Call for Papers

Important Dates (AoE)

• Cycle 1:
  • Submission: December 3, 2025
  • Notification (accept/reject): January 27, 2026
  • Submission Site: https://dimva26r1.hotcrp.com/
• Cycle 2:
  • Submission: February 11, 2026
  • Notification (accept/reject): April 3, 2026
  • Submission Site: https://dimva26r2.hotcrp.com/
• Camera ready deadline: May 28, 2026
• Conference: July 1 to 3, 2026

Registration

To be included in the proceedings, every accepted paper requires a general (no student) registration and in-person presentation. Registration payment must be completed before the camera-ready deadline.

General Information

The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in the broader areas of intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Topics of Interest

DIMVA solicits submissions of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on malware analysis, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and related systems security topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intrusions

• Novel approaches and domains
• Insider detection
• Prevention and response
• Data leakage, exfiltration, and poisoning
• Result correlation and cooperation
• Evasion and other attacks
• Potentials and limitation
• Operational experiences
• Privacy, legal, and social aspects
• Targeted attacks
• Analysis or detection of cryptocurrency heists

Malware

• Automated analyses
• Behavioral models
• Prevention and containment
• Classification
• Lineage
• Forensics and recovery
• Underground economy
• Vulnerabilities in malware
• Financially targeted malware (e.g., ransomware, DeFi)

Vulnerability detection

• Vulnerability prevention
• Vulnerability analysis
• Exploitation and defenses
• Hardware vulnerabilities
• Situational awareness
• Active probing
• Vulnerabilities in decentralized systems

Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity. We expect all papers to provide enough details to enable reproducibility of the experimental results. We encourage papers that bridge research in different communities. We also welcome experience papers that clearly articulate lessons learnt.

Types of Submissions Solicited

We invite full papers for submission that present novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices.

Papers that do not follow these formatting guidelines may be rejected without review.

While we do not accept short papers, we encourage authors to submit a poster instead, presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. For more information, please refer to the Call for Posters.

Submission Guidelines

DIMVA 2026 will adopt a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations must be excluded from the paper. Furthermore, authors should avoid obvious self-references, and should cite their own previous work in third person, whenever necessary. Papers that are not properly anonymized risk being rejected without review.

Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to physically present the submitted work at the conference, for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit code appropriately anonymized, using, e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science/.

Ethical considerations

Submissions that report experiments with data gathered from human subjects should disclose whether the research received approval from an institutional ethics review board (IRB), if applicable, and what measures were adopted to minimize risks to privacy.

Submissions that describe experiments related to vulnerabilities in software or systems should discuss the steps taken to avoid negatively affecting any third-parties (e.g., in case of probing of network devices), and how the authors plan to responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the appropriate software or system vendors or owners before publication.

If you have any questions, please contact the program chairs at pc-chairs@dimva.org.

Call for Posters

Important Dates (AoE)

• Submission: up to TBA
• Notification: TBA
• Camera-ready: TBA

Submission Guidelines

Committee

Program chairs (email: pc-chairs@dimva.org)

• Chair Veelasha Moonsamy (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Co-chair Daniele Cono D'Elia (Sapienza University of Rome)

Program committee

TBA

Publication chair

• Michele Carminati (Politecnico di Milano)

Poster co-chairs

• Tarini Saka (Ruhr University Bochum)
• Mateo Marini (Sapienza University of Rome)

General chairs

• Chair Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete)
• Co-chair Michalis Diamantaris (Technical University of Crete)

Publicity chair

• Konstantinos Spyridakis (Technical University of Crete)

Steering committee

• Sven Dietrich (co-chair)
• Ulrich Flegel (co-chair)
• Michael Meier (co-chair)
• Michele Caminati
• Lorenzo Cavallaro
• Manuel Egele
• Mathias Fischer
• Giorgio Giacinto
• Daniel Gruss
• Federico Maggi
• Mathias Payer

Venue: Grand Arsenal (Center of Mediterranean Architecture)

The Grand Arsenal is the last of the 17 Neoria to the west. Its construction started in 1585 by the Intendant Alvise Grimani. A new era began for the Grand Arsenal with the addition of the second floor, in 1872, during the Ottoman era. The building hosted several important public services and authorities. From a roofless, abandoned site, today the building has given a second chance to life by being converted into a remarkable multipurpose space for events and expositions. After its restoration in 2002, it is now the Center of Mediterranean Architecture, hosting important cultural events, scientific and political symposiums, artistic exhibitions, international venues with special emphasis on architecture.

Address: Akti Enoseos & Georgios Katechakis Square (View Location on Google Maps)

Travel Information

By Plane

Chania Airport (CHQ) – Ioannis Daskalogiannis

BUS (KTEL)

The most inexpensive way to leave the airport of Chania is by taking a KTEL bus. Fare 2-3 EUR, The station is located outside the building, and you may purchase your tickets beforehand or directly from the bus driver. Bus final destination is the central bus station of Chania. Then you can walk to the venue (approximately 15 minutes, 1.1km) or take a taxi.

• Fare: EUR 2-3
• Duration: 20 minutes
• Walk: 10 minutes from the central bus station to the venue
• Frequency: Every 30 minutes

TAXI

Otherwise, the simplest way to get to Chania center is to take a taxi from Chania International Airport (CHQ), Ioannis Daskalogiannis. The fare for reaching the Chania center is approximately EUR 27 and the journey takes around 25 minutes.

Tip: Taxi stands are always available. However, if you prefer to leave the premises immediately, you may book a transfer service in advance. You can also arrange a pick-up with local drivers.

Hotels

The Chania Hotel

Address: 1866 Square, Chania
Contact: +00800 161 2203 0036, +30 28210 90002
Email: info@thechaniahotel.com

Porto Veneziano Hotel

Address: Akti Enoseos, Chania (Old Venetian Harbour)
Contact: +30 28210 27100
Email: hotel@portoveneziano.gr

Civitel Akali

Address: Kissamou 55, Chania
Contact: +30 28210 92872
Email: reservations@akali-hotel.gr

Kriti Hotel

Address: Nikiforou Foka & Kiprou , Chania
Contact: +30 28210 51881
Email: info@kriti-hotel.gr

Kydon Hotel

Address: Sofokli Venizelou Sq. & 2, Str. Tzanakaki , Chania
Contact: +30 28210 52280
Email: info@kydonhotel.com

Samaria Hotel

Address: 69th Kidonias street, Chania
Contact: +30 28210 38600
Email: info@samariahotel.gr