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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2023
by SBA Research Events 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2023 7th International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2023 Machine learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE) is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Successful human-centered AI needs a concerted effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts cross-domain. Conference Location: University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy Conference Website https://cd-make.net EasyChair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2023 Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 2023 (AoE) Author Notification: June 01, 2023 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 22, 2023 (AoE) Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2023 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as a catalysator, to bring together academia and industry in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to support human-centered AI: 1) DATA - data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, environments, etc. 2) LEARNING - algorithms, contextual adaptation, causal reasoning, transfer learning, etc. 3) VISUALIZATION - intelligent interfaces, human-AI interaction, dialogue systems, explanation interfaces, etc. 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, reliability, verifiability, trust, ethics and social issues, etc. 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based machine learning, Bayesian inference, etc. 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological and manifold learning, etc. 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based learning, etc. 8) Digital Transformation for smart farm and forest operations 9) Perspectivist Learning 10) Uncertainty Management and Quantification in ML *** Steering Committee Andreas HOLZINGER, Human-Centered AI Lab (Holzinger Group), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria Peter KIESEBERG, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Edgar WEIPPL, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria A Min TJOA, Vienna University of Technology, Austria PC CHAIRS Federico CABITZA, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Andrea CAMPAGNER, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONFERENCE COMMITTEE The conference committee can be found here: https://cd-make.net/committees/ *** Submission Guidelines Detailed guidelines can be found here: https://cd-make.net/submission/ We will not require a definite page number, but full papers shall be between 10 and maximal 24 pages (incl. references), and, in any case, please produce even pages to ensure smooth page breaks, e.g. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 pages! References need to start with a new page! Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s) (all authors listed as authors in the paper have to be added to the paper in EasyChair already during the initial submission! if authors need to be added later on contact us), and about three keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. *NEW" Abstract Submission: if you submit your 200-300 word abstract until March 13, 2023 you will receive feedback from the PC chairs in case your paper is not within the scope of the conference Note: 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. *New* single blind review: CD-MAKE does not require anonymized submissions. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts from the conference committee and additional reviewers (e.g. special sessions). Accepted Papers appeared in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

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Extended Deadline: Call for Papers: ARES 2023
by SBA Research Events 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

ARES 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023) August 29 - September 01, 2023, Benevento, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 18th 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 2022 conference was 21,73% (full papers only). ARES 2022 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ Steering Committee Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria General Chair 2023 Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy Program Committee Chairs 2023 Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis, France Riccardo Scandariato, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany. Workshop Chair 2023 Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven, Belgium Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria EU Symposium Workshop Chair 2023 Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Organisation Chair 2023 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** Extended Submission Deadline: March 16, 2023 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) - hard deadline, no further extensions! Author Notification: May 15, 2023 Camera-ready Deadline (100% completed in TAPS): June 28, 2023, 2023 (AoE) Conference: August 29 - September 01, 2023 ************ SUBMISSION ************ Last year, ARES 2022 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=ares2023. 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, no additional appendices) - short paper (6 pages, plus up to 1 page of references, no additional appendices) - workshop paper (6-8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated, no additional appendices) - SoK paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references, no additional appendices) 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 2023 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be plagiarism checked by Docoloc 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. ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2023 can be found here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/ ************ *********** TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ 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

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AICCSA 2023 CFP: 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems & Applications, 4 – 7 December 2023, Giza, Egypt
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

*20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems & Applications* *(AICCSA 2023) 4 – 7 December 2023* *https://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2023/* <https://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2023/> *Submission link: **https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2023> *AICCSA 2023* 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 discipline. AICCSA 2023 will be held in the lovely and highly vibrant city of Smart Village, Giza, Egypt. Track 1: Ubiquitous, Parallel and Distributed Computing (including cloud, IoT, network, sensors, blockchain technologies Track 2: Security, Privacy, and Trust Track 3: Data Science, knowledge engineering, and ontologies (including Information Retrieval, Big Data, Databases, and Knowledge Systems) Track 4: Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Systems Track 5: Natural Language Processing Track 6: Multimedia, Computer Vision, and Image Processing *Important Dates:* *Main Conference* • Paper submission due date: *15 May , 2023 * • Notification to authors: *15 August, 2023* • Camera-ready papers and registration : *15 Sept, 2023* *PhD Forum* • Paper submission due date: *15 May , 2023 * • Notification to authors: *15 August, 2023* • Camera-ready papers and registration : *15 Sept, 2023* *Workshop Proposals* • Workshop proposals due: *30 March, 2023* • Notification of acceptance: *15 April, 2023* • Camera-ready papers and registration : *15 Sept, 2023* *Tutorial Proposals* • Tutorial proposals due: *30 June, 2023* • Notification of acceptance: *30 July, 2023* *General Co-Chairs* *Hisham A. Kholidy, *The State University of New York (SUNY), Polytechnic Institute, USA *Elhadj Benkhelifa, *Staffordshire University, UK

