenting accessible and compelling results to general computer security researchers. Purely theoretical (e.g., cryptography-focused, with no security/application connections) submissions are not encouraged. The same applies for submissions focusing primarily on blockchains or machine learning.

As in previous years, we will also be accepting “Systemisation of Knowledge” (SoK) papers. SoK submissions need to add the prefix “SoK” in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be accepted based on the value to the community. Survey papers without insights evaluating, systematizing and contextualizing current knowledge will be rejected.

Program Chairs

• Neil Gong, Duke University
• Nils Ole Tippenhauer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Track Chairs

• Jason Polakis                          University of Illinois Chicago
• Hongxin Hu                              University at Buffalo

Security Usability and Measurement

• Lea Gröber                               UC Berkeley
• Doowon Kim                            University of Tennessee, Knoxville

AI Security

• Ivan Evtimov                            Meta  
• Jinyuan Jia                               Penn State
• Shuai Wang                               The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Privacy and Anonymity

• Varun Chandrasekaran           University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Yuan Hong                                University of Connecticut 

Important Dates

1st round 

• Paper Submission: 21 August 2026 (AoE).
• Early Rejection: 25 September 2026 (AoE)
• Rebuttal phase: 26 Oct – 30 Oct 2026 (AoE)
• Author Notification: 13 Nov 2026 (AoE)
• Camera Ready: 11 Dec 2026 (AoE)
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2nd round 

• Paper Submission: 11 December 2026 (AoE)
• Early Rejection: 5 February 2027 (AoE)
• First round major revision deadline: 10 Feb 2027 (AoE)
• Rebuttal phase: 8 – 12 March 2027 (AoE)
• Author Notification: 31 March 2027 (AoE)
• Camera Ready: 7 May 2027 (AoE)

Important Notes

• All authors should provide their ORCIDs through the profile page on HotCRP by the submission deadline.
• All submissions should have an Open Science appendix after the references. For submissions whose claimed contributions rely on artifacts (e.g., code, models, or datasets), the Open Science appendix may simply consist of an anonymous link to the artifacts. If a submission’s contributions do not rely on artifacts, or if the authors have valid reasons for not providing them, this should be explicitly stated in the Open Science appendix.
• If a submission may raise ethical concerns, it should include an appendix titled Ethical Considerations after the references, clearly articulating these concerns and describing how they have been carefully and thoroughly addressed. In cases of uncertainty, authors are encouraged to include this appendix.

Submission Instructions

Please read the instructions below before submitting your paper. Please get in touch with the PC chairs at asiaccs2027-pcchairs@acm.org for any questions regarding submissions.  

The submission server for the first round is located at: https://asiaccs27cycle1.hotcrp.com/.

The submission server for the second round will be at: https://asiaccs27cycle2.hotcrp.com/.

Paper Formatting

Technical papers submitted for ASIACCS must be written in English. Papers must be in PDF format in double-column format ACM format using the latest ACM Sigconf style conference template ( available here ). Papers must be no more than 12 pages in length, excluding the bibliography and any well-marked appendices. Up to 10 additional pages are allowed for the bibliography and appendices, but note that reviewers are not required to read appendices. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. The CCS information such as concepts, keywords, or rights management information (e.g., DOI and ISBN) must be retained. Titles of SoK papers must begin with “SoK:”. Submissions not meeting these requirements risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Tracks and Track Chairs

Continuing our process from ASIACCS 2026, we have 7 technical tracks, chaired by 15 track chairs (2 or 3 per track). At the time of submission, authors must select one track, which should be the most relevant to the topic of the paper. Note that the AI Security track is intended for papers that study the security and privacy of AI/ML systems. Papers that leverage AI/ML techniques to address security problems in specific domains—such as network security, web security, or software security—should instead be submitted to the corresponding domain-specific tracks, where appropriate expertise is available. The Program Chairs may decide to move a paper to another track. PC members will typically provide reviews within a single track but may be asked to review papers from other tracks in order to provide the best possible reviews to authors. Track Chairs will be responsible for managing the papers within their track, ensuring reviews are completed in a timely manner, that rebuttals are heeded by reviewers, and that discussion takes place amongst reviewers. They will make recommendations concerning acceptance or rejection of papers in their tracks, but final decisions rest with the Program Chairs, who may use additional criteria such as program balance and cross-comparison across tracks when making final decisions.  

Conflicts of Interest

The conference requires cooperation from both authors and program-committee members to ensure a fair review process. For this purpose, authors must report all program-committee members who, in their opinion, have a conflict of interest and therefore may not be able to provide an unbiased review. Mandatory declared conflicts of interest include current or former doctoral advisor/advisee, members of the same institution, close family members, and ongoing or recent (within the past two years) research collaborators on papers or funded projects. For any other declared conflict, authors are required to explain the nature of the conflict at the time of paper submission. These will be reviewed by the Program Chairs and the Track Chairs. The chairs reserve the right to request further explanation and can remove non-mandatory conflicts at their discretion.

