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5G Cyber Security Hack 2021 - Call for Participation
by Xueqin Liang 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

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SDS 2021 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021. *SDS 2021 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019, SDS' 2020), The Eighth International conference on Software Defined Systems 2021 (SDS'2021) 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 2021 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 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of 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: 15 July, 2021 Notification to Authors: 30 September, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 15 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTSMS 2021CFP: The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Yufei Sun 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2021) *http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/index.php>* Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *IoTSMS 2021 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. The number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 30.9 billion by 2025. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 25 billion objects by 2025. 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 a major economic, social and environmental impact; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The IEEE Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2021) 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 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 *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 15 July 2021 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2021 Camera Ready and Registration: 30 October 2021 *SUBMISSION* 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. *JOURNAL-SPECIAL-ISSUE* Selected authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to indexed and highly ranked journals, including Cluster Computing. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FMEC 2021 CFP: The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
by Gizem Varkonyi 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *FMEC 2021 CFP:* Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or the Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2021 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2021 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation firewall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 15 July, 2021 Notification to Authors: 30 September, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 15 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2021)-Deadline: July 1st, 2021
by Moayad Aloqaily 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

*The Third IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2021)* *Nov. 15 – 17, 2021 – TARTU, ESTONIA* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2021/index.php IEEE co-sponsorship: *Pending* 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: 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 All accepted papers in BCCA 2021 will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus for inclusion. * Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2021 *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: *July 1st, 2021* Notification of Acceptance: Sept 15th, 2021 Submission of camera-ready: Oct 8th, 2021 *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>*

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SmartWorld 2021 Call for Papers
by CFP Announce 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

*2021 Smart World Congress * October 18-21, 2021, Atlanta, USA The 7th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2021) aims at promoting original and unpublished research works covering science, technologies, applications and related categories on smart world. It provides a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers and engineers to exchange on advances and innovations on smart world. In particular, the following topics are considered. The congress invites high-quality papers in the broad areas related to ubiquitous intelligence and computing, advanced and trusted computing, scalable computing and communications, cloud and big data, and Internet of people towards the Smart World. Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, workshops, forums, demos, exhibitions are also extremely welcome. SmartWorld 2021 Topics Include but Are Not Limited to: – Smart Industry and Manufacture – Smart Home and Furniture – Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture – Smart Appliances and Goods – Smart Materials and Fabric – Smart Wearables and Implants – Smart Environment and Ecosystems – Smart Medicine and Healthcare – Smart Earth/Space System – Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care – Smart Grid and Energy – Smart Foods and Living – Smart Logistics and Retail – Smart Learning and Education – Smart Building and Structure – Smart Disaster Monitoring/Management – Smart Roads and Transportation – Smart Internet of Things – Smart Vehicles and Control – Smart Sensing, System and Service – Smart Machines and Robots – Smart Computing and Communication – Smart Cybersecurity and Privacy – Smart Big Data and Knowledge Co-located Five Conferences IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (SocialCom 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2021) IEEE Int’l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2021) Selected High Quality Papers Will be Recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Digital Communications and Networks Information Fusion IEEE Access Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Important Dates Workshop Proposal: March 30, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021 Author Notification: June 30, 2021

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[CFP] Elsevier High-Confidence Computing Journal
by CFP Announce 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

*Elsevier High-Confidence Computing Journal Call for Papers* Driven by the recent developments of digital transformations and high-fault-tolerant systems, High-Confidence Computing (HCC) was coined as a new computing paradigm that integrates the key properties of trusted computing, precise computing, and intelligent computing to support the next-generation information systems such as smart-city, smart-society, and autonomous driving. HCC relies on interdisciplinary methodologies to realize secure and trusted software/hardware, precise and process-traceable algorithms, and self-evolving designs that can adapt to new environments and support new applications. Information systems possessing HCC properties can provide collaborative services that are otherwise impossible as security, traceability, accountability, reliability, robustness, extensibility, adaptivity, and self-evolution are all desired and equally-important properties of modern complex systems. The Elsevier HCC Journal is dedicated to publishing rigorously peer-reviewed, high-quality original articles covering fundamental research outcomes that integrate the three domains of trusted computing, precise computing, and intelligent computing, as well as complex system designs that jointly consider the properties of secure and trusted hardware/software, precise and process-traceable algorithms, and self-evolving systems that can adapt to new environments and support new applications. The journal intends to provide a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the basic research of high-confidence computing and the complex system developments considering high-confidence properties to demonstrate their novel and creative designs. Other than the original research papers on all aspects of high-confidence computing from theory and applications, the journal also publishes review articles with inspiring open research discussions that can motivate new ideas of realizing high-confidence computing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: · Expandable and accountable computing architectures · SDN-enabled and Blockchain-enhanced computing architectures · NFV for dynamic function expansion and adaptation · Access control to secure open computing environments · TEE-enabled trusted data collection and hardware control · Cryptographic high-confidence primitives and applications · High-confidence system security and privacy · Active defense technologies · Malicious, damaged and white-noise data cleaning and extraction · Spatial-temporal big data fusion for intelligent decision making · Migration learning and digital-twin technologies · Cascading failure detection and recovery · Cascading vulnerability detection and positioning · Modelling, analysis, and measurement of high-confidence · Testbed and empirical studies Submission Guidelines: Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the Elsevier guidelines. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following a regular reviewing process. Please submit your manuscript at the online submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/hccom/default.aspx. Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal’s homepage https://www.journals.elsevier.com/high-confidence-computing/.

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Call for Workshops and Demos: IFIP Networking 2021
by Xueqin Liang 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

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ICICS 2021 Call for Workshop Papers, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain (Virtual)
by Yufei Sun 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems Workshops (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/workshops.html *(Technically Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section)* *ICICS 2021 Workshops CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) includes a number of workshops and symposiums on different domains that will be jointly held during the conference time. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in one of the following join events: *·* The International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity (AISC 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/aisc2021.html> · The International workshop on Technologies, security and privacy of connected autonomous vehicles (TSPCAV 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/tspcav2021.html> · International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of Things: Architectures and Applications (AIoTCon) (AIoTCon 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/AIoTCon.html> · The First International Symposium on Innovation in AgriFoodTech (InnAFT 2021) (InnAFT 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/InnAFT.html> · The International Workshop on Future Data Science Systems (FDSS) (FDSS 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/fdss.html> *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 must be a 6-pages max (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. *Important Dates* *Paper Submission Deadline: 30 March 2021 * *Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2021* *Camera Ready Submission: 30 April 2021* *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Shared Task (Multi-Topic Labelling Task) Participation at ICICS (IEEE Sponsored): Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

[Apologies for multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task Website: https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/mowjaz/ To be organized at ICICS 2021 (https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/) 24 - 26 May Virtual Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Task Description: -------------------------- Mowjaz (mowjaz.com) is an Arabic topical content aggregation mobile application for news, sport, entertainment and other topics from top publishers that users can follow. Mowjaz search engine and recommendation system is built on top of NLP/NLU machine learning APIs that distinguish it from any other Arabic content applications available, mainly focusing on the users having the best experience and receiving content that is of their interest. Mowjaz is a subsidiary of Mawdoo3.com, the world's biggest Arabic website in terms of number of visitors. One of Mowjaz's top AI powered models is Topic Multi-Labelling, which is the focus of this shared task. This model is basically used to classify articles based on their topics. Additionally, the model predicts multiple topics in one article and is categorized to all possible topics that are present within its content. Mowjaz's topics are classified into ten categories and an article can be classified under as many topics as it covers. This model helps users get and display the most relevant news to their interests. The enhanced user experience that Mowjaz offers makes one news article be classified and shown under all the different topics that it holds. Participating systems are expected to select one or more of the ten topics for each given article. They are evaluated based on their effectiveness and efficiency. Full task description can be found at: https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/mowjaz/ -------------------------- Dataset and Evaluation: -------------------------- The dataset consists of 9,590 articles split into training, development and testing sets. The evaluation of the participating systems is done is two separate tracks as follows: - The first track is the effectiveness track, where the participating systems are ranked based on their accuracy. Specifically, the F1 score is used for this track. This track is mandatory for all participating systems. - The second track, which is optional, is the efficiency track. Participating teams are asked to run their systems in a docker container with memory constraints to measure their average testing times. A simple tutorial of this process is provided in the GitHub repository of this task. The score of each system is a weighted average of its F1 score and average testing time (normalized) and the systems are ranked based on these scores. Submissions for this track will be open in the last week of the competition and results will be announced once after the end of the competition. The second track is optional and it promotes the open-source mentality. Thus, teams participating in it are asked to share any resources they use such as external datasets (labeled or unlabeled), pre-trained models, knowledge bases, etc. ------------ Timeline ------------ 18-Feb-2021 Release of task website, dataset & Codalab competition 18-Mar-2021 Start of the evaluation phase for the effectiveness track 12-Apr-2021 Start of the evaluation phase for the efficiency track 19-Apr-2021 Deadline for submitting runs 20-Apr-2021 Results declared 23-Apr-2021 Single-Paragraph descriptions of participating systems due 03-May-2021 Working notes papers due 10-May-2021 Reviews on working notes papers due 17-May-2021 Final version of working notes papers due 24-May-2021 ICICS2021 ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Department of Computer Science (CS) and Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Haitham Selawi, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Mohamed Zaghlol, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Hussein Al-Natsheh, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Samer Suileman, Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Ali Fadel, Department of Computer Science (CS), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Riham Badawi, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Ahmed Morsy, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Ibraheem Tuffaha, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Mohannad Aljarrah, Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: mowjaz-task(a)googlegroups.com For any question about this call, please send an email to Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub : maalshbool(a)just.edu.jo Regards, Organizers of the Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task

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ICICS 2021 Final CFP: Submission Date: 1 March 2021, Virtual Event 24-26 May 2021
by Yufei Sun 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain (Virtual Event) * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *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 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. 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. *Keynote Speakers* * Jagannathan Sarangapani, The Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA * Paolo Rosso, The Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, * Manu Malek. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Stevens Institute of Technology, USA * Abbes Amira, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 1 March 2021 (Firm and Final)* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journals. - Cluster Computing - Springer. - Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal - Elsevier. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Demos: IFIP Networking 2021 (Deadline: April 8, 2021)
by xueqin_liang 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

