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CFP: IEEE DependSys2023 (Dependability and Security), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud and Big Data Systems and Applications, 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction IEEE DependSys 2023 conference is the next event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems oftentend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. Scope and Topics Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2 : Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security - Blockchain-based systems Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, transportation applications - Energy, smart city, smart grid - IoT, CPS and industrial application Track 4 : Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith - Levels and assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling - Dependability evaluation - Software reliability and verification - Hardware reliability and verification - Evaluations and tools Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper. submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Program Chairs Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Kai Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CBDCom 2023 Final Deadline:The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 14-17 Nov, 2023 - Abu Dhabi, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2023) https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/cbdcom/index.html IEEE Co-Sponsored Conference 14-17 Nov, 2023 - Abu Dhabi, UAE *CBDCom CFP:* The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing is a premier forum for researchers, practitioners and developers who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, the conference covers also innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems IEEE CBDCom 2023 will be the 9th edition of the conference after the success of CBDCom 2015 in Beijing, CBDCom 2016 in Toulouse, CBDCom 2017 in San Francisco, CBDCom 2018 in Guangzhou, CDBCom 2019 in Fukuoka, CDBCom 2020 in Calgary, and CDBCom 2021 held virtually. It will continuously offer a platform for researchers to exchange novel studies, discuss important issues and explore key challenges in innovative cloud and big data for a smarter world. IEEE CBDCom 2023 will be held during November 13-17, 2023, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2023, IEEE PICom 2023, and IEEE DASC 2023. It aims to bring together computer scientists, engineers and researchers from academia and industry to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, novel designs, and future trends in cloud and big data innovations. *CBDCom Tracks:* *Track 1: Data Science & Analytics* *Track 2: Big Data Infrastructure & Management * *Track 3: Big Data Tools and Applications * *Track 4: Cloud Management & Virtualization * *Track 5: Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy & Trust * *Track 6: Cloud/Big Data for IoT & Smart City * *Paper Submission Information:* *For original papers in: * Regular Tracks: *6-8 *pages WiP/Workshop/Special Session Tracks: *4-6 *pages Poster Track: *2-4 *pages Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop/special session, and poster papers need to be submitted via Easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dascpicomcbdcomcyber0) Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal *Special Issues <https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/special-issues/index.html>*. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. *Important dates* *Main Conference Papers * *Paper Submission Due: 21 August, 2023 (Final and Firm) * Authors Notification: 15 September, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: 30 September, 2023 *Workshop/Special Session Papers * *Paper Submission Due: 21 August, 2023 (Final and Firm) * Author Notification Due: September 15, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: September 30, 2023 *Contacts Information:* If you have any questions about CBDCom, please contacts the Chairs, Feras Awaysheh (feras.awaysheh(a)ut.ee) and Yaser Jararweh (yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo)

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CFP: IEEE DIKW2023 (Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

Call for papers: 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom, in short (DIKW), have been used widely as marking terms in various domains for expressing and exchanging semantic or conceptual subjective or objective understandings. However, there are still no unified understandings over the meaning of the DIKW concepts. Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom as a whole concept of DIKW is also missing unified understandings of the relationships among them. Therefore, there have been proposals and models of DIKW as “layered hierarchy”, “architecture”, “framework”, “network”, “thinking mode”, “pattern”, “style”, “theory”, “methodology”, “model”, “graph”, etc. 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023) aims to bring together scientists, researchers, and industrial engineers to exchange experimental and theoretical Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom modeling and processing results, novel designs, explainable AI, AI governance, work-in-progress and case studies on theories, design mechanisms and extensions on DIKW transformations and interactions in all areas, in all phases, empirical or theoretical solutions. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Theories, Algorithms and Platforms for Data Analytics and Information Retrieving - Data Provenance, Cleaning, Curation and Governance Services - Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Sharing, Integration and Migration - Real-time Data Modeling and Information Provision Services and Applications - Data-driven Intelligent Decision-making and Innovative Applications - Goal or Purpose Models, Techniques and Tools for Smart Computing - Data Models, Information Semantics, Query languages - Data Stream Systems and Sensor Networks - Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration - Hybrid AI Privacy, Security, Trust, and Responsibility Provision - Data-Knowledge Mixed Processing Systems and Service Architecture - Domain Knowledge Modeling and Ontology-Building - Data, Information and Knowledge Transformation Load balance - DIKW content Storage and Retrieval and Interface Technology - Software Tools for Data-Information-Knowledge Quality Modeling and Testing - Computational Intelligence for Data, Information and Knowledge Hybrid Systems - Multimedia and Cross-modals "Databases" Processing - Development and Management of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases - Knowledge Extraction, Discovery, Analysis and Representation - Application of Knowledge Representation Techniques to Semantic Modeling - Optimization Techniques of DIKW applications - Theories of DIKW Models and Performance Evaluation Approach Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper. submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA Program Chairs Muhammad Usman Khan, Federation University, Australia Xiaolong Xu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

