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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2021, AoE (Firm deadline without extension) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021, AoE Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2021, AoE Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics 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 • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website 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 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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CFP: IEEE Network-SI: Managing Next-Generation Networks for Intelligent Services and Applications - Due: 30 September
by Moayad Aloqaily 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

*Managing Next-Generation Networks for Intelligent Services and Applications* *IEEE Network* https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/managing-nex… Next-Generation Networks (NGNs) integrate the functionalities of a plethora of established and emerging technologies such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), edge intelligence, network softwarization, and data-plane programmability. NGNs promise to achieve ultra-fast data rates and minimal latency in wireless communication and networking. It enables smart and autonomous services and applications through AI and Machine Learning (ML). Coupled with advances in user end-devices, NGNs enable a plethora of smart services and user-defined applications. Given the rise in system complexity and the exponential increase in the amount of data exchanged through networks, new state-of-the-art NGN management solutions are needed. By adapting cooperative and distributed management solutions, more reliable and efficient services and applications are conveyed to the end-users. Moreover, with distributed learning solutions, NGN’s could be optimized to support the dynamic nature in network configuration and enable end-to-end system automation. For instance, the integration of Federated Learning (FL), Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and Blockchain to NGNs can support scalable, secure and diversified services and applications. Furthermore, through data plane programmability, network intelligence could be implemented directly on programmable devices with the network core. An intelligent forwarding plane would enable a faster reaction to network events without depending on a time-consuming exchange between the data and control planes. In this special issue, we welcome original research that approaches novel and state-of-the-art future network and system management solutions that will ensure reliable, secure, efficient and autonomous services and applications. Researchers, practitioners, developers, and industry experts are invited to contribute to one of the scopes of the special issue, including, but not limited to, the following: - Intelligent service orchestration and management. - Secure application and service provisioning in next-generation networks. - Smart management architectures for next-generation routing and switching. - Intelligent network and service virtualization. - Intelligent network slicing. - Distributed intelligence for next-generation network orchestration and management. - Distributed and federated learning on edge devices to support NGN management. - Blockchain solutions to support service delivery in NGN. - Secure and trustworthy operations and management for next-generation networks. - Big and real-time data management and analytics for network operations. - Federated Learning-aided next-generation multiple access. - Architectures for next-generation routing and switching. - FL-aided next generation circuit and packet switching. - Emerging services and applications management for connected vehicles technologies. - Applications and services using UAVs to support autonomous vehicles in B5G networks. *Submission Deadline:* - Submission deadline: *September 30, 2021* - First-round notification: November 15, 2021 - Second round due: December 15, 2021 - Final notification: January 15, 2022 - Publication Date: May 2022 *Guest Editors:* - Moayad Aloqaily, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. - Hichem Sedjelmaci, Orange Labs, Châtillon, France. - Weverton Cordeiro, INF/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. - Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA. - Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>*

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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by Xueqin Liang 22 Aug '21

22 Aug '21

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CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by Xueqin Liang 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

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FMEC 2021 CFP: The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Yufei Sun 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *FMEC 2021 CFP:* Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or the Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2021 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2021 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation firewall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). 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. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include 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. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 5 September, 2021* Notification to Authors: 10 October, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 30 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 17 Aug '21

17 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2021, AoE (Firm deadline without extension) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021, AoE Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2021, AoE Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics 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 • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website 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 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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SNAMS 2021 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Aug '21

17 Aug '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021. *SNAMS 2021 CFP:* Social network analysis is concerned with the study of relationships between social entities. The recent advances in internet technologies and social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, have created outstanding opportunities for individuals to connect, communicate or comment on issues or events of their interests. Social networks are dynamic and evolving in nature; they also involve a huge number of users. Frequently, the information related to a certain concept is distributed among several servers. This brings numerous challenges to researchers, particularity in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2021) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. The SNAMS 2021 is col-located with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS). SNAMS 2021 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2021 is to provide the opportunity for students, scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Social Networks. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: *SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE* Systems and algorithms for social search Infrastructure support for social networks and systems Dynamics and evolution patterns of large and complex networks Social properties in systems design Learnings from operational social networks Data Collection Big Data and Social Paradigms *ALGORITHMS AND MODELS* Deep Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization Modeling Social Networks and behavior Management of social network data Streaming algorithms for social data Knowledge and innovation networks Methods for social and media analysis Models for network data Network analysis in human and social sciences Information propagation and assimilation in social networks Data mining and machine learning in social systems *APPLICATIONS* Novel social applications and systems Transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat) Special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine) Communities in social networks Collaboration networks New models of advertising and monetization in social networks Mobile advertising on OSNs Network visualization Social networks and online education Sentiment analysis on OSNs Multilingual social networks Social networks as agents of societal change *PRIVACY & SECURITY* Privacy and security in social systems Trust and reputations in social systems Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems *Important Dates:* *Submission Date: 5 September, 2021* Notification to Authors: 10 October, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 30 October, 2021 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. 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. Also, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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NOMS 2022 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (Deadline: October 3rd, 2021)
by Tortonesi Mauro 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