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ICICS 2021 Final CFP: The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, 24-26 May 2021 - Virtual Event
by Gizem Varkonyi 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain (Virtual Event) * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *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 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. 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. *Keynote Speakers* * Jagannathan Sarangapani, The Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA * Paolo Rosso, The Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, * Manu Malek. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Stevens Institute of Technology, USA * Abbes Amira, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 1 March 2021 (Firm and Final)* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journals. - Cluster Computing - Springer. - Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal - Elsevier. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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ICICS 2021 CFP: The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain
by Gizem Varkonyi 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *Keynote Speakers * Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani, The Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Dr. Paolo Rosso, The Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, Dr. Manu Malek. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Abbes Amira, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. *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 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. 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 February 2021* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journals. - Cluster Computing - Springer. - Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal - Elsevier. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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SmartWorld 2021 Call for Papers
by CFP Announce 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

*2021 Smart World Congress * October 18-21, 2021, Atlanta, USA The 7th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2021) aims at promoting original and unpublished research works covering science, technologies, applications and related categories on smart world. It provides a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers and engineers to exchange on advances and innovations on smart world. In particular, the following topics are considered. The congress invites high-quality papers in the broad areas related to ubiquitous intelligence and computing, advanced and trusted computing, scalable computing and communications, cloud and big data, and Internet of people towards the Smart World. Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, workshops, forums, demos, exhibitions are also extremely welcome. SmartWorld 2021 Topics Include but Are Not Limited to: – Smart Industry and Manufacture – Smart Home and Furniture – Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture – Smart Appliances and Goods – Smart Materials and Fabric – Smart Wearables and Implants – Smart Environment and Ecosystems – Smart Medicine and Healthcare – Smart Earth/Space System – Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care – Smart Grid and Energy – Smart Foods and Living – Smart Logistics and Retail – Smart Learning and Education – Smart Building and Structure – Smart Disaster Monitoring/Management – Smart Roads and Transportation – Smart Internet of Things – Smart Vehicles and Control – Smart Sensing, System and Service – Smart Machines and Robots – Smart Computing and Communication – Smart Cybersecurity and Privacy – Smart Big Data and Knowledge Co-located Five Conferences IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (SocialCom 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2021) IEEE Int’l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2021) Selected High Quality Papers Will be Recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Digital Communications and Networks Information Fusion IEEE Access Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Important Dates Workshop Proposal: March 30, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021 Author Notification: June 30, 2021

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ICICS 2021 CFP: The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain
by Yufei Sun 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *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 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. 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 February 2021* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journals. - Cluster Computing - Springer. - Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal - Elsevier. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 17h CET | Frédéric Julhes (Airbus) – Accelerate Cyber training and innovate | free live talk on youtube
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

We cordially invite you to an exciting talk of our cybersecurity speaker series: ************** talk.cybercni.fr ************** Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 17h CET Frédéric Julhes (Airbus) Accelerate Cyber training and innovate Info and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/ Free youtube stream: https://youtu.be/LaR-dYX_cx8 Organized by: Chaire Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (Cyber CNI) | https://www.chairecyber-cni.org/ Pôle Excellence Cyber (PEC) | https://www.pole-excellence-cyber.org/ Région Bretagne | https://www.bretagne.bzh/ ********************************************** On January 27, 2021, at 17h CET, Frédéric Julhes, the CEO Airbus CYBERSECURITY SAS, will give a talk on “Accelerate Cyber training and innovate: two challenges taken up by Airbus Cybersecurity.” This Cyber talk will show how AIRBUS Cybersecurity actively participates in Cyber expert trainings (through several methods) and will give some concrete examples of ongoing innovation in Cybersecurity, especially in terms of malware detection and cooperation on thesis and research. Managing Director of Airbus Cybersecurity France, Frédéric Julhes began his career in 1989 in the cipher department of THALES, where he was in charge of communication encryption key development projects. He subsequently took the lead on several Secure Information Systems projects, both Command and Intelligence, for the benefit of national defense. In 1999, he became Director of Navy Command & Information Systems at Matra Système et Information, which merged to form EADS. From 2001, he developed his export business, in particular with surveillance systems in Latin America. In 2005, after an MSc in “National Resource Strategy”, obtained at the National Defense University of Washington DC, he became Director of Secure Information Systems (Land and Joint Command and Intelligence) at EADS. He joined Airbus CyberSecurity in 2011, initially to head the Programs and Sales France & Benelux unit. He took over as General Manager for France in 2016, and then the European CyberSecurity Programs Department (France, Germany, England) in 2020. ######################################### # About talk.cybercni.fr ######################################### The Cyber CNI Lecture Series is a free monthly event that takes place on the last Wednesday of the month from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm CET. The event consists of a 40-minute expert presentation followed by a 30-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 take place in the Grand Amphithéâtre d’IMT Atlantique in Rennes (Cesson-Sévigné) and will be broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) allowing worldwide remote participation and including a tool to participate in the discussion. ######################################### # 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 making 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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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 - International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2021) (Firm Deadline)
by Ons Bouachir 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

The 4th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT)* (http://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2021/index.php) in conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on* Integrated Network Management* (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Today’s, intelligent systems are a core building block in smart cities transportation through which smart, reliable, safe, and efficient integrated transportation solutions are provided. Intelligent systems management integrated with today’s advanced vehicular and wireless network technologies, such as autonomous and connected vehicles, will play a crucial role in improving the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many unprecedented challenges arise from the emerging autonomous and connected vehicle technologies. These include configuring vehicular cloud services to user requirements, vehicle security issues related to connectivity, big data analytics for intelligent transportation, and user’s trust in such technology as one of the issues facing implementation and deployment of an autonomous vehicle. There is also a need for customized computation and communication technology for the integrated solutions of autonomous vehicles and smart city sub-systems. The aim of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and autonomous vehicle technologies. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in autonomous vehicle systems. *This version of this workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in technology areas related to the intelligent management of driving and in dynamic networks*. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Mobility and the Internet of Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Communications and networking for automated vehicles *Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for autonomous vehicles * Autonomous Vehicles -based Data and Energy Transport Services * Applications to enhance the driver experience * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks *General Co-Chairs:* Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, *xAnalytics Inc., *Canada Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Important Dates:* · *Full paper submission: **January 22,** January 29th 2021 (Firm Deadline)* · Full paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 · Full paper camera-ready submission: March 5, 2021

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 – The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Firm Deadline: January 29, 2021)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Firm deadline January 29, 2021 The 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/2021/) co-located with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) The workshop aims at fostering the exchange between the IoT-management specialists and the Network and Service Management specialists. Scope and topics of the workshop The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The fundamental principle behind IoT is the concept of a “resource” (or a “thing”), that serves as an abstraction of a basic unit that interacts with its environment, and is capable of providing services, data and control elements to other internetworked resources. Many IoT scenarios can be characterized by lots of (small) traffic, lots of entities, strong heterogeneity in links and device capabilities, strong distribution, and highly sensitive data. Individual nodes have limited compute resources and on-device storage (e.g., consider Raspberry Pi single board computers). Their connectivity is often constrained by factors such as the presence of NATs and firewalls, power constraints, and intermittent network access. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include: Resource management Managing Internet of things devices and gateways Access arbitration to IoT sensors and actuators Managing sensors Data Management in IoT Systems Semantic Modelling of IoT Systems Information models/ Domain Specific Languages Service Management Modular Management Autonomous Management including MAPE-K IoT runtime environments Service Discovery Building Blocks Machine Learning Self-Adapting Systems Data Analytics Reasoning and Orchestration Security and Privacy Data and device security Privacy protection methodologies. Trust management Validation and Verification of data and functionality Resilience, Survivability, and Dependability Other aspects relevant to manage IoT systems General Chairs Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 29, 2021 (firm) Paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 Camera-ready version due: March 5, 2021

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CFP: SI on Empowering Sustainable Energy Infrastructures via AI-Assisted Wireless Communications - IEEE WCM
by Moayad Aloqaily 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

*Empowering Sustainable Energy Infrastructures via AI-assisted Wireless Communications* IEEE Wireless Communications https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-wireless-communications/… Global energy demands will no longer be met using conventional energy infrastructures, and hence can only be achieved through sustainable renewable energy systems that are supported by cyber-physical technologies. The shift from conventional energy sources towards sustainability is clear, leading to the emergence of prosumers (i.e. producers and consumers) which are capable of both generating and consuming energy. Today, many buildings are now equipped with solar panels that can contribute to the overall energy needs. Power systems need to adopt renewable energy to provide more efficient and sustainable operations. Providing and maintaining sustainable power systems and energy solutions are only achievable through intelligent sensing, monitoring and wireless communications. Today’s advancements in intelligent learning techniques such as deep and reinforcement learning coupled with fast and reliable wireless communications such as 5G, provide great opportunities for new business models for energy providers to improve the way the providers communicate with the grid. Such intelligent learning techniques can for instance determine when and for how long can producers provide and sell power to the grid to maximize their profits and achieve sustainable energy production results. Such learning techniques require fast and reliable wireless communications with different entities in the system. Therefore, the coupling of ultra-fast and reliable wireless communications with intelligent learning will provide sustainable energy solutions for the near future markets. This special issue considers the adaptation of intelligent learning techniques within wireless networks to enable sustainable power system management. The special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality research with emerging ideas, approaches, theories, frameworks, and practices to tackle the challenging issues related to energy sustainability and power provisioning via the smart grid using wireless networks and intelligent learning methods. Researchers, developers, and industry experts are welcome to contribute to one of the following topics or closely aligned ones: *Topics of Interest* This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality research with emerging ideas, approaches, theories and practice to resolve the challenging issues related to energy-efficiency in the wireless network domain. Researchers, developers, and industry experts are welcome to contribute to one of the followings topics or slightly similar ones: • Utilizing wireless networks to manage sustainable energy infrastructure. • Application of AI and wireless communications in the energy production sector. • Future generation wireless networks for sustainable power delivery. • Utilizing AI and wireless networks to monitor and analyze real-time power gird data. • Optimizing the use of mobile edge computing resources to enhance sustainable power infrastructures. • Intelligent learning-driven power infrastructure via wireless communications. • Modeling and performance analysis of sustainable energy systems enabled by AI-assisted wireless communications. • Peer-to-Peer energy trading solutions using blockchain via wireless communications. • Securing the energy infrastructure using federated learning via wireless communications. • Energy management strategies for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles through wireless communications. • Aeriel communication strategies to enhance sustainable power infrastructures. • Design of aerial-ground cooperative communication solutions for sustainable power delivery. • Edge communication and intelligence to support sustainable energy infrastructures. *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 https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. The timetable is as follows: • Manuscript Submission Deadline: *15 March 2021* • Initial Decision Date: 1 June 2021 • Revised Manuscript Due: 1 July 2021 • Final Decision Date: 1 August 2021 • Final Manuscript Due: 15 October 2021 • Publication Date: December 2021 *Guest Editors* · *Moayad Aloqaily* · *Salil Kanhere* · *Yang Xiao* · *Ismaeel Al Ridhawi* · *Wael Guibene* *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>*