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IEEE WCM [Deadline Extended: 15/8] - SI: Zero Trust Security Methods for Wireless Networks
by Moayad Aloqaily 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

IEEE WCM Zero Trust Security Methods for Wireless Networks https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-wireless-communications/… New Deadline: 15 August Wireless networks have evolved significantly over time, enabling a wide range of advanced services and applications in various areas, including communications, healthcare, industry, and transportation. These applications have a tremendous impact on our daily lives, making us overly dependent on wireless technologies, hence, emphasizing the need for security. Wireless networks are vulnerable to a wide range of security threats and attacks that can compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. The complexity of these threats increases exponentially as the current wireless network infrastructure evolves, such that security attacks target network resources, and confidential data, and exploit user privacy. For this reason, new security models are highly needed to overcome these threats and provide a secure environment for wireless applications. Zero trust is a contemporary security model that provides a new cybersecurity strategy to eliminate implicit trust. It assumes that all users, devices, applications, and their network traffic, internal and external, are untrusted and should be continuously verified and validated at every stage of a digital interaction before granting admission to network resources. Zero trust can be applied to various applications of wireless networks as it is able to protect against unauthorized access. This alliance can be seen in diverse methods, including network segmentation, multi-factor authentication, device security, and autonomous continuous monitoring. Implementing zero trust methods for wireless networks can be challenging due to the lack of experience in this area, its integration with existing system complexity, and its enduring maintenance. These challenges increase with the complexity of the used technology as new advanced attacks can be designed allowing for the exploitation of wireless network resources. The purpose of this Special Issue (SI) is to elaborate on and emphasize the key aspects of zero-trust methods for wireless networks, understanding the principles of Zero Trust Security and how they can be applied to wireless networks, and implementation of Zero Trust Security in wireless networks - best practices and challenges. It welcomes original research and innovative solutions on the above subjects as well as case studies that explore the potential exploitation of zero trust security and its applications in wireless technology. 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: - Zero trust techniques, architectures, and models. - Network segmentation and micro-segmentation. - Zero-trust networks and modeling. - Decentralized zero trust models. - AI-based zero trust models. - Advanced authentication mechanisms using zero trust. - Identity and access management using zero trust. - Zero trust-enabled continuous monitoring and detection. - Advanced risk assessment and management using zero trust. - Machine learning and zero trust security in wireless networks. - Zero trust in mobile and satellite networks; and in the metaverse. - Zero trust in cloud/edge computing. - Cyberattacks in zero-trust environments. - Implementation of zero-trust security in wireless networks. - Scalability of zero trust. - Evaluation of zero trust deployment models for wireless networks. - Zero trust in various areas for wireless network applications. - Integration of zero trust with other security measures. - Industry efforts on zero trust techniques. - Understanding the standards of Zero Trust Security and wireless networks. - Network and energy overheads of zero trust techniques. - Challenges of zero trust implementation in MMTC environments. Submission Guidelines Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the "Information for Authors" of the *IEEE Wireless Communications* guidelines <https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-wireless-communications/…> . Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to Manuscript Central <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm>. The timetable is as follows: *Submit your paper at:* https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm Important Dates Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 August 2023, *15 August 2023* Initial Decision Date: 1 October 2023 Revised Manu script Due: 1 November 2023 Final Decision Date: 1 December 2023 Final Manuscript Due: 1 February 2024 Publication Date: April 2024 Guest Editors Moayad Aloqaily <moayad.aloqaily(a)mbzuaia.c.ae> MBZUAI, UAE Helen Paik <h.paik(a)unsw.edu.au> University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Willian Tessaro Lunardi <WillianTessaro.Lunardi(a)tii.ae> Technology Innovation Institute, TII, UAE Cihan Tunc <Cihan.Tunc(a)unt.edu> University of North Texas, USA He Fang <fanghe(a)suda.edu.cn> Soochow University, China *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., SMIEEE, P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>* *http://artifitialleap.ai/ <http://artifitialleap.ai/>*

