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GenAISE CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE ): Workshop on Advances of GenAI in Software Engineering, 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Workshop on Advances of GenAI in Software Engineering ( GenAISE 2024) Co-Located with The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) <https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php> https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/Workshops/GenAISE2024/ 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *GenAISE 2024 CFP:* A wave of recent research efforts demonstrates promising potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in solving a wide range of software engineering tasks such as code completion, unit test generation, code comprehension, bug detection and repair, code review, and many more. The first workshop on advances of GenAI in Software Engineering (GenAISE 2024) aims to establish a forum for researchers to present and discuss recent advances in GenAI and their applications in Software Engineering and implications in industry and education. The GenAISE 2024 workshop addresses the use of advanced LLMs for software engineering, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all related topics related to GenAISE, with special interest in but not limited to: - Applications of LLMs in the software development lifecycle - Prompt Engineering - Automated bug detection, localization, and repair with LLMs - LLMs for software documentation and code comprehension - Reliability of LLMs generated code - Software security and vulnerability concerns - Ethical considerations and biases in LLMs applied to software engineering. - Integration of LLMs in software engineering tools and frameworks - LLM-based approaches for software testing and quality assurance - Implications on computer programing education and computer science curriculum - Fine tuning - Implications on the software engineering role in the industry *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 6 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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 20, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> Safwan Omari ( omarisa(a)lewisu.edu)

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FLLM2024 CFP (Hybrid Event and Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) Hybrid Event https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Joint Workshops:* *The International Workshop on Large Language Models Applications in Medical Informatics (LLMs4MI2024) <https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/LLMs4MI2024/>* *The International Workshop on Advances of GenAI in Software Engineering (GenAISE 2024) <https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/Workshops/GenAISE2024/>* *The International Workshop on Large Language Models for Cybersecurity (LLMCS 2024) <https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/Workshops/LLMCS2024/>* *The International Workshop on Prompt Engineering Large Language Models (PromptEng 2024) <https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/Workshops/PromptEng2024/>* *The International Workshop on Generative AI for Textual Document Analysis (GENAIDOC 2024) <https://sites.google.com/view/genaidoc-workshop-fllm-2024/home>* *The International Workshop on Sustainable AI for Natural Language Processing (SusAI 2024) <https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/Workshops/SusAI2024/>* *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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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[CFP] SPICES 2024 Deadline Extended
by Martin Andreoni 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

SPICES 2024: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 3rd Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems ( SPICES 2024) -- https://www.tii.ae/workshop/spices <https://ssrc-tii-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2SniMXU5Au3ixQTxEGByjn0QNiZG0KT…> Co-located with EWSN 2024 -- December 10, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** Important Dates **** Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024 *July 15, 2024* Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2024 Camera-ready: October 10, 2024 Workshop day: December 10, 2024 Embedded systems have become pervasive in modern society, from managing the power grids that allow you to boil the kettle in the morning to monitoring your sleep patterns at night. They play a crucial role in facilitating communication, enabling access to information, and powering the unseen minutiae of everyday life. Securing these networks and devices is of utmost importance to ensure the safety and privacy of individuals, businesses, and governments. However, despite significant recent progress recognizing the need for security in such systems, it is often still an afterthought. Furthermore, emerging communication technologies such as 6G, cloud computing, and the inexorable rise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning present new security threats and privacy issues that require innovative solutions. Moreover, unconventional threats and vulnerabilities can circumvent established security and privacy dogmas, exposing key weaknesses in critical systems. The Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems (SPICES) aims to address these challenges and foster interdisciplinary collaboration to explore innovative solutions for securing wireless and embedded systems. The workshop provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss the latest topics and challenges in wireless and embedded systems security and privacy – not only on how existing systems should be secured but also exploring important security aspects (or lack of) in current research trends. We welcome submissions with unusual takes on existing techniques, proposals for novel security and privacy solutions, exposure of atypical weaknesses, and the application of unconventional approaches to solving next-generation wireless security challenges. We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to submit papers (up to 6 pages, double-column) focusing on topics such as: - Wireless security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., factory automation). - AI / Machine Learning assisted security and privacy at the physical, MAC, or networking layers. - Generative Adversarial Networks for wireless and embedded security. - Security protocols for wireless communications and networking. - RF Jamming attacks and defenses for wireless networks. - Localization and positioning privacy (GPS, UWB, BLE 5.2, etc.). - Measurement of embedded computing privacy leakage. - Privacy-enhancing and anonymization techniques in embedded computing. - Security and privacy techniques in embedded computing. - Privacy-enhanced data analytics and storage in embedded computing. - Privacy-preservation methods on context (e.g., location, energy) changes in embedded computing. - Offensive security and side-channel attacks on IoT devices. - Security and possible weaknesses in 6G cellular networks (3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, etc.). - Testbed and experimental platforms for wireless security. - Vehicular network security (e.g., drones, automotive, avionics, autonomous driving). - Security for UAV swarms (i.e., distributed, highly mobile systems). - Communications security in satellite systems. - Cryptography primitives and lightweight protocols for embedded IoT devices. - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). - Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). - Internet of the Things (IoT) security and privacy. - Smart Contracts and Blockchain for wireless communication. - Multi-factor authentication methods for embedded IoT devices. - Zero-knowledge and zero-trust techniques in embedded computing. We especially encourage submissions that aim to broaden the discussion outside of traditional security and privacy challenges and approaches. Examples could include, but are not limited to: - Bio-inspired security solutions. - Visual/movement-based security solutions. - Environment-adaptive security. - Underwater communications security. - Visual Light Communication (VLC)-based security. - Quantum-based security. Well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations are sufficient for this workshop. **** Submission Instructions **** Submitted papers must contain at most six pages (US letter, 9pt font size, double-column format, following the ACM master article template), including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in English and contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information. Submissions may be uploaded through the SPICES workshop track under the EWSN 2024 EasyChair submission site ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewsn2024 <https://ssrc-tii-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/25X-treK4Vy22z2984QGZrzqlAxRDYv…> ). Accepted papers will be published in ACM as part of the EWSN 2024 proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program. **** Workshop Organizers **** - Martin Andreoni (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) - Pericle Perazzo (University of Pisa, Italy) - Fikret Basic (TU Graz) [image: beacon]

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IOTSMS 2024 Final Call (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 28 June 2024 (Final and Firm) * Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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FMEC 2024 Final Call (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 23 Jun '24

23 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 28 June 2024 (Final and Firm) * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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[Extended Deadline] BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE [Special Track]
by Julia Marino 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

*T**he 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2024*. All accepted papers in BCCA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Special Track **Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 20th July 20th, 2024 (Extended) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 31st , 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: August 10th, 2024 *Workshop Papers **Important dates**:* - Submission Due: August 1st, 2024 - Notification: October 1st, 2024 - Camera-ready: October 20th,2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France --Regards,

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ICCNS Final CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE):The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) Hybrid Event https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2024 (Firm and Final) * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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Federated Learning conference CFP (FLTA2024), 17-20 September 2024. Valencia, Spain.
by Emerging Tech 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

*The 2nd International Conference on **Federated Learning Technologies and Applications* (FLTA2024). https://flta-conference.org/ *17-20 September 2024. Valencia, Spain.* Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section Federated Learning, AI/ML new frontier, is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables privacy-preserving distributed Machine Learning. It is now playing a significant role in Edge Intelligence and pioneering several applications such as Healthcare and Medical Research, Smart Cities and Industry 4.0, Automotive and Mobility Services, beyond 5G\6G applications, and much more. It promises to move the learning to the network edge, closer to the data allocation. This trend enables real-time decision-making, Data privacy preservation, and elastic scalability and efficiency. In essence, FL leads to sustainability in data privacy and security of large-scale data analytics. This conference aims to attract the work of researchers and practitioners in Federated Learning to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry. FLTA 2024 aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of FL communication, computing, and system requirements. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees can engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to: *SCOPE* Federated learning frameworks Federated learning architectures Federated learning algorithms Privacy-preserving AI & Edge AI Distributed Machine Learning Secure and Trustworthy AI\ML *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Federated Learning Communication-efficiency Federated Learning modelling and simulation Federated Learning datasets and benchmarking Federated Learning new trends & open Challenges FL Associated Technologies FL Aggregation Algorithms FL Applications, use cases, scenarios FL security and efficiancy *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of FLTA 2024*. All accepted papers in FLTA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, DBLP, and Scopus for inclusion. Also, all the best paper nominees will be invited to Q1 journals. *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 31, 2024* (Extended Deadline) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 15, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: August 10, 2024 Please send any inquiry on FLTA to: info(a)flta-conference.org

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ICSC Final CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE ): The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 19 Jun '24

19 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) Hybrid Event https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: July 5 2024 (Firm and Final) * - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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[Extended Deadline] iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE [Hybrid Conference]
by Ons Bouachir 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2024)* 24–26 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ <https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3…> *[Hybrid Event]* Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp, and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2024 *June 30**, **2024 (Extended)* - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: *June 30, 2024* *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE If you have any questions: contact(a)imeta-conference.org --Regards,

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IOTSMS 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 20 June 2024 (Extended) * Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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FMEC 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 20 June 2024 (Extended) * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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CNSM 2024 - Deadline approaching (July 1st, 2024)
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS – CNSM 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World October 28 - 31, 2024 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2024/ ******************************************************************** Important Dates Paper Submission: July 1, 2024 Rebuttal Period: August 19-22, 2024 Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2024 Camera Ready: September 13, 2024 The 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in network and service management research. CNSM is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. In particular, CNSM 2024 will focus on AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2024 will be published as open access on the conference website and will be submitted for possible publication in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2024 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: TECHNOLOGIES • Communication Protocols • Middleware • Overlay Networks • Peer-to-Peer Networks • Computing and Storage in the Cloud Continuum • Generative AI and Large Language Models • Information Visualization • Software-Defined Networking • Network Function Virtualization • Orchestration • Operations and Business Support Systems • Control and Data Plane Programmability • Distributed Ledger Technology • Digital Twins for Networks and Services • Reinforcement Learning SERVICE MANAGEMENT • Multimedia Services • Content Delivery Services • Cloud Computing Services • Internet Connectivity and Internet Access Services • Internet of Things Services • Security Services • Context-Aware Services • Information Technology Services • Service Assurance FUNCTIONAL AREAS • Fault Management • Configuration Management • Accounting Management • Performance Management • Security Management MANAGEMENT PARADIGMS • Centralized Management • Hierarchical Management • Distributed Management • Federated Management • Autonomic and Cognitive Management • Policy- and Intent-Based Management • Model-Driven Management • Pro-active Management • Energy-aware Management • QoE-Centric Management METHODS • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning • Mathematical Logic and Automated Reasoning • Optimization Theories • Control Theory • Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, and Queuing Theory • Evolutionary Algorithms • Economic Theory and Game Theory • Monitoring and Measurements • Data Mining and (Big) Data Analysis • Computer Simulation Experiments • Testbed Experimentation and Field Trials • Software Engineering Methodologies Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 9 pages including references (full papers) or 5 pages including references (short papers). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS (https://edas.info/N32230) Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will get a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy Tim Wauters, Ghent University - imec, Belgium General Co-Chairs: Pál Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic -- 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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ICCNS2024 CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE):The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) Hybrid Event https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2024 (Extended) * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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ICSC CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE ): The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) Hybrid Event https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2024 (Extended) * - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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IOTSMS 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 20 June 2024 (Extended) * Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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FLLM2024 CFP (Hybrid Event and Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) Hybrid Event https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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FMEC 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 20 June 2024 (Extended) * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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Call for Workshops Proposal - The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024)- 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] Call for Workshops Proposal - The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) Hybrid Event https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *Call For Workshop Proposals* The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2024), will host a series of workshops and is also inviting new workshop proposals. The purpose of the workshops is to emphasize current and emerging topics of particular interest to the community. Submit your workshop proposal to: (info(a)fllm-conference.org) by June 20th. Notification of Acceptance: by June 25th Proposal Format Each workshop proposal must include (maximum 4 pages, in PDF format): - Title of the workshop. - Workshop organizers (name and affiliation). - Scope and topics of the workshop. - Rationale: - Why the workshop is related to FLLM. - Workshop details: - A draft call for papers (including organizers, program committee, and steering committee if any). - Workshop tentative schedule (number of expected papers, duration full/half day, format talks/posters, etc.). - Workshop history: if there are past workshops, the history of the workshop. *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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CFP: 43rd IEEE IPCCC'2024, Orlando, FL, USA, Nov. 22-24.
by CFP Announce 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. We appreciate your contribution to spread/forward this CFP to your colleagues, students, and friends who may have interest and relevance to the field. You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the 43rd International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Orlando, FL, Nov. 22-24, 2024. Please visit *http://ipccc.org <http://ipccc.org> *for more information. Best, IPCCC Publicity Chairs CALL FOR PAPERS 43rd International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) http://ipccc.org November 22nd - 24th, 2024, Orlando, Florida, USA The International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference is a premier conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. For over four decades, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. We encourage submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research areas. IPCCC will again be utilizing IEEE Open Preview to allow the conference proceedings to be available in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library and conference mobile app (if applicable), free of charge to all IEEE Xplore® customers, prior to the conference start date. All papers should be submitted at https://edas.info/N32297 The following types of papers are accepted: - Regular Paper: 8 pages without extra charge, and up to 2 extra pages at $100 per extra page. - Short Paper: 6 pages without extra charge, and up to 1 extra page at $100 per extra page. - Poster Abstract Paper: 2 pages. No extra pages are available. Posters are encouraged from students to present their work in progress as a poster at the conference. Hot Topics for IPCCC 2024 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud Computing and Data Centers - Serverless Computing & Microservices - Edge & Fog Computing - Pervasive/Mobile Computing - High Performance Computing - Workload Characterization - Systems and Networking for AI - 5G/6G/NextG Networks - Wireless Communication and Networks - Mobility Management and Modeling - Smart and Mobile Applications - Localization, Positioning, and Tracking - Smart Sensing - Software Defined Networking - Internet and Network Management - Network Design and Protocols - Information Centric Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modeling - Network Measurement - Sustainable Systems and Networking - Emerging Computing and Networks - Metaverse - Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality - Digital Twins - Mobile AI and LLM - Quantum Computing and Networking - Internet of Things - Cyber Physical Systems - Parallel and Distributed Systems - Embedded Systems - Computer and Storage Systems - Smart Grid - Crowdsourcing Systems - Intelligent Mission Critical Operations - Smart Health Systems, Wearable, and Implantable Systems - Social Network Analysis - Security and Privacy - Network Information Assurance and Security - Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Decentralized Trust - Fundamental Theory and Algorithms - Machine Learning and AI for Systems and Networking Conference ID: IEEE : 59868 IEEE PDFXpress: 59868X Location: Orlando, Florida, USA Important Dates: Paper Abstract Due: June 15, 2024 All Paper/Poster Submissions Due: July 01, 2024 Acceptance Notification: August 16, 2024 Camera Ready "Final Manuscript" Due: August 30, 2024 Conference Date: November 22-24, 2024

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ICCNS2024 CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 28 May '24

28 May '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) Hybrid Event https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2024 (Extended) * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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ICSC CFP (Hybrid Conference Co-Sponsored by IEEE ): The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 21 May '24

21 May '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) Hybrid Event https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2024 (Extended) * - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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IOTSMS 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 20 May '24

20 May '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 1 June 2024 Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE
by neveen hijazi 19 May '24

19 May '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2024)* 26–29 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2024 - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: April 30, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE --Regards,

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Call for Participation: DFIR Streams 0xA & 0xB
by Andrew Zayine 19 May '24

19 May '24

Dear All, The Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community invites you to join us for our next webinars: "DFIR Stream 0xA" on Tuesday, May 21,⋅2:00 – 3:00 pm (BST) UK Time Title: "Deconstructing the Analyst Mindset", by Dr. Chris Sanders, Founder of Applied Network Defense, United States Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xa "DFIR Stream 0xB" on Tuesday, May 28, 4:00 – 5:00 pm (BST) UK Time Title: How to Detect when Residential IP Proxies are Used as a Botnet, by Dr. Elisa Chiapponi, Amadeus IT Group, France Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xb - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request for free (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. Join us &stay tuned! #CyberSecurity #AnalystMindset #MachineLearning #AnomalyDetection Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). Best regards, ACFTI Secretariat

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CNSM 2024 - Call for Papers - Due Date: July 1st, 2024
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 May '24

14 May '24

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS – CNSM 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World October 28 - 31, 2024 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2024/ ******************************************************************** Important Dates Paper Submission: July 1, 2024 Rebuttal Period: August 19-22, 2024 Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2024 Camera Ready: September 13, 2024 The 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in network and service management research. CNSM is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. In particular, CNSM 2024 will focus on AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2024 will be published as open access on the conference website and will be submitted for possible publication in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2024 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: TECHNOLOGIES • Communication Protocols • Middleware • Overlay Networks • Peer-to-Peer Networks • Computing and Storage in the Cloud Continuum • Generative AI and Large Language Models • Information Visualization • Software-Defined Networking • Network Function Virtualization • Orchestration • Operations and Business Support Systems • Control and Data Plane Programmability • Distributed Ledger Technology • Digital Twins for Networks and Services • Reinforcement Learning SERVICE MANAGEMENT • Multimedia Services • Content Delivery Services • Cloud Computing Services • Internet Connectivity and Internet Access Services • Internet of Things Services • Security Services • Context-Aware Services • Information Technology Services • Service Assurance FUNCTIONAL AREAS • Fault Management • Configuration Management • Accounting Management • Performance Management • Security Management MANAGEMENT PARADIGMS • Centralized Management • Hierarchical Management • Distributed Management • Federated Management • Autonomic and Cognitive Management • Policy- and Intent-Based Management • Model-Driven Management • Pro-active Management • Energy-aware Management • QoE-Centric Management METHODS • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning • Mathematical Logic and Automated Reasoning • Optimization Theories • Control Theory • Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, and Queuing Theory • Evolutionary Algorithms • Economic Theory and Game Theory • Monitoring and Measurements • Data Mining and (Big) Data Analysis • Computer Simulation Experiments • Testbed Experimentation and Field Trials • Software Engineering Methodologies Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 9 pages including references (full papers) or 5 pages including references (short papers). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS (https://edas.info/N32230) Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will get a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy Tim Wauters, Ghent University - imec, Belgium General Co-Chairs: Pál Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic -- 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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FMEC 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 14 May '24

14 May '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 1 June 2024 * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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[CFP] Extended Submission Deadline: May 18, 2024 | ICS-CSR 2024 Symposium co-organized with ARES 2024, Vienna | Austria
by Yigit, Yagmur 13 May '24