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IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

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CFP: The 17th IWCMC2021, Harbin, China. Deadline EXTENDED: 15 Feb. 2021
by Moayad Aloqaily 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

*Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs.* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *The 17th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 28 - July 2, 2021* Harbin, China—IWCMC 2021: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *SUBMISSION DEADLINE:* *15 Feb. 2021* *SUBMISSION LINK:* https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021) will be held on June 28 - July 2, 2021 in Harbin, China. Under the theme of "*Communications with Intelligence*", IWCMC 2021 will target a wide spectrum of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. Continuing the great success of previous IWCMC events, IWCMC 2021 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions among many academic pioneering researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world. The IWCMC 2021 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, invited presentations, special sessions, and pioneering keynote speakers. More information can be found at the conference website: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiwcmc.org%…> *.* Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers - up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27588 to various IWCMC 2021 Symposia and Workshops as listed in the conference website for possible publication in the IWCMC 2021 Conference Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues of the following journals: 1. International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 2. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS): www.inderscience.com/ijaacs <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inders…> 3. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: www.itiis.org <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itiis.…> 4. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications: http://www.springer.com/engineering <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spring…> 5. Cyber-Physical Systems journal: www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcyb20 <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfo…> There will also be the best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best workshop award. *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submission Deadline: *15 Feb. 2021 * Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2021 Registration Camera-ready: 30 April 2021 *SYMPOSIA* 1) 5G IoT Symposium 2) Big Data Networking Symposium 3) Communication & Signal Processing 4) e-Health 5) Internet of Things (IoT) 6) Mobile Computing 7) Multimedia over Wireless 8) Next-Generation Systems & Networks 9) Recent Advances in 5G IoT and Smart City Solutions 10) Satellite Communications & Networking 11) Trust, Privacy & Security 12) Vehicular Communications 13) Wireless Networking 14) Wireless Sensor Networks . . . and many more Workshops. ====================================== *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.* *http://icnetlab.org/MA/ <http://icnetlab.org/MA/>*

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 – The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Deadline: January 22, 2021)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

Extended deadline January 22, 2021 The 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/) co-located with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) The workshop aims at fostering the exchange between the IoT-management specialists and the Network and Service Management specialists. Scope and topics of the workshop The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The fundamental principle behind IoT is the concept of a “resource” (or a “thing”), that serves as an abstraction of a basic unit that interacts with its environment, and is capable of providing services, data and control elements to other internetworked resources. Many IoT scenarios can be characterized by lots of (small) traffic, lots of entities, strong heterogeneity in links and device capabilities, strong distribution, and highly sensitive data. Individual nodes have limited compute resources and on-device storage (e.g., consider Raspberry Pi single board computers). Their connectivity is often constrained by factors such as the presence of NATs and firewalls, power constraints, and intermittent network access. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include: Resource management Managing Internet of things devices and gateways Access arbitration to IoT sensors and actuators Managing sensors Data Management in IoT Systems Semantic Modelling of IoT Systems Information models/ Domain Specific Languages Service Management Modular Management Autonomous Management including MAPE-K IoT runtime environments Service Discovery Building Blocks Machine Learning Self-Adapting Systems Data Analytics Reasoning and Orchestration Security and Privacy Data and device security Privacy protection methodologies. Trust management Validation and Verification of data and functionality Resilience, Survivability, and Dependability Other aspects relevant to manage IoT systems General Chair Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (extended) Paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 Camera-ready version due: March 5, 2021

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[Deadline Extension] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

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ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, Abstract deadline is 20th January, Cyberspace
by Yufei Sun 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace ***Correction: please note that the abstract deadline is 20th January and not 25th January as previously advertised.*** *Call for Posters/Demos* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services. Given the current circumstances, live poster presentations and demos will run in parallel over video link during a dedicated session, with participants being able to drop in and out, as they would in an in-situ setting. As backup, authors of posters and demonstrations will be required to have pre-recorded versions of their poster presentations/demos. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research. We are looking for new ways of presenting demos and posters, exploiting the possibility of a video link in original and novel ways. For example, demos can be video streamed from labs (where local provisions permit), outdoors, using web portals/Jupyter notebooks/Colab, or involve app downloads via links provided and user testing. The poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award. *Submission* Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. Submissions must be made electronically in an email message to the Poster/Demo Chair ( paul.patras(a)ed.ac.uk) * subject line for posters: HOTMOBILE POSTER SUBMISSION * subject line for demos: HOTMOBILE DEMO SUBMISSION **Abstract deadline: Jan 20th, 2021* *More details on the submission process:* * Please set up your page to be letter size, 8.5x11 inches, two columns, using 10-pt font size for the text body, at least one-inch margin on all sides; * Please include the title of the poster/demo and the author list, including affiliations in both the PDF file and in the body of the email; * Please prefix your title with “Poster:” for a poster submission and “Demo:” for a demo submission; * The abstract should be attached in PDF format.

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ICICS 2021 CFP: The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain
by Gizem Varkonyi 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *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 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. 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 January 2021* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 - International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2021) (Deadline Extension)
by Ons Bouachir 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

The 4th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT)* (http://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2021/index.php) in conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on* Integrated Network Management* (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Today’s, intelligent systems are a core building block in smart cities transportation through which smart, reliable, safe, and efficient integrated transportation solutions are provided. Intelligent systems management integrated with today’s advanced vehicular and wireless network technologies, such as autonomous and connected vehicles, will play a crucial role in improving the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many unprecedented challenges arise from the emerging autonomous and connected vehicle technologies. These include configuring vehicular cloud services to user requirements, vehicle security issues related to connectivity, big data analytics for intelligent transportation, and user’s trust in such technology as one of the issues facing implementation and deployment of an autonomous vehicle. There is also a need for customized computation and communication technology for the integrated solutions of autonomous vehicles and smart city sub-systems. The aim of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and autonomous vehicle technologies. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in autonomous vehicle systems. *This version of this workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in technology areas related to the intelligent management of driving and in dynamic networks*. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Mobility and the Internet of Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Communications and networking for automated vehicles *Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for autonomous vehicles * Autonomous Vehicles -based Data and Energy Transport Services * Applications to enhance the driver experience * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks *General Co-Chairs:* Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, *xAnalytics Inc., *Canada Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Important Dates:* · *Full paper submission: **January 8,** January 22nd 2021* · Full paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 · Full paper camera-ready submission: March 5, 2021

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 – The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Deadline: January 22, 2021)
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Extended deadline January 22, 2020 The 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/) co-located with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) Scope and topics of the workshop The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The fundamental principle behind IoT is the concept of a “resource” (or a “thing”), that serves as an abstraction of a basic unit that interacts with its environment, and is capable of providing services, data and control elements to other internetworked resources. Many IoT scenarios can be characterized by lots of (small) traffic, lots of entities, strong heterogeneity in links and device capabilities, strong distribution, and highly sensitive data. Individual nodes have limited compute resources and on-device storage (e.g., consider Raspberry Pi single board computers). Their connectivity is often constrained by factors such as the presence of NATs and firewalls, power constraints, and intermittent network access. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include: Resource management Managing Internet of things devices and gateways Access arbitration to IoT sensors and actuators Managing sensors Data Management in IoT Systems Semantic Modelling of IoT Systems Information models/ Domain Specific Languages Service Management Modular Management Autonomous Management including MAPE-K IoT runtime environments Service Discovery Building Blocks Machine Learning Self-Adapting Systems Data Analytics Reasoning and Orchestration Security and Privacy Data and device security Privacy protection methodologies. Trust management Validation and Verification of data and functionality Resilience, Survivability, and Dependability Other aspects relevant to manage IoT systems General Chair Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (extended) Paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 Camera-ready version due: March 5, 2021

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[Deadline Extension] IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

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ACM HotMobile 2021 : Call for Posters/Demos, February 24-26, 2021, Cyberspace
by Yufei Sun 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Posters/Demos* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications, and services. Given the current circumstances, live poster presentations and demos will run in parallel over video link during a dedicated session, with participants being able to drop in and out, as they would in an in-situ setting. As backup, authors of posters and demonstrations will be required to have pre-recorded versions of their poster presentations/demos. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research. We are looking for new ways of presenting demos and posters, exploiting the possibility of a video link in original and novel ways. For example, demos can be video streamed from labs (where local provisions permit), outdoors, using web portals/Jupyter notebooks/Colab, or involve app downloads via links provided and user testing. The poster/demo session will feature a Best Poster/Demo award. *Submission* Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. Submissions must be made electronically in an email message to the Poster/Demo Chair ( paul.patras(a)ed.ac.uk) * subject line for posters: HOTMOBILE POSTER SUBMISSION * subject line for demos: HOTMOBILE DEMO SUBMISSION **Abstract deadline: Jan 25th, 2021* *More details on the submission process:* * Please set up your page to be letter size, 8.5x11 inches, two columns, using 10-pt font size for the text body, at least one-inch margin on all sides; * Please include the title of the poster/demo and the author list, including affiliations in both the PDF file and in the body of the email; * Please prefix your title with “Poster:” for a poster submission and “Demo:” for a demo submission; * The abstract should be attached in PDF format.

