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CFP: ICSNC 2020, Special track: AI-5GaaS
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 31 May '20

31 May '20

*Call for Contributions* *Note: Onsite and Online Options * In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. *Submission:* * 1. Inform the Chairs:* with the Title of your Contribution *2. Submission URL: * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Special track * *AI-5GaaS: Artificial Intelligence based 5G as a Service * *Chairs and Coordinators * Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr <erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr>, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr <muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr>* Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey *secinti(a)itu.edu.tr <secinti(a)itu.edu.tr> * *along with * *ICSNC 2020**, *The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform. On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever- complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure. According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in representing customer experience and their explanation abilities. To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the future of 5G. *Potential topics include, but are not limited to:* 1. Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks; 2. Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks; 3. Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms; 4. AI-based mobility management; 5. SDN/NFV for autonomous network management; 6. CDN solutions for next generation networks; 7. Application areas for 5GaaS; 8. Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS; 9. Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS; 10. APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS *Important Datelines * Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute Submission: August 24 Notification: September 13 Registration: September 23 Camera-ready: September 23 *Contribution Types:* - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] *Paper Format * - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html *Publications * - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org/ - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org/ *Paper Submission * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Registration * - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html *Contacts * *Chairs* Muge Erel-Ozcevik: erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Gokhan Secinti: secinti(a)itu.edu.tr ICSNC Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: June 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 27 May '20

27 May '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 June 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 26 May '20

26 May '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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Sustainable Places 2020: Request for your vote on potential switch to virtual platform
by Sustainable Places 2020 25 May '20

25 May '20

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SI: Cybersecurity Management in the era of AI - Springer JONS
by Moayad Aloqaily 22 May '20

22 May '20

*Journal of Network and Systems Management - Springer* *Special issue on* *Cybersecurity Management in the era of AI* https://www.springer.com/journal/10922/updates/17974838 ***Submissions due:* October 31st, 2020**** *We encourage early submission, please check the open submission schedule policy below.* Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks have revolutionized the communication architecture, providing connectivity for people, things, data, applications, transport, and cities in smart networked environments, at faster data rates, reduced latencies, and acceptable costs. The massive number and volume of heterogonous connected devices in such an open space, as well as the advancements in human computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence (AI), computing and communication technologies have led to an increasing number of personal and ubiquitous intelligent systems. Such a wide deployment of connected smart technologies introduces new challenges to system security and privacy, mainly for Cyber-physical Systems. Cyberphysical is a term used for the integration of physical and computing domains as seen in many different areas such as medical, automotive, energy and other critical systems. Nowadays, cyberphysical systems are highly prone to cyber attacks and other forms of security threats at the communication layer due to system high connectivity characteristics. Some of today’s emerging security threats are hard to detect using traditional security and privacy measures and techniques. Therefore, innovative security methods and privacy protection solutions are needed to provide more secure and robust privacy-preserving intelligent cyber-physical systems. To achieve this, *cybersecurity management systems *need to adapt to the changing cyber security threats autonomously with minimal user intervention to provide maximum protection against cyber attacks, intrusions, malware and various types of data breaches. AI has the potential to be leveraged in different aspects of cybersecurity and cyberthreat detection. It has received significant interest lately, where a plethora of AI and other intelligent learning solutions such as deep and reinforcement learning are now being integrated into cybersecurity systems to provide more secure and robust privacy-preserving solutions for personal and ubiquitous systems. Such integration will play a vital role in providing enhanced security for intelligent autonomous systems and enables organizations to make crucial changes to their security landscape. This Special Issue invites theoretical and applied cutting edge research on standards, frameworks, models, and approaches on cybersecurity management in the era of AI and intelligent learning technologies. More specifically, we encourage original paper submissions on the most recent advances in security network and system management solutions using AI. The Special Issue also welcomes contributions from the industry perspective. Topics of interest include, but they are not limited to: - Cybersecurity management in cyber-physical systems using AI; - Security, privacy, and trust issues in cyber-physical systems; - Blockchain-enabled cyber-physical systems; - Utilizing AI technologies for cyber investigation and threat intelligence; - The integration of AI and Blockchain for security critical infrastructures; - Design, optimization and modeling of cybersecurity management systems; - AI and ML for intrusion detection/prevention in sensitive environments; - Advanced AI techniques to secure future Internet architectures/protocols; - Trust management in cyber-physical networks and systems; - Privacy management at edge of the network using machine learning; - Trustworthy data collection and processing using intelligent learning techniques; - Cybersecurity management of big data; - AI-based cybersecurity techniques for IoT, IoE, IoH, and IoV; - Cybersecurity of connected and autonomous vehicles; - Cybersecurity and AI for digital twin; - Management framework for intelligent secure networking. - Cybersecurity management to protect organizations’ sensitive data using intelligent learning techniques; - AI-enabled digital investigation; Planned Schedule *Open-submission schedule:* in this special issue, we implement an “open” submission approach, where we do not have a submission time period. Interested authors can submit the paper any time before the fixed deadline, and the review process will begin right after the paper submission, i.e., in a first-in first-serve fashion. The submission schedule is: - Manuscript due: *October 31st, 2020.* - Revision notification: within *two* months after the submission. - Revised paper due: within *one* month after the revision notification. - Final notification: *one* month after the revised paper notification. - Expected Publication of the Special Issue: *Second Quarter of 2021* (early accepted papers will be accessible online before the deadline). Submission Format and Review Guidelines The submitted manuscripts must be written in English and describe original research neither published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. *All papers will undergo a similarity check using iThenticate and the work similarity should be below 20%.* All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special issue, will go through an external peer-review process. Submissions should (*i*) conform strictly to the *Instructions for Authors* available on the JNSM website and (*ii*) be submitted through the *Editorial Management* system available at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jons. *Guest Editors of the Special Issue: * ● Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada ● Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia ● Paolo Bellavista, DEIS, Università di Bologna, Italy ● Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Parana, Brazil *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.*

