Research paper program

Call for Papers

NDSS SafeOSE invites original research on security, privacy, and trust in open-source ecosystems including those driven by open standards.

Research scope

Topics of interest

We welcome technical, empirical, interdisciplinary, and community-centered work that studies how vulnerabilities and defenses propagate through shared artifacts, standards, governance structures, communities, and dependencies. Standardized IoT and AI-agent ecosystems are prominent examples, but the research scope extends across open-source and standards-driven ecosystems in all domains.

Security and privacy of open-source ecosystems
Analysis of open standards, specifications, protocols, and reference implementations
Open-source AI and agent ecosystems: NLIP, A2A, MCP, AGNTCY, AG2, NANDA, and more
Standardized IoT: Matter, MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, BLE, and their real-world deployment
Agent identity, authorization, delegation, accountability, and information flow in OSE
SBOM, CBOM, AI-BOM, and provenance in open-source ecosystems
Verification, program analysis, fuzzing, and AI-assisted analysis
Trust, privacy, accountability, policy, regulation, and incentives
Ecosystem governance, maintainers, disclosure, and sustainability
Measurements, benchmarks, datasets, adoption, and case studies

Paper submissions

Submission information

NDSS SafeOSE accepts regular papers of up to 8 pages and short or work-in-progress papers of up to 4 pages. Submissions must use the NDSS workshop proceedings format and will undergo double-blind peer review.

Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings through the Internet Society. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present at the workshop.

NDSS paper templates ↗ Submission website coming soon

Paper timeline