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IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

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ICICS 2021 CFP: The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * *https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/index.html>* *ICICS 2021 CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2021 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Communications, and Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: • Data Science and Applications • Security, privacy, and digital forensics • Networking, IoT, and Sensors • Cloud and High Performance Computing • Software and web Engineering • Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing • AI and Machine Learning • Databases and Information Systems • Electronics and Communication Systems • Natural Language Processing and Applications *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 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. 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 January 2021* Notification to Authors: 28 March 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 19 April 2021 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 - International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2021)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

The 4th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT)* (http://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2021/index.php) in conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on* Integrated Network Management* (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Today’s, intelligent systems are a core building block in smart cities transportation through which smart, reliable, safe, and efficient integrated transportation solutions are provided. Intelligent systems management integrated with today’s advanced vehicular and wireless network technologies, such as autonomous and connected vehicles, will play a crucial role in improving the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many unprecedented challenges arise from the emerging autonomous and connected vehicle technologies. These include configuring vehicular cloud services to user requirements, vehicle security issues related to connectivity, big data analytics for intelligent transportation, and user’s trust in such technology as one of the issues facing implementation and deployment of an autonomous vehicle. There is also a need for customized computation and communication technology for the integrated solutions of autonomous vehicles and smart city sub-systems. The aim of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and autonomous vehicle technologies. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in autonomous vehicle systems. *This version of this workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in technology areas related to the intelligent management of driving and in dynamic networks*. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Mobility and the Internet of Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Communications and networking for automated vehicles *Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for autonomous vehicles * Autonomous Vehicles -based Data and Energy Transport Services * Applications to enhance the driver experience * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks *General Co-Chairs:* Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, *xAnalytics Inc., *Canada Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Important Dates:* · *Full paper submission: January 8, 2021* · Full paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 · Full paper camera-ready submission: March 5, 2021

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Call for Workshop Proposals: IFIP Networking 2021 (Deadline: 9 Dec 2020)
by xueqin_liang 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

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ITAVT2021: The 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies in conjunction with IM2021
by Ons Bouachir 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

The 4th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT)* (http://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2021/index.php) in conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on* Integrated Network Management* (IM 2021). 17-21 May 2021// Bordeaux, France (https://im2021.ieee-im.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Today’s, intelligent systems are a core building block in smart cities transportation through which smart, reliable, safe, and efficient integrated transportation solutions are provided. Intelligent systems management integrated with today’s advanced vehicular and wireless network technologies, such as autonomous and connected vehicles, will play a crucial role in improving the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many unprecedented challenges arise from the emerging autonomous and connected vehicle technologies. These include configuring vehicular cloud services to user requirements, vehicle security issues related to connectivity, big data analytics for intelligent transportation, and user’s trust in such technology as one of the issues facing implementation and deployment of an autonomous vehicle. There is also a need for customized computation and communication technology for the integrated solutions of autonomous vehicles and smart city sub-systems. The aim of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and autonomous vehicle technologies. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in autonomous vehicle systems. *This version of this workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in technology areas related to the intelligent management of driving and in dynamic networks*. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Mobility and the Internet of Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Communications and networking for automated vehicles *Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for autonomous vehicles * Autonomous Vehicles -based Data and Energy Transport Services * Applications to enhance the driver experience * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks *General Co-Chairs:* Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, *xAnalytics Inc., *Canada Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Important Dates:* - *Full paper submission: January 8, 2021* - Full paper acceptance notification: February 18, 2021 - Full paper camera-ready submission:March 5, 2021 --Best regards,

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BDSN 2020 CFP: The 8thInternational workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Emerging Tech 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

*The 8th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN 2020)* http://emergingtechnet.org/BDSN2020/ *In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.* *BDSN 2020 CFP* Data has always been recognized as an important asset for driving value be it scientific, governmental or for enterprise. The amount of data being generated constantly with high volume, velocity and variety has marked the emergence of "Big Data" as a contemporary research challenge with vast opportunities. In the context of the digital-world, the internet and Social Networks have contributed immensely in generating Big Data pools. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are nowadays connected using different type of social networks. Big Data and Social Networks become interrelated in the modern computing agenda being both concerned with intensive data. As much opportunities they hold, Big Data and Social Networks come with their own challenges such as management, Security, Processing etc. In order to unlock the potentials of these technologies, innovative solutions are required, which will leverage new models in computing. The 8th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of big data and social networking. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of big data management system, big data security and privacy, cloud computing and big data, social networking and big data analytics, and social networking management and security, to mention but few. *The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:* - Big data and Social Networking concepts and applications - Emerging technologies in Big Data and Social Networking - Management Issues of Social Network Big Data - Security challenges in Big Data and Social networks - Social Network and Big Data Analytics - Open Source tools for Big Data - Green Computing for Big Data - Network Infrastructure for Social Networking and Big Data - Social Networks Monitoring Tools As a Service - Cloud Computing for Big Data and Social Networks - Big Data and the Internet of Things - Big Data Management - Big Data and Decision Making - Visualization tools for Big Data *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 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: 5 November, 2020 (Final and Firm)* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FCST 2020 Final CFP: The 3rdInternational Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies, Online, December 14-16, 2020
by Yufei Sun 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

*The 3rd International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020)* http://emergingtechnet.org/FCST2020/ *In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020* *FCST 2020 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 3rd International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020) will focus on issues related to future cyber security challenges as well as opportunities which mainly highlight the above mentioned aspects. The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020) 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: 5 November, 2020 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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DSEA 2020 Final CFP:The 4th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications, Online, December 14-16, 2020.
by Gizem Varkonyi 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

*The Fourth International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2020)* *http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2020/* <http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2020/> *In conjunction with **The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020)* <http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php> * Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.* *DSEA 2020 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 Fourth International Workshop for Data Science Engineering and Applications (DSEA 2020) 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* *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 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: 5 November, 2020 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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HMiMS 2020 Final CFP: The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020
by Emerging Tech 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security (HMiMS 2020) *Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020* *http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2020/index.php* <http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2020/index.php> *in conjunction with* *The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020)* *HMiMS 2020 CFP* Health Information Technology (HIT) innovations offer significant potential to transform the delivery of care, to improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system, to enhance interactions between patients/caregivers and providers, and to enable greater access to the latest advancements in treatments, among other accomplishments and outcomes. Health and Medical Informatics is an important HIT area that is at the intersection of information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science and health care. This field is mainly concerned with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, processing and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health and Medical Informatics is driven by computers, information and communication systems. It is a multi-disciplinary field that covers a wide spectrum of sub-fields. It combines the problem solving skills of computer scientists with health care professionals and health care givers. Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, IoT, data mining, machine learning, intelligent decision support systems and data science are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to health and medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: o Big data on healthcare o Blockchain based intelligent data management in healthcare o Data driven smart health o Health Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science and Machine Learning for healthcare o Medical Devices, medical imaging, and biosignal Processing o eHealth o mHealth and Wearable Devices o Telemedicine o Health Internet of Things o Cybersecurity and Healthcare Information o Healthcare privacy o Biodata management, security and analytics o AI in healthcare applications o Healthcare Decision Support and Intelligent Systems o Biomedical Informatics o User interaction systems and data/information exchange o Applied connected health and integrated care systems o Personalized health systems and medicine o Interoperability in Healthcare Systems o Health Information Management and security o Healthcare Knowledge Management o Social media in e-health o Socio-Economic Issues o Healthcare Security and Privacy o Patient Safety o Standards, Social and Legal Issues o Patient Diagnosis Methods o Patient Monitoring Systems o Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization o E-learning and Education o Medical Robotics and Virtual Reality o Care processes and workflow models o Quality development in healthcare services o Usability, accessibility and user interface design o Patient involvement and empowerment o Electronic health record systems: solutions, implementations, evaluation o Games for health o E-health and organizational change o Sociological, sociotechnical and multi-disciplinary perspectives on e-health o Evaluation assessment of healthcare applications studies o Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies in healthcare IT *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: 5 November, 2020 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Submission System* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hmims2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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ACM HotMobile 2021 Final CFP: February 24-26, 2021, Cyberspace
by Yufei Sun 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2020/> Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace Call for Papers ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a “6-pages conference paper.” We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes: · Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility. · Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing. · Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness. · HCI issues related to mobile computing. · Security and privacy of mobile computing. · Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility. · Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications. · Mobile and wireless technologies on lessening or resolving various issues related to COVID-19 and future similar epidemics/pandemics. The deadline for submissions is November 6, 2020, 11:59pm EDT. Acceptance notifications will be sent by December 23, 2020. Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and mature ideas to warrant publication. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. The submissions should not be anonymous. The submissions must meet the following formatting requirements: · Font size no smaller than 10pt. · Font size of the bibliography no smaller than 9pt. · Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column. · Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches). We recommend the use of the "sigconf" ACM proceedings template, available at: http://www.acm.org/, with the font size of the main body amended to 10pt. An example Tex document can be found here. For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submissions are meeting all formatting requirements. The papers accepted to HotMobile 2021 will be publicly available from the workshop's website for a limited time window, as per ACM's Digital Library's Policy. --- HotMobile in the Time of COVID-19--- We have been closely monitoring the progress of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on conferences and travel restrictions. As much as we prefer to hold in-person conferences, the safety and well-being of the community is our top priority. Therefore, we would like to announce that ACM HotMobile 2021 has been decided to be taking place entirely virtual. With the change, we will also be able to offer a very low registration fee while you worry less about travel restrictions/costs. Please do not hesitate to contribute your latest research result to the workshop! Stay safe, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. General Chair: Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK, m.musolesi(a)ucl.ac.uk) Program Committee Chair: Junehwa Song (KAIST, Korea, junesong(a)nclab.kaist.ac.kr)

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SSCC 2020 CFP: The International Symposium on Solutions for Smart Cities Challenges , Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

*The International Symposium on Solutions for Smart Cities Challenges (SSCC 2020)* Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020 *http://www.sscc.fr/SSCC2020/index.html* <http://www.sscc.fr/SSCC2020/index.html> in conjunction with "The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020)" *SSCC 2020 CFP* Internet of Things (IoT) is used to collect and exchange massive data. This technology promises an immense potential for improving the quality of life, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, etc. The use of the IoT in smart buildings has a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on our society. Researchers and industrial partners have achieved several applications where they have leveraged various enabling technologies for service enhancement. Many sectors in a smart city can benefit from an enhanced data collection and effective data analysis process done on the data gathered from these smart building devices that mainly consist of HVAC systems. However, the incremental number of connected IoT devices request a scalable and robust network. Consequently, it rises the attack surfaces of devices as well as their connections, which make them more exposed to internal and external at tacks. In this context, the challenging issue is how to construct a secure IoT network and preserving its resiliency. *SSCC2020* invites submissions discussing the employment of smart solutions and approaches in smart cities. Topics of either theoretical, empirical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: *Safety, Security, and Resilience* - Smart networks for smart cities - Security management in smart cities - Security in distributed systems - Modeling, analysis and detection of IoT attacks - Data mining for cybersecurity in smart cities - Decentralized architecture for smart cities - Consensus protocols and applications *IoT & AI* - IoT Indoor deployment - IoT communication protocols - Building information modeling (BIM) IoT-based HVAC control in smart buildings - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Physical Energy Systems - Optimization for IoT and smart cities - Dynamic scheduling for IoT deployment - Autonomous and Smart decisions *Edge and Cloud * - Cloud-Edge for IoT and smart cities - Fog and Edge computing for smart cities - Applications/services for Edge AI - Software Platforms for Edge *Social aspects and applications * - Behavioral and Energy Consumption Analytics - Indoor comfort - Human factors and organizational resilience for distributed systems *Important Dates* - *Paper Submission Date: 15 November, 2020* - Notification to Authors: 23 November, 2020 - Camera Ready Submission: 1 December 2020 *Submission System* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sscc2020 Please send any inquiry to SSCC Team at: contact(a)sscc.fr

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Free registration for IEEE Blockchain-2020
by Blockchain IEEE 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Dear all, The IEEE Blockchain-2020 Conference (http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/) will be held virtually on November 02-06, 2020. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. You are warmly invited to register for the IEEE Blockchain-2020 Conference and the basic registration fee is totally FREE. The registration instruction can be found http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/register-instruction.htm Looking forward to your participation!