Track Chairs are permitted to submit papers. They may submit up to two papers to their own track, and an unlimited number of papers to other tracks. Submissions to their own track will be handled by the Program Committee Chairs to avoid conflicts of interest.

Program-committee members who have a genuine conflict of interest with a paper, including the Program Chairs and the Track Chairs, will be excluded from evaluation and discussion of that paper. When a Track Chair has a conflict, the paper will be handled by the Program Chairs or by another Track Chair. When a Program Chair is conflicted, the other Co-Chair will be responsible for managing that paper. When both Program Chairs are in conflict, a committee member will be appointed to handle the paper. Program Chairs are not allowed to be authors or co-authors of any submissions.

Anonymous Submissions

ASIACCS employs a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should avoid obvious self-references and should appropriately blind them if used. The list of authors cannot be changed (but the order can be) after the submission is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. Publishing the submission on a preprint repository, such as arXiv, is allowed but authors should refrain from broadly advertising their results (e.g., social media, seminars, etc.) and must not contact TPC members regarding their submitted work.

Double and Concurrent Submissions

Submissions to ASIACCS 2027 must not substantially overlap with papers that are published or simultaneously submitted to other venues with proceedings (including journals or conferences/workshops). Double submission will result in immediate rejection. We may report detected violations to other conference chairs and journal editors.

Open Science

• Each submission must include an appendix titled Open Science, which should appear after the references. This appendix should be at most half a page in length.
• For submissions whose claimed contributions rely on artifacts (e.g., code, models, or datasets), authors should provide an anonymous link (e.g., via https://anonymous.4open.science/) to the artifacts in the Open Science appendix. In such cases, the Open Science appendix may simply consist of this anonymous link. The artifacts must remain accessible to reviewers throughout the entire review process.
• If a submission’s contributions do not rely on artifacts, or if the authors have valid reasons for not providing them, this must be explicitly stated in the Open Science appendix
• While ASIACCS 2027 will not include a formal artifact evaluation process, authors are strongly encouraged to make their artifacts publicly available upon acceptance.

Ethical Considerations

• If authors believe their submission does not raise ethical concerns, no discussion is required.
• Otherwise, authors must clearly articulate any potential ethical or legal issues related to their work—such as implications of their results, highly critical vulnerabilities, or exploits—in an appendix titled Ethical Considerations. In this appendix, authors should provide evidence—beyond institutional approval—demonstrating that these issues have been carefully and thoroughly considered. The Ethical Considerations appendix should appear after the references and be at most half a page in length.
• The Program Committee reserves the right to reject submissions that fail to address relevant ethical considerations or that provide insufficient evidence that such concerns have been appropriately evaluated.

Desk Rejection

Submissions will be checked for compliance after submission and may be desk rejected before being assigned to reviewers. Reasons for desk rejection include, but are not limited to: detection of fabricated content (e.g., hallucinated references); failure to provide an Open Science appendix; abuse of the conflict-of-interest declaration; failure to properly anonymize the paper; and attempts to disrupt the review process (e.g., prompt injection or malware embedded in the PDF or artifacts).

Early Rejection and Rebuttals

Papers that receive substantially negative initial reviews will be rejected early. The authors of early-rejected papers, and only such papers, will receive a copy of their initial reviews.

Papers that are not early rejected will receive further reviews. We will endeavour to have all reviews for each submission available to the authors at the start of the rebuttal period. Rebuttals will be limited in length. Reviewers will be encouraged to update their reviews in the light of rebuttals and to interact with authors via the online review system should further questions arise post-rebuttal.

Major Revision

Rejected papers in the first round cannot be resubmitted in the second round. A small number of the first round submissions may receive a Major Revision decision, rather than Accept or Reject and may be revised and resubmitted together with a response to reviewers’ comments to the same submission server during the second round review phase. The revision requirements may include running additional experiments, improving the paper’s presentation, or other improvements. Papers meeting the set requirements will typically be accepted. We will request additional revisions only in exceptional circumstances.

Withdrawal Policy

A submission may be withdrawn at any time during the review process.

Generative AI Usage

Authors are permitted to use generative or agentic AI tools in the research and writing process, including—but not limited to—generating research ideas, producing experimental code, proving theorems, creating tables or figures, surveying related work, drafting text, and polishing the manuscript. However, authors remain fully responsible for ensuring the correctness of all results and references, as well as the accuracy of all claims presented in the paper.

Camera-Ready and Conference Presentation

If a paper is accepted, the author list in the submission cannot be changed when preparing the camera-ready version. Authors of accepted papers must also guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. At least one paper author must register for each accepted paper at the appropriate full conference rate.

ACMs new open access publishing model for 2026 onwards

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM transitioned to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, are now 100% Open Access. Authors have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 2,600 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 76%).

Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/policy-on-discretionary-open-access-apc-waivers.  Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

The exact APC for 2027 has not been announced by ACM so far. In 2026, the fees were between 250 and 300 USD (ACM members/non-members).

Contact

For any questions related to paper submissions, please contact the PC chairs at: asiaccs2027-pcchairs@acm.org.