13 May '24

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your friends. You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the ICS-CSR 2024 Symposium. CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Symposium for Industrial Control System & SCADA Cyber Security Research co-organized with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), August 1st 2024 | University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ics-csr/ Conference Website: https://www.ares-conference.eu/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 12, 2024 May 18, 2024 [Extended] SUBMISSION LINK: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2024 The 7th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security brings together researchers with an interest in the security of industrial control systems in the light of their increasing exposure to cyber-space. The topics of interests are broad, ranging from security for hardware/firmware used in industrial control systems, to system aspects of ICS such as secure architectures and vulnerability screening to the human aspects of cyber security such as behaviour modelling and training. ICS-CSR is a research conference aimed at high quality academic research in any of the specified themes and topics of interest. We welcome original contributions that present innovative ideas, proof of concepts, use cases, and results from a variety of domains with a wish to enhance the security of infrastructure. Proceedings of the ICS-CSR are hosted by the ACM (ACM ICPS). ICS-CSR is welcoming contributions that have a direct application or relevance to security aspects of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Operational Technology (OT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart City, or Industry 4.0. This list of topics is not meant to be exhaustive; ICS-CSR is interested in all aspects of computer security relating to ICS. Papers without a clear application to SCADA, Embedded Systems or Industrial Control, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review. * Hardware Security Solutions * Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance * Resilient Systems * Application Security * Secure Firmware * Communication Systems * Timing Vulnerabilities in RT-Control Systems * Security Implications of Feature Interactions * Post-quantum cryptography * System Security * Security Architectures * Safety-Security Interactions * Intrusion Detection * Security Monitoring * Malware Analysis * Cyber Security Engineering * Vulnerability Assessment/Screening * Secure Communication Protocols * Metrics * Anonymity * Language-based Security * Network Security * Patching and MaintenanceBehavioral modeling; * Digital Forensics and Response * Hardware Forensics * Incident Response * Live Forensics * Accountability * Forensic Readiness * Security Management * Risk Management * Security Metrics * Governance and Policy * Business Continuity * Critical Infrastructure Protection * Human Factors Security * Awareness and Training * Behavioural Modelling * Threat Profiling SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. 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Edith Cowan University -Thomas Brandstetter, Limes Security/ FHSTP, Austria -Richard Smith, De Montfort University -Leandros Maglaras, Edinburgh Napier University Publicity Chairs -Kitty Kioskli, trustulio, NL -Yagmur Yigit, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Technical Program Committee -Nestoras Chouliaras, University of West Attica, Greece -Christos Chrysoulas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK -Tiago Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal -Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University, UK -Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO -Simon Parkinson, University of Huddersfield, UK -Iqbal H. Sarker, Edith Cowan University, AUS Regards, Yagmur Yigit PhD Student, Edinburgh Napier University This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. 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CFP for SENA 2024, Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE BCCA 2024
by Yigit, Yagmur 09 May '24

09 May '24

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your friends. Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Secure Edge Networking and Applications (SENA) In Conjunction with IEEE Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (IEEE BCCA 2024) 26-29 November 2024 (Dubai, UAE) https://bcca-conference.org/2024/Workshops/SENA2024.php Edge networking plays a significant role in shaping the future of Internet of Things (IoT) networks by processing high volumes of data at the network edge and meeting the desired latency demand. Although edge computing is regarded as a promising technology for these features as well as its decentralization and supportive functionalities, there is a need to develop systems to protect data security and privacy since users can face the risk of data leakage when they offload data to the edge/cloud server. Secure edge networking is continuously becoming a top strategic technology that connects the physical and blockchain-secured worlds, assisted by next-generation networks. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twin (DT) driven secure edge-network can deliver seamless analysis, monitoring, and predictions when it is used together with next-generation mobile communications (5G/6G), Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Federated Learning (FL), distributed computing, and intelligent smart city applications. The workshop will invite authors to submit papers presenting new research related to all aspects of secure edge networks and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * IoT-based secure edge networking for real-time communication systems * Real-time communication protocols for secure edge networking * Resource management and network optimization for secure edge network * Secure edge networking and industrial IoT applications * Digital twin (DT)-enabled secure edge networking * Real-world Digital Twin (DT) simulations, prototypes, and testbed demonstrations for secure edge networks * Attack detections/defences for secure edge networking * Blockchain-driven secure edge networking * Energy efficient secure edge networking * Federated learning-based secure edge networking * Modeling and performance analysis of secure edge networking * Software-defined network (SDN) controlled secure edge networking * AI as a service (AIaaS) for secure edge networking * Wireless communications for cyber-physical edge network applications * New security and privacy concepts within edge network applications * LLMs in secure edge network * Trustworthy secure edge network applications * Secure edge network applications for smart cities * AI-driven applications for secure edge networks * Autonomous and context-aware secure edge networks * Self-organizing secure edge networks and applications * Sustainable AI-based secure edge network * Secure edge network design for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) applications General Chairs: * Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey (muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr<mailto:muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr>) * Elif Bozkaya-Aras, National Defence University Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey (ebozkaya(a)dho.msu.edu.tr<mailto:ebozkaya@dho.msu.edu.tr>) Honorary Chair: * Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University (b.canberk(a)napier.ac.uk<mailto:b.canberk@napier.ac.uk>) Industrial Chair: * Gökhan Yurdakul, GM of BTS Group (yurdakulg(a)btsgroup.com<mailto:yurdakulg@btsgroup.com>) Technical Program Chairs * Tuğçe Bilen, İstanbul Technical University (bilent(a)itu.edu.tr<mailto:bilent@itu.edu.tr>) * Gökhan Seçinti, İstanbul Technical University (secinti(a)itu.edu.tr<mailto:secinti@itu.edu.tr>) * Engin Zeydan, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) (engin.zeydan(a)ieee.org<mailto:engin.zeydan@ieee.org>) * Yusuf Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University (yusuf.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr<mailto:yusuf.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr>) * Abdullah Aydeğer, Florida Tech, (aaydeger(a)fit.edu<mailto:aaydeger@fit.edu>) Publicity Chairs * Kübra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University (kubra.duran(a)napier.ac.uk<mailto:kubra.duran@napier.ac.uk>) * Yağmur Yiğit, Edinburgh Napier University (yagmur.yigit(a)napier.ac.uk<mailto:yagmur.yigit@napier.ac.uk>) * Burcu Bolat, National Defence University Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey (bolat.b(a)dho.msu.edu.tr<mailto:bolat.b@dho.msu.edu.tr>) * Elif Ak, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (akeli(a)itu.edu.tr<mailto:akeli@itu.edu.tr>) Important Dates: Submission Due: August 1, 2024 Notification: October 1, 2024 Camera Ready: October 20, 2024 Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit a long paper (7-8 pages), short paper (5-6 pages) and poster (1-2 pages) including results, figures, and references in the standard IEEE two-column conference format. 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ICCNS2024 CFP (Hybrid Conference and Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 07 May '24

07 May '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) Hybrid Event https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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[CFP] IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Forensics& Advanced Threat Investigations in Emerging Technologies 2024
by Andrew Zayine 02 May '24

02 May '24

Dear Colleagues, IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations in Emerging Technologies organizing committee is inviting you to submit your research papers. The workshop will be held in Hybrid mode. The in-person mode will held at Hilton London Tower Bridge, London, from 2 to 4 September 2024 Topics include (but not limited to): -Forensics and threat investigations in P2P, cloud/edge, SDN/NFV, VPN, and social networks -Forensics and threat investigations in IoT, smart tech (car, home, city), e/m-health -Forensics and visualization of big data -Tools and services for cyber forensics and threat investigations -Attack detection, traceback, and attribution in emerging technologies -Malware analysis and attribution -Methods for reconstruction of digital evidence in emerging technologies -Security and privacy in P2P, cloud/edge, SDN/NFV, VPN, and social networks -Security and privacy in IoT, smart tech (car, home, city) -Open source intelligence (OSINT) -Dark Web Investigations -Digital evidence extraction/analysis using AI/ML and data mining -Data exfiltration from networked devices/services(e.g.cyber-physical systems, IoT) -Large-scale investigations and ML for the analysis of intelligence data sets and logs We also encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of cybersecurity, cyber defense, and digital crimes. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 3, 2024 AOE Authors Notifications: July 3, 2024 AOE Camera Ready submission: July 14, 2024 AOE Early registration deadline: July 20, 2024 AOE Publication The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Workshop Awards -Best Open-Source Tool Prize, which will be presented in a paper during our workshop. The prize, valued at 300 euros, is being financed by one of our collaborators from the industry. -An additional industry collaborator is sponsoring the prestigious Best Paper award, which includes a one-year free license to utilize renowned digital forensics software. This Workshop is Technically Supported by -Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators -Industrial Cybersecurity Center -Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control, and Communication To submit your manuscript, please follow the instructions at https://www.acfti.org/news-events/ieee-csr-cfati-cfp-2024 For more information, please don't hesitate to contact the CFATI General Chair Dr. Ahmed Elmesiry (a.elmesiry-at-londonmet.ac.uk) To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti We look forward to your submissions. Regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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[CFP] Submission Deadline: May 12, 2024 - ICS-CSR 2024 Symposium co-organized with ARES 2024, Vienna | Austria
by Yigit, Yagmur 02 May '24

02 May '24

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your friends. You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the ICS-CSR 2024 Symposium. CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Symposium for Industrial Control System & SCADA Cyber Security Research co-organized with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024), August 1st 2024 // University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ics-csr/ Conference Website: https://www.ares-conference.eu/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 12, 2024 SUBMISSION LINK: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2024 The 7th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security brings together researchers with an interest in the security of industrial control systems in the light of their increasing exposure to cyber-space. The topics of interests are broad, ranging from security for hardware/firmware used in industrial control systems, to system aspects of ICS such as secure architectures and vulnerability screening to the human aspects of cyber security such as behaviour modelling and training. ICS-CSR is a research conference aimed at high quality academic research in any of the specified themes and topics of interest. We welcome original contributions that present innovative ideas, proof of concepts, use cases, and results from a variety of domains with a wish to enhance the security of infrastructure. Proceedings of the ICS-CSR are hosted by the ACM (ACM ICPS). ICS-CSR is welcoming contributions that have a direct application or relevance to security aspects of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Operational Technology (OT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart City, or Industry 4.0. This list of topics is not meant to be exhaustive; ICS-CSR is interested in all aspects of computer security relating to ICS. Papers without a clear application to SCADA, Embedded Systems or Industrial Control, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review. * Hardware Security Solutions * Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance * Resilient Systems * Application Security * Secure Firmware * Communication Systems * Timing Vulnerabilities in RT-Control Systems * Security Implications of Feature Interactions * Post-quantum cryptography * System Security * Security Architectures * Safety-Security Interactions * Intrusion Detection * Security Monitoring * Malware Analysis * Cyber Security Engineering * Vulnerability Assessment/Screening * Secure Communication Protocols * Metrics * Anonymity * Language-based Security * Network Security * Patching and MaintenanceBehavioral modeling; * Digital Forensics and Response * Hardware Forensics * Incident Response * Live Forensics * Accountability * Forensic Readiness * Security Management * Risk Management * Security Metrics * Governance and Policy * Business Continuity * Critical Infrastructure Protection * Human Factors Security * Awareness and Training * Behavioural Modelling * Threat Profiling SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2024 Choose Track: ICS-CSR 2024 Important Deadlines (All deadlines are 23:59 CET) Paper Submission Due: May 12, 2024 Acceptance Notification: May 29, 2024 Proceedings version: June 18, 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Chairs - Angela Smith, Airbus -Helge Janicke. Edith Cowan University -Thomas Brandstetter, Limes Security/ FHSTP, Austria -Richard Smith, De Montfort University -Leandros Maglaras, Edinburgh Napier University Publicity Chairs -Kitty Kioskli, trustulio, NL -Yagmur Yigit, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Technical Program Committee -Nestoras Chouliaras, University of West Attica, Greece -Christos Chrysoulas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK -Tiago Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal -Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University, UK -Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO -Kitty Kioskli, trustulio, NL -Simon Parkinson, University of Huddersfield, UK -Iqbal H. Sarker, Edith Cowan University, AUS -Yagmur Yigit, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Regards, Yagmur Yigit PhD Student, Edinburgh Napier University This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. 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FLLM2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE [Special Track]
by Ons Bouachir 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

*T**he 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2024*. All accepted papers in BCCA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Special Track **Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 20th,2024 - Notification of paper acceptance: July 31st , 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: August 10th, 2024 *Workshop Papers **Important dates**:* - Submission Due: August 1st, 2024 - Notification: October 1st, 2024 - Camera-ready: October 20th,2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France

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ICSC CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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Call for Participation: DFIR/Cybersecurity webinar series
by Andrew Zayine 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Dear All, The Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators invites you to join our next webinars: "DFIR Stream 0x8" on Tuesday, May 7. 1:30 – 2:30 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Malware Detection in Memory Forensics: Open Challenges and Issues, by Dr. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, University of Zaragoza. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x8 "DFIR Stream 0x9" on Monday, May 13 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security, by Dr. Chen Liu, Clarkson University. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x9 "DFIR Stream 0xA" on Tuesday, Tuesday, May 28 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: How to Detect when Residential IP Proxies are Used as a Botnet, by Dr. Elisa Chiapponi, Amadeus IT Group. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xa ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request for free (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. Join Us & stay tuned! #CyberSecurity #MemoryForensics #MachineLearning #AnomalyDetection #BotnetProxies Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#m_3552886983748696123_m_1961124678077931448_m_1772793109705571967_m_-3508516846923096218_m_-7119026860201939396_m_-7406540328117030882_m_-7128764608773158852_m_-1297726129328758663_m_585683215091367166_m_-3376134405372869888_m_-243684744949232532_m_6969663030798877318_m_-8843749944597293673_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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CFP: The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024)
by wx Ding 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this UbiSec 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (CFPs) with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024===================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizer: Central South University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ============================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ ***********************************************************************

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[GreenCom 2024] Firm Deadline: The 20th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications
by Xueqin Liang 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

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iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE
by neveen hijazi 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2024)* 24–26 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2024 - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: April 30, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE --Regards,

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IDSTA CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE):Intelligent Data Science, 24-27 SEPT. 2024 DUBROVNIK, CROATIA
by Gizem Varkonyi 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple versions of this call through different channels. We would like to invite you to submit your work to our conference. The details are as follows. The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2024) Co-Sponsored by IEEE https://conferences.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetai… 24-27 SEPT. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA https://idsta-conference.org/2024/ *Call for Full Papers:* Huge amount of Data is being generated and transmitted every day. To be able to deal with this data, extract useful information from it, store it, transmit it, and represent it, intelligent technologies and applications are needed. The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA) is a peer reviewed conference that will advance the Data Science field by giving an opportunity for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest findings in the field. It will also invite key persons in the field to share their current knowledge and their future expectations for the field. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: · Data Science and Computer Science · Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Data Science and Sustainability · Data Science and Cybersecurity · Data Science and Smart City · Data Science and GPU Computing · Data Science and Transparency in Research Data · Data Science and Data and Information Quality · Data Science and Crowdsourcing · Data Science and Human Behaviour Understanding · Data Science for Applied Public Affairs · Data Science for Business Analytics · Data Science for Finance · Data Science and Environmental Science · Data Science and Biotechnologies · Data Science and Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data Publication: Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. Earlier versions of the proceedings can be found on: DBLP <https://dblp.org/db/conf/idsta/index.html> and IEEE <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1838964/all-proceedings> FULL PAPER IMPORTANT DATES · Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 · Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Call for workshop Proposals:* IDSTA will host a series of workshops and is also inviting new workshop proposals. The purpose of the workshops is to emphasize current and emerging topics of particular interest to the community. Proposal Format: Each workshop proposal must include (maximum 4 pages, in PDF format): · Title of the workshop. · Workshop organizers (name, affiliation, and short biography). · Scope and topics of the workshop. · Rationale: o Why the workshop is related to IDSTA. o Why the topic is important. o Why the workshop may attract a significant number of attendees. · Workshop details: o A draft call for papers (including organizers, program committee, and steering committee if any). Organizers are expected to be fully committed and physically present at the workshop. o Workshop tentative schedule (number of expected papers, duration full/half day, format talks/posters, etc.). We encourage full-day events that demonstrate the interest of the community in the proposed topic and guarantee the commitment of the organizers. Half-day proposals are also welcome but expected to provide a rationale for the proposed duration. o Names of potential participants and invited speakers (if any). · Workshop history: if there are past workshops, the history of the workshop. · Proposals should be sent to info(a)idsta-conference.org. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS IMPORTANT DATES: Proposal submission deadline: May 15, 2024 Proposal acceptance notification: May 25, 2024

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ICCNS2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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[CFP] IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Forensics& Advanced Threat Investigations in Emerging Technologies 2024
by Andrew Zayine 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations in Emerging Technologies organizing committee is inviting you to submit your research papers. The workshop will be held in Hybrid mode. The in-person mode will held at Hilton London Tower Bridge, London, from 2 to 4 September 2024 Topics include (but not limited to): -Forensics and threat investigations in P2P, cloud/edge, SDN/NFV, VPN, and social networks -Forensics and threat investigations in IoT, smart tech (car, home, city), e/m-health -Forensics and visualization of big data -Tools and services for cyber forensics and threat investigations -Attack detection, traceback, and attribution in emerging technologies -Malware analysis and attribution -Methods for reconstruction of digital evidence in emerging technologies -Security and privacy in P2P, cloud/edge, SDN/NFV, VPN, and social networks -Security and privacy in IoT, smart tech (car, home, city) -Open source intelligence (OSINT) -Dark Web Investigations -Digital evidence extraction/analysis using AI/ML and data mining -Data exfiltration from networked devices/services(e.g.cyber-physical systems, IoT) -Large-scale investigations and ML for the analysis of intelligence data sets and logs We also encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of cybersecurity, cyber defense, and digital crimes. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 3, 2024 AOE Authors Notifications: July 3, 2024 AOE Camera Ready submission: July 14, 2024 AOE Early registration deadline: July 20, 2024 AOE Publication The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Workshop Awards -Best Open-Source Tool Prize, which will be presented in a paper during our workshop. The prize, valued at 300 euros, is being financed by one of our collaborators from the industry. -An additional industry collaborator is sponsoring the prestigious Best Paper award, which includes a one-year free license to utilize renowned digital forensics software. This Workshop is Technically Supported by -Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators -Industrial Cybersecurity Center -Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control, and Communication To submit your manuscript, please follow the instructions at https://www.acfti.org/news-events/ieee-csr-cfati-cfp-2024 For more information, please don't hesitate to contact the CFATI General Chair Dr. Ahmed Elmesiry (a.elmesiry-at-londonmet.ac.uk) To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti We look forward to your submissions. Regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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Call for Participation: Announcing New DFIR 6, 7 & 8 Streams
by Andrew Zayine 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Dear All, The Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators invites you to join our next webinars: "DFIR Stream 0x6" on Tuesday, April 16 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Operationalizing Machine Learning for Networks, by Shinan Liu, University of Chicago. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x6 "DFIR Stream 0x7" on Tuesday, May 7. 1:30 – 2:30 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Malware Detection in Memory Forensics: Open Challenges and Issues, by Dr. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, University of Zaragoza. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x7 "DFIR Stream 0x8" on Monday, May 13 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security, by Dr. Chen Liu, Clarkson University. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x8 ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request for free (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. Join Us & stay tuned! #CyberSecurity #MemoryForensics #MachineLearning #AnomalyDetection Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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FMEC 2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 07 Apr '24