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IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

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DSEA 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications , Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Emerging Tech 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

*The Fourth International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2020)* *http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2020/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2020/>* *In conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php> Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.* *DSEA 2020 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 Fourth International Workshop for Data Science Engineering and Applications (DSEA 2020) 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* *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 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: 25 October, 2020* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FCST 2020 CFP: The 3rd International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies , December 14-16, 2020
by Yufei Sun 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

*The 3rd International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020)* http://emergingtechnet.org/FCST2020/ *In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020* *FCST 2020 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 3rd International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020) will focus on issues related to future cyber security challenges as well as opportunities which mainly highlight the above mentioned aspects. The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2020) 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: 25 October, 2020 Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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BDSN 2020 CFP:The 8thInternational workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security , December 14-16, 2020.
by Gizem Varkonyi 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

*The 8th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security (BDSN 2020)* http://emergingtechnet.org/BDSN2020/ *In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.* *BDSN 2020 CFP* Data has always been recognized as an important asset for driving value be it scientific, governmental or for enterprise. The amount of data being generated constantly with high volume, velocity and variety has marked the emergence of "Big Data" as a contemporary research challenge with vast opportunities. In the context of the digital-world, the internet and Social Networks have contributed immensely in generating Big Data pools. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are nowadays connected using different type of social networks. Big Data and Social Networks become interrelated in the modern computing agenda being both concerned with intensive data. As much opportunities they hold, Big Data and Social Networks come with their own challenges such as management, Security, Processing etc. In order to unlock the potentials of these technologies, innovative solutions are required, which will leverage new models in computing. The 8th International workshop on Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of big data and social networking. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of big data management system, big data security and privacy, cloud computing and big data, social networking and big data analytics, and social networking management and security, to mention but few. *The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:* - Big data and Social Networking concepts and applications - Emerging technologies in Big Data and Social Networking - Management Issues of Social Network Big Data - Security challenges in Big Data and Social networks - Social Network and Big Data Analytics - Open Source tools for Big Data - Green Computing for Big Data - Network Infrastructure for Social Networking and Big Data - Social Networks Monitoring Tools As a Service - Cloud Computing for Big Data and Social Networks - Big Data and the Internet of Things - Big Data Management - Big Data and Decision Making - Visualization tools for Big Data *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 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: 25 October, 2020 Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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ACM HotMobile 2021 CFP: The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Cyberspace, February 24-26, 2021
by Yufei Sun 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Papers* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a “6-pages conference paper.” We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes: · Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility. · Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing. · Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness. · HCI issues related to mobile computing. · Security and privacy of mobile computing. · Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility. · Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications. *·* *Mobile and wireless technologies on lessening or resolving various issues related to COVID-19 and future similar epidemics/pandemics.* Important dates : · Deadline for submissions *October 30, 2020, 11:59pm EDT* · Acceptance notification *December** 23, 2020* Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and mature ideas to warrant publication. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. The submissions should not be anonymous. The submissions must meet the following formatting requirements: · Font size no smaller than 10pt. · Font size of the bibliography no smaller than 9pt. · Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column. · Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches). We recommend the use of the "sigconf" ACM proceedings template, available at: http://www.acm.org/, with the font size of the main body amended to 10pt. An example Tex document can be found here. For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submissions are meeting all formatting requirements. The papers accepted to HotMobile 2021 will be publicly available from the workshop's website for a limited time window, as per ACM's Digital Library's Policy. --- HotMobile in the Time of COVID-19--- We have been closely monitoring the progress of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on conferences and travel restrictions. As much as we prefer to hold in-person conferences, the safety and well-being of the community is our top priority. Therefore, we would like to announce that ACM HotMobile 2021 has been decided to be taking place entirely virtual. With the change, we will also be able to offer a very low registration fee while you worry less about travel restrictions/costs. Please do not hesitate to contribute your latest research result to the workshop! Stay safe, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. General Chair: Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK, m.musolesi(a)ucl.ac.uk) Program Committee Chair: Junehwa Song (KAIST, Korea, junesong(a)nclab.kaist.ac.kr)

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OSNT 2020 CFP: The Fifth International Workshop on Online Social Networks Technologies, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Yufei Sun 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

*The Fifth International Workshop on Online Social Networks Technologies (OSNT 2020) * http://emergingtechnet.org/OSNT2020/ *In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) * * Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.* *OSNT 2020 CFP* The explosion of the Internet helps the social networking concept to become real, and to be a tool to connect people worldwide in ways that were previously impossible. The Internet’s first generation (Web 1.0) consisted of static pages instead of dynamic HTML, and the presented content to the user is served from a server's file system instead of a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The second generation (Web 2.0) encouraged users to share information and interact and collaborate with each other by posting their user-generated contents in virtual communities. The development of Web 2.0 allowed many new social networking sites to flourish such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus+, Tumblr, Instagram, VK, Flickr, Vine, and many others. Such Online Social Networks (OSN) provide a wealth of raw data that is invaluable to governments, companies, universities, etc. The large scale of such networks presents a challenge to providers just to keep them running smoothly. It also presents a challenge to researchers wanting to analyze the data collected from such networks. These challenges contributed to the rise of important of important fields such as big data. The objective of this workshop is to provide general guidelines on the current and future trends in online social network technologies. 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: * Social network analysis (SNA) * Online Social Networks Mining * Security in Online Social Networks * Architecture and growth of Online Social Networks * Social networks visualization and large scale data representation * Online Social Networks and Big Data * Online Social Networks and SNA tools and services on the Cloud * Location-based OSN and other geographical aspects of OSN * Society Impact of Online Social Networks * Community formation, analysis and detection in Online Social Networks * Anomaly detection in Online Social Networks evolution * Recommender systems and Online Social Networks * Emerging technologies in Big Data and Social Networking * Management Issues of Social Network Big Data * Security challenges in Big Data and Social networks * Social Network and Big Data Analytics * Network Infrastructure for Social Networking and Big Data * Social Networks Monitoring Tools as a Service * Cloud Computing for Big Data and Social Networks * Social network data analysis tools and services on the Cloud * 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 SNAMS 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: 25 October, 2020* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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ANLP 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing, Paris, France. December14-16, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

*The Fourth International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2020)* *Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020* *http://emergingtechnet.org/ANLP2020/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/ANLP2020/>* *In Conjunction With* *The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php>* *ANLP 2020 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 becomes 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. *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 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: 25 October, 2020* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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MCSMS-2020 CFP: The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security,
by Emerging Tech 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2020/ Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org> *MCSMS 2020 CFP:* With a Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) market value of US$9.5 billion in 2014 and with more than 1 trillion cloud-ready devices in the next four years, MCC is considered as one of today's hottest new technologies in both academia and industry. MCC integrates different major technologies such as smart devices technologies (phones, tablets, watches, …etc), cloud services, big data, and cloud computing in one platform that services the end users. Despite the rapid growth of MCC, many issues are still challenging and need to be addressed. These challenges are related to the underlying networks , cloud services, security, the required Quality of Service, the availability of services, the needed user data management, and many others. The International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS) is introduced as a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of Mobile Cloud Computing that addresses the aforementioned challenges. MCSMS 2020 workshop aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Cloud Computing, as well as Fog and Edge Computing domains. The objective of MCSMS2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss their research and results on all aspects of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) as well as Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * Edge Computing Systems. * Fog Computing Systems. * Mobile Cloud Computing Security and Privacy Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Pricing and billing models. * Mobile Cloud Computing support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in Mobile Cloud Computing architecture. * Access Control models in Mobile Cloud Computing. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for Mobile Cloud Computing: Challenges and Open Issues. * Mobile Cloud Computing Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * Mobile Cloud Computing architecture features and evolution. * Mobile Cloud Computing Networking and Communication considerations * Mobile Cloud Computing Software development platform and enabled new applications * Mobile Cloud Computing Power Efficiency for resources and networking * Mobile Cloud Computing Availability and Quality of Service. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Resource Management, Optimization, and Migration * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Multimedia Communication and Game Computing * Mobile Cloud Computing Support for Big Data Management * Mobile Cloud Computing 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 * 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 (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: 25 October, 2020* Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SAMSN2020 CFP :The International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks, December 14-16, 2020.
by Yufei Sun 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

The International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Mining of Social Networks (SAMSN 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SAMSN2020/ In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. *SAMSN 2020 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-2020) 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 *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: 25 October, 2020 Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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HMiMS 2020 CFP: The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security (HMiMS 2020), December 14-16, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

The International Symposium on Health and Medical informatics, Management and Security (HMiMS 2020) *Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020* *http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2020/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/HMiMS2020/index.php>* *in conjunction with* *The Seventh International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020)* *HMiMS 2020 CFP* Health Information Technology (HIT) innovations offer significant potential to transform the delivery of care, to improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system, to enhance interactions between patients/caregivers and providers, and to enable greater access to the latest advancements in treatments, among other accomplishments and outcomes. Health and Medical Informatics is an important HIT area that is at the intersection of information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science and health care. This field is mainly concerned with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, processing and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health and Medical Informatics is driven by computers, information and communication systems. It is a multi-disciplinary field that covers a wide spectrum of sub-fields. It combines the problem solving skills of computer scientists with health care professionals and health care givers. Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, IoT, data mining, machine learning, intelligent decision support systems and data science are just a few of the technologies and research areas currently contributing to health and medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy and security are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry and research community in general are addressing in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the support of persons with special needs in particular. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: o Big data on healthcare o Blockchain based intelligent data management in healthcare o Data driven smart health o Health Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science and Machine Learning for healthcare o Medical Devices, medical imaging, and biosignal Processing o eHealth o mHealth and Wearable Devices o Telemedicine o Health Internet of Things o Cybersecurity and Healthcare Information o Healthcare privacy o Biodata management, security and analytics o AI in healthcare applications o Healthcare Decision Support and Intelligent Systems o Biomedical Informatics o User interaction systems and data/information exchange o Applied connected health and integrated care systems o Personalized health systems and medicine o Interoperability in Healthcare Systems o Health Information Management and security o Healthcare Knowledge Management o Social media in e-health o Socio-Economic Issues o Healthcare Security and Privacy o Patient Safety o Standards, Social and Legal Issues o Patient Diagnosis Methods o Patient Monitoring Systems o Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization o E-learning and Education o Medical Robotics and Virtual Reality o Care processes and workflow models o Quality development in healthcare services o Usability, accessibility and user interface design o Patient involvement and empowerment o Electronic health record systems: solutions, implementations, evaluation o Games for health o E-health and organizational change o Sociological, sociotechnical and multi-disciplinary perspectives on e-health o Evaluation assessment of healthcare applications studies o Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies in healthcare IT *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: 25 October, 2020 Notification to Authors: 15 November, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 December, 2020 *Submission System* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hmims2020 *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IFIP Networking 2021: Call for papers
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

