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Announcements

• As of 26 April 2016 the transition from TISSEC to TOPS is going to take place. There will be an automatic redirection to the new website. The same applies for MC users.
• 02/2016: New TISSEC Journal Issue Uploaded to the Digital Library (TISSEC 18:3)
• 24/02/2016: Thorsten Holz is now Associate Editor of TISSEC
• 28/10/2015: Veronique Cortier and Florian Kerschbaum are now Associate Editors of TISSEC
• 26/10/2015: TISSEC will be changing its name to TOPS (Transactions on Privacy and Security). For information on the extended scope, please read the PDF.
• 1/10/2015 David Basin is TISSEC’s new Editor-in-Chief
• 12/01/2014: New conflict-of-interest policy
• 04/06/2013: New options for ACM authors to manage rights and permissions for their work: For more information, visit the ACM Author Rights webpage.
• 12/16/2012: TISSEC's Reviewing Process State Diagram
• 01/27/2012: To Submit to TISSEC use Manuscript Central.
• 01/27/2012: Please use the new ACM latex and word templates to format your submissions

• All papers are submitted to TISSEC Editor-in-Chief (except for special issues where the Guest Editor invites papers). Authors are required to provide full disclosure of prior publication, prior rejection and current submissions of this line of work by the authors. This includes not only the results specifically reported in the paper but also related results on the same topic. Information provided by the authors on prior rejection and current submission will be treated as confidential. At the author's request this information will be shared only by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editor assigned to handle the paper and kept confidential from reviewers.
• Optional Step. The Editor-in-Chief or his delegate may optionally make a quick assessment on suitability and viability of the paper for TISSEC. Papers can be rejected or returned for revision to the authors at this stage without full formal review.
• The Editor-in-Chief forwards the paper to an Editor for processing. Authors may advise the Editor-in-Chief on Editors who should not be assigned for this paper and attendant reasons. Advice on Editors to assign is also welcome, but balancing load among Editors may take precedence over this advice.
• The Editor is responsible for having the paper reviewed in a timely manner. The Editor makes recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief regarding rejection, acceptance or further revision of the paper. Correspondence with the authors regarding revisions is typically done by the Editor. The Editor-in-Chief is copied on all correspondence.
• All accepted papers are subject to a final editorial review by the Editor-in-Chief. This typically requires some minor changes by the authors with respect to presentation, citations and claims. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject a paper at this stage or to ask for substantial revision.
• The final manuscript is forwarded by the Editor-in-Chief to ACM HQ. At this point the paper is considered to be "In Press." The process moves from the Editor-in-Chief to ACM HQ.

   

• Note for Special Issues. TISSEC special issues include papers invited from leading security research conferences by the Program Chair (or delegate of the Program Chair) who serves as Guest Editor. Authors are expected to substantially enhance such papers which undergo the same rigorous reviewing process applied to regular TISSEC submissions. The Guest Editor handles all reviewing procedures and makes recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief. Everything else in the process remains the same.