07 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 1 June 2024 * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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ICSC CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 07 Apr '24

07 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Julia Marino 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2024)* 24–26 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2024 - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: April 30, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE --Regards,

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IOTSMS 2024 CFP: The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 1 June 2024* Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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FLLM2024 CFP (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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Call for Papers DOD 2024
by SBA Research Events 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

=========================================================================================================== | International Workshop on Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats (DOD 2024) | | co-located with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) | | July 30 - August 01, 2024; University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria | | https://www.ares-conference.eu/dod2024/ | =========================================================================================================== =================== | IMPORTANT DATES | =================== Submission deadline extended to: April 30, 2024 Author notification: May 29, 2024 Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dod2024 ================== | ABOUT DOD 2024 | ================== Disasters occur when hazards - both natural as well as man-made - 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. In recent years, the rising number of disasters occurring all over the world, even affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent, have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various kinds of disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an especially hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, and it still impacts our lives today and will continue to do so for some time in the future. From the perspective of today, the world-wide spread and the multitude of resulting different (local and global) implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight 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 will also be focused on in its edition in 2024. Moreover, DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to new and emerging threats due to the ever growing integration as well as increasing coupling between the cyber- and physical domain. Such new and emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which - so far - have been the prime examples for targets of novel attacks and their consequences, which can arise from both the cyber- as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges pertaining to disaster risk, disaster management organizations and first responders. We are also delighted to point you to the DOD 2024 homepage (https://www.ares-conference.eu/dod2024/) containing the newest information about DOD 2024. We are grateful and honored for Distinguished Professor Panos Pardalos (Steering Committee Chair of DOD) to give a plenary talk at DOD 2024! On the DOD 2024 homepage, you will also find information on our planned social events as well as on the venue in Vienna. 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) and welcoming you to Vienna, Austria! ======================================= | PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DOD-SERIES | ======================================= * DOD 2015: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437071 * DOD 2017: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319974415 * DOD 2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649722 * DOD 2021: https://link.springer.com/collections/chfiighaab =================== | CALL FOR PAPERS | =================== 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 to be presented at DOD 2024. We would also like to highlight that we encourage submissions addressing challenges relating to the interdisciplinary character of disaster response and disaster management. We will 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: All aspects relating to the dynamics of disasters, especially * Optimization * Computing * Mathematical and statistical modeling * Data analytics * Emergency and disaster management * Hybrid threats as new and emerging hazards to society ========================= | SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | ========================= The post-proceedings of DOD 2024 will be published under the book series Springer Optimization and Its Applications. The submissions should be prepared according to the guidelines given (SOIA latex templates) here: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/campaigns/latex-author-support ============== | ORGANIZERS | ============== Dimitris Simos, General Chair, SBA Research, Austria Bernhard Garn, PC co-Chair, SBA Research, Austria Stefan Pickl, PC co-Chair, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany Panos Pardalos, Steering Committee Chair of DOD, University of Florida, USA Ilias S. Kotsireas, Proceedings Chair, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Izem Chaloupka, Publicity Chair, SBA Research, Austria ========= | VENUE | ========= University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ======================= | CONTACT INFORMATION | ======================= Please direct any questions concerning submissions or DOD 2024 in general to: dod2024(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dod2024@sba-research.org>

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[Extended Deadline] BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Ons Bouachir 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

*T**he 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2024*. All accepted papers in BCCA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: March 15th, April 15th,2024 (Extended) - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: July 1st, 2024 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Workshop dates:* - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France

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CFP - IEEE CCECE, Kingston, ON, Canada (Extended)
by Moayad Aloqaily 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

*The 37th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2024) will be held in Kingston, ON, Canada on August 6-9 2024. * *https://ccece2024.ieee.ca/ <https://ccece2024.ieee.ca/>* CCECE is the flagship conference where researchers, students, and professionals in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering meet annually in a Canadian city to get up to speed with the latest developments, foray into new fields and emerging topics, network with colleagues to strengthen partnerships and foster new collaborations. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following tracks: · Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and · Circuits, Devices, Photonics, and Power Electronics · Communications and Networking and Signal Processing · Computer and Software Engineering and Applications · Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems · Power Engineering Paper submissions are via EDAS at: https://edas.info/N31838 Important Dates: · Full Paper Submission – *March 31, 2024 (Extended)* · Notification of Acceptance – April 28, 2024 · Author Registration and Final Paper Submission – May 26, 2024 - Poster Paper Submission (2 pages) - April 28, 2024 - Poster Notification of Acceptance - May 26, 2024 - Camera Ready Submission Posters - June 9, 2024 - Special Sessions Proposal - January 14 2024 - Tutorial Proposals - March 1, 2024 On behalf of the conference chairs, CCECE 2024. *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., SMIEEE, P.Eng.* *https://icnetlab.org/MoayadAloqaily/ <https://icnetlab.org/MoayadAloqaily/>* *http://artifitialleap.ai/ <http://artifitialleap.ai/>*

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Call for Participation:DFIR Streams 0x4 and 0x5
by Andrew Zayine 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Dear all, I am happy to announce the next webinars in the DFIR Stream series of the Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators, in collaboration with the Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - On Monday, March 25. from 4:00–5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK time, Amr Thabet will talk about: "Combating Targeted Ransomware Through Threat Hunting" Speaker: Amr Thabet is a cybersecurity consultant with over 12 years of experience, He has worked for some of the Fortune 500 companies, including Symantec, Tenable, and others. He is the founder of MalTrak and the author of "Mastering Malware Analysis," published by Packt, and many open-source tools like Pokas Emulator and Security Research and Development Framework. Amr is a speaker and trainer at some of the top security conferences all around the world, including Blackhat, DEFCON, Hack in Paris, and the Virus Bulletin (VB) Conference. He was also featured in the Christian Science Monitor for his work on Stuxnet. More Information & registration @ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - On Tuesday, April 2 ·from 3:00–4:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK time, Dr. Dave Chatterjee will talk about: "A Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity Readiness: Application of the Commitment-Preparedness-Discipline Framework" Speaker: Cybersecurity and technology thought leader and subject matter expert, Dave Chatterjee, Ph.D., is a tenured associate professor in the Management Information Systems (MIS) department at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia (UGA). As a Duke University Visiting Scholar, Dr. Chatterjee has taught in the Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity Program at the Pratt School of Engineering. He is the author of the highly endorsed book, Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach, a SAGE publication. More Information & registration @ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This event is online only. Hence, you must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti We look forward to your participation in the upcoming webinars. Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat -- ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

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iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE
by neveen hijazi 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2024)* 24–26 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2024 - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: April 30, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE --Regards,

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CNSM 2024 - Call for Papers - Due Date: July 1st, 2024
by Tortonesi Mauro 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS – CNSM 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World October 28 - 31, 2024 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2024/ ******************************************************************** Important Dates Paper Submission: July 1, 2024 Rebuttal Period: August 19-22, 2024 Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2024 Camera Ready: September 13, 2024 The 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in network and service management research. CNSM is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. In particular, CNSM 2024 will focus on AI-Powered Network and Service Management for Tomorrow's Digital World. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2024 will be published as open access on the conference website and will be submitted for possible publication in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2024 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: TECHNOLOGIES • Communication Protocols • Middleware • Overlay Networks • Peer-to-Peer Networks • Computing and Storage in the Cloud Continuum • Generative AI and Large Language Models • Information Visualization • Software-Defined Networking • Network Function Virtualization • Orchestration • Operations and Business Support Systems • Control and Data Plane Programmability • Distributed Ledger Technology • Digital Twins for Networks and Services • Reinforcement Learning SERVICE MANAGEMENT • Multimedia Services • Content Delivery Services • Cloud Computing Services • Internet Connectivity and Internet Access Services • Internet of Things Services • Security Services • Context-Aware Services • Information Technology Services • Service Assurance FUNCTIONAL AREAS • Fault Management • Configuration Management • Accounting Management • Performance Management • Security Management MANAGEMENT PARADIGMS • Centralized Management • Hierarchical Management • Distributed Management • Federated Management • Autonomic and Cognitive Management • Policy- and Intent-Based Management • Model-Driven Management • Pro-active Management • Energy-aware Management • QoE-Centric Management METHODS • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning • Mathematical Logic and Automated Reasoning • Optimization Theories • Control Theory • Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, and Queuing Theory • Evolutionary Algorithms • Economic Theory and Game Theory • Monitoring and Measurements • Data Mining and (Big) Data Analysis • Computer Simulation Experiments • Testbed Experimentation and Field Trials • Software Engineering Methodologies Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 9 pages including references (full papers) or 5 pages including references (short papers). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS (https://edas.info/N32230) Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will get a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy Tim Wauters, Ghent University - imec, Belgium General Co-Chairs: Pál Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic -- 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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FLLM2024 CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models , 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php 26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section *FLLM 2024 CFP:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Multimodal LLMs - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - Integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - * Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability and EXplainable AI - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Federated Learning for FLLM - Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs - Data Augmentation - * Natural Language Processing Applications* - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - * Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *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 FLLM 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 email 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. *Important Dates:* - *Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024* - Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)fllm-conference.org

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[Extended Deadline] BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 16 Mar '24

16 Mar '24

*T**he 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2024*. All accepted papers in BCCA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: March 15th, April 15th,2024 (Extended Deadline) - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: July 1st, 2024 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Workshop dates:* - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France

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FMEC 2024 CFP: The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 13 Mar '24

13 Mar '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2024 ) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2024/index.php Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *FMEC 2024 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 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 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 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 2024 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following: - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications - Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems - Intelligent Transportation Systems - Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms - Edge-cloud networking and communication - Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques - Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems - FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols - Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications - Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications - FMEC in Environmental Sustainability - Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing - Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing - Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC - Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform - Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge - 5G and fog/edge computing - Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures - Energy-efficient fog/edge computing - Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols - Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services - Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing - Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources - Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing - AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing - Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing - Distributed management of Edge computing - Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing - Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum - In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum - Novel programming models for Edge computing - Dynamic Edge/Fog environments - Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services - Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services - AI in Autonomous Urbanism *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 email 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: 1 June 2024 * Notification to Authors: 12 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi(a)bth.se

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Invitation "5G security" webinar
by Andrew Zayine 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Dear All, The Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community invites you to join us for our next webinar: DFIR Stream 0x3: "Security Enhancements for 5G Wireless Networks" by Professor Maode Ma, College of Engineering, Qatar University Thursday, March 14 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) United Kingdom Time More Information: https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x3 For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. We look forward to your participation in the upcoming webinars. Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat -- ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

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The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024), 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain.
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2024) https://www.icsc-conference.org/2024/ 17–20 September, 2024 | Valencia, Spain. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section *ICSC 2024 CFP:* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *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 ICSC 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 email 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:* - Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 5, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICSC to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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IOTSMS 2024 CFP: The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024
by Emerging Tech 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmö, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). 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). 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 two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 1 June 2024 Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se

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ICCNS2024 CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Gizem Varkonyi 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2024) https://iccns-conference.org/2024/index.php 24-27 Sept. 2024 | DUBROVNIK, CROATIA. Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Croatia section *ICCNS 2024 CFP:* With the advancements in wireless communication systems like Fifth Generation (5G), beyond 5G (B5G) and the Sixth Generation (6G), new and unprecedent services will be available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver of the future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquities deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and at the cloud. The computing infrastructure will be handling the processing of the data generated by the users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require an efficient and sustainable applications running on the computing\Networking infrastructure and also a smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role on the design, deployment, automation and management of the future services. This will include the applications that will be running on the edge and the cloud servers, the networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system and the 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 the state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking and Services that is 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 not limited to: - 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 Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication - Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing - Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy - Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services *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 ICCNS 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 email 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:* - *Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2024 * - Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2024 - Camera-ready Submission: August 25, 2024 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on ICCNS to: <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com> info(a)iccns-conference.org

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Call for Papers ARES 2024
by SBA Research Events 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

ARES 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extensions Submission Deadline ****************************************************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) July 30 - August 02, 2024 Vienna, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ 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 2024 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** Extended Submission Deadline: March 13, 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 *********** 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 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2024 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). 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) - SoK paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references) - workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Note that appendices are granted within the review process, but won´t be published later on. 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 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. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ 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 & Graz University of Technology, Austria Workshop Chair 2024 Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2024 Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Organisation & 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 ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2024 can be found here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/ ************

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iMETA 2024: The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Julia Marino 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

*The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA 2024)* 26–29 November, 2024 – Dubai, UAE https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research fields. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2024*. All accepted papers in iMETA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 30, 2023 - Acceptance notification: Sept 1, 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: Oct 10, 2024 - Workshop Proposal due: April 30, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission (References included in the page limit). - *Long papers*: 7-8 pages. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. - *Short papers*: 5-6 pages. - *Focused Survey*: Up to 10 pages. - *Poster papers*: 1-2 pages (undergraduate). *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2024 *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* § Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia § Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy § Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA § Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE § Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA *General Co-Chair* § Farina (Nadia) Bhuiyan, Zayed University, UAE § Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* § Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland § Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan § Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, India § Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE --Regards,

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[GreenCom 2024] Call for Papers: The 20th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications
by Xueqin Liang 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

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BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Ons Bouachir 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

*T**he 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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 as 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 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Publication* *IEEE is a technical sponsor of BCCA 2024*. All accepted papers in BCCA 2024 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: March 15th,2024, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: July 1st, 2024 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Workshop dates:* - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France --Regards,

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Call for Papers ARES 2024
by SBA Research Events 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

ARES 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) July 30- August 02, 2024 Vienna, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ 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 2024 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ 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 & Local Chair 2024 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria Proceedings Chair 2024 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** 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 ************ SUBMISSION ************ 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. ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2024 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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Call for Papers DOD 2024
by SBA Research Events 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

****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 Disasters occur when hazards - both natural as well as man-made - 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. In recent years, the rising number of disasters occurring all over the world, even affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent, have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various kinds of disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an especially hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, and it still impacts our lives today and will continue to do so for some time in the future. From the perspective of today, the world-wide spread and the multitude of resulting different (local and global) implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight 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 will also be focused on in its edition in 2024. Moreover, DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to new and emerging threats due to the ever growing integration as well as increasing coupling between the cyber- and physical domain. Such new and emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which - so far - have been the prime examples for novel attacks and consequences, which can arise from both the cyber- as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges pertaining to disaster risk, 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 will 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>

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CFP: WASA 2024
by CFP Announce 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Welcome to WASA 2024 The International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA) is a prestigious annual gathering that serves as a global platform for researchers, academics, and industry professionals to explore and exchange cutting-edge ideas, research findings, and innovative solutions in the dynamic intersection of wireless technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) computing systems. WASA is at the forefront of advancing the state of the art in wireless communication and AI integration. It brings together experts and thought leaders from diverse backgrounds, including telecommunications, computer science, machine learning, and data analytics. The conference provides a unique opportunity to delve into the latest trends, challenges, and breakthroughs in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, Wireless Communication Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, IoT and Edge Computing, Wireless Security and Privacy, Applications and Use Cases, Industry Insights and Case Studies. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2024. - Notification: April 15th, 2024. - Author Registration: June 1st, 2024 - Camera-Ready Submission Date: May 1st, 2024. - Conference: June 21th-23th, 2024 Announcements*Good News*: WASA has recently been added to the list of recommended journals and conferences by China Computer Federation (CCF).