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BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait
by Ons Bouachir 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

*The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2023*)* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* 24–26 October, 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait https://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2023/call.php Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data privacy and authenticity. It is now playing a significant role in several areas such the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, and much more. Unlike centralized transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices, this will prevent data breach, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to a sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract work of both researchers and practitioners in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: - *Track 01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning* - *Track 02: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems* - *Track 03: Big Data* - *Track 04: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain* - *Track 05: Metaverse and Digital Twin* - *Track 06: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline : March 15th,2023, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 31st, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: October 1st, 2023 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: June 10th, 2023 *Organizing Committee* *General Co-Chairs* - Khalid Al-Begain, KCST, Kuwait - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE - Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg *Program Co-Chairs* - Ismaeel AlRidhawi, KCST, Kuwait - Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy - Keping Yu, Hosei University, Japan

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ARES 2023 - Call for Papers - Extended Submission Deadline
by SBA Research Events 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

ARES 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023) August 29 - September 01, 2023, Benevento, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 18th 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 2022 conference was 21,73% (full papers only). ARES 2022 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2023 Edgar Weippl, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria Program Committee Chairs 2023 Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis, France Riccardo Scandariato, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany. Workshop Chair 2023 Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven, Belgium Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2023 Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Local Chair 2023 Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy Organisation Chair 2023 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** Extended Submission Deadline: March 16,2023 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) - hard deadline, no further extensions! Author Notification: May 15, 2023 Camera-ready Deadline (100% completed in TAPS): June 28, 2023, 2023 (AoE) Conference: August 29 - September 01, 2023 ************ SUBMISSION ************ Last year, ARES 2022 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=ares2023. 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, no additional appendices) - short paper (6 pages, plus up to 1 page of references, no additional appendices) - workshop paper (6-8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated, no additional appendices) - SoK paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references, no additional appendices) 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 2023 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be plagiarism checked by Docoloc 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. ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2023 can be found here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/ ************ *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ 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

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BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait City, Kuwait
by Ons Bouachir 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

*The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2023*)* in Conjunction with *KUWAIT BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT 2023* 24–26 October, 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait https://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2023/call.php Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data privacy and authenticity. It is now playing a significant role in several areas such the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, and much more. Unlike centralized transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices, this will prevent data breach, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to a sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract work of both researchers and practitioners in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: - *Track 01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning* - Blockchain based artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications - Blockchain based AI and Robotics Technologies - Blockchain based AI and cloud computing - Blockchain based Economic paradigms and game theory - Blockchain based Machine and Deep Learning of Knowledge - Blockchain based Distributed Knowledge and Processing - Blockchain based Humans-Agents Interactions / Human-Robot Interactions - *Track 02: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems* - Blockchain-based IoT Applications and Services - Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Blockchain-based Internet of Things architectures and protocols - Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) - Blockchain-based application in Intelligent Manufacturing: Industrial Internet of Things, - Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Industry 4.0 - Intelligent manufacture and management - Consensus and mining algorithms suited for resource-limited IoTs - Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS - Blockchain-based energy optimization techniques in WSN - Blockchain-based Software defined networks - *Track 03: Big Data* - Blockchain in Data Fusion - Blockchain Analytics and Data mining - Distributed data store for blockchain - Distributed transaction for blockchain - Blockchain based Data Science and Data Engineering - Protocols for management and access using blockchains - Blockchain architectures tailored for domain-specific applications - *Track 04: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain* - Authentication and authorization in Blockchain - Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic - Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies - Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques - Blockchain-based open-source tools - Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies - Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems - Blockchain Consensus Algorithms - Blockchain-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention - Security and Privacy in Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure - Attacks on Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure - Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Smart Grid - *Track 05: Metaverse and Digital Twin* - Blockchain in the metaverse - Blockchain in the digital twin - NFT Applications and protocols - Edge computing for Internet of Metaverse - Network security of the metaverse - Digital twin and Metaverse privacy - Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse - Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse - Cybersecurity in the metaverse - *Track 06: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* - State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity - Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures - Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and ITS) - Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies - Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain - New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain - Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity - Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security - Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies - Blockchain in social networking - Performance metric design, modeling and evaluation of blockchain systems - Network and computing optimization in blockchains - Experimental prototyping and testbeds for blockchains *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Important dates* *Full paper Important Dates:* - Paper submission deadline : March 15th,2023, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 31st, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: October 1st, 2023 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: June 10th, 2023 *Organizing Committee* *General Co-Chair* - Khalid Al-Begain, KCST, Kuwait - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Ismaeel AlRidhawi, KCST, Kuwait - Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy - Keping Yu, Hosei University, Japan

