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ARES 2015 - Call for Papers - Submission Deadline March 2, 2015
by Yvonne Poul 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

ARES 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************** The Tenth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015) August 24th 28th, 2015, Toulouse, France http://www.ares-conference.eu Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 **************************************************************************** ************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2014 conference was 16%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France Program Committee Chair Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 Author Notification: May 11, 2015 Proceedings Version: June 8, 2015 Conference: August 24-28, 2015 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (more keynote speakers and tutorials will be announced soon) ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Philipp Amann, University College Dublin, Europol, Ireland Amin Anjomshoaa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Vincenzo De Florio, PATS / Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS / iMinds, Belgium Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, US Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, Netherlands Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University, US Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany Marcin Gorawski, Wroclaw University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology, Poland Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Kiel Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Katos, University of Thrace, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, Graz University of Technology, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Corrado Leita, Symantec Research Labs, France Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Domenico Rosaci, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Armed Forced, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gianluca Stringhini, Univerity College London, UK Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita del Sannio, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lenx Wei, Peking University, China Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Erich Wenger, IAIK TU Graz, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, University of Göttingen, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Special Issue on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_mtpsb… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submission Deadline: June 1 2015 Reviews Completed: September 1 2015 Major Revisions Due (if Needed): October 1 2015 Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): November 1 2015 Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): December 1 2015 Notification of Final Acceptance: February 1 2016 Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: March 1 2016 Publication date: Second Issue 2016 (June Issue) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that has gained a significant interest from both academia and industry. IoT is a part of Future Internet and comprises many billions of Internet connected Objects (ICOs) or 'things' where things can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate as well as have intelligence, multi-modal interfaces, physical/ virtual identities and attributes. ICOs can include sensors, RFIDs, social media, actuators (such as machines/equipments fitted with sensors and deployed for mining, oil exploration, and manufacturing operations) as well as lab instruments (e.g., high energy physics synchrotron), and smart consumer appliances (smart TV, smart phone, etc.). This IoT vision has recently given rise to the notion of IoT big data applications that are capable of producing billions of data stream and tens of years of historical data to provide the knowledge required to support timely decision making. Some of the emerging IoT big data applications, e.g. smart energy grids, syndromic bio-surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency situation awareness, digital agriculture, and smart manufacturing, need to process and manage massive, streaming, and multi-dimensional (from multiple sources) data from geographically distributed data sources. Despite recent technological advances of the data-intensive computing paradigms (e.g. the MapReduce paradigm, workflow technologies, stream processing engines, distributed machine learning frameworks) and datacentre clouds, large-scale reliable system-level software for IoT big data applications are yet to become commonplace. As new diverse IoT applications begin to emerge, there is a need for optimized techniques to distribute processing of the streaming data produced by such applications across multiple datacentres that combine multiple, independent, and geographically distributed software and hardware resources. However, the capability of existing data-intensive computing paradigms is limited in many important aspects such as: (i) they can only process data on compute and storage resources within a centralised local area network, e.g., a single cluster within a datacentre. This leads to unsatisfied Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of timeliness of decision making, resource availability, data availability, etc. as application demands increase; (ii) they do not provide mechanisms to seamlessly integrate data spread across multiple distributed heterogeneous data sources (ICOs); (iii) lack support for rapid formulation of intuitive queries over streaming data based on general purpose concepts, vocabularies and data discovery; and (iv) they do not provide any decision making support for selecting optimal data mining and machine algorithms, data application programming frameworks, and NoSQL database systems based on nature of the big data (volume, variety, and velocity). Furthermore, adoption of existing datacentre cloud platform for hosting IoT applications is yet to be realised due to lack of techniques and software frameworks that can guarantee QoS under uncertain big data application behaviours (data arrival rate, number of data sources, decision making urgency, etc.), unpredictable datacentre resource conditions (failures, availability, malfunction, etc.) and capacity demands (bandwidth, memory, storage, and CPU cycles). It is clear that existing data intensive computing paradigms and related datacentre cloud resource provisioning techniques fall short of the IoT big data challenge or do not exist. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Programming abstractions for extedmding existing data intensive computing paradigms to multiple datacentres - Technical foundations for selection of data mining and machine learning algorithms Streaming data query and indexing systems based on semantic web concepts - IoT big data application specific ontology models for capturing heterogeneous data from multiple sources - Decentralised data flow optimisation and management techniques across multiple datacentres - Techniques for petabyte efficient no-SQL query-based IoT big data processing - QoS optimized parallel data analytic techniques beyond traditional relational database systems - Knowledge driven, predictive datacentre resource allocation and provisioning for streaming data - Innovative IoT big data application use cases - Techniques for providing a secure end-to-end connection between users and data sources SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. TETC is the newest Transactions of the IEEE Computer Society with Open Access only. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs. Please address all other correspondence regarding this special Section to Lead Guest Editor *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan* GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan - Corresponding Guest Editor * Senior Research Scientist & Julius Fellow, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au *Prof. Lizhe Wang * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences Email:Lizhe.wang@gmail.com *Dr. Jie Tao * Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Email: jie.tao(a)kit.edu *Prof. Albert Zomaya * Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Email: albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au *Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman * Postdoctoral Research Scientist CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: prem.jararaman(a)csiro.au *Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos * Professor, Computer Science & Info Tech RMIT University, Australia Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)rmit.edu.au

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CFP: Submission Deadline extension to Feb. 15th, Special Issue of IEEE TC on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. ] Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 --> Feb. 15th. 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE *************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS *************************** Lizhe Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu Gilles BETIS, Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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