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Deadline extended: February 2nd - 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024)
by Tortonesi Mauro 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

********************************************************************** Call for Papers 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024) In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, Seoul, South Korea ********************************************************************** https://sites.google.com/view/tnt2024 ********************************************************************** Advancements in the field of digital twin technologies have revolutionized various industries, and now, it's time for networks to reap the benefits! We are thrilled to announce the third edition of the workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024), a pioneering event dedicated to exploring the vast potential of digital twin applications in the realm of interconnected systems. The workshop on Technologies for Network Twins aims to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from academia and industry to share their latest insights and discoveries in the field of network digital twins. This workshop will serve as a vibrant platform for fostering collaboration, exchanging ideas, and developing innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving world of interconnected systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite researchers and professionals to submit original research contributions, case studies, and innovative ideas related to but not limited to the following topics: * Network Digital Twin Fundamentals: Modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques. * Data Acquisition and Integration for Network Digital Twins. * Cyber-Physical Systems and Network Digital Twins. * Applications of Network Digital Twins in Smart Cities. * Network Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT. * Network Digital Twins for Telecommunication Systems. * Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Network Digital Twins. * Generative Techniques for Synthetic Data Generation and Network Component Emulation. * Security and Privacy in Network Digital Twin Systems. * Scalability and Performance Challenges in Network Digital Twins. * Collaborative and Federated Network Digital Twins. * Real-time Monitoring and Control using Network Digital Twins. * Case Studies and Success Stories of Network Digital Twin Implementations. WHY PARTICIPATE? * Expand Your Network: Connect with researchers, experts, and industry leaders from around the globe, forging valuable partnerships and collaborations. * Cutting-Edge Insights: Gain access to the latest advancements in network digital twin technologies and related fields. * Showcase Your Research: Present your work to a highly knowledgeable and engaged audience, facilitating constructive feedback and validation. * Publication Opportunities: Selected papers will be recommended for publication in reputable journals or conference proceedings. * Influence the Future: Shape the direction of network digital twin technologies and contribute to the betterment of interconnected systems worldwide. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit high-quality, original contributions for presentation at the TNT 2024 workshop. Technical papers can be of two types: * Full papers, up to 6 pages, excluding references and all other material. * Short papers, up to 4 pages, excluding references and all other material. Long papers are the more traditional form to present technical work. Long papers should emphasize not only novelty and vision, but execution and thoroughness of the contribution (design, evaluation). Short papers are the preferred vehicle for visionary, concept-type papers, or proof of concept papers whose description fits within a smaller number of pages. Papers submitted should describe original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers not meeting the length and formatting requirements or violating IEEE's guidelines on plagiarized content will be rejected without review. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template that can be downloaded from https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through JEMS at: https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_tnt2024 All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore digital library. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop paper submission deadline: 2 February 2024 (Extended!!!) * Workshop paper acceptance notification: 1 March 2024 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 15 March 2024 * Workshop date: 6 or 10 May 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General co-chairs: * Laurent Ciavaglia, Nokia, France * Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France * Christopher Janz, Huawei, Canada TPC co-chairs: * Roberto Minerva, Telecom Sud Paris, France * Alberto Mozo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Paul Harvey, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Publicity chair: Mauro Tortonesi, University of 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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NOMS 2024 Doctoral Symposium - Deadline Extended to February 26th, 2024!
by Tortonesi Mauro 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

************************************************************************** CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM PAPERS 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2024) 6-10 May 2024 --- Seoul, South Korea https://noms2024.ieee-noms.org/call-doctoral-symposium-papers ************************************************************************** OVERVIEW The Doctoral Symposium is a concentrated half-day event that will be held during IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, which will be held 6-10 May 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. In it, Ph.D. students present their ongoing research interests/plans/results to a panel of researchers in the field and receive specific constructive feedback, including opportunities to meet with mentors one-on-one. We encourage students to submit research description papers that clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize their Ph.D. research. Accepted papers (four pages maximum) will be published in the conference proceedings and be included in the online IEEE/IFIP NOMS conference proceedings and archived in the IEEExplore digital library once presented by the Ph.D. students during the conference. ELIGIBILITY AND TOPICS Ideal candidates will be in the early or mid stages of their PhD and should have a solid idea of their direction and topic, but should also have room for improvement. The Doctoral Symposium welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines including Management of 6G Networks and Network 2030, Management of Smart Vertical Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era, Artificial Intelligence techniques for Network and Service Management, Management of Softwarized Networks, Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Service Function Chaining, VR, Cyber Security & Cyber Resiliency, Service and application management, and related fields. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES To apply to the Doctoral Symposium, please submit the following two documents through JEMS3 at https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_doctoral_symposium2024: * Research description paper of 4 pages in length including references, using the IEEE 2-column format. The manuscript must clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize the proposed Ph.D. research, describe how the adopted approach fits into and advances research in related fields, and report on your progress. You may additionally focus on a more specific area of the research if desired. In the concluding section, you should identify 2 questions/areas for improvement that you would like to discuss during the session. * A one-page Curriculum Vitae. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 26, 2024 (Extended!) * Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 16, 2024 * Final Camera Ready: Mar. 1, 2024 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Maria Torres Vega, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Mauro Tortonesi, University of 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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BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

*THE 6TH **International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE 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: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: March 15th,2024, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: July 1st, 2024 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Workshop dates:* - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France

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CFP - 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024) - deadline: January 19th
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

********************************************************************** Call for Papers 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024) In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, Seoul, South Korea ********************************************************************** https://sites.google.com/view/tnt2024 ********************************************************************** Advancements in the field of digital twin technologies have revolutionized various industries, and now, it's time for networks to reap the benefits! We are thrilled to announce the third edition of the workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024), a pioneering event dedicated to exploring the vast potential of digital twin applications in the realm of interconnected systems. The workshop on Technologies for Network Twins aims to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from academia and industry to share their latest insights and discoveries in the field of network digital twins. This workshop will serve as a vibrant platform for fostering collaboration, exchanging ideas, and developing innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving world of interconnected systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite researchers and professionals to submit original research contributions, case studies, and innovative ideas related to but not limited to the following topics: * Network Digital Twin Fundamentals: Modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques. * Data Acquisition and Integration for Network Digital Twins. * Cyber-Physical Systems and Network Digital Twins. * Applications of Network Digital Twins in Smart Cities. * Network Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT. * Network Digital Twins for Telecommunication Systems. * Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Network Digital Twins. * Generative Techniques for Synthetic Data Generation and Network Component Emulation. * Security and Privacy in Network Digital Twin Systems. * Scalability and Performance Challenges in Network Digital Twins. * Collaborative and Federated Network Digital Twins. * Real-time Monitoring and Control using Network Digital Twins. * Case Studies and Success Stories of Network Digital Twin Implementations. WHY PARTICIPATE? * Expand Your Network: Connect with researchers, experts, and industry leaders from around the globe, forging valuable partnerships and collaborations. * Cutting-Edge Insights: Gain access to the latest advancements in network digital twin technologies and related fields. * Showcase Your Research: Present your work to a highly knowledgeable and engaged audience, facilitating constructive feedback and validation. * Publication Opportunities: Selected papers will be recommended for publication in reputable journals or conference proceedings. * Influence the Future: Shape the direction of network digital twin technologies and contribute to the betterment of interconnected systems worldwide. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit high-quality, original contributions for presentation at the TNT 2024 workshop. Technical papers can be of two types: * Full papers, up to 6 pages, excluding references and all other material. * Short papers, up to 4 pages, excluding references and all other material. Long papers are the more traditional form to present technical work. Long papers should emphasize not only novelty and vision, but execution and thoroughness of the contribution (design, evaluation). Short papers are the preferred vehicle for visionary, concept-type papers, or proof of concept papers whose description fits within a smaller number of pages. Papers submitted should describe original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers not meeting the length and formatting requirements or violating IEEE's guidelines on plagiarized content will be rejected without review. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template that can be downloaded from https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through JEMS at: https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_tnt2024 All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore digital library. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop paper submission deadline: 19 January 2024 * Workshop paper acceptance notification: 1 March 2024 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 15 March 2024 * Workshop date: 6 or 10 May 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General co-chairs: * Laurent Ciavaglia, Nokia, France * Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France * Christopher Janz, Huawei, Canada TPC co-chairs: * Roberto Minerva, Telecom Sud Paris, France * Alberto Mozo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Paul Harvey, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Publicity chair: Mauro Tortonesi, University of 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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NOMS 2024 - Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

************************************************************************** CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM PAPERS 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2024) 6-10 May 2022 --- Seoul, South Korea https://noms2024.ieee-noms.org/call-doctoral-symposium-papers ************************************************************************** OVERVIEW The Doctoral Symposium is a concentrated half-day event that will be held during IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, which will be held 6-10 May 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. In it, Ph.D. students present their ongoing research interests/plans/results to a panel of researchers in the field and receive specific constructive feedback, including opportunities to meet with mentors one-on-one. We encourage students to submit research description papers that clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize their Ph.D. research. Accepted papers (four pages maximum) will be published in the conference proceedings and be included in the online IEEE/IFIP NOMS conference proceedings and archived in the IEEExplore digital library once presented by the Ph.D. students during the conference. ELIGIBILITY AND TOPICS Ideal candidates will be in the early or mid stages of their PhD and should have a solid idea of their direction and topic, but should also have room for improvement. The Doctoral Symposium welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines including Management of 6G Networks and Network 2030, Management of Smart Vertical Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era, Artificial Intelligence techniques for Network and Service Management, Management of Softwarized Networks, Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Service Function Chaining, VR, Cyber Security & Cyber Resiliency, Service and application management, and related fields. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES To apply to the Doctoral Symposium, please submit the following two documents through JEMS3 at https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_doctoral_symposium2024: * Research description paper of 4 pages in length including references, using the IEEE 2-column format. The manuscript must clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize the proposed Ph.D. research, describe how the adopted approach fits into and advances research in related fields, and report on your progress. You may additionally focus on a more specific area of the research if desired. In the concluding section, you should identify 2 questions/areas for improvement that you would like to discuss during the session. * A one-page Curriculum Vitae. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 12, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 16, 2024 * Final Camera Ready: Mar. 1, 2024 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Maria Torres Vega, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Mauro Tortonesi, University of 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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Call for Papers DOD 2024
by SBA Research Events 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

****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>

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Call for Papers ARES 2024
by SBA Research Events 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

ARES 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) July 30- August 02, 2024 Vienna, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ 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. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ 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 ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** 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 ************ SUBMISSION ************ 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. ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2024 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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FLLM2023 Final Call: Foundation and Large Language Models, Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) https://fllm-conference.org/FLLM2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023. (Co-located with SNAMS <https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php>and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE) *FLLM Call for Papers:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - *Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability - Federated Learning for FLLM - Data Augmentation - Natural Language Processing Applications - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - *Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submission Guidelines:* Papers submitted to FLLM must be the original work of the authors. They 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 FLLM. 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 FLLM will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication with SNAMS proceedings. *Important Dates* - *Paper Submission Deadline: 25-October-2023 (Firm and Final)* - Notification of acceptance: 8-November -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 15-November-2023 Please send any questions about FLLM to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Poster - IEEE HPCC 2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

Call for Poster: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters with display at conference: 23 October 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 25 October 2023 Final versions of proceeding published posters: 30 October 2023 Submissions: Please email your posters to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2023 poster submission". --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research posters to HPCC 2023. HPCC 2023 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of high performance computing and communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia

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Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) https://fllm-conference.org/FLLM2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023. (Co-located with SNAMS <https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php>and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE) *FLLM Call for Papers:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - *Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability - Federated Learning for FLLM - Data Augmentation - Natural Language Processing Applications - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - *Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submission Guidelines:* Papers submitted to FLLM must be the original work of the authors. They 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 FLLM. 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 FLLM will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication with SNAMS proceedings. *Important Dates* - *Paper Submission Deadline: 21-October-2023 * - Notification of acceptance: 8-November -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 15-November-2023 Please send any questions about FLLM to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Poster - IEEE HPCC2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Call for Poster: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters with display at conference: 21 October 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 25 October 2023 Final versions of proceeding published posters: 30 October 2023 Submissions: Please email your posters to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2023 poster submission". --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research posters to HPCC 2023. HPCC 2023 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of high performance computing and communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia

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The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

*The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/ANLP2023/ Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *ANLP 2023 Workshops CFP* The workshop aims at demonstrating recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP) by bringing together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners to discuss their findings in NLP. This area of research has been constantly gaining momentum and attention over the past few years as textual material become available in abundance (social networks and web content) and advanced computational power become accessible. This resulted in an interesting array of practical applications. This is evident in the number of conferences, conference tracks, workshops, special issues of journals dedicated to or issues related to ANLP. Another indication of this growing interest is the surge of papers, books, and other forms of publications related to NLP. Noticeably, deep learning is dominating NLP as it did to other areas of artificial intelligence. Deep learning is the modern application of earlier neural network technology but with multiple layers that made possible with modern computing technology. The application of deep learning technology to NLP is progressing at a fast pace, and it is anticipated that we will see many exciting new discoveries here in the next few years. Therefore, the objective of this workshop is to present current and future advances in NLP. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: * Morphological analysis. * Stemming, Tokenization, segmentation, chunking, parsing, POS. * Information retrieval and extraction. * Named Entity Recognition and Keyword extraction. * Word embedding models. * Text summarization and compression. * Event extraction and semantic role labeling. * Sentiment analysis and classification. * Dialectal modeling. * Machine translation. * Deep learning applications. * Speech recognition, synthesis, and speaker identification. * NLP (annotated) resources such as dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons, ontologies, datasets, etc. * Applications and technologies of NLP. *All accepted papers will be published in the SNAMS conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE for publication. * *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 13 October 2023 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 25 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 5 November 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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The 6th International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Emerging Tech 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

*The 6th International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/SAMSN2023/ Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *SAMSN 2023 Workshops CFP* When the first Social Networks were introduced in the beginning of this century, they were able to gain the attention of the whole world, and since then, more and more social networks have risen and have become increasingly popular and significantly effective. They have been able to change the way we live forever and how we interact with each other and with the environment. The world has become more and more connected. Nowadays, social networks are everywhere, and they play an important role in various aspects of our lives. With the rise of the era of social networks, many opportunities and challenges have appeared on the scene including but not limited to big data handling, security and privacy issues in social networks, the use of sentiment analysis and opinion mining in these rich environments, data analytics, recommender systems, and legal and ethical issues related to the offensive use of these environments. The objective of this workshop is to shed light upon all the issues, opportunities, challenges, and future trends that are related to online social networks. Authors are invited to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The accepted papers of the workshop will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2023) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and Computing as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Social Networks Mining and Analysis - Social Networks Architecture - Social networks Data Representation and Visualization - Big Data and Social Networks - IOT and Social Networks - Cloud Mining tools and Services for Social Networks Data - Geolocation aspects of Social networks - Impact of Social Networks on Society - Social Networks Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Minings - Information Retrieval for Social Networks - Multilingual Natural Language Processing Tools for Social Networks - Machine Learning with Social Networks - Recommender systems Applications in Social Networks *All accepted papers will be published in the SNAMS conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE for publication. * *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 13 October 2023 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 25 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 5 November 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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The 7th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

*The 7th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/DSEA2023/ Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *DSEA 2023 Workshops CFP* Today, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Data science inspires novel techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, information theory, computer science, and social science. It involves many domains, such as signal processing, probability models, machine learning, data mining, database, data engineering, pattern recognition, visualization, predictive analytic, data warehousing, data compression, computer programming, etc. High Performance Computing typically deals with smaller, highly structured data sets and huge amounts of computation. Data Science has emerged to tackle the problem of creating processes and approaches to extracting knowledge or insights from gigantic, unstructured data sets.The International Workshop for Data Science Engineering and Applications (DSEA 2023) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and Computing as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, management and process for Data Science - Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management - Evaluation and Measurement in Data Science - Privacy and protection standards and policies for Data Science - Data Quality - Data science for the internet of things (IoT) - Management Issues of Social Network Big Data - Big Data Computing for Data science/li> - Social Network and Big Data Analytics - Open Source tools for Data Science and Big Data - Data Mining for Data science - High performance computing for data analytic - Mathematical Issues in Data Science and Application *All accepted papers will be published in the SNAMS conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE for publication. * *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 13 October 2023 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 25 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 5 November 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SNAMS 2023 Workshops CFP, Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security Workshops (SNAMS-2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/workshops.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *SNAMS 2023 Workshops CFP* *The 11th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/BDSN2023/ *The 7th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/DSEA2023/ *The 9th International Workshop on Online Social Networks Technologies (OSNT 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/OSNT2023/ *The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/ANLP2023/ * The 6th International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/SAMSN2023/ * The International Workshop on Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/CNS2023/index.php All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE. *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 1 October 2023 * Notification to Authors: 25 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 5 November 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Extended Deadline - Call for Papers - Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM)
by SBA Research Events 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

Call for Papers Digital Sovereignty - Interdisciplinary insights into digital technology and infrastructure, information privacy and digital security Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) In our technologically advanced, multiply connected and increasingly complex world digital space has become an economically, politically, and socially significant domain. As such it falls subject to competing interests of globally dispersed agents, which are exceedingly hard to reconcile, as they may differ immensely with respect to their underlying aims and values. In response to the need to navigate this challenging and potentially hostile environment "digital sovereignty" has emerged as a key issue in recent research and policy development. The concept refers to the capacity for autonomous action within the digital sphere and connects three underlying and equally important dimensions of conscious and deliberate technology utilization: 1. Digital Technology and Infrastructure, 2. Information Privacy and 3. Digital Security. As we rely more and more on digital technologies to facilitate work processes and support communication, we become increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures such as microchips, cloud services, and social media platforms. As a result, their design and structural requirements provide the framework within which various challenges to autonomous agency arise and need to be addressed. Some of these challenges are privacy related and concern the proper collection, storage, handling and dissemination of personal and personally relevant information. They require a purposeful and responsible approach to dealing with data and the development and implementation of appropriate data protection measures. Others relate to security in general. The security dimension has a much wider scope since security challenges can emerge on every level of technological infrastructure and are not limited to vulnerabilities that bear the risk of violating privacy. Network reliability and the integrity of operational processes can be equally at risk. As digital technologies are constantly evolving, resulting in ever more intricate threats to privacy and security, these critical foundations of digital autonomous agency need to be continuously monitored, assessed, and provided for. With this special issue we want to contribute to this endeavor by inviting submissions focusing on (but in no way limited to) the following areas of interest: Normative framework and conceptual foundations for digital sovereignty Implications digital sovereignty measures (or lack thereof) have for functionality, economic viability, innovation, (international) cooperation, and sustainability of governmental, institutional, or economic processes. Requirements of resilience-enhancing measures to increase the availability of systems. Vulnerability of central systems as single points of failure. Reliable assessment of privacy and security risks (Business Impact Analysis, Privacy Impact Analysis) Requirements for and compatibility of realizing different security and/or privacy objectives. Potentials and risks of digital sovereignty measures to influence and shape economic, political, and societal structures (Digital Humanism). Normative requirements on privacy and security measures resulting from digital infrastructure being classified as public good. Unintended effects the implementation of digital sovereignty measures might have. We especially encourage submissions that draw on interdisciplinary perspectives and combine insights from such fields as political science, international relations, law, computer science, sociology, philosophy, and economics. Submissions Guidelines - according to JeDem norms: https://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem/announcement/view/61 The exstended submission deadline is December 31st, 2023. If you plan to submit, please contact Dr. Johanna Ullrich (jullrich(a)sba-research.org<mailto:jullrich@sba-research.org>) or Prof. Edgar Weippl (eweippl(a)sba-research.org<mailto:eweippl@sba-research.org>) from SBA Research, Vienna, Austria.

