****Call for Papers****
International Workshop on Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats (DOD 2024)
to be held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024 - http://www.ares-conference.eu)
July 30 - August 1, 2024, Vienna, Austria
Workshop Description:
Recent years have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various disasters, for both natural as well as man-made disasters. Disasters occur when hazards and their corresponding risks can no longer be properly contained, leading to serious detrimental consequences in terms of loss of life, financial repercussions or devastation to infrastructure and the environment. Globally, disasters have increased and are also affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent. The COVID-19 pandemic surely has been - unfortunately - a hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, which still impacts our lives today and so will for some time in the future. To elaborate further using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic in hindsight from the perspective of today, the global spread and the resulting different implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance to consider the dynamic evolvement of a disaster, which is exactly what the DoD-series has been focused on in the past and also will be focused on in its edition in 2024. DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to emerging threats due to the ever growing integration and coupling between the cyber- and the physical domain. These emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which have been the prime examples for novel attacks and consequences, which can both arise from the cyber as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges for disaster management organizations and first responders.
We call for (extended) abstracts and/or papers dealing with all aspects related to the dynamics of disasters, and - in particular - encourage submissions dealing with hybrid threats. We would also like to highlight that we encourage submissions addressing challenges relating to the interdisciplinary character of disaster response and disaster management.
We plan to organize a call for extended versions of papers presented at DOD2024 to be included in dedicated post-proceedings of DOD 2024 published by Springer, similar to previous editions of the DOD-series:
* for DOD 2015 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437071)
* for DOD 2017 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319974415)
* for DOD 2019 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649722)
* for DOD 2021: Operations Research Forum (https://link.springer.com/collections/chfiighaab) virtual issue.
We are very much looking forward to hosting DOD 2024, which will be co-located with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024, ARES Conference » Vienna, Austria (ares-conference.eu<https://www.ares-conference.eu/>)) and welcoming you to Vienna!
****Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:****
* All aspects relating to the dynamics of disasters:
o optimization,
o computing,
o mathematical and statistical modeling,
o data analytics,
o emergency and disaster management
o Hybrid threats as new and emerging hazards to society
****Important Dates****
Submission Deadline March 31, 2024
Author Notification May 29, 2024
Post-Proceedings Coming soon!
Conference July 30 - August 1, 2024
****Program Chair/ Workshop Chair****
General Chair: Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, dsimos(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dsimos@sba-research.org>
PC co-Chair: Bernhard Garn, SBA Research, bgarn(a)sba-research.org<mailto:bgarn@sba-research.org>
PC co-Chair: Stefan Pickl, Universität der Bundeswehr München, stefan.pickl(a)unibw.de<mailto:stefan.pickl@unibw.de>
Steering Committee Chair of DOD: Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, pardalos(a)ufl.edu<mailto:pardalos@ufl.edu>
****Venue****
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
****Submission Link****
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dod2024
****Submission Guidelines****
The submissions should be prepared according to the guidelines given here for Springer LNCS: Conference Proceedings guidelines | Springer | Springer - International Publisher.
****Contact****
All questions about submissions should be emailed to dod2024(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dod2024@sba-research.org>
ARES 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024)
July 30- August 02, 2024
Vienna, Austria
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability.
ARES...
...highlights the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
...aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
...emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc.
...is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.
The acceptance rate of the ARES 2023 conference was 20,8% (full papers only). ARES 2023 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE.
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chair 2024
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria
Program Committee Chairs 2024
Haya Schulmann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and ATHENE, Germany
Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria
Workshop Chair 2024 tbc
Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2024
Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Organisation and Local Chair 2024
Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria
Proceedings Chair 2024
Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria
Website Chair 2024
Daniela Freitag David, SBA Research, Austria
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: February 28, 2024 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Author Notification: May 03, 2024
Camera Ready Upload to TAPS (ACM submission system): June 11, 2024 (AoE)
Camera-ready Deadline (100% completed in TAPS): June 18, 2024 (AoE)
Conference: July 30 - August 2, 2024
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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2023 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). The same is planned this year (to be confirmed).
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2024.
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines:
For the main conference as well as the workshops, submission papers are classified into 4 categories representing original, previously unpublished work:
- full paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references)
- short paper (6 pages, plus up to 1 page of references)
- systematization of Knowledge (SoK) paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references)
- workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)
Formating Instructions / template:
- Please read the instructions here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/
- References need to start with a new page!
Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference.
Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission.
Important Note:
To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2024 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be plagiarism checked by Docoloc or iThenticate Plagarism Check. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism!
In case you include previous work in your paper make sure to add the sources accordingly. In case you have questions regarding self-plagiarism please send us an email (ares(a)sba-research.org<mailto:ares@sba-research.org>). If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us.
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Program Committee
The program committee of ARES 2024 can be found here:
https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/
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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Automated Vulnerability Repair
Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Cloud Security
Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy
Dependability, and Resilience
Digital Forensics
Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Identity Management
Incident Response and Prevention
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Machine Learning for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for Machine Learning
Mobile Security
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Process based Security Models and Methods
Risk analysis
Side Channel Attacks
Software Security
Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy for IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Critical Infrastructures
Security and Privacy Awareness
Security Requirements and Secure Design of Applications
Usable Security and Privacy
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Trust Models and Trust Management
Web Application Security and Privacy
