Call For Papers

22nd International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2026) in conjunction with the 31st European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2026).

Place: Rome, Italy
Date: September 14-18, 2026
Deadline: 26 June, 2026
WWW: https://www.nics.uma.es/stm2026/

Overview
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STM (Security and Trust Management) is a working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2026 is the twenty-second workshop in this series and will be held in conjunction with the 31st European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2026). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICTs.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Access control
- Anonymity
- Applied cryptography
- Authentication
- Complex systems security
- Data and application security
- Data protection
- Data/system integrity
- Digital rights management
- Economics of security and privacy
- Formal methods for security and trust
- Identity management
- Legal and ethical issues
- Mobile security
- Networked systems security
- Operating systems security
- Privacy
- Security and trust metrics
- Security and trust policies
- Security and trust management architectures
- Security and trust for big data
- Security and trust in cloud environments
- Security and trust in content delivery networks
- Security and trust in crowdsourcing
- Security and trust in the Internet of Things
- Security and trust in services
- Security and trust in social networks
- Social implications of security and trust
- Trust assessment and negotiation
- Trust in mobile code
- Trust models
- Trust management policies
- Trust and reputation systems
- Trusted platforms
- Trustworthy systems and user devices
- Usage control

Paper Submission Guidelines
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Submissions are to be made to via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026.

All submissions must be written in high-quality English and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of accepted papers). All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font) in the LNCS format, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total.

A paper submitted to STM 2026 must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Moreover, after you submit to STM 2026, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before or after submission of the paper to STM 2026, we will reject your paper without review and will also notify the other conference/journal. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers.

As in previous years, the proceedings will be published online by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (past STM proceedings are available here https://link.springer.com/conference/stm). As such, the final version of an accepted paper must be in the format required for publication in the LNCS series. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs (https://goo.gl/hbsa4D) in their papers. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

At least one author of accepted papers must guarantee that they will present their paper at the workshop.

Important dates
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Paper submission due: June 26, 2026
Notification to authors: July 27, 2026
Camera-ready due: August 3, 2026 ** firm deadline **

Organizing Committee
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Programme Co-chairs:

- Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK
- Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy

Programme Committee:

- Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Ruben Rios, University of Málaga, Spain
- Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain
- Isaac Henderson, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany
- Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Joachim Posegga, University Passau, Germany
- Hiroshi Tsunoda, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan
- Nektaria Kaloudi, SINTEF Digital, Norway
- Konstantinos Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Georgios Kavallieratos, University of Oslo, Norway
- Alessandro Aldini, University of Urbino, Italy
- Eduardo Fernández-Medina-Patón, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Publicity Chair:

- Javier Parada, University of Malaga and Eurecat Technology Centre, Spain


Contact
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Any doubts or queries can be addressed to the PC Chairs using the following emails:

- h.mouratidis [at] essex [dot] ac [dot] uk
- conti [at] math [dot] unipd [dot] it