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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2023 (Smart City), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

Call for papers: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction Smart cities (also smarter cities) use digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Developing a smart city to better support growing urban population is a global and complex challenge and involves interdisciplinary fields. Key ‘smart’ sectors include transportation, smart building, energy, health care, and water systems. IEEE SmartCity is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This conference is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Smart Buildings - Smart Transportation - Smart Environment and Economy - Energy-Efficient Smart Grid Systems - Smart Grid System Management - Citizen Engagement and Smart Governance - Smart Home and Community - E-health Systems - Environment and Urban Monitoring - Green Network and Energy Efficiency - Smart Electronic Systems for Security - Big Data for Urban Informatics - QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services - Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems - Smart University and Smart Education - Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities - Smart City Governance - Internet of Things for Smart Cities - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities - Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/smartcity/submission.htm . Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan

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[CFP Final and Firm Deadline: 21 August, 2023] The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2023)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

*The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2023)* *https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/dasc/index.html <https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/dasc/index.html>* *Joint conference IEEE DASC/PICom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2023 * *14-17 Nov, 2023** || Abu Dhabi, UAE* *Hybrid Conference* As computer and communication systems as well as other systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), Autonomous Robotic Systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability and Security play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. It remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing systems as well as services that are dependable, secure, protectable, predictable, traceable, controllable, autonomous, and sustainable. At the same time, the increasing scale and complexity of systems call for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirements of self-management, and autonomous systems. Trusted and autonomic computing/autonomous systems need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from natural sciences to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, architectures, and communication technology that support the integration of constituent technologies. IEEE DASC 2023 will be held during November 13-17, 2023, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange theoretical and implementation results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing, and autonomous systems. *Tracks * *Track 1. Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing* Fundamentals, including Dependability Evaluation, Dependable Sensors, QoS, SOA, etc. Dependable & Fault-tolerant Computing in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time System Dependability & Fault-tolerance in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, and Pervasive Computing Human Aspects, and Education Software Engineering in Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing Safety-critical Systems, Mission-critical Systems *Track 2. Network and System Security and Privacy* Fundamentals, including Intrusion-Detection, Digital Forensics, (Counter-)Surveillance, etc. Security and Privacy in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time Systems Security and Privacy in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Network and System Security and Privacy Human Aspects, and Education Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War Biometric Issues in Security and Privacy *Track 3. Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems* Fundamentals, including Agents, Real-Time Perception, Decision, Control, Self-healing, etc. Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time Systems Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Pervasive Computing Self-Organization and Organic Computing, Cognitive Computing and Self-Aware Computing Energy Management in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems Human Aspects, and Education *Track 4. Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques* Software/Apps/Tools Development for Dependable and Secure Applications Autonomous Robotics, Vehicles, Machines, and Various Systems IoT and Sensor Network, Big Data, Smart Grid, Aerospace, Transportation Applications Safety Care, Medical Care and Services, IoT-based Healthcare Other Applications and Emerging Techniques Social Aspects of Applying Systems *Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dascpicomcbdcomcyber0 *Important dates* *Main Conference Papers* Paper Submission Due: 1 August, 2023 21 August, 2023 (Final and Firm) Authors Notification: 15 September, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: 30 September, 2023 *General Chair* Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* Müge Erel-Özçevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey Franco Zambonelli, Universita’ degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University, USA

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