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Final Call: The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 18 Sep '23

18 Sep '23

The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *SNAMS 2023 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, particularly in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of the International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. SNAMS 2023 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2023 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 *Submission Types:* Accepted types of submissions are including: * Full papers (8 Pages), * Short papers and PhD forum (6 Pages), * Posters and demos (3 Pages). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE. *SNAMS 2023 Joint Workshops * *The 11th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/BDSN2023/ *The 7th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/DSEA2023/ *The 9th International Workshop on Online Social Networks Technologies (OSNT 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/OSNT2023/ *The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/ANLP2023/ *The 6th International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/SAMSN2023/ *The International Workshop on Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS 2023)* http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/CNS2023/index.php *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 25 September 2023 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 20 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call For Workshop Papers: Software Defined Systems 2023 - San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Emerging Tech 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems Workshops (SDS-2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/workshops.php <https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/index.php> (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *SDS 2023 Workshops: * *The 7th International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/SDN-NFV2023/ *The 5th International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2023/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/BAT2023/index.php> *The 5th International Workshop on Smart Cities with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/SCICE2023/index.php *The 7th International Symposium on 5G and Beyond Systems (5GBS 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/5GBS2023/index.php *Submission Guidelines: * Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS 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. *Important Dates:* *Submission Date: 20 September 2023 (Final and Firm) * Notification to Authors: 1 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 10 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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*SPAM* Call For Workshop Papers IoTSMS 2023, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

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Call For Workshop Papers: Software Defined Systems 2023 - San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems Workshops (SDS-2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/workshops.php <https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/index.php> (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *SDS 2023 Workshops: * *The 7th International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/SDN-NFV2023/ *The 5th International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2023/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/BAT2023/index.php> *The 5th International Workshop on Smart Cities with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/SCICE2023/index.php *The 7th International Symposium on 5G and Beyond Systems (5GBS 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/Workshops/5GBS2023/index.php *Submission Guidelines: * Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS 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. *Important Dates:* *Submission Date: 20 September 2023 (Final and Firm) * Notification to Authors: 1 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 10 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP - IEEE DependSys2023 (Dependability and Security), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '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: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) 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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CFP - IEEE DIKW 2023 (Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Call for papers: 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) 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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CFP - IEEE SmartCity2023 (Smart City), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '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: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) 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 - IEEE DSS 2023 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/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 As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raised and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics I. Data Science - Foundational Theories of Data Science - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology - Data Analytics - Complex Network Analysis and Mining - Security, Privacy and Trust in Data II. Data Processing Technology - Data Representation and Processing - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Graph Neural Networks - Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Statistical, Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling and Theories - Information visualization - Data Visualization III. Data Systems - Storage and File Systems - High Performance Access Toolkits - Compiler and Runtime Support - Real-time Data Intensive Systems - Multi/Many-Core Platforms - Big Data and Cloud Computing IV. Data Applications - Business and Finance Applications - Industrial Data Applications - Bioinformatics Applications - Healthcare and Medical Services - Applications in Soil and Water - HPC Systems for Data Applications - Future Data Applications 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/dss/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 Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney, Australia Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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CFP - IEEE HPCC2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

Call for papers: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 (HST, Firm) Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/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 With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), HPCC conference comes to its 25th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: High Performance Computing and Applications - High Performance Computing Theory - High Performance Computing Architectures - System Software and Middleware - System Software Support for Scientific Workflows - Storage and I/O Systems - Resource Management - Instruction-Level and Thread-Level Parallelism - Performance Modeling and Evaluation - Massively Multicore Systems - Future Novel Computing Platforms - Database Applications and Data Mining - High Performance Computing for Bioinformatics - High Performance Computing for Big Data - High Performance Computing for AI - High Performance Computing for Block Chains - Green High Performance Computing Track 2: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - Parallel and Distributed System Architectures - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Data Center Architectures - Resource Virtualization - Web Services and Internet Computing - Cloud, Edge, and Cluster Computing - Sustainable and Energy Efficient Computing - Federated Learning - Embedded Systems - Distributed Systems and Applications - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing & Intelligence - Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR Systems - Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing - Power-Efficient and Green Computing Systems - Parallel and Distributed Computing for Big Data - Parallel and Distributed Computing for AI Track 3: Communications and Networking - Network and Interconnect Architectures - Computer Networks - Internet Architectures and Protocols - Telecommunications - Trust, Security, and Privacy - Energy-Aware Computing and Networking - 5G Network - Software Defined Networking - Network Functions Virtualization - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Social Networking and Computing - Performance Evaluation and Measurement 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/hpcc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

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Call For Workshop Papers IoTSMS 2023, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Emerging Tech 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/workshops.php (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *IoTSMS 2023 Workshops:* The 9th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/Workshops/MCSMS2023/ The International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicles Technologies (ITSVT 2023). http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/Workshops/ITSVT2023/index.php The 6th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/Workshops/FCST2023/ TheInternational Workshop on Cybersecurity for IoT Environments (CIoTE 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/Workshops/CIoTE2023/ The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security (HMiMS 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/Workshops/HMiMS2023/index.php *Submission Guidelines:* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the IoTSMS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 September 2023 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 1 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 10 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the IoTSMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023), 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA.
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

*The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) * https://www.icsc-conference.org/2023/index.php 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA. (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *Call for Papers* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *Submission Guidelines:* Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission. Submitted papers may be up to 8 pages with two additional pages may be added for references. Papers submitted to ICSC 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 IDSTA. 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. Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language use in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.) All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in ICSC2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication. *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *10 September 2023 (Firm and Final)* - Notification of acceptance: 25-September -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 5-October-2023 For any inquiries, please contact: intelligenttechorg(a)gmail.com. Best regards, ICSC organizing committee

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The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *SNAMS 2023 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, particularly in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of the International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. SNAMS 2023 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2023 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 *Submission Types:* Accepted types of submissions are including: * Full papers (8 Pages), * Short papers and PhD forum (6 Pages), * Posters and demos (3 Pages). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE. *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 15 September 2023 * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 20 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IOTSMS 2023 CFP: The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/index.php (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *IoTSMS 2023 CFP:* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 3 billion by 2030. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 30 billion objects by 2030. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2023) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G, 5GB and 6G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth *Submission Guidelines:* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the IoTSMS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 31 August 2023 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 15 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 30 September 2023 Please send any inquiry to the IoTSMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *SNAMS 2023 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, particularly in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of the International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. SNAMS 2023 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2023 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 *Submission Types:* Accepted types of submissions are including: * Full papers (8 Pages), * Short papers and PhD forum (6 Pages), * Posters and demos (3 Pages). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE. *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 15 September 2023 * Notification to Authors: 10 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 20 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023), 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA.
by Gizem Varkonyi 20 Aug '23

20 Aug '23

*The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) * https://www.icsc-conference.org/2023/index.php 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA. *Call for Papers* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *Submission Guidelines:* Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission. Submitted papers may be up to 8 pages with two additional pages may be added for references. Papers submitted to ICSC 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 IDSTA. 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. Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language use in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.) All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in ICSC2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication. *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *25 August-2023 * - Notification of acceptance: 20-September -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 2-October-2023 For any inquiries, please contact: intelligenttechorg(a)gmail.com. Best regards, ICSC organizing committee

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[Final Deadline] IEEE DASC 2023: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing
by Ons Bouachir 14 Aug '23

14 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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[Submission deadline: Sept 01, 2023] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2023)
by Xueqin Liang 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

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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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CFP: IEEE DSS2023 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 30 Jul '23

30 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/ 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/dss/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 As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raised and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics I. Data Science - Foundational Theories of Data Science - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology - Data Analytics - Complex Network Analysis and Mining - Security, Privacy and Trust in Data II. Data Processing Technology - Data Representation and Processing - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Graph Neural Networks - Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Statistical, Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling and Theories - Information visualization - Data Visualization III. Data Systems - Storage and File Systems - High Performance Access Toolkits - Compiler and Runtime Support - Real-time Data Intensive Systems - Multi/Many-Core Platforms - Big Data and Cloud Computing IV. Data Applications - Business and Finance Applications - Industrial Data Applications - Bioinformatics Applications - Healthcare and Medical Services - Applications in Soil and Water - HPC Systems for Data Applications - Future Data Applications 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/dss/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 Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney, Australia Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 30 Jul '23

30 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/ 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/hpcc/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 With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), HPCC conference comes to its 25th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: High Performance Computing and Applications - High Performance Computing Theory - High Performance Computing Architectures - System Software and Middleware - System Software Support for Scientific Workflows - Storage and I/O Systems - Resource Management - Instruction-Level and Thread-Level Parallelism - Performance Modeling and Evaluation - Massively Multicore Systems - Future Novel Computing Platforms - Database Applications and Data Mining - High Performance Computing for Bioinformatics - High Performance Computing for Big Data - High Performance Computing for AI - High Performance Computing for Block Chains - Green High Performance Computing Track 2: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - Parallel and Distributed System Architectures - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Data Center Architectures - Resource Virtualization - Web Services and Internet Computing - Cloud, Edge, and Cluster Computing - Sustainable and Energy Efficient Computing - Federated Learning - Embedded Systems - Distributed Systems and Applications - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing & Intelligence - Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR Systems - Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing - Power-Efficient and Green Computing Systems - Parallel and Distributed Computing for Big Data - Parallel and Distributed Computing for AI Track 3: Communications and Networking - Network and Interconnect Architectures - Computer Networks - Internet Architectures and Protocols - Telecommunications - Trust, Security, and Privacy - Energy-Aware Computing and Networking - 5G Network - Software Defined Networking - Network Functions Virtualization - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Social Networking and Computing - Performance Evaluation and Measurement 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/hpcc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

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[Submission deadline: Sept 01, 2023] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2023)
by Xueqin Liang 30 Jul '23

30 Jul '23

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CNSM 2023: Call for Demo Papers - Deadline August 5
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Dear colleagues, together with Hyame, I am co-chairing this years demos at CNSM. The CNSM and especially a demo at CNSM is always a great opportunity to advance your research. Please take the opportunity to submit your proposals for demo to us. We are looking forward to receiving your papers until Aug 5! Best, Marc-Oliver and Hyame CALL FOR DEMO PAPERS 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management CNSM 2023 30 October - 2 November 2023 Niagara Falls, Canada http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2023/index.html ****************************************************************** Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2023 will be published as open access on the conference website and will be submitted for possible publication in IEEE Xplore. Demo paper submission deadline: August 5th, 2023 ****************************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023) calls for demonstration proposals on research prototypes, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. Demonstrations showcasing new working systems, innovative applications, ground-breaking ideas, and novel concepts related to network and service management are most welcome. For specific topics of interest relevant for the conference please refer to the main CFP: http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2023/files/cnsm2023-cfp-flyer.pdf Types of Demos ************** The expected types of contributions include but are not limited to : - Demos from authors about the concepts presented in their paper(s) - Demos from faculty and academic research groups related to CNSM areas - Demos from industrial researchers A demo will consist of a poster, a live demo, and some slides and videos according to your planned presentation. A best demo award will be presented at the CNSM 2023 closing ceremony. Submission Guidelines ********************* Prospective authors are invited to submit demo proposals, preferably incorporating a demo system architecture illustration, using the IEEE 2-column conference format, and are limited to 3 pages including references. Besides the technical approach and methodology, the proposal should describe what the CNSM audience will experience during the demonstration. The proposal should provide the demo background and further focus on the demo settings and the application, possibly with visual outcomes to illustrate the scope of the demo. Demo papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS in PDF format only. Demo papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted demo papers will be included in the digital conference proceedings provided to CNSM attendees. At least one author of each accepted demo paper proposal is required to register to CNSM conference and present the demo at the scheduled demo session. Please feel free to contact the Demo Co-Chairs should you have any questions regarding the demo content or setup. Important Dates *************** Demo Paper Submission: August 5th, 2023 Demo Acceptance Notification: August 25th, 2023 Camera Ready Due : 8 September 2023 Conference: 30 October - 2 November 2023 Demo Co-chairs ************** You can contact the Demo Co-Chairs of CNSM 2023 by e-mail to the following addresses: - Hyame Alameddine, Ericsson Security Research, Montreal - Canada, hyame.a.alameddine(a)ericsson.com - Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, Rennes - France, marc-oliver.pahl(a)imt-atlantique.fr

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[CFP Extended Deadline: 1 August, 2023] The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2023)- Hybrid Conference
by Ons Bouachir 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '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), and Autonomous Robotic Systems, become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability and Security play critical roles in 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 July, 2023 1 August, 2023 (Extended) 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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SDS 2023 CFP: The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/index.php (Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Systems Council) *SDS 2023 CFP: * Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. SDS aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Software Defined Real Time Functions for Automation. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submission Guidelines: * Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 15 August 2023 Notification to Authors: 15 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 30 September 2023 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CBDCom 2023 CFP:The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 14-17 Nov, 2023 - Abu Dhabi, UAE
by Gizem Varkonyi 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2023) https://icnetlab.org/cyber-science2023/cbdcom/index.html 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: 1 August, 2023 (Extended) * Authors Notification: 15 September, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: 30 September, 2023 *Workshop/Special Session Papers * Submission Due: August15, 2023 *(Extended) * 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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FMEC 2023 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The IEEE Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FMEC 2023 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 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 2023 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2023 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 2023 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following tracks: Track 1: Fog and Mobile Edge Computing fuels Smart Mobility <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track1.php> Track 2: Edge-Cloud Continuum and Networking <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track2.php> Track 3: Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track3.php> Track 4: Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track4.php> Track 5: Security and privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track5.php> Track 6: Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track6.php> Track 7: FMEC General Track <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track7.php> *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. *Workshops and Symposium:* The 1st International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ The International Workshop on Engineering Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Systems (SYNERGY 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SYNERGY2023/index.html The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/CIEAI2023/index.html The 9th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2023) . http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/IOTNAT2023/index.php The 7th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SCE2023/index.php *Important Dates* Submission Date: 23 July 2023 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 10 August 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 25 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: IEEE DIKW 2023 (Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Call for papers: 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023), 17-21 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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CFP: IEEE DependSys 2023 (Dependability and Security), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud and Big Data Systems and Applications, 17-21 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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[CFP Extended Deadline: 1 August, 2023] The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2023)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '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* 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 the 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 July, 2023 1 August, 2023 (Extended) 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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CFP: IEEE SmartCity 2023 (Smart City), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2023), 17-21 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: IEEE DSS 2023 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/ 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/dss/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 As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raised and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics I. Data Science - Foundational Theories of Data Science - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology - Data Analytics - Complex Network Analysis and Mining - Security, Privacy and Trust in Data II. Data Processing Technology - Data Representation and Processing - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Graph Neural Networks - Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Statistical, Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling and Theories - Information visualization - Data Visualization III. Data Systems - Storage and File Systems - High Performance Access Toolkits - Compiler and Runtime Support - Real-time Data Intensive Systems - Multi/Many-Core Platforms - Big Data and Cloud Computing IV. Data Applications - Business and Finance Applications - Industrial Data Applications - Bioinformatics Applications - Healthcare and Medical Services - Applications in Soil and Water - HPC Systems for Data Applications - Future Data Applications 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/dss/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 Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney, Australia Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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CFP: IEEE HPCC 2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 (11:59pm UTC/GMT) Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/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 With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), HPCC conference comes to its 25th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/hpcc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

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CFP: The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023), 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA.
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

*The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) * https://www.icsc-conference.org/2023/index.php 23–25 October, 2023 | San Antonio, USA. *Call for Papers* In today’s world, connected systems, social networks, and mobile communications create a massive flow of data, which is prone to cyberattacks. This needs fast and accurate detection of cyber-attacks. Intelligent systems and Data analytics are important components when issues pertaining to effective security solutions become the subject of discussion. This is because there is an impending need for high volume and high velocity data from different sources to detect anomalies as soon as they are discovered. This will help reduce significantly the vulnerability of the systems as well as improve their resilience to cyber Attacks. The capability to process large volumes of information at real time through utilization of tools for data analytics has many advantages vital for analysis of cybersecurity systems. Moreover, the data collected from sophisticated intelligent systems, cloud systems, networks, sensors, computers, intrusion detection systems could be used to identify vital information. This information could be used to detect how vulnerable the systems are to risk factors, and so effective cyber security solutions can be developed. In addition to that, the utilization of data analytics tools in the cybersecurity field gives new insights through considering factors such as zero-day attack detection, real time analysis, resource constrained data processing among others. The Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC2023) addresses the use of advanced intelligent systems in providing cybersecurity solutions in many fields, and the challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity, with special interest in but not limited to: - Intelligent systems for effective detection of cyber-attacks - Advanced Intelligent systems and data analytics for Cloud/Edge systems security - Malware detection using intelligent systems Vulnerability assessment - Intelligent systems for intrusion detection in Internet of Things (IoT) systems - Network forensics using intelligent systems and data analytics - Data Analytics for privacy-by-design in smart health - Datasets, benchmarks, and open-source packages - Recourse efficient deep learning - Adversarial Machine learning and Backdoor Attacks - Blockchain Systems for Cyber Security - Trustworthy AI Systems - Intelligent Systems for Misinformation Detection *Submission Guidelines:* Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission. Submitted papers may be up to 8 pages with two additional pages may be added for references. Papers submitted to ICSC 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 IDSTA. 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. Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language use in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.) All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in ICSC2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication. *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *5-August-2023 * - Notification of acceptance: 20-September -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 2-October-2023 For any inquiries, please contact: intelligenttechorg(a)gmail.com. Best regards, ICSC organizing committee

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IEEE WCM - SI: Zero Trust Security Methods for Wireless Networks
by Moayad Aloqaily 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Zero Trust Security Methods for Wireless Networks 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 Initial Decision Date: 1 October 2023Revised 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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IEEE DASC 2023: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing [Deadline Extended]
by Ons Bouachir 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '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* 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 the constituent technologies. IEEE DASC 2023 will be held during November 14-17, 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 July, 2023 *1 August, 2023 * 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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Call for Papers - Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM)
by SBA Research Events 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

Call for Papers Digital Sovereignty - Interdisciplinary insights into digital technology and infrastructure, information privacy and digital security Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) In our technologically advanced, multiply connected and increasingly complex world digital space has become an economically, politically, and socially significant domain. As such it falls subject to competing interests of globally dispersed agents, which are exceedingly hard to reconcile, as they may differ immensely with respect to their underlying aims and values. In response to the need to navigate this challenging and potentially hostile environment "digital sovereignty" has emerged as a key issue in recent research and policy development. The concept refers to the capacity for autonomous action within the digital sphere and connects three underlying and equally important dimensions of conscious and deliberate technology utilization: 1. Digital Technology and Infrastructure, 2. Information Privacy and 3. Digital Security. As we rely more and more on digital technologies to facilitate work processes and support communication, we become increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures such as microchips, cloud services, and social media platforms. As a result, their design and structural requirements provide the framework within which various challenges to autonomous agency arise and need to be addressed. Some of these challenges are privacy related and concern the proper collection, storage, handling and dissemination of personal and personally relevant information. They require a purposeful and responsible approach to dealing with data and the development and implementation of appropriate data protection measures. Others relate to security in general. The security dimension has a much wider scope since security challenges can emerge on every level of technological infrastructure and are not limited to vulnerabilities that bear the risk of violating privacy. Network reliability and the integrity of operational processes can be equally at risk. As digital technologies are constantly evolving, resulting in ever more intricate threats to privacy and security, these critical foundations of digital autonomous agency need to be continuously monitored, assessed, and provided for. With this special issue we want to contribute to this endeavor by inviting submissions focusing on (but in no way limited to) the following areas of interest: Normative framework and conceptual foundations for digital sovereignty Implications digital sovereignty measures (or lack thereof) have for functionality, economic viability, innovation, (international) cooperation, and sustainability of governmental, institutional, or economic processes. Requirements of resilience-enhancing measures to increase the availability of systems. Vulnerability of central systems as single points of failure. Reliable assessment of privacy and security risks (Business Impact Analysis, Privacy Impact Analysis) Requirements for and compatibility of realizing different security and/or privacy objectives. Potentials and risks of digital sovereignty measures to influence and shape economic, political, and societal structures (Digital Humanism). Normative requirements on privacy and security measures resulting from digital infrastructure being classified as public good. Unintended effects the implementation of digital sovereignty measures might have. We especially encourage submissions that draw on interdisciplinary perspectives and combine insights from such fields as political science, international relations, law, computer science, sociology, philosophy, and economics. Submissions Guidelines - according to JeDem norms: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/about/submissions The submission deadline is July 31st, 2023. The notification on acceptances are planned by September 30th, 2023. If you need more time, please contact us. If you plan to submit, please contact Dr. Johanna Ullrich (jullrich(a)sba-research.org<mailto:jullrich@sba-research.org>) or Prof. Edgar Weippl (eweippl(a)sba-research.org<mailto:eweippl@sba-research.org>) from SBA Research, Vienna, Austria.