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BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait City, Kuwait
by Julia Marino 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

*THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BLOCKCHAIN COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS* *(*BCCA 2023*)* in Conjunction with *KUWAIT BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT 2023* 24–26 October, 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait https://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2023/call.php Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data privacy and authenticity. It is now playing a significant role in several areas such the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, and much more. Unlike centralized transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices, this will prevent data breach, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to a sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract work of both researchers and practitioners in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: - *Track 01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning* - Blockchain based artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications - Blockchain based AI and Robotics Technologies - Blockchain based AI and cloud computing - Blockchain based Economic paradigms and game theory - Blockchain based Machine and Deep Learning of Knowledge - Blockchain based Distributed Knowledge and Processing - Blockchain based Humans-Agents Interactions / Human-Robot Interactions - *Track 02: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems* - Blockchain-based IoT Applications and Services - Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Blockchain-based Internet of Things architectures and protocols - Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) - Blockchain-based application in Intelligent Manufacturing: Industrial Internet of Things, - Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Industry 4.0 - Intelligent manufacture and management - Consensus and mining algorithms suited for resource-limited IoTs - Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS - Blockchain-based energy optimization techniques in WSN - Blockchain-based Software defined networks - *Track 03: Big Data* - Blockchain in Data Fusion - Blockchain Analytics and Data mining - Distributed data store for blockchain - Distributed transaction for blockchain - Blockchain based Data Science and Data Engineering - Protocols for management and access using blockchains - Blockchain architectures tailored for domain-specific applications - *Track 04: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain* - Authentication and authorization in Blockchain - Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic - Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies - Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques - Blockchain-based open-source tools - Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies - Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems - Blockchain Consensus Algorithms - Blockchain-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention - Security and Privacy in Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure - Attacks on Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure - Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Smart Grid - *Track 05: Metaverse and Digital Twin* - Blockchain in the metaverse - Blockchain in the digital twin - NFT Applications and protocols - Edge computing for Internet of Metaverse - Network security of the metaverse - Digital twin and Metaverse privacy - Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse - Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse - Cybersecurity in the metaverse - *Track 06: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* - State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity - Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures - Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and ITS) - Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies - Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain - New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain - Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity - Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security - Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies - Blockchain in social networking - Performance metric design, modeling and evaluation of blockchain systems - Network and computing optimization in blockchains - Experimental prototyping and testbeds for blockchains *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Important dates* *Full paper Important Dates:* - Paper submission deadline : March 15th,2023, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 31st, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: October 1st, 2023 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: June 10th, 2023 *Organizing Committee* *General Co-Chair* - Khalid Al-Begain, KCST, Kuwait - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Ismaeel AlRidhawi, KCST, Kuwait - Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy - Keping Yu, Hosei University, Japan

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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

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[CFP] SI on Security of Emerging Virtual Environments: Metaverse and Extended Reality- Ad Hoc Networks
by Ons Bouachir 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