IFIP Networking 2021 Espoo, Finland June 21 �C 24, 2021 Homepage: https://networking.ifip.org/2021 The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2021 Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2021) will be held in Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. This is the 20th event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library and collected bythe IEEE Xplore Digital Library. High quality papers will be recommended for fast track publications in selected journals. The main objective of Networking 2021 is to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet and wireless networking from the usage, design, deployment and operation standpoints. Networking 2021 technical sessions will be structured around the following areas, although we also encourage submissions on other relevant areas: * Network Architectures, Applications and Services - Network automation and management - Software-defined networking (SDN) - Artificial intelligence and networking - Service function chaining - (Multi-tenant) network slicing - Drone networking and unmanned technology-based services and applications - Protective and collaborative networking - Internet of Things (IoT) and crowdsensing/crowdsourcing - Trustworthy and multi-metric routing - Quantum communications - Fog and edge computing - Heterogeneous and integrated networks - Tbit/s optical networking - Overlay and P2P networks - Evolution of IP network architectures and protocols - Green networking - Resilient networks - Traffic engineering - Quality of Service - Emerging value-added services and applications - Web technologies * Network Modeling, Analysis, Operation, and Economics - Topology characterization - Performance measurements - Traffic monitoring and analysis - User behavior modeling - Quality of Experience - Data-driven network design - User profiling and tracking - Complex and dynamic networks - Analysis of participatory networks - Social networking - Socio-economic aspects of networks, pricing and billing - Network neutrality * Network Security, Trust and Privacy - Network security protocols - Anomaly and malware detection - Network forensics - Network security measurement - Authentication - Network attack/intrusion detection and mitigation - Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks - Anonymization - Dependability - Situational awareness - Threat intelligence - Blockchain, ledger technologies and their network-related applications * Wireless Networking - 5G access networks - Long-range communications - Mobile networks - Self-organizing networks - Wireless sensor networks - Visible light communications - Localization and positioning - Delay/disruption tolerant networks - Opportunistic networks - Wireless power transfer networks - Device-to-device communications - Vehicular networks and communications - Beyond 5G and 6G theories and technologies - mmWave and THz communications The Conference Program will include plenary sessions, breakout sessions, keynote talks, a panel, a poster/demo session and a workshop day. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Lars Eggert, NetApp, Finland PROGRAM CHAIRS: Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University, UK Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Andrea Passarella (Chair), IIT-CNR, Italy Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain IMPORTANT DATES Title/Abstract submission (required): January 5, 2021 Full paper submission: January 12, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021 Camera-ready version: May 7, 2021 Full Event: June 21-24, 2021 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The technical program committee welcomes paper submissions on all topics related to computer and communication networks. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind peer review, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing reviewers to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for review elsewhere will be considered. Submitted papers should be written in English by following the IEEE conference format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) with a maximum length limit of 9 printed pages, including all the figures, references, and appendices. Papers longer than 9 pages will not be reviewed. All papers must be submitted in the Portable Document Format (PDF) electronically using EDAS: https://edas.info/N27861. When submitting a paper, its title, all co-authors, and a concise abstract of up to 200 words should be provided to EDAS as the metadata of the paper. The metadata should be provided before the abstract registration deadline. The program committee may ask some authors to shorten their paper to a short paper of 3 pages to be presented in a poster session, instead of a plenary session. Instruction on preparing a paper for double-blind review. - Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. - Remove acknowledgments. - Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. - Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. - Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. 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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 - Call for Experience Papers - Deadline: September 20, 2020
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 13 Sep '20

13 Sep '20

CALL FOR EXPERIENCE SESSION PAPERS IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 17-21 May 2021, Bordeaux, France http://im2021.ieee-im.org/ Submission Deadline: September 20, 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your paper at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3682 Accepted formats: IEEE 2-column papers and annotated slides. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 symposium will include an Experience Session program. Experience Sessions will complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learned in applying, implementing, and deploying management technologies. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technologies, implementation examples of new management technologies, organizational impact, and business cases. Experience Sessions are particularly aimed at decision makers and experts from industry. Topics of Interest: Specific topics include but are not limited to the ones listed below. Please refer also to the general Call for Papers. * Management case studies and best practices * Issues and experiences with practical deployments * Software Defined Networks (SDN) and enabling technologies * Internet and networking measurements tools and datasets * Passive and active big data Internet measurement solutions * SDN frameworks, OpenFlow deployments * Orchestration for SDN controllers * Development experience using P4 * Network function virtualization (NFV) implementations * Data center automation * Management of cloud, virtualized environments * Cloud service assurance * Internet of things, cyber-physical systems * 5G networks and services * Smart grids / cities / environments * Big data analytics in management * Cognitive networks, deep learning, IA * Building automation and management * Experiences with autonomic networking and self-management * Industrial system automation and management * Cyber-security and risk management * Green management, energy and performance efficiency * Managing interactive media, content-centric environments * Social networking infrastructure and management * Management of emerging networks and services * Advances in standardization * Management information models * Management standards and enabling technologies * Integration technologies for management * Event correlation, diagnostics, fault, performance management * Billing and accounting models and service level management * Business alignment of IT service management * Organizational aspects of IT service management * OSS/BSS development * Virtualization of operation centers and help desks * Service engineering and operational challenges * Experiences with call home frameworks * Managed service provider issues * Service delivery and service assurance * Experiences with process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, eTOM, ONAP) Submission Instructions: Authors are invited so submit their papers using the JEMS conference submission system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3682 Papers for the Experience Sessions must be written in English and adhere to one of the following two format options: * Option 1: Annotated slides. Papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions must not exceed 15 annotated visuals including title and references, in PDF only. * Option 2: IEEE 2-column format. This is the same format as for Technical Sessions. Paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages, in PDF only. The papers accepted for publication in the Experience Sessions, and actually presented at the symposium by one of the authors (as per the IEEE no show policy), will be published in the official electronic proceedings of IM 2021 in IEEE Xplore. For more information, please contact us at im21exptrackchairs(a)gmail.com Experience Session Co-chairs: Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, France Rémi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy - University of Lorraine, LORIA/INRIA, France

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IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 - Call for Experience Papers - Deadline: September 20, 2020
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

-------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXPERIENCE SESSION PAPERS IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 17-21 May 2020, Bordeaux, France http://im2021.ieee-im.org/ Submission Deadline: September 20, 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your paper at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3682 Accepted formats: IEEE 2-column papers and annotated slides. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFIP/IEEE IM 2021 symposium will include an Experience Session program. Experience Sessions will complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learned in applying, implementing, and deploying management technologies. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technologies, implementation examples of new management technologies, organizational impact, and business cases. Experience Sessions are particularly aimed at decision makers and experts from industry. Topics of Interest: Specific topics include but are not limited to the ones listed below. Please refer also to the general Call for Papers. * Management case studies and best practices * Issues and experiences with practical deployments * Software Defined Networks (SDN) and enabling technologies * Internet and networking measurements tools and datasets * Passive and active big data Internet measurement solutions * SDN frameworks, OpenFlow deployments * Orchestration for SDN controllers * Development experience using P4 * Network function virtualization (NFV) implementations * Data center automation * Management of cloud, virtualized environments * Cloud service assurance * Internet of things, cyber-physical systems * 5G networks and services * Smart grids / cities / environments * Big data analytics in management * Cognitive networks, deep learning, IA * Building automation and management * Experiences with autonomic networking and self-management * Industrial system automation and management * Cyber-security and risk management * Green management, energy and performance efficiency * Managing interactive media, content-centric environments * Social networking infrastructure and management * Management of emerging networks and services * Advances in standardization * Management information models * Management standards and enabling technologies * Integration technologies for management * Event correlation, diagnostics, fault, performance management * Billing and accounting models and service level management * Business alignment of IT service management * Organizational aspects of IT service management * OSS/BSS development * Virtualization of operation centers and help desks * Service engineering and operational challenges * Experiences with call home frameworks * Managed service provider issues * Service delivery and service assurance * Experiences with process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, eTOM, ONAP) Submission Instructions: Authors are invited so submit their papers using the JEMS conference submission system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3682 Papers for the Experience Sessions must be written in English and adhere to one of the following two format options: * Option 1: Annotated slides. Papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions must not exceed 15 annotated visuals including title and references, in PDF only. * Option 2: IEEE 2-column format. This is the same format as for Technical Sessions. Paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages, in PDF only. The papers accepted for publication in the Experience Sessions, and actually presented at the symposium by one of the authors (as per the IEEE no show policy), will be published in the official electronic proceedings of IM 2021 in IEEE Xplore. For more information, please contact us at im21exptrackchairs(a)gmail.com Experience Session Co-chairs: Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, France Rémi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy - University of Lorraine, LORIA/INRIA, France

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ACM HotMobile 2021 CFP: The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Cyberspace, February 24-26, 2021
by Yufei Sun 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 22nd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) *https://hotmobile.org/2021/ <https://hotmobile.org/2021/>* Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE February 24-26, 2021 Cyberspace *Call for Papers* ACM HotMobile 2021, the Twenty-second International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. We solicit submissions of papers that (1) focus primarily on systems and applications and (2) propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We especially encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state-of-the-art, debunk existing assumptions, report unexpected early results, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. Novel ideas need not be supported by full evaluations; well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations suffice. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over a “6-pages conference paper.” We take a broad view of Mobile Systems research. This includes: · Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility. · Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing. · Wearable computing, internet of things, edge computing, sensing, and context-awareness. · HCI issues related to mobile computing. · Security and privacy of mobile computing. · Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility. · Wireless technology, as it pertains to mobile systems and applications. *·* *Mobile and wireless technologies on lessening or resolving various issues related to COVID-19 and future similar epidemics/pandemics.* Important dates : · Deadline for submissions *October 30, 2020, 11:59pm EDT* · Acceptance notification *December** 23, 2020* Presenting at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas at least one year away from a full-fledged conference submission to ACM MobiSys or other high-quality conferences. A full-length paper on the same topic submitted to a conference in less than a year is unlikely to include sufficient new material and mature ideas to warrant publication. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. The submissions should not be anonymous. The submissions must meet the following formatting requirements: · Font size no smaller than 10pt. · Font size of the bibliography no smaller than 9pt. · Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches x 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column. · Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches). We recommend the use of the "sigconf" ACM proceedings template, available at: http://www.acm.org/, with the font size of the main body amended to 10pt. An example Tex document can be found here. For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submissions are meeting all formatting requirements. The papers accepted to HotMobile 2021 will be publicly available from the workshop's website for a limited time window, as per ACM's Digital Library's Policy. --- HotMobile in the Time of COVID-19--- We have been closely monitoring the progress of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on conferences and travel restrictions. As much as we prefer to hold in-person conferences, the safety and well-being of the community is our top priority. Therefore, we would like to announce that ACM HotMobile 2021 has been decided to be taking place entirely virtual. With the change, we will also be able to offer a very low registration fee while you worry less about travel restrictions/costs. Please do not hesitate to contribute your latest research result to the workshop! Stay safe, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. General Chair: Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK, m.musolesi(a)ucl.ac.uk) Program Committee Chair: Junehwa Song (KAIST, Korea, junesong(a)nclab.kaist.ac.kr)

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ADHOCNETS 2020 (virtual) still accepting submissions! Get extra visibility for your paper and fair reviews with EAI Community review | November 17 - 18, 2020 (Springer, Scopus, ISI, more)
by Safa Otoum 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

Web version <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=31fno4f85ob9nu5g03p9a0sogd&i…> <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=klrpg6sv0h5bia0519jcigj8p&i=…> November 17 - 18, 2020 | N/A, Cyberspace Submission Deadline: September 7, 2020 (late track) EAI is proud to announce that ADHOCNETS is going *virtual and beyond borders*. Get the same *full publication and indexing*, enjoy EAI’s *fair evaluation and recognition*, present your paper to a *global audience*, and experience *virtual meetings live* as well as *on-demand* from the safety and comfort of your *home*. sCOPE The annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (*AdHocNets*) focuses on ad hoc networking technologies and their applications. An ad hoc network is a wireless system, in which mobile or static nodes are connected using wireless links and cooperate to self-organize into a network without the requirement for any infrastructure such as access points or base stations. The distributed and multi-hop nature of ad hoc networking as well as the highly dynamic topology of an ad hoc network due to node mobility has introduced many formidable challenges such as scalability, quality of service, reliability and security, and energy-constrained operations for the network. Read More: Call for Papers <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=eleulvmnt0lnr47dn90m3ep20&i=…> We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to ADHOCNETS 2020 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=1rl0t015eig1b9esmqfnbrrk5m&i…>. Submissions should be in English, following the Springer formatting guidelines (see Submission <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=6uedlm5d3g86g22u0qudodr67&i=…> ). Submit Paper <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=3o7j0at7q895sh7coqhdnjelp4&i…> ADHOCNETS authors have enjoyed over *222.000** downloads!* ADHOCNETS 2020 will take place online due to safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. 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Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: - Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.602) <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=sb1chgtve6kb09ek4mq1fm8i&i=2…> All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=39d0ugh9sgsbaaruj5j9jkbedr&i…> - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=2kqcrrk7ma6314mhbhv1qiaftq&i…> Additional publication opportunities: - EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=dm0d82ij5m2502c4qfiss1r46&i=…> Important dates - Late track Full Paper Submission Deadline: September 7, 2020 Notification Deadline: September 14, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: september 28, 2020 Conference dates: november 17 - 18, 2020 EAI COMMUNITY BENEFITS <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=bnk72fpjjco9v5pcrhpavm4jg&i=…> Granting you visibility and fair review through *Community Review.* <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=2cd2jndnb31r8o67op77bktpvs&i…> <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=16crc323scb5188rfm6v847mm1&i…> Credits counting towards your *EAI Index* <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=38ne4j8v1206jfc2aruhkc8aen&i…>, membership ranks and global recognition. <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=ucb99q7pp6jtu28fpcad0qqpn&i=…> Receive invaluable real-time feedback on your presentation on-site via EAI <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=3shqe6v5a9kbia9ha1fkr4c32q&i…> * Compass* <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013t&d=7bn&h=31qkmi9av3kbe0khrmtd45daea&i…> . 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[CFP] IEEE co-sponsored COMPandemics2020 - Online Presentation - Publication in IDSTA2020 Proceeding
by Mohammad Alsmirat 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] The International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020) 19th - 22nd, 2020 – Valencia, Spain Online Presentations! http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2020/ Co-located with The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020> *CALL FOR PAPERS* Epidemics and Pandemics, such as COVID-19, have a great bad impact on medical, social, educational and economical life. To reduce this impact and learn how to early detect and manage future pandemics, great efforts are needed from researchers from different fields from academia and industry. Computing and AI are playing vital rules in our everyday life and can be very useful in dealing with pandemics. The international workshop on Computing for Pandemics is an international forum that aims to give researchers from different fields the opportunity to present their contributions to the field. We solicit contributions covering various topics in the field that include but are not limited to: - Early detection of pandemics - Modeling spreading of the pandemic - Social media analysis for pandemics - Pandemic Medical data analysis - CAD for Pandemic infection diagnosis - Intelligent Mobile Applications for Pandemic - Pandemic Surveillance systems - IoT for Pandemics - Pandemic Data anonymization - Pandemic Data collection - Pandemic infection tracking - Management solutions for Pandemics - AI for Pandemics *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Notification: September 25th, 2020 Camera-ready submission: October 5th, 2020 *Submission Site:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compandemics2020 *Paper format* 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. *Length* Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages. Up to two additional pages may be added for references. The reference pages must only contain references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. *Publication* All accepted papers in COMPandemics2020 and will be submitted to IEEEXplore within the proceeding of IDSTA2020 for possible publication. *JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues are: · Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) · Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) · Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) · MDPI Sensors (IF: 3.031)

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ADHOCNETS 2020 (virtual) Submission deadline extended! Get global exposure for your research and present with full publication and indexing from the comfort of your home! (November 17 - 18, 2020)
by Safa Otoum 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

Web version <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=3vsqretgvqt32nibnosapr7gc1&i…> <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=3bhhhr4vr30rfkepodqrprfur9&i…> November 17 - 18, 2020 | N/A, Cyberspace Submission Deadline: July 28, 2020 (extended) EAI is proud to announce that ADHOCNETS is going *virtual and beyond borders*. Get the same *full publication and indexing*, enjoy EAI’s *fair evaluation and recognition*, present your paper to a *global audience*, and experience *virtual meetings live* as well as *on-demand* from the safety and comfort of your *home*. ADHOCNETS 2020 will take place online due to safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. Although we will miss having everyone meet and connect in person, we feel strongly that knowledge exchange must continue, if not more so. That is why we have equipped our online conferences with *live viewing with chat*, *virtual Q&A*, and a multitude of other measures to provide you with a great experience. All of this while making the registration for co-authors and non-authors *completely free* to give you the biggest possible audience. You can learn more about EAI’s online conferences here <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=bfcp9pvcnsq7p71o5hies38a7&i=…> . SCOPE The annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (*AdHocNets*) focuses on ad hoc networking technologies and their applications. An ad hoc network is a wireless system, in which mobile or static nodes are connected using wireless links and cooperate to self-organize into a network without the requirement for any infrastructure such as access points or base stations. The distributed and multi-hop nature of ad hoc networking as well as the highly dynamic topology of an ad hoc network due to node mobility has introduced many formidable challenges such as scalability, quality of service, reliability and security, and energy-constrained operations for the network. We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to ADHOCNETS 2020 <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=nhiopequ564gi6qfg3k29ldol&i=…>. Submissions should be in English, following the Springer formatting guidelines (see Submission <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=fn5a0o3odhv8hso8aoe6jhebt&i=…> ). Submit Paper <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=340h26mnufujn04e675i21in77&i…> Read More: Call for Papers <http://eai.mailmta.com/nl/link?c=2013s&d=6ob&h=fbrbir9u2r6008visrv3l2mpd&i=…> PUBLICATION All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by *Springer* and made available through *SpringerLink Digital Library*. ADHOCNETS proceedings are *indexed* in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL). 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[CFP] IEEE co-sponsored IDSTA2020 and MCNA2020 Workshops papers - Online Presentation - Publication in Conference Proceeding
by Mohammad Alsmirat 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Dealing with a huge amount of data in general, and huge data from different modalities, is very common in today’s systems. With the continuous development in network technologies, acquisition systems, and computational power, creating and sharing data is becoming easier for all people around the world. Storing, searching, analyzing, and utilizing these data are highly challenging problems. That is why, the International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA) and The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), have come to give the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their efforts in addressing the aforementioned challenges. Call For Workshop Papers ============================================================= MCNA and IDSTA, among other activities, will host a set of workshops that deals with more specialized topics related to the conferences topics. The workshop accepted papers will be published in the conferences proceedings and will be included in IEEE Xplore digital library. Each workshop has its own website, submission instructions, and submission portals. The following are the details of these workshops. The Third International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/DTL2020/> Website: http://intelligenttech.org/DTL2020/ Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dtl2020 The International Workshop on Digital Medical Image Processing and Applications (DMIPA2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/DMIPA2020/> Website: http://intelligenttech.org/DMIPA2020/ Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmipa2020 The Internet of Multimedia Things, Communications, Applications, and Security (IoMT-CAS2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/IoMT-CAS2020/> Website: http://intelligenttech.org/IoMT-CAS2020/ Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iomtcas2020 The International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Networks Security (MDNS2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/MDNS2020/> Website: http://intelligenttech.org/MDNS2020/ Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mdns2020 The International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2020/> Website: http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2020/ Submission Due Date: August 30th, 2020 Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compandemics2020

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE BCCA 2020
by Ons Bouachir 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Workshop Papers ============================================================= The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (*BCCA 2020*) is a forum that aims to gather researchers from academia and industries to present their innovations and contributions in the field of the revolutionary technology, Blockchain. In addition to the papers, keynotes, tutorials and panels, the IEEE co-sponsored conference will host a list of workshops to present preliminary and cutting-edge work on new directions that advance the field of Blockchain. The workshop accepted papers are published in the conferences proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore digital library. Each workshop has its own website, submission instructions, and submission portals. *IEEE BCCA 2020 Workshops* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCACPS.html> (BACPS)* · Link: http: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCACPS.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE* o *Hajer Braham, Orange Labs, France* *The International Workshop on Fog Computing and Blockchain <http://workshop%20on%20fog%20computing%20and%20blockchain/> (BCFC)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFC.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Chair: o *Thar Baker, John Moors Liverpool University, UK* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Critical Infrastructure <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCI.html> (BCI)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCI.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE* o *Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for BigData <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCBD.html> (BCBD)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCBD.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait* o *Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Cyber Forensics and Threat <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFT.html> (BCFT)* · Link: http: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFT.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Gregorio Martinez Perez University of Murcia, Spain* o *Yaser Jaraweh, Duquesne University, USA*

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CFP: Special Track AI-5GaaS: Artificial Intelligence based 5G as a Service along with ICSNC 2020, submission: August 24
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. Submission: 1. Inform the Chairs: with the Title of your Contribution 2. Submission URL: https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as AI-5GaaS Special track AI-5GaaS: Chairs and Coordinators Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey secinti(a)itu.edu.tr along with ICSNC 2020, The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform. On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever- complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure. According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in representing customer experience and their explanation abilities. To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the future of 5G. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: -  Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks; -  Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks; -  Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms; -  AI based mobility management; -  SDN/NFV for autonomous network management; -  CDN solutions for next generation networks; -  Application areas for 5GaaS; -  Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS; -  Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS; -  APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS Important Datelines Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute *Submission: August 24 * Contribution Types - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] Paper Format - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - *Notification: September 13 * - *Registration: September 23 * - *Camera-ready: September 23 * - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Paper Submission https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as AI-5GaaS Registration - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html Contacts Chairs Muge Erel-Ozcevik: erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Gokhan Secinti: secinti(a)itu.edu.tr ICSNC Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org

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SNAMS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Gizem Varkonyi 26 Jul '20

26 Jul '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) *SNAMS 2020 CFP:* Social network analysis is concerned with the study of relationships between social entities. The recent advances in internet technologies and social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, have created outstanding opportunities for individuals to connect, communicate or comment on issues or events of their interests. Social networks are dynamic and evolving in nature; they also involve a huge number of users. Frequently, the information related to a certain concept is distributed among several servers. This brings numerous challenges to researchers, particularity in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. The SNAMS 2020 is col-located with the The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS). SNAMS 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2020 is to provide the opportunity for students, scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Social Networks. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: *SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE* Systems and algorithms for social search Infrastructure support for social networks and systems Dynamics and evolution patterns of large and complex networks Social properties in systems design Learnings from operational social networks Data Collection Big Data and Social Paradigms *ALGORITHMS AND MODELS* Deep Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization Modeling Social Networks and behavior Management of social network data Streaming algorithms for social data Knowledge and innovation networks Methods for social and media analysis Models for network data Network analysis in human and social sciences Information propagation and assimilation in social networks Data mining and machine learning in social systems *APPLICATIONS* Novel social applications and systems Transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat) Special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine) Communities in social networks Collaboration networks New models of advertising and monetization in social networks Mobile advertising on OSNs Network visualization Social networks and online education Sentiment analysis on OSNs Multilingual social networks Social networks as agents of societal change *PRIVACY & SECURITY* Privacy and security in social systems Trust and reputations in social systems Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 20 August 2020 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: 1 November 2020 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snams2020 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: 2020 IEEE Int. Conferences (SWC, UIC, ScalCom, IoP, ATC, SCI), virtual online, 8-10 Dec. 2020
by Jesson Butt 26 Jul '20

26 Jul '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ***2020 IEEE (SWC, UIC, ScalCom, IoP, ATC, SCI) International Conferences*** To be held virtual online due to COVID-19, Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 December 2020. 1. 2020 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/swc/submission.htm 2. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/uic/submission.htm 3. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/scalcom/submission.htm 4. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/iop/submission.htm 5. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/atc/submission.htm 6. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/sci/submission.htm Sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission Deadline: 31 August 2020 Authors Notification: 30 September 2020 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 October 2020 Early Registration Due: 15 October 2020 Conference Date: 8-10 December 2020 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE CPS (indexed by EI). JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES ====================== Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the Special Issues of the following prestigious journals: - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Future Generation Computer Systems - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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IEEE BCCA – Firm and Final Deadline- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *Please note the following update:* BCCA will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - IEEE Member Authors Fee: *200 USD* - IEEE Non-Member Authors Fee: *250 USD* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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UCC 2020 Leicester UK- Call for Papers
by Ashiq Anjum 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

UCC 2020 Call for Papers 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2020) December 7-10, 2020 – Leicester, United Kingdom https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/UCC2020/index.htm CONTEXT & SCOPE Cloud computing has firmly established itself as an indispensable utility for the digital age. Cloud services consumers expect and rely on sufficient computing power, the availability of data and media, and that these will be accessible across a range of devices. The expectation now is that Cloud services providers are capable of maintaining streamed services that are always available. Also, social and technological challenges are met with the development and adoption of new technologies that provide a safer, more secure, and richer digital experience for users and customers. Therefore, it is essential that sound scientific principles underpinning cloud technology and its economic value to both service providers and consumers are expressed and understood. UCC2020 is the premier IEEE/ACM conference for areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC2020 will be hosted at the University of Leicester, UK. The city of Leicester is a major city in the middle of country and is well connected to the rest of the world with road, rail and air networks. This will be the 13th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (UCC 2017), Zürich, Switzerland (UCC 2018) and Aucland, New Zealand(UCC 2019). UCC2020 is co-located with BDCAT 2020 and offers a technical programme, workshops, tutorials, doctoral symposium, and cloud challenge. Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud and Utility Computing. Topic of interest include (but not limited to): * Formal aspects of cloud technology * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * High Performance Computing and the Cloud * Networking for clouds and data centres * Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * AI and machine learning models for Cloud Computing * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Performance analysis and modelling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for templates and complete formatting instructions. Manuscripts are submitted via the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2020 All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. Awards and Special Issues A selection commission chaired by the UCC2020 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC2020 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals. Details will be announced soon. Important Dates * Paper Submissions Due: July 30, 2020 * Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: October 1, 2020 * Early+author registration Deadline: October 1, 2020 * Conference: December 7-10, 2020

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* *The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, BCCA 2020 will run as a virtual conference and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that has a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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UCC 2020 Leicester UK- Call for Papers
by Ashiq Anjum 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

UCC 2020 Call for Papers 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2020) December 7-10, 2020 – Leicester, United Kingdom https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/UCC2020/index.htm CONTEXT & SCOPE Cloud computing has firmly established itself as an indispensable utility for the digital age. Cloud services consumers expect and rely on sufficient computing power, the availability of data and media, and that these will be accessible across a range of devices. The expectation now is that Cloud services providers are capable of maintaining streamed services that are always available. Also, social and technological challenges are met with the development and adoption of new technologies that provide a safer, more secure, and richer digital experience for users and customers. Therefore, it is essential that sound scientific principles underpinning cloud technology and its economic value to both service providers and consumers are expressed and understood. UCC2020 is the premier IEEE/ACM conference for areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC2020 will be hosted at the University of Leicester, UK. The city of Leicester is a major city in the middle of country and is well connected to the rest of the world with road, rail and air networks. This will be the 13th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (UCC 2017), Zürich, Switzerland (UCC 2018) and Aucland, New Zealand(UCC 2019). UCC2020 is co-located with BDCAT 2020 and offers a technical programme, workshops, tutorials, doctoral symposium, and cloud challenge. Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud and Utility Computing. Topic of interest include (but not limited to): * Formal aspects of cloud technology * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * High Performance Computing and the Cloud * Networking for clouds and data centres * Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * AI and machine learning models for Cloud Computing * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Performance analysis and modelling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for templates and complete formatting instructions. Manuscripts are submitted via the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2020 All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. Awards and Special Issues A selection commission chaired by the UCC2020 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC2020 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals. Details will be announced soon. Important Dates * Paper Submissions Due: July 30, 2020 * Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: October 1, 2020 * Early+author registration Deadline: October 1, 2020 * Conference: December 7-10, 2020

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE co-sponsored MCNA & IDSTA 2020 @ Valencia, Spain
by Emergning Tech 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Workshop Papers: Dear Colleagues and Friends, The Co-Located IEEE co-sponsored International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2020/> and the IEEE co-sponsored International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020) <http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/> are forums that aims to gather researchers from academia and industries to present their innovations and contributions in the field of intelligent technologies for multimedia and data science. In addition to the papers, keynotes, tutorials and panels, the IEEE co-sponsored conferences will host a list workshops that cover new directions that advances the field of Multimedia and Data Science. The workshop accepted papers are published in the conferences proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore digital library. Each workshop has its own website, submission instructions, and submission portals. List of the Workshops: · The International Workshop on Digital Medical Image Processing and Applications (DMIPA2020) Link: http://intelligenttech.org/DMIPA2020/ · The International workshop on The Internet of Multimedia Things, Communications, Applications, and Security (IoMT-CAS2020) Link: http://intelligenttech.org/IoMT-CAS2020/ · The International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Networks Security (MDNS2020) Link: http://intelligenttech.org/MDNS2020/ · The Third International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL2020) Link: http://intelligenttech.org/DTL2020/ · The International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020) Link: http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2020/

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE MSN 2020 @ Tokyo, Japan
by Emergning Tech 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================================================================= Dear Friends and Colleagues: The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2020) has been a premier venue for presenting scholarly research on mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. Advances in this field are leading to innovative platforms, protocols, systems, and applications for the next-generation mobile networks, Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. From this year, the conference name is changed to Mobility, Sensing and Networking to cover the recent advancement in mobile and wireless technologies. With its 16th anniversary, MSN 2020 will be held at Tokyo, Japan. In addition to the papers, keynotes, and posters, the MSN 2020 program will include 6 workshops (listed below) to present preliminary and cutting edge work on new directions that advance the field of Mobility, Sensing and Networking. The workshop papers are published in the conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore digital library. IEEE MSN 2020 Workshops -The Second International Workshop on Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence based Sensor-Cloud System (ECAISS) Link: https://cs.nju.edu.cn/lands/msn2020-ecaiss.htm Paper Submission Deadline: September 30, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Haipeng Dai Nanjing University, China Tian Wang Huaqiao University, China Rong Gu Nanjing University, China -The First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Electric Internet of Things (UEIoT) Link: http://www.allconfs.org/meeting/index_en.asp?id=8338 Paper Submission Deadline: September 17, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Xingyu Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Zhenyu Chen, State Grid Corporation of China, Beijing, China Ying Ma, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, China -The MSN 2020 Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Mobile Networks for Smart Cities （AINSC） Link: https://www.tianhuotongren.org/MSN2020-AINSC Paper Submission Deadline: September 17, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Dr. Chaofeng Zhang, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Dr. Lu Wang, Keio University, Japan Dr. Shuji Kinoshita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan -The First International Workshop on Mobile Sensing with Radio, Light, and Acoustic (MSRLA) Link: http://netlab.nju.edu.cn/msrla/ Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Jia Liu, Nanjing University, China Fusang Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China -The Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Internet of Things (AI2OT) Link: http://vlab.csu.edu.cn/AI2OT/ Paper Submission Deadline: September 17, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Xuan Liu, Hunan University, China -The Workshop on 5G/B5G Security Link: http://workshop.dr-liuyang.com