Proceedings of the 23nd ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2016), taking place in Shanghai, China, on June 6-8, 2016. This is the 21st edition of the symposium series, continuing the tradition of being 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. SACMAT provides researchers and practitioners with a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of access control, aside from visiting the various attractions offered by the big international metropolis Shanghai. This year, 55 abstracts and papers were submitted 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 18 papers as full papers and 3 papers as short ones for presentation at the symposium. The topics covered include network and mobile access control, access control in applications, policy engineering, access control specification and access control enforcement. In addition to the main research paper sessions, the symposium offers a panel discussion session entitled "Security and privacy in the era of Internet of Things: research opportunities and challenges", and a poster session. Above all, the conference proudly presents three exciting keynote talks by Virgil Gligor of Carnegie Mellon University, Bhavani Thuraisingham of University of Texas at Dallas, and Robert Deng of Singapore Management University, respectively.