*Ad Hoc Networks* *Security of Emerging Virtual Environments:* * Metaverse and Extended Reality* ***Submissions are due:* March 31st, 2023**** https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/security-… *We encourage early submission* The real world is surrounded by people, buildings, hospitals, factories, businesses, vehicles, cognitive cities, and the billions of devices that provide various services and connect us and this world. Various advanced technologies including AR, VR, XR, and the Digital Twin provide advanced solutions to create a new virtual world (aka, Metaverse) where the avatars of the users can interact with 3D objects as in the real life. Metaverse is a virtual world of Digital Twins and NFTs. Such technologies provide a wide range of new services that require the collection of various types of data about real objects, users including their biometric information (e.g., eyes or voice fingerprints, etc.), and the surrounding environment (e.g., weather, traffic flow, etc.). The collected data can be used for identifying the various users, sharing their characteristics, or capturing their interaction with the environment to provide a unique immersive experience in the 3D virtual world. Furthermore, each realistic object modeled in the virtual environment should rely on the status of its physical twin including interactions and relations between everything else. As a result, a wide range of new services and applications will be provided connecting events in the virtual and the real worlds and causing more complex interactions. The huge amount of collected data in the virtual and the real worlds sets heavy challenges on the networking and computing systems as such technologies have strict boundaries related to the security and privacy of the gathered data. Moreover, the wireless communication between mobile devices that generate data streams and the mobility of physical devices make the related issues more difficult to address. Indeed, these challenges increase with the complexity of the used technologies as new advanced attacks can be designed allowing for the exploitation of the collected data such as creating multiple fake avatars. The purpose of this special issue is to elaborate on and emphasize the key aspects to secure emerging virtual environments that rely on wireless communication. It welcomes original research and innovative solutions on the above subjects as well as case studies that explore the potential exploitation of data security, privacy, and trust in the Metaverse. Research may cover and focus on either the fundamental methodological studies or the use case and application demonstrations. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to: ● Blockchain assisted the metaverse ● Blockchain for the Digital Twin ● Edge computing for the Internet of Metaverse ● Network security of the metaverse ● Digital Twin and Metaverse privacy ● Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse ● Blockchain-based controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse ● Cybersecurity in the metaverse ● Cybersecurity in XR-based applications ● Trust, Security, and Privacy in the metaverse application ● Trusted Zero-touch networks for the metaverse ● Trusted software and applications for the metaverse ● Digital Identification and authentication mechanisms ● Intrusion detection and prevention in the emerging virtual environments ● Secure mobile ad-hoc network for the metaverse *Guest editors:* ● Moayad Aloqaily, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE. ● Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE. ● Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA. ● Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy.

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ICCNS2023 CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, June 19-22, 2023 - Valencia, Spain
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

*The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023)* *https://intelligenttech.org/ICCNS2023/* <https://intelligenttech.org/ICCNS2023/> *June 19-22, 2023 - Valencia, Spain* *Call for Papers:* New advancements in wireless communication systems such as Fifth-Generation (5G), Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G), and Sixth-Generation (6G) networks will allow for new and unprecedented services to be made available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver for future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquitous deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and in the cloud. This computing infrastructure will handle the processing of data generated by users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require the applications running on the computing/networking infrastructure to be Intelligent, efficient and sustainable. Additionally, the infrastructure will require smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role in the design, deployment, automation, and management of future services. This will include applications that will be running on the edge and on cloud servers, networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system, and intelligent automation and management software operating on the system. The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Services is aiming to provide an opportunity to present state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking, and Services that are supported by Artificial Intelligence. Researchers from both the industry and academia are encouraged to submit their original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to the following main tracks: - *Track 1: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals * - *Track 2: Intelligent Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems* - *Track 3: Edge Intelligence and Federated Learning* - *Track 4: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing* - *Track 5: Intelligent Security and Privacy* - *Track 6: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services* *Submission Guidelines:* Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission. Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages including all figures and references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. This means that the authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the names of the authors. Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors. Papers submitted to ICCNS must be the original work of the authors. The may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to ICCNS. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately. All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in ICCNS 2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication. *Important Dates* - Full paper submission: February 28th, 2022 - Full paper acceptance notification: May 6th, 2023 - Full paper camera-ready submission: May 20th, 2023 For any inquiries, please contact: intelligenttechorg(a)gmail.com. Best regards, ICCNC organizing committee

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