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Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA), Tartu - Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ In Conjunction with The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FLTA 2023 CFP:* We live in a data-driven era where AI and ML are integrated into every aspect of life and industry when making decisions. Recent AI/ML applications, scenarios, and use cases data sources come from large-scale distributed and diverse sources, i.e., in terms of capacity and data heterogeneity. Such an approach empowers applications to discover unique insights, which can be intelligently utilized to provide better services and user experience. Yet it imposes serious debate on data and client privacy, specifically on data protection regulations and restrictions such as EU GDPR. Moreover, collecting, aggregating, and integrating heterogeneous data dispersed over various data sources and securely managing and processing the data are non-trivial tasks. The challenges are not only due to transporting high-volume, high-velocity, high-veracity, cybersecurity attacks, and heterogeneous data across organizations. There is also a challenge with domain-specific language models to get enough training data since it is usually private or sensitive, with complicated administrative procedures surrounding it. Such private data include users’ financial transactions, patients’ health data, or camera footage on the street. In this context, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prospective solution that facilitates distributed collaborative learning without disclosing original training data. The idea behind FL is to train the ML model collaboratively among distributed actors without sharing their data and violating the privacy accord. FL locates ML services and operations closer to the clients, facilitating leveraging available resources on the network’s edge. Hence, FL has become a critical enabling technology for future intelligent applications in domains such as autonomous driving, smart manufacturing, and healthcare. This development will lead to an overall advancement of FL and its impact on the community, noting that FL has gained significant attention within the machine learning community in recent years. The FLTA2023 aims to provide a global forum for disseminating the latest scientific research and industry results in all aspects of federated learning. FLTA2023 also aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and edge intelligence advocators in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of FL deployment architectures. The symposium will address the theoretical foundations of the field, as well as applications, datasets, benchmarking, software, hardware, and systems. Also, to create an annual forum for researchers and practitioners who share an interest in FL. FLTA offers an opportunity to showcase the latest advances in this area and discuss and identify future directions and challenges in FL systems. FLCon2023 will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *Topics of interest:* - Federated Learning frameworks - Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithms - Federated Learning Applications - Federated Learning Deployment Architectures - Privacy-Preserving FL Techniques - Federated Learning Communication-efficiency - Federated Learning modelling and simulation tools - Federated Learning datasets and benchmarking - Federated Learning Associated Technologies *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* Full Paper Submission Date: 30 June 2023 Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 Notification to Authors: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 15 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLTA to Feras Awaysheh: feras.awaysheh(a)ut.ee

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The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

The 10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *SNAMS 2023 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, particularly in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of the International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2023) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. SNAMS 2023 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2023 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 *Submission Types:* Accepted types of submissions are including: * Full papers (8 Pages), * Short papers and PhD forum (6 Pages), * Posters and demos (3 Pages). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE. *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates* Submission Date: 10 July 2023 Notification to Authors: 25 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 10 October 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IOTSMS 2023 CFP : The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Emerging Tech 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/index.php *IoTSMS 2023 CFP:* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 3 billion by 2030. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 30 billion objects by 2030. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2023) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G, 5GB and 6G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth *Submission Guidelines:* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the IoTSMS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 July 2023 Notification to Authors: 5 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 25 September 2023 Please send any inquiry to IoTSMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE BCCA 2023: The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait [Special Track- Extended Deadline]
by Ons Bouachir 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

*The 5th IEEE Conference on **Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(* *BCCA 2023**)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f4565c80-abcd623f-f4526f8f-000babda03…> IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=87d46e25-d84f509a-87d05d2a-000babda03…> 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa 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 breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract the 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* The special track has three categories of submission: - *Short papers: *(5-6 pages). - *Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): *(10-15 pages) SoK papers evaluate, systematize, cluster, classify, and contextualize existing knowledge (Focused Surveys). - *Poster papers: *(1-2 pages) (undergraduate). *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Special Track** Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2023 July 3rd, 2023 (Firm and Final) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 15th, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: September 1st, 2023 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers of high quality from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s): · IEEE Networks (IF: 10.2) · Ad Hoc Networks (IF: 4.8) · Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 2.04) *Keynote Speakers* · *Stephen Nilsson*, Founder, CEO, Enterprise Blockchain Implementer & Evangelist · *Riad Hartani*, Co-Founder Xona Partners · *Salil Kanhere*, University of New South Wales Sydney · *Abdallah Shami*, Professor and Associate Dean Research at Western University · *Srdjan Krčo*, Co-founder and CEO of DunavNET · *Satya N Gupta*, Chairman- Blockchain For Productivity Forum · *Farshad Firouzi*, Assistant Professor at Duke University · *Hoda Al Khzaimi*, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAe · *Roberto Di Pietro, *HBKU-CSE, Doha, Qatar. *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* · Abdullah Alqallaf, Kuwait University, Kuwait *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 *YP Committee Chair* · Ali Alfayly, CBE, Kuwait

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Final Extension]
by Julia Marino 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: June 20, July 4, 2023 (Final Extension) - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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by Gizem Varkonyi 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The IEEE Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FMEC 2023 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 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 2023 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2023 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 2023 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following tracks: Track 1: Fog and Mobile Edge Computing fuels Smart Mobility <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track1.php> Track 2: Edge-Cloud Continuum and Networking <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track2.php> Track 3: Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track3.php> Track 4: Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track4.php> Track 5: Security and privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track5.php> Track 6: Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track6.php> Track 7: FMEC General Track <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track7.php> *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. *Workshops and Symposium:* The 1st International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ The International Workshop on Engineering Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Systems (SYNERGY 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SYNERGY2023/index.html The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/CIEAI2023/index.html The 9th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2023) . http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/IOTNAT2023/index.php The 7th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SCE2023/index.php *Important Dates* Submission Date: 5 July 2023 Notification to Authors: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 20 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC 2023), Deadline: 1 July 2023, UAE
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '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* 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 the 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 July, 2023 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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IEEE BCCA 2023: The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait [Special Track- Extended Deadline]
by Julia Marino 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

*The 5th IEEE Conference on **Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(* *BCCA 2023**)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f4565c80-abcd623f-f4526f8f-000babda03…> IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=87d46e25-d84f509a-87d05d2a-000babda03…> 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa 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 breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract the 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* The special track has three categories of submission: - *Short papers: *(5-6 pages). - *Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): *(10-15 pages) SoK papers evaluate, systematize, cluster, classify, and contextualize existing knowledge (Focused Surveys). - *Poster papers: *(1-2 pages) (undergraduate). *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Special Track** Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2023 July 3rd, 2023 (Firm and Final) - Notification of paper acceptance: July 15th, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: September 1st, 2023 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers of high quality from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s): · IEEE Networks (IF: 10.2) · Ad Hoc Networks (IF: 4.8) · Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 2.04) *Keynote Speakers* · *Stephen Nilsson*, Founder, CEO, Enterprise Blockchain Implementer & Evangelist · *Riad Hartani*, Co-Founder Xona Partners · *Salil Kanhere*, University of New South Wales Sydney · *Abdallah Shami*, Professor and Associate Dean Research at Western University · *Srdjan Krčo*, Co-founder and CEO of DunavNET · *Satya N Gupta*, Chairman- Blockchain For Productivity Forum · *Farshad Firouzi*, Assistant Professor at Duke University · *Hoda Al Khzaimi*, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAe · *Roberto Di Pietro, *HBKU-CSE, Doha, Qatar. *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* · Abdullah Alqallaf, Kuwait University, Kuwait *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 *YP Committee Chair* · Ali Alfayly, CBE, Kuwait

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Ons Bouachir 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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Call for Papers - Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM)
by SBA Research Events 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Call for Papers Digital Sovereignty – Interdisciplinary insights into digital technology and infrastructure, information privacy and digital security Special Issue of eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) In our technologically advanced, multiply connected and increasingly complex world digital space has become an economically, politically, and socially significant domain. As such it falls subject to competing interests of globally dispersed agents, which are exceedingly hard to reconcile, as they may differ immensely with respect to their underlying aims and values. In response to the need to navigate this challenging and potentially hostile environment “digital sovereignty” has emerged as a key issue in recent research and policy development. The concept refers to the capacity for autonomous action within the digital sphere and connects three underlying and equally important dimensions of conscious and deliberate technology utilization: 1. Digital Technology and Infrastructure, 2. Information Privacy and 3. Digital Security. As we rely more and more on digital technologies to facilitate work processes and support communication, we become increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures such as microchips, cloud services, and social media platforms. As a result, their design and structural requirements provide the framework within which various challenges to autonomous agency arise and need to be addressed. Some of these challenges are privacy related and concern the proper collection, storage, handling and dissemination of personal and personally relevant information. They require a purposeful and responsible approach to dealing with data and the development and implementation of appropriate data protection measures. Others relate to security in general. The security dimension has a much wider scope since security challenges can emerge on every level of technological infrastructure and are not limited to vulnerabilities that bear the risk of violating privacy. Network reliability and the integrity of operational processes can be equally at risk. As digital technologies are constantly evolving, resulting in ever more intricate threats to privacy and security, these critical foundations of digital autonomous agency need to be continuously monitored, assessed, and provided for. With this special issue we want to contribute to this endeavor by inviting submissions focusing on (but in no way limited to) the following areas of interest: Normative framework and conceptual foundations for digital sovereignty Implications digital sovereignty measures (or lack thereof) have for functionality, economic viability, innovation, (international) cooperation, and sustainability of governmental, institutional, or economic processes. Requirements of resilience-enhancing measures to increase the availability of systems. Vulnerability of central systems as single points of failure. Reliable assessment of privacy and security risks ( Business Impact Analysis, Privacy Impact Analysis) Requirements for and compatibility of realizing different security and/or privacy objectives. Potentials and risks of digital sovereignty measures to influence and shape economic, political, and societal structures ( Digital Humanism). Normative requirements on privacy and security measures resulting from digital infrastructure being classified as public good. Unintended effects the implementation of digital sovereignty measures might have. We especially encourage submissions that draw on interdisciplinary perspectives and combine insights from such fields as political science, international relations, law, computer science, sociology, philosophy, and economics. Submissions Guidelines - according to JeDem norms: https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/about/submissions The submission deadline is July 31st, 2023. The notification on acceptances are planned by September 30th, 2023. If you need more time, please contact us. If you plan to submit, please contact Dr. Johanna Ullrich (jullrich(a)sba-research.org<mailto:jullrich@sba-research.org>) or Prof. Edgar Weippl (eweippl(a)sba-research.org<mailto:eweippl@sba-research.org>) from SBA Research, Vienna, Austria.

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Julia Marino 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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CFP 1st Workshop on Enhanced Network Techniques and Technologies for the Industrial IoT to Cloud Continuum (IIoT-Nets) co-located with ACM SigComm in New York
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, we cordially invite you to send your high quality research to the 1st Workshop on Enhanced Network Techniques and Technologies for the Industrial IoT to Cloud Continuum (IIoT-Nets) co-located with ACM SigComm in New York. https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2023/workshop-iiotnets.html June 11, 2023 Submission deadline Looking forward to your submission! Marc-Oliver 1st Workshop on Enhanced Network Techniques and Technologies for the Industrial IoT to Cloud Continuum (IIoT-Nets) Call for Papers All types of industries, such as production, shipping, agriculture, manufacturing verticals, and utilities such as railways, energy grids, and self-driving or remote driving infrastructure, have identified opportunities in automating process control applications and the monitoring of remote operations. The promising growth in connected equipment and machines (Industrial IoT) underscores the importance and the need for remote process control systems and remote monitoring operations. The use of cloud technologies improves the coordination of the control processes and the applications. To support this we need enhanced network techniques and technologies, plus architectures and frameworks for this Industrial IoT to Cloud continuum, providing the foundation for a fast expanding Operations and Process Control applications. Emerging Operational Technology traffic profiles require the capabilities of wide-area, large-scale deterministic, and time-sensitive networks. These traffic patterns emerging from the monitoring operations and the process control applications requires enhanced networks with specialized techniques, technologies, and attributes that are both non-interfering and non-disruptive. These networks are reliable and present deterministic behaviours for seamless machine-to-machine communication, compared to general-purpose networks which are commonly for human-to-software interaction. The outcomes and outputs of these control applications are so critically dependent on having high-quality network performance that most industry operators have yet to venture into controlling devices beyond a local site. While there is a clear requirement to use cloud native technologies, there are many technical problems to solve to enable distributed process control and monitoring functions over the cloud. We plan to feature research and other activities to bridge gaps between the cloud operators, industrial network operators, and network service providers, and to overcome the issues of transitioning from fully local operation to cloud. This raises a number of interesting questions: Related to the forwarding aspects: how to describe a command structure in a process control so that network forwards it gracefully; how cloud-native process control services will be deployed and generalized given that the traffic profiles vary for each controller and field-device pair; how to leverage and incorporate virtualized infrastructure with deterministic networks and multi-tenant support. How management views evolve for cloud-centric processes: how to define, monitor, observe, discover, and respond to faults in the system and control of machines and field devices; how does cloud-to-edge-to-field device connectivity get managed. Finally, such networks are not operated by network experts, instead, industrial process engineers or application developers would need to deal with deployment and maintenance of such networks, and would need to express their network requirements in a programmable and standard manner. Thus, auto-provisioning and interactions across the different infrastructures should be considered. The goal of the workshop is to feature recent research and initiatives related to (a) architectures and frameworks for the Industrial IoT to Cloud continuum, (b) providing the foundation for Operations and Process Control applications and emerging traffic profiles, and (c) industrial network operations, with all things related to remote field-device communication using enhanced network techniques and technologies. The contributors are encouraged to bring forth novel use- cases, presenting their work which solves and highlights challenges in industrial process control automation, and which helps build a research and user community to explore and bridge the gaps between industrial and network operators. The “Enhanced network techniques and technologies for the Industrial IoT to Cloud continuum” workshop aims at bringing cloud, network operators, and industrial network experts together with the intention of synthesizing a unified architectural view on how to evolve from closed industrial systems to cloud-native. This workshop also solicits work on use-cases, design principles, techniques, implementations, and experience insights that address the workshop objectives. Topics of Interest Architectures and frameworks for the Industrial IoT to Cloud continuum Application interface to networks that support industrial processes Challenges in supporting virtualized controller over WAN/cloud Cloud based and virtualized Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Real-time cloud-based process control challenges and solutions Cloud-oriented multi-site connectivity for process automation Network challenges in supporting industrial digital twins. Coordination between physical infrastructures and application specific digital twins Programmable data-plane techniques for remote operations and control Security, reliability and safety in open industrial networks Distributed Monitoring and Telemetry techniques Cloud-converged feedback control loops Use of decentralization such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) for improving trust Submission Instructions Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, excluding references and appendices, in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop. Please submit your paper using HotCRP site: https://iiot-nets23.hotcrp.com. If you have any questions or problems with your submission, please get in touch with Kiran Makhijani (kiranm(a)futurewei.com) Important Dates June 11, 2023 Submission deadline July 2, 2023 Acceptance notification July 16, 2023 Camera-ready deadline September 10, 2023 Workshop

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CFP: Joint conference IEEE DASC/PICom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2023, Abu Dhabi, UAE
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '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* 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 the 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 July, 2023 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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SDS 2023 CFP: The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 30 May '23

30 May '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2023/index.php *SDS 2023 CFP: * Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and managements (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. SDS aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Software Defined Real Time Functions for Automation. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submission Guidelines: * Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 June 2023 Notification to Authors: 5 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 25 September 2023 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Ons Bouachir 30 May '23

30 May '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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[CFP] First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) 2023
by CFP Announce 30 May '23

30 May '23

First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) October 12-15, 2023 Qingdao China Over the past 60 years, computing paradigms have undergone significant developments, evolving from the original Client-Server model to newer ones such as Cloud Computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and Edge Computing. The development history of computing paradigms is also the development history of computing power, which is defined to be the amount of information that can be transmitted, processed, and stored by a system, as novel computing technologies have always been driven by the needs of new applications that demand stronger computing power. Nowadays, emerging applications such as Web 3.0, Metaverse, and Industrial Internet put forward demands on next-generation computing technologies that can consolidate the networking resources to provide the desired quality of services, overcoming the increasingly serious computing power shortage problem. Meta Computing was proposed to address the limitations faced by existing computing paradigms: 1) terminal-end IoT resources are not fully exploited; 2) there exist barriers to the integration of network-wide computing power; and 3) there is a lack of strong fault tolerance. It aims to utilize all available computing resources hooked on the Internet, provide efficient, fault-tolerant, and personalized services with strong security and privacy guarantee, and virtualize the whole Internet as a giant computer, that is, ``Network-as-a-Computer, NaaC'', or ``Meta Computer'' for short, for any task or any person at any time on-demand. Meta computing possesses the following three functional characteristics: supporting zero-trust environments, integrating all available cloud-edge-terminal computing resources, and configuring meta computers on-demand. To the emerging applications such as Web 3.0 and Metaverse , meta computing intends to turn the Internet into a distributed giant computing power pool to fulfill the ever-increasing needs on computing power; it also refers to the integrated technologies that can offer trust-worthy, fault-tolerant, and easy-to-use computing techniques. IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) solicits original submissions that present innovative research and development outcomes in the field of meta computing. Topics of interests are covered by the following tracks: Track 1: Meta Computing Architectures and Systems l Meta computer architecture l Computational resource virtualization l Resource scheduling mechanism of meta computer l Computation-storage-communication integration l Decentralized storage system l Verifiable and Heterogeneous computation l Security and privacy of meta computing Track 2: Cloud-Edge-Terminal Resource Consolidation and Intelligence in Meta Computing l Resource management and scheduling l Privacy protection l Integration of edge computing with terminals l Terminal computation l Large-scale data processing and storage l Data management and security l Collaborative decision l Network architecture and transmission l Real-time computation l Multimedia processing Track 3: Blockchain, fault-tolerance, and Zero-trust Computing l Blockchain architectures and systems l Consensus and trust management l Security and privacy for blockchain l Fault-tolerant systems l Trusted data space l Data and blockchain integration l Zero-trust computing architectures and systems l Blockchain governance and regulatory Track 4: Meta Computing for Web 3.0, DApp, Defi l Decentralized web infrastructure l Decentralized solutions for web identity and authentication l Decentralized solutions for digital asset management and ownership l Decentralized data storage and sharing l Smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) in Web 3.0 l Interoperability and standardization in Web 3.0 l Privacy and security in Web 3.0 l Web 3.0 applications Track 5: Meta Computing for Metaverse l Network architecture and system design for metaverse l Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality l Decentralized communications for metaverse l Privacy and security for metaverse l Interactions between cyber and physical spaces l Trusted network architecture for metaverse l Scalability and interoperability l Metaverse applications Track 6: Meta Computing for Industrial Internet and Internet-of-Things l Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture and design principles l IIoT security and privacy l Big data analytics for IIoT l Edge and cloud computing for IIoT l IIoT applications l Intelligent control and automation in IIoT l Industrial wireless networks and communication protocols l Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) 和 Industry 4.0 *Important Dates:* Paper Submission: August 15, 2023 Notification: September 15, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: October 1, 2023 *Proceedings of ICMC 2023: * Two options: IEEExplore or the Elsevier High-confidence Computing Journal. Both are EI-indexed, and authors have the freedom to select one. *Submission Guidelines* Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icmc20231 It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font). The maximum length of ICNC paper without over-length charge is SIX (6) page. The authors are allowed to pay for up to TWO (2) additional pages at $100 per over length page. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal of conference. *General Chair: * Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China Xiuzhen Cheng, Shandong University, China *Program Co-Chairs* Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia *Publicity Co-Chairs:* Suparna De, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom Yan Huang, Kennesaw State University, USA Minghui Xu, Shandong University, China *Proceeding Chair:* Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA *Publication Chair:* Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA

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IEEE BCCA 2023: The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait [Special Track]
by Julia Marino 29 May '23

29 May '23

*The 5th IEEE Conference on **Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(* *BCCA 2023**)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f4565c80-abcd623f-f4526f8f-000babda03…> IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=87d46e25-d84f509a-87d05d2a-000babda03…> 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa 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 breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract the 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* The special track has three categories of submission: - *Short papers: *(5-6 pages). - *Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): *(10-15 pages) SoK papers evaluate, systematize, cluster, classify, and contextualize existing knowledge (Focused Surveys). - *Poster papers: *(1-2 pages) (undergraduate). *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Special Track** Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2023 - Notification of paper acceptance: July 31st, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: September 1st, 2023 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers of high quality from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s): · IEEE Networks (IF: 10.2) · Ad Hoc Networks (IF: 4.8) · Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 2.04) *Keynote Speakers* · *Stephen Nilsson*, Founder, CEO, Enterprise Blockchain Implementer & Evangelist · *Riad Hartani*, Co-Founder Xona Partners · *Salil Kanhere*, University of New South Wales Sydney · *Abdallah Shami*, Professor and Associate Dean Research at Western University · *Srdjan Krčo*, Co-founder and CEO of DunavNET · *Satya N Gupta*, Chairman- Blockchain For Productivity Forum · *Farshad Firouzi*, Assistant Professor at Duke University · *Hoda Al Khzaimi*, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAe · *Roberto Di Pietro, *HBKU-CSE, Doha, Qatar. *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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[CFP] SI on Security of Emerging Virtual Environments: Metaverse and Extended Reality- Ad Hoc Networks [Final Call For Papers]
by Ons Bouachir 23 May '23

23 May '23

*Ad Hoc Networks* *Security of Emerging Virtual Environments:* * Metaverse and Extended Reality* *** * Extended deadline: May 26th 2023* (firm)*** 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 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. --Regards, ReplyForward

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Jun Wu 23 May '23

23 May '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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IEEE DASC 2023: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing
by Julia Marino 23 May '23

23 May '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* 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 the 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 July, 2023 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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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Jun Wu 23 May '23

23 May '23

Email Subject: iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline] *International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. § *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA § Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia § Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia

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FMEC 2023 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 16 May '23

16 May '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The IEEE Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FMEC 2023 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 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 2023 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2023 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 2023 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following tracks: Track 1: Fog and Mobile Edge Computing fuels Smart Mobility <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track1.php> Track 2: Edge-Cloud Continuum and Networking <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track2.php> Track 3: Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track3.php> Track 4: Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track4.php> Track 5: Security and privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track5.php> Track 6: Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track6.php> Track 7: FMEC General Track <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track7.php> *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. *Workshops and Symposium:* The 1st International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ The International Workshop on Engineering Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Systems (SYNERGY 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SYNERGY2023/index.html The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/CIEAI2023/index.html The 9th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2023) . http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/IOTNAT2023/index.php The 7th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SCE2023/index.php *Important Dates* Submission Date: 15 June 2023 Notification to Authors: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 15 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia [Extended Deadline]
by Julia Marino 15 May '23

15 May '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, June 20, 2023 - Acceptance notification: August 05, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: June 01, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers: 1-2 pages (undergraduate).* *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia --Regards,

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IEEE BCCA 2023: The Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait [Special Track]
by Ons Bouachir 10 May '23

10 May '23

*The 5th IEEE Conference on **Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(* *BCCA 2023**)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f4565c80-abcd623f-f4526f8f-000babda03…> IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=87d46e25-d84f509a-87d05d2a-000babda03…> 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa 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 breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract the 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* The special track has three categories of submission: - *Short papers: *(5-6 pages). - *Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): *(10-15 pages) SoK papers evaluate, systematize, cluster, classify, and contextualize existing knowledge (Focused Surveys). - *Poster papers: *(1-2 pages) (undergraduate). *Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023 *Special Track** Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2023 - Notification of paper acceptance: July 31st, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: September 1st, 2023 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers of high quality from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s): · IEEE Networks (IF: 10.2) · Ad Hoc Networks (IF: 4.8) · Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 2.04) *Keynote Speakers* · *Stephen Nilsson*, Founder, CEO, Enterprise Blockchain Implementer & Evangelist · *Riad Hartani*, Co-Founder Xona Partners · *Salil Kanhere*, University of New South Wales Sydney · *Abdallah Shami*, Professor and Associate Dean Research at Western University · *Srdjan Krčo*, Co-founder and CEO of DunavNET · *Satya N Gupta*, Chairman- Blockchain For Productivity Forum · *Farshad Firouzi*, Assistant Professor at Duke University · *Hoda Al Khzaimi*, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAe · *Roberto Di Pietro, *HBKU-CSE, Doha, Qatar. *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 --Regards,

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FLTA 2023 CFP: The International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications, Tartu - Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 02 May '23

02 May '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ In Conjunction with The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FLTA 2023 CFP:* We live in a data-driven era where AI and ML are integrated into every aspect of life and industry when making decisions. Recent AI/ML applications, scenarios, and use cases data sources come from large-scale distributed and diverse sources, i.e., in terms of capacity and data heterogeneity. Such an approach empowers applications to discover unique insights, which can be intelligently utilized to provide better services and user experience. Yet it imposes serious debate on data and client privacy, specifically on data protection regulations and restrictions such as EU GDPR. Moreover, collecting, aggregating, and integrating heterogeneous data dispersed over various data sources and securely managing and processing the data are non-trivial tasks. The challenges are not only due to transporting high-volume, high-velocity, high-veracity, cybersecurity attacks, and heterogeneous data across organizations. There is also a challenge with domain-specific language models to get enough training data since it is usually private or sensitive, with complicated administrative procedures surrounding it. Such private data include users’ financial transactions, patients’ health data, or camera footage on the street. In this context, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prospective solution that facilitates distributed collaborative learning without disclosing original training data. The idea behind FL is to train the ML model collaboratively among distributed actors without sharing their data and violating the privacy accord. FL locates ML services and operations closer to the clients, facilitating leveraging available resources on the network’s edge. Hence, FL has become a critical enabling technology for future intelligent applications in domains such as autonomous driving, smart manufacturing, and healthcare. This development will lead to an overall advancement of FL and its impact on the community, noting that FL has gained significant attention within the machine learning community in recent years. The FLTA2023 aims to provide a global forum for disseminating the latest scientific research and industry results in all aspects of federated learning. FLTA2023 also aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and edge intelligence advocators in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of FL deployment architectures. The symposium will address the theoretical foundations of the field, as well as applications, datasets, benchmarking, software, hardware, and systems. Also, to create an annual forum for researchers and practitioners who share an interest in FL. FLTA offers an opportunity to showcase the latest advances in this area and discuss and identify future directions and challenges in FL systems. FLCon2023 will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *Topics of interest:* - Federated Learning frameworks - Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithms - Federated Learning Applications - Federated Learning Deployment Architectures - Privacy-Preserving FL Techniques - Federated Learning Communication-efficiency - Federated Learning modelling and simulation tools - Federated Learning datasets and benchmarking - Federated Learning Associated Technologies *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* Full Paper Submission Date: 30 May 2023 Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 Notification to Authors: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 15 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FLTA to Feras Awaysheh: feras.awaysheh(a)ut.ee

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IOTSMS 2023 CFP: The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 30 Apr '23

30 Apr '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023) San Antonio, Texas , USA. October 23-25, 2023 https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2023/index.php *IoTSMS 2023 CFP:* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 3 billion by 2030. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 30 billion objects by 2030. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2023) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G, 5GB and 6G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth *Submission Guidelines:* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the IoTSMS 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 20 June 2023 Notification to Authors: 5 September 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 25 September 2023 Please send any inquiry to IoTSMS Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE DASC 2023: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing
by Ons Bouachir 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '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* *13-17 Nov, 2023** || Abu Dhabi, UAE* 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 the 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* *Track 2. Network and System Security and Privacy* *Track 3. Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems* *Track 4. Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques* * Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dascpicomcbdcomcyber0 *Important dates* *Main Conference Papers* Paper Submission Due: 1 July, 2023 Authors Notification: 15 September, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: 30 September, 2023 *General Chair* Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* Franco Zambonelli, Universita’ degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University, USA --Regards,

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[Extended Deadline] IEEE BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait
by Ons Bouachir 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

*The 5th IEEE Conference on **Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(* *BCCA 2023**)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f4565c80-abcd623f-f4526f8f-000babda03…> IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit* https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=87d46e25-d84f509a-87d05d2a-000babda03…> 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait 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 breaches, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract the 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 : April 15th, 2023 May 3rd 2023 (Firm) - Notification of paper acceptance: June 10th, 2023 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: October 1st, 2023 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: May 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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[Final Deadline for Workshop and Demos: April 30, 2023] IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

*IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking* (*IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023*) *4-7, JULY 2023, ISTANBUL, TURKEY* *Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity* https://blackseacom2023.ieee-blackseacom.org/ IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023 will be held in Istanbul that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. Themed *Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity*, the conference is seeking highquality and original technical papers not currently under review by any other journal, magazine or conference. Besides the regular technical papers, the technical program seeks poster papers that present work in progress with preliminary results and demos. Also, IEEE BlackSeaCom seeks proposals for tutorials and special sessions. *Technical Scope:* · 5G mobile systems, 6G connectivity and applications · Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics in wireless communications and networks Software-defined networks, network virtualization, and network slicing · Communications and networks for cloud, edge and fog · Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Sensor Networks · Social networking, smart cities, and multimedia communications · Connected health and e-Health · Optical networks and systems, radio over fiber · Mobile and wireless communications and networking · Image, speech and signal processing for communications · Molecular and nanoscale communications · Modelling, semantic web and ontologies, and interoperability for the Internet, the Metaverse and related applications · Big data analysis, processing, and transmission · Smart grids, M2M and vehicular networks · Future Internet and testbeds · Network and Service Management · Communications and Information theory · Cognitive radio and networking · Security, privacy, and trust · Sustainable communications and computing · Electromagnetic compatibility · Drones, UAV, V2X communications · Cloud-based data streaming *General Co-Chairs* · Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) · Burak Kantarci(University of Ottawa, Canada) *Technical Program Co-Chairs* · Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada) · Mehmet Yunus Donmez (Ericsson, Turkey) · Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University, Turkey) * Submission Link: * https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406 *Important Dates* WORKSHOP and DEMOS · Extended Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023 (Final) · Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2023 · Camera Ready Deadline: May 30, 2023 * Submission Guidelines* Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper with a *maximum paper length of six (6)* pages including results, figures, and references without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages with over length page charge for an additional fee, if accepted), in the standard IEEE two-column conference format. Papers should be submitted via EDAS <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406>. Papers submitted to the conference must describe original unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three TPC members, and all accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and IEEE digital library.

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia
by Jun Wu 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Subject: iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia *International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, 2023 - Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 - Acceptance notification: July 10, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: July 31, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: April 1, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA - Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia --Regards, ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the csim list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=csim&A=1

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia
by Jun Wu 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Subject: iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia *International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, 2023 - Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 - Acceptance notification: July 10, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: July 31, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: April 1, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA - Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia --Regards, ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the csim list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=csim&A=1

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia
by Julia Marino 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Subject: iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Tartu, Estonia *International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, 2023 - Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 - Acceptance notification: July 10, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: July 31, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: April 1, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA - Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia --Regards,

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[Extended Deadline] BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

*The 5th **International Conference on Blockchain Computing And Applications* *(*BCCA 2023*)* https://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2023/index.php IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech And Blockchain **Summit* 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html 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 , April 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, Japanitc(a)comsoc.org

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FMEC 2023 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section *FMEC 2023 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 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 2023 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2023 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 2023 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following tracks: Track 1: Fog and Mobile Edge Computing fuels Smart Mobility <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track1.php> Track 2: Edge-Cloud Continuum and Networking <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track2.php> Track 3: Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track3.php> Track 4: Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track4.php> Track 5: Security and privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track5.php> Track 6: Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track6.php> Track 7: FMEC General Track <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/track7.php> *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. *Workshops and Symposium:* The 1st International Symposium on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FLTA2023/ The International Workshop on Engineering Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Systems (SYNERGY 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SYNERGY2023/index.html The International Workshop on Cellular and Industrial Edge AI (CIEAI 2023) https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/CIEAI2023/index.html The 9th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2023) . http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/IOTNAT2023/index.php The 7th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2023) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/Workshops/SCE2023/index.php *Important Dates* Submission Date: 15 May 2023 Notification to Authors: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 15 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2023
by SBA Research Events 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '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 Submission Deadline extended: April 17, 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. 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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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2023
by SBA Research Events 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '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 Submission Deadline extended: April 17, 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. 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] BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

*The 5th **International Conference on Blockchain Computing And Applications* *(*BCCA 2023*)* https://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2023/index.php IEEE Co-Sponsorship *APPROVED* in Conjunction with *Kuwait Fintech And Blockchain **Summit* 24–26 October 2023 – Kuwait City, Kuwait https://www.kcst.edu.kw/blockchain-summit/index.html 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 , April 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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Call for Papers ARES 2023
by SBA Research Events 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '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 Program Committee Chairs 2023 Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis, France Riccardo Scandariato, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany General Chair 2023 Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy Local Chair 2023 Marta Catillo, University of Sannio, Italy 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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FMEC 2023 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023
by Gizem Varkonyi 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2023/index.php> Tartu, Estonia. September 18-20, 2023 *Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Estonia Section* *FMEC 2023 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 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 2023 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2023 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 2023 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France 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, advanced 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: 15 May 2023 Notification to Authors: 20 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 5 August 2023 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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iMETA 2023: International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies and Applications, Tartu, Estonia
by Ons Bouachir 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

*International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (**iMETA2023)* 18–20 September, 2023 – Tartu, Estonia https://imeta-conference.org/ Over the years, technology has advanced significantly, and the creation of the virtual environments (i.e., metaverse) is one of the latest innovations that is set to revolutionize how we interact, process, and connect our real-life to other lifes. With the metaverse, we are presented with a new realm that blurs the lines between the physical and digital world, providing a new space for communication, commerce, services, and entertainment. The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) is to bring together leading researchers, academics, and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research field. Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident that iMeta conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its potential to change the world as we know it. Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the metaverse community. *List of Tracks:* Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: 1. AI 2. Security and Privacy 3. Networking and Communications 4. Systems and Computing 5. Multimedia and Computer Vision 6. Immersive Technologies and Services 7. Storage and Processing *Important Dates:* - Papers due: May 10, 2023 - Short paper/poster due: June 10, 2023 - Acceptance notification: July 10, 2023 - Camera-ready paper due: July 31, 2023 - Workshop Proposal due: April 1, 2023 *Keynote Speakers:* § *Walid Saad*, Virginia Tech, USA - *Merouane Debbah*, TII, UAE - *Ian F. Akyildiz*, Truva Inc., USA *Submission Guidelines:* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Positioning papers:* 3-4 pages. *Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2023> *Organizing Committee* * Steering Committee* - Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA - Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA - Merouane Debbah, TII, UAE - Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan *General Co-Chair* § Ilir Capuni, University of Montenegro, Montenegro *Program Co-Chairs* - Feras Awaysheh, University of Tartu, Estonia - Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada - Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and Waseda University, Japan - Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI, UAE *Local Committee* - Karl Lomp, University of Tartu, Estonia - Madis Vasser, University of Tartu, Estonia - Stefania Tomasiello, University of Tartu, Estonia - Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia --Regards,

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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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IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

*IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking* (*IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023*) *4-7, JULY 2023, ISTANBUL, TURKEY* *Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity* https://blackseacom2023.ieee-blackseacom.org/ IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023 will be held in Istanbul that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. Themed *Immersive Bridging of Continents in the Era of Hyperconnectivity*, the conference is seeking highquality and original technical papers not currently under review by any other journal, magazine or conference. Besides the regular technical papers, the technical program seeks poster papers that present work in progress with preliminary results and demos. Also, IEEE BlackSeaCom seeks proposals for tutorials and special sessions. *Technical Scope:* · 5G mobile systems, 6G connectivity and applications · Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics in wireless communications and networks Software-defined networks, network virtualization, and network slicing · Communications and networks for cloud, edge and fog · Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Sensor Networks · Social networking, smart cities, and multimedia communications · Connected health and e-Health · Optical networks and systems, radio over fiber · Mobile and wireless communications and networking · Image, speech and signal processing for communications · Molecular and nanoscale communications · Modelling, semantic web and ontologies, and interoperability for the Internet, the Metaverse and related applications · Big data analysis, processing, and transmission · Smart grids, M2M and vehicular networks · Future Internet and testbeds · Network and Service Management · Communications and Information theory · Cognitive radio and networking · Security, privacy, and trust · Sustainable communications and computing · Electromagnetic compatibility · Drones, UAV, V2X communications · Cloud-based data streaming *General Co-Chairs* · Sema Oktug (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) · Burak Kantarci(University of Ottawa, Canada) *Technical Program Co-Chairs* · Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada) · Mehmet Yunus Donmez (Ericsson, Turkey) · Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University, Turkey) * Submission Link: * https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406 *Important Dates* · Submission Deadline: Feb 28th, 2023 · Notification of Acceptance: April 15th, 2023 · Camera Ready Deadline: April 30th, 2023 * Submission Guidelines* Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper with a *maximum paper length of six (6)* pages including results, figures, and references without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages with over length page charge for an additional fee, if accepted), in the standard IEEE two-column conference format. Papers should be submitted via EDAS <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30406>. Papers submitted to the conference must describe original unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three TPC members, and all accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and IEEE digital library.