****************************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS - NOMS 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org ****************************************************************************** The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) will be held on 25-29 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2022 will follow the tradition of 34 years of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, deployment, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2022 will feature several workshops to further disseminate fine-tuned research that is organized around the main conference theme: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022 invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, which will be held before or immediately after the main NOMS 2022 technical program. The primary purpose of the NOMS 2022 Workshops is to provide a forum for research, development, integration, deployment, standards, service provisioning, and user communities, also investigating the opportunities and challenges of AI for network and service management. NOMS 2022 Workshops are expected to focus on a range of novel and compelling research avenues complementing or in-depth covering the topics of the main conference, such as intelligent and hyper-connected environments, virtualization and in general, softwarization of networking technologies, newly emerging and potentially challenging topics on advanced services and applications converged network operations, management and control, seamless, secure services in future Internet also embedding cyber-physical systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal Submission Guidelines Each workshop proposal must include: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Names, addresses, and a short (200 words) bio of the major organizers (e.g., TPC (co-) chair(s), OC General (co-)chair(s)) 3. A brief description (1 page) of the technical issues addressed by the workshop. Relations to the main topics of the conference. State reasons why and how the workshop would attract the NOMS 2022 audience. 4. Organizing Committee (OC) and possibly or initial Technical Program Committee (TPC) 5. Likely contributors and targeted audience. 6. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively and interactive discussions. 7. If applicable, a description of the past events of the workshop, including all statistics of submitted/accepted papers and attendee numbers. If the workshop does not have past editions, please provide estimates and explain a strategy on how to reach the targets of paper submissions and attendees. 8. Publicity and advertising plan to attract paper submissions and attendees. 9. A draft of 1-page "Call for Papers (CFP)" including title, description, topics, and important dates. 10. The workshop website address, if applicable. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of NOMS 2022 by email to the following addresses: - Andreas Johnsson <andreas.a.johnsson(a)ericsson.com> - Mauro Tortonesi <mauro.tortonesi(a)unife.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission: October 3, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: October 17, 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tentative* Schedule for Accepted Workshops - Paper submission deadline (coordinated): January 9, 2022 - Paper acceptance notification (coordinated): February 13, 2022 - Camera-ready version due (coordinated): February 27, 2022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs - Andreas Johnsson, Ericsson, Sweden - Mauro Tortonesi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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IEEE Network - Special Issue on “Trust, Security and Privacy of 6G”. Submission date: 15 December 2021
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue Call for Paper: Trust, Security and Privacy of 6G https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/trust-securi… 6G follows the footsteps of 5G and pursues the integration of communications and sensing. Through sensing the physical world and human-beings, 6G should be capable of programming to offer automation systems that span a rich variety of devices, several types of network and communication technologies and humans. 6G should timely offer user expected and satisfied networking services. It will embrace emerging technologies, such as quantum communication, molecular communication, real-time intelligent edge, Internet of everything, etc. As a consequence, personal and national safety will highly depend on network and information security. But sensing human-beings and physical world brings serious concern on privacy preservation, which however, conflicts with trust. Another view of 6G is it is a large-scale heterogeneous network (LS-HetNet) by integrating terrestrial networks, space satellite networks, marine networks. Such an integrated network can seamlessly support anywhere and anytime networking. But high Quality-of-Trust should be offered by LS-HetNet to meet mobile user expectations. By integrating with cloud computing, edge computing, network resources can be economically arranged with high flexibility across multiple domains according to user demands. But this requests virtual collaboration among multiple network operators in a trustworthy way with privacy preservation at both operator level and user level. Anticipating future development, ITU-T specifies that Trustworthy Networking should be provided. Trustworthy networking in 6G should ensure security and overcome privacy leakage in an integrated way. In short, 6G is expected to hold such attractive features as trustworthy and autonomous networking based on effective sensing to automatically satisfy user demands through integration of heterogeneous communication and networking technologies. However, such promising features introduce new challenges on trust, security and privacy, which motivate research and practice. This special issue aims to bring together recent advances on trust, security and privacy in the 6G networks. It welcomes original and innovative perspectives on theories, methodologies, schemes, algorithms, and systems related to 6G trust, security and privacy, from academia, industry, and government. We invite survey and tutorial articles directed to the special issue. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: * Theories, architectures and applications of 6G trustworthy networking * Trustworthy and intelligent routing * Trust modeling, trust policies and trust mechanisms * Network trust evaluation and measurement * 6G network security architecture * Machine learning for network trust, security and privacy * Blockchain and 6G trustworthy networking * End-to-end communication security, privacy and trust * Cryptography and trustworthy networking * Smart handover with security and privacy * Network resource arrangement for trustworthy networking * Intrusion detection in integrated HetNets * Security and privacy protection in 6G * Trust management of 6G * Network data collection, classification and trust analytics * Incentive mechanisms of trust management * Physical security and trust of 6G * 6G positioning and its trust, security and privacy * 6G service trust, security and privacy * Post-quantum cryptography for 6G * Embedded trust and distributed trust * Distributed ledger technologies and differential privacy approaches * Regulation and standardization about 6G security, privacy and trust * Credibility authentication in 6G * Edge intelligence/IoT security * Trust, security and privacy of promising communication technologies in 6G * Sensing with privacy preservation * Analysis and design of 6G protocol security * Domain specific security, privacy and trust in 6G * Trust, security and privacy of digital twin in 6G Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 December 2021 Initial Decision Notification: 1 February 2022 Revised Manuscript Due: 1 March 2022 Final Decision Notification: 1 April 2022 Final Manuscript Due: 15 April 2022 Publication Date: July 2022 Guest Editors Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China, Aalto University, Finland (zyan(a)xidian.edu.cn<mailto:zyan@xidian.edu.cn>; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi<mailto:zheng.yan@aalto.fi>) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (ltyang(a)gmail.com<mailto:ltyang@gmail.com>) Tieyan Li, Huawei, Singapore (Li.Tieyan(a)huawei.com) Yoan Miche, Nokia, Finland (yoan.miche(a)nokia-bell-labs.com) Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Shui.Yu(a)uts.edu.au) Stephen Yau, Arizona State University, USA (yau(a)asu.edu)

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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2021, AoE (Firm deadline without extension) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021, AoE Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2021, AoE Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics 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 • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website 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 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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