SACMAT

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 22nd ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2017) taking place in Indianapolis, IN, USA on June 21-23, 2017. The SACMAT symposium series is the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of access control in terms of models, systems, applications, and theory. The symposium aims to share novel access control solutions that fulfill the needs of heterogeneous applications and environments, and to identify new directions for future research and development. This year SACMAT introduced a special focus on access control technologies for Internet of Things. We hope to expand this focus in the next editions of SACMAT.

The call for papers attracted about 50 submissions from a variety of countries around the world. Submissions were anonymous; each paper has been reviewed by at least three reviewers who are experts in the field. Extensive online discussions took place to make the selections for the symposium. The program committee finally accepted 14 papers as full papers and 4 papers as short ones for presentation at the symposium. The topics covered include network and mobile access control, access control in applications including IoT and medical devices, policy engineering, access control specification and access control enforcement. The program is complemented by poster and demonstrations sessions, and by a panel discussion focusing on access control in mobile operating systems. We are also very proud to present as part of the program two exciting keynote talks by Seraphin Calo (IBM Research), and Marten van Dijk (University of Connecticut).