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BCCA 2023: Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Kuwait
by Ons Bouachir 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '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 *IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship (pending)* *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. All accepted papers in BCCA 2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. *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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[TALK26] Securing the Cloud: Encryption and Data Protection – Guillaume Neau (Amazon Web Services, FR)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, I cordially invite you to another online edition of the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series. This time I will welcome Guillaume Neau from Amazon Web Services about “Securing the Cloud: Encryption and Data Protection“. Please join and share the info with your friends. Best, Marc-Oliver On Wed, Jan 11th, 2023, 2pm CET, Guillaume Neau (Amazon Web Services AWS, FR), will talk about “Securing the Cloud: Encryption and Data Protection“. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/26 with your interested friends! Trailer: https://youtu.be/vIyJA3EKJ0M LinkedIN Event: https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7018524857814417409/ Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/690341442732802/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk91D-vdvyk&list=PLdftPKA9mTfaDJxqwexil2mPh… Stream redirect (for every edition): https://TALK.cyberCNI.fr/stream Newsletter with invitations: Subscription on https://TALK.cyberCNI.fr Abstract Data protection is a key topics for many organizations and yet many of them often struggle to deploy a comprehensive strategy to protect their assets. In that talk we will get a holistic view of what it means when deploying information system on AWS. We will cover all the relevant area from compliance to European Regulation and data localization to memory encryption and confidential computing. By lowering the entry bar, we will understand how AWS is changing the game when it comes down to information security and how key security concepts like “security by design” and “0-trust” or “self-healing” system are now a reality in the cloud. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/vIyJA3EKJ0M Guillaume Neau Guillaume is a Sr. Solutions Architect with a specialization in information security and work for Amazon Web Service in France. In his day-to-day job Guillaume’s advises customer about their information technology and security strategy as well as partner with operational team to design scalable, resilient and secure information systems. Guillaume is passioned about information technology for the positive impact it can have on people lives and the societal changes that it drives. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. These cloud computing web services provide distributed computing processing capacity and software tools via AWS server farms. One of these services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. AWS’s virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM). AWS services are delivered to customers via a network of AWS server farms located throughout the world. Fees are based on a combination of usage (known as a “Pay-as-you-go” model), hardware, operating system, software, or networking features chosen by the subscriber required availability, redundancy, security, and service options. Subscribers can pay for a single virtual AWS computer, a dedicated physical computer, or clusters of either. Amazon provides select portions of security for subscribers (e.g. physical security of the data centers) while other aspects of security are the responsibility of the subscriber (e.g. account management, vulnerability scanning, patching). AWS operates from many global geographical regions including seven in North America. Amazon markets AWS to subscribers as a way of obtaining large-scale computing capacity more quickly and cheaply than building an actual physical server farm.All services are billed based on usage, but each service measures usage in varying ways. As of 2021 Q4, AWS has 33% market share for cloud infrastructure while the next two competitors Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have 21%, and 10% respectively, according to Synergy Group. Talk.cybercni.fr The Cyber CNI Lecture Series is a free monthly event that typically takes place on the last Wednesday of the month from 2pm to 3h30pm CET. The event consists of a 45-minute expert presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion. The Cyber CNI Speaker series aims to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security issues among all audiences. It aims to enable an ongoing dialogue between experts from industry and academia and the general public (citizens, families, small and large businesses, public organizations, etc.). All of us are concerned. The events are broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) and LinkedIn, allowing worldwide remote participation – including a tool to participate in the discussion. You can add the event calendar via ICS, webcal, HTML. How the digital transformation is changing our lives The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts. Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production. What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors. Program and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/

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NOMS 2023 Workshop Manage-IoT (Deadline: January 15, 2023)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, many apologies for cross and multiple postings. This year IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023 Network Operations and Management Symposium is in Miami, FL, USA between 8 - 12 May, 2023: https://noms2023.ieee-noms.org Besides many other outstanding tracks, this edition will feature the 3rd (or 6th if we consider renaming) edition of the Manage-IoT workshop. We are welcoming high quality submissions on management methodologies for the Internet of Things. The workshop already is a well-established platform for discussing around all aspects of managing distributed heterogeneous systems. Last year in Budapest we had more than 40 participants. You can get some impressions in the recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqopiQR4hrQ Prospective authors are invited to check the CFP to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions. Please see : https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/ Please share the information with your colleagues. We are looking forward to your submissions and to discussing with you in person! IEEE/IFIP 2023 NOMS Manage-IoT workshop Organizing Committee, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Hanan Lutfiyya, Stuart Clayman, Filippo Poltronieri, Renzo Navas. Paper submission deadline: 15 January, 2023 Paper acceptance notification: 1 March, 2023 Camera-ready version due : 10 March, 2023

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NOMS 2023 Miami Demos: Call for Papers (firm deadline: January, 31st)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, many apologies for cross and multiple postings. This year IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023 Network Operations and Management Symposium is in Miami, FL, USA between 8 - 12 May, 2023: https://noms2023.ieee-noms.org Besides many other outstanding tracks, this edition will once again feature a demo track where we are welcoming demonstrations showcasing prototypes, innovative applications, groundbreaking ideas, and novel concepts related to network and service management around the main conference theme: Integrated Management Towards Resilient Networks and Services. Prospective authors are invited to check the CFP to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions. We especially encourage authors of accepted papers to consider submitting an additional demo, and authors of rejected papers to consider to transform their presentation into a demo. Please see : https://noms2023.ieee-noms.org/authors/call-demo-papers Please consider submitting. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023 Organizing Committee

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[CFP] SI on Security of Emerging Virtual Environments: Metaverse and Extended Reality- Ad Hoc Networks
by Ons Bouachir 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '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 to 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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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 11 Dec '22

11 Dec '22

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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

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Call for poster: IEEE ISPA2022 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2022
by Jesson Butt 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

Call for Poster: The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2022), 17-19 Dec. 2022, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/ispa/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters with display at conference: 13 November 2022 Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2022 Final versions of proceeding published posters: 18 November 2022 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "ISPA 2022 poster submission". --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to ISPA 2022. ISPA 2022 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics (1) Systems and Architectures Track - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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IoTNAT 2022 CFP: The 8th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies , Paris, France 12-15 Dec 2022
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 8th International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2022) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2022/index.php> in conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2022) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php> Paris, France 12-15 Dec 2022 *IoTNAT 2022 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 25 billion by 2022. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 29 billion objects by 2024. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The IEEE International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2022) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2022). The IoTNAT 2022 Symposium aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The Symposium aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Emerging concepts of IoT Design methodologies for IoT Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility Green by Internet of Things IoT and Social benefits/impact IoT Economics Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT IoT and Data Management Security and privacy of IoT Reliability of IoT Disaster recovery in IoT Applications of Internet of things Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens Big data and IoT Self-organizing IoT Cloud Computing and IoT IoT and sustainable Growth *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max 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). 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 5th November , 2022 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 22 November, 2022 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SCE 2022 CFP: The 6th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France 12-15 Dec 2022
by Emerging Tech 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 6th International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2022) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2022/index.php> in conjunction with The 7th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2022) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php> Paris, France 12-15 Dec 2022 *SCE 2022 CFP* Smart cities provide next generation engineering approaches for urbanization. Smart cities aim to exploit the intellectual and social capital as its core ingredient for urbanization, in addition to the physical and ICT infrastructure. Smart cities are driven by several interdependent trends. These include a pressing need for environmental sustainability, and peoples’ increasing demands for personalisation, mobility and higher quality of life. Technological developments such as miniaturization of devices, internet of things (IoT), big data, and decreasing costs of computational entities have also accelerated the smart cities developments. Smart cities encompass all aspects of modern day life, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, work, businesses, social interactions, governance, etc. It is therefore necessary to engineer smart cities as complex systems of systems supported by a converged ubiquitous infrastructure. A key challenge in the realization of smart cities is to create an ecosystem of digital infrastructures that are able to work together and enable dynamic real-time interactions between various smart city subsystems. With this background, this workshop invites submissions that propose state of the art solutions for smart cities systems engineering. A particular focus of the workshop are the studies that involve cloud computing, fog computing, and mobile edge computing technologies. Original articles including modelling and empirical studies and development, as well as relevant surveys are welcome. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * IoT based developments for smart cities engineering * Big data technologies for smart cities * Modelling and analysis of smart city technologies and systems * Mobile applications for smart cities * Analytics for smart cities * Cloud computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Fog and edge computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Cloudlet based approaches for smart city engineering * Studies focussed on communication networks for smart cities * Information management for smart cities * Smart buildings, smart homes and smart energy grids * Transportation, healthcare, and governance for smart cities * Security and privacy of smart city systems *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max 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). 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. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 5th November , 2022 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 22 November, 2022 Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FMEC 2022 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing , Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2022) emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2022/index.php Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *FMEC 2022 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 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France 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 fire wall 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: 31 October, 2022 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 15 November , 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 30 November, 2022 *Workshops:* The Seventh International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2022) . The Fifth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2022) The Fifth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2022) The Third International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2022) The Fifth International Symposium on 5G Emerging Technologies (5GET 2022) *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2022 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDS 2022 CFP: The Ninth International Conference on Software Defined Systems , Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Ninth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2022) https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2022/index.php Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2022 CFP:* Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019, SDS' 2020 and SDS' 2021), The Ninth International conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS'2022) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2022 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2022 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS 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: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * 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 SDS 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: 31 October, 2022 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 15 November , 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 30 November, 2022 *Workshops:* The Seventh International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2022) . The Fifth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2022) The Fifth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2022) The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2022) The Third International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2022) The Fifth International Symposium on 5G Emerging Technologies (5GET 2022) The 4th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2022) The International Symposium on Software Defined Networks and Mobile Edge Computing (SDMEC 2022) The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2022) The International Workshop for Software Defined Everything (SDE2022) *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2022 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call for Nominations - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement)
by Arne Wilston 25 Oct '22

25 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015, Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) in 2016, Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) in 2017, Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 2018, Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) in 2019, Jinjun Chen (Swinburne, Australia) in 2020, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) in 2021. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements in scalable computing as well as significance and impact. (Max 2-page length) 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC. (Max 2-page length) 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service contributions to the TCSC. The endorsement letters should be included in the nomination package. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: 31 October 2022 Result Notification: 15 November 2022 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Award Committee. Award Selection Committee: Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ( ltyang(a)ieee.org) Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan ( bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp) Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ( jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com) Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada (jamal(a)mcmaster.ca) Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy (beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it)

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Call for Nominations - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (ECR)
by Arne Wilston 25 Oct '22

25 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing. Typically the candidates are within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community.An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible); 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended; 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. 4. CV of the nominee; 5. Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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IEEE/IFIP NOM2023 - Dissertation Digest Call For Papers - December 1st, 2022 (firm!)
by Tortonesi Mauro 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISSERTATION DIGEST – CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023 Network Operations and Management Symposium 8-12 May 2023, Miami, FL, USA Submission Date: December 1st, 2022 (firm!) https://noms2023.ieee-noms.org/authors/call-dissertation-digest-papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) will be held between 8-12 May 2023 in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Held originally in even-numbered years only since 1988, NOMS 2023 does now follow a new path of seeing the IFIP/IEEE IM symposium being combined with IEEE/IFIP NOMS into the primary IEEE Communications Society's and IFIP's Technical Committee TC6 annual forum for the technical exchange on management of networks, services, and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, provisioning, and user communities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The NOMS 2023 Dissertation Digest focuses on Ph.D. dissertations finished recently, especially within the December 1, 2021, to November 30, 2022, time frame. Suitable content and topics fall into the exact same range as for the main symposium’s list of topics, cf. https://noms2023.ieee-noms.org/authors/. This digest can be considered an extended abstract of the thesis and must be limited to six pages and structured very similarly to a regular paper. In addition, this digest needs to add in the text and in the reference section a reference to a Web link for the full Ph.D. thesis. Furthermore, the list of journal, conference, and workshop papers, published as part of the Ph.D. work, has to be included in the digest paper’s reference section, too. Note that the authors of a digest will be only the (former) student and his/her supervisor(s). The dissertation digest co-chairs may request evidence of the defense or approval of the thesis for each submission before it can be accepted finally. Only PDF submissions will be considered for review and they shall be uploaded to the JEMS system at: https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_dissertation_digest_2023 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Prepare the dissertation digest paper with the maximal length of 6 pages (including all references, figures, and table) – in the English language only – following the IEEE double-column format using the published IEEE Conference Proceeding templates, being available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Authors of accepted submissions are required to present their digest within Dissertation Digest sessions of NOMS 2023, if the dissertation digest paper shall be included in the proceedings. Due to IEEE/IFIP technical co-sponsorship of NOMS, your final paper is planned to be included in IEEE Xplore for archival value after the conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: December 1, 2022 (hard deadline, no extensions foreseen!) - Notification of Acceptance: January 9, 2023 - Camera-ready Version: January 30, 2023 NOMS 2023 Dissertation Digest Co-chairs Tortonesi Mauro, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland Further information is available with <mauro.tortonesi(a)unife.it> or <stiller(a)ifi.uzh.ch>. -- 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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Call for Nominations - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (MCR)
by Arne Wilston 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is a technical committee within IEEE Computer Society, aimed at fostering research and education in scalable computing with applications. The committee solicits nominations of Middle Career Researcher (MCR) Award. The award includes an award plaque that will be presented at the annual IEEE HPCC conference, along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website. IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing with applications. Typically the candidates are within 5 to 15 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nomination Materials: A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following materials: (1) Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible) (2) Name/email of the nominee (3) A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. (4) CV of the nominee (5) Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator - these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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CFP: ACM DLT SI on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance
by Xueqin Liang 09 Oct '22

09 Oct '22

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement)
by Arne Wilston 08 Oct '22

08 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015, Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) in 2016, Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) in 2017, Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 2018, Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) in 2019, Jinjun Chen (Swinburne, Australia) in 2020, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) in 2021. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements in scalable computing as well as significance and impact. (Max 2-page length) 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC. (Max 2-page length) 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service contributions to the TCSC. The endorsement letters should be included in the nomination package. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: 31 October 2022 Result Notification: 15 November 2022 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Award Committee. Award Selection Committee: Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ( ltyang(a)ieee.org) Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan ( bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp) Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ( jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com) Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada (jamal(a)mcmaster.ca) Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy (beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it)

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (ECR)
by Arne Wilston 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing. Typically the candidates are within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community.An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible); 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended; 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. 4. CV of the nominee; 5. Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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FCST 2022 CFP: The 5th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies, Milan, Italy. November 29th - December 1st.
by Emerging Tech 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

*The 5th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2022)* http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2022/Workshops/FCST2022/ *In conjunction with **The 9th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2022)* <https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2022/> *Milan, Italy. November 29th - December 1st. * *FCST 2022 CFP:* Hardware systems and Software applications continue to evolve with more functionalities, complex structures and interactions between them and with users. Cyber Security risks continue to evolve as well in both quantity in the same domains as well new types and ways on how to break into computing systems, software applications, websites, databases, programmable networks etc. For example, monitoring the car manufacturing industry, we can see that recent car models have more complex hardware components and automated programmable features in comparison with their earlier models, this will increase the risk associated with protecting such systems. Same thing can be applicable to most other engineering products. Such complex hardware and programmable techniques bring security opportunities to change the way cyber security controls (e.g. firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), etc.) are developed and enforced. They also bring security challenges related to our computing systems and software architectures or any changes that can be directly or indirectly related to them due to the complex interactions between them. The International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2022) will focus on issues related to future cyber security challenges as well as opportunities which mainly highlight the above mentioned aspects. The IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2021) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of cyber security techniques, security challenges and opportunities for emerging technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing,big data, 5G, SDN and many others . We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of future cyber security management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported security systems to mention but few. *The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:* · Cyber Security Techniques Architectures and Design · Cyber Security Systems · Cyber Security Techniques Integration · Cyber Security Techniques Orchestration · Cyber Security Techniques Based Network Control plane design · Cyber Security Techniques Based NetworkData plane design · Cyber Security Techniques Performance Management · Cyber Security Techniques for Cloud based DataCenter · Cyber Security Techniques for 5G Networks · Cyber Security Techniques for Internet of Things (IoT) · Cyber Security Techniques for Big Data Computing · Cyber Security Techniques for large scale storage system · Hardware system design for Cyber Security · Cyber Security Techniques management · Radio Access Network virtualization · Cyber Security Techniques for programmable Networks · Cyber Security Techniques for Edge and Fog Computing · Cyber Security Techniques Cloud Computing · Cyber Security Techniques for Software Defined Network (SDN) · Cyber Security Techniques Network Function Virtualization (NFV) · Cyber Security Techniques Case studies *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). 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). 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 IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 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 *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 12 October, 2022 Notification to Authors: 5 November, 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 15 November, 2022 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (MCR)
by Arne Wilston 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is a technical committee within IEEE Computer Society, aimed at fostering research and education in scalable computing with applications. The committee solicits nominations of Middle Career Researcher (MCR) Award. The award includes an award plaque that will be presented at the annual IEEE HPCC conference, along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website. IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing with applications. Typically the candidates are within 5 to 15 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nomination Materials: A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following materials: (1) Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible) (2) Name/email of the nominee (3) A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. (4) CV of the nominee (5) Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator - these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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SDS 2022 CFP: The Ninth International Conference on Software Defined Systems , Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Ninth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2022) https://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2022/index.php Paris, France. December 12-15, 2022 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2022 CFP:* Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019, SDS' 2020 and SDS' 2021), The Ninth International conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS'2022) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2022 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2022 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS 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: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * 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 SDS 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: 20 October, 2022 Notification to Authors: 15 November , 2022 Camera Ready Submission: 30 November, 2022 *Workshops:* The Seventh International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2022) . The Fifth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2022) The Fifth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2022) The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2022) The Third International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2022) The Fifth International Symposium on 5G Emerging Technologies (5GET 2022) The 4th International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2022) The International Symposium on Software Defined Networks and Mobile Edge Computing (SDMEC 2022) The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2022) The International Workshop for Software Defined Everything (SDE2022) *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2022 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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