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AICCSA 2020 [Virtual]: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, November 2-5, 2020
by Yufei Sun 22 May '20

22 May '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* *AICCSA is going virtual* In light of the continued uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 situation, the safety and well-being of all the conference participants is our topmost priority. Therefore, the AICCSA Steering Committee has decided to move to *a virtual event *format for this year to be held from November 2-5. The 2020 paper review and acceptance processes will proceed normally. We will follow up with further details on conference registration, presentation formats, workshops, special sessions and tutorials. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *15th June Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *15th June 2020 (Extended)* Notification: *30th July 2020* Camera-ready: 25th August 2020 Registration: 4th September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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CFP: The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing andApplications (BCCA 2020)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 20 May '20

20 May '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

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IEEE BCCA2020: The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
by Safa Otoum 13 May '20

13 May '20

*The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *NOV 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: - State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity - Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies - Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy - New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain - Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity - Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures - Authentication and authorization in Blockchain - Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic - Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies - Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security - Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies - Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques - Blockchain-based open-source tools - Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies - Vulnerabilities of smart contracts - Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Important Dates:* · Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 · Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 · Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Committee: * *Steering Committee* - Lo’ai Tawalbeh, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA - Gokay Saldamli, San Jose State University, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey - Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada - Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA *General Co-Chair* - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs* - Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada - Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia - Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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AICCSA 2020 CFP: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020
by Yufei Sun 11 May '20

11 May '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* I M P O R T A N T A N N O U N C E M E N T Given the current COVID-19 situation, the AICCSA board is studying different options regarding the 2020 edition of the conference that will cope with sanitary security policies, and guarantee the promotion of scientific interaction and dissemination of research results. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *15th May Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *15th May 2020 (Extended)* Notification: 30th June 2020 Camera-ready: 1st August 2020 Registration: 1st September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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IEEE ISCC PEDISWESA Workshop - Deadline EXTENDED: May 10th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 08 May '20

08 May '20

*Please note the following update:* 1) Deadline extended: *May 10th* 2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 10th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2020

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