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[8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

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8 days to Proposal Submission Deadline -- Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

**********Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email************ ********** 8 days to Proposal Deadline********** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline - Extended URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by office＠ares-conference.eu 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th 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 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ 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. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia 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, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania 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 Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US 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 Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, 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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[8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

============================================================================ 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016 September 26-27, 2016 Ottawa, Canada http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS * The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. * All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. * Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more. * Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Scope Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia, government laboratories, as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Held annually since 2009, the eighth edition of the event, AdHocNets 2016, will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2016. The conference will consist of keynote talks, technical sessions, and associated workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops will focus on development and application issues in this hot field. The workshops will be dedicated to specific and more focused themes, especially to the recent developments and emerging applications in ad hoc networking. Topics The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad hoc network, such as, but not limited to, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks, Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, Smart Grid Networks, Nanonetworks, or Home Networks. Possible topics of interest include: * Network architectural and protocol design * Spectrum related issues in ad hoc networks * Metrics for ad hoc networks * Cognitive ad hoc networks * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * Service discovery * Ranging and node localization * Time synchronization * Data fusion * Network scalability and capacity * Reliability and fault tolerance * Security and privacy * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Applications of ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols * Wireless Software-Defined Networking * Network Function Virtualization for ad hoc networks Publications Accepted papers will be published in the AdHocNets 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) series. Extended versions of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to be submitted for publication (fast review track) in the ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. Paper Submission and Deadlines Please visit the conference website ( http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ) for detailed instructions on the paper submission process. * Submission Deadline: April 28, 2016 * Notification Date: May 31, 2016 * Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2016 Conference Organizing Committee General Chair: * Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada TPC Co-Chairs: * Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada * Stephan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany * Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs: * Mike Tanguay, National Defence, Canada * Mouna Rekik, INRIA, France * Changle Li, Xidian University, China * Xiaohong Jiang, Future University of Hakodate, Japan Publication Chair: * Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs: * John Matyjas, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA * Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA Web Co-Chairs: * Tianhao Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA * Qianshu Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Chair: * Jiali Shang, Canada Remote Sensing Application Development, Canada Conference Manager: * Jana Vlnkova , EAI Steering Committee: * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy * Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China * Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA ABOUT EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. 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15 days to Proposal Deadline Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

**********Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email************ **********15 days to Proposal Deadline********** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline - Extended URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - Call for Workshops
by SBA Research 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES EU SYMPOSIUM ************ The 11th 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. Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2016. The ARES EU Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2016 and will offer you the following opportunities: • Disseminate the results of your EU research projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST) • Meet potential project partners • Exchange ideas within the scientific community • Explore Salzburg ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Proposal Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016 Workshop Proposal Notification: 2 weeks after submission of proposal Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 Tentative Schedule: 09:00 – 10:30 Symposium sessions 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium sessions 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Consortium meetings / ARES sessions / free time for sightseeing 16:00 – 18:00 Networking / poster session 18:00 Networking Event (meet ARES participants) ************ SUBMISSION ************ Proposals should include following items: • Organisational Information o Name and affiliation of organisers o Name of the project and link to website o Programme: Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST o List of project partners that you intend to invite o Open / Closed session: Can researchers related to the topics that are not in the consortium (1) attend and/or (2) submit to the session? • Content o Project abstract o Short description of the planned symposium session If the papers should be published by CPS (IEEE Xplore Digital Library) please address also following items: • Programme committee • Planned review process. The acceptance rate should be less than 40%. Please send your proposal to Shadya Ayoub (sayoub(a)sba-research.org mailto:sayoub@sba-research.org) by February 29, 2016. ************ 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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ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by office＠ares-conference.eu 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th 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 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ 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. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia 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, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania 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 Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US 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 Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, 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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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by CD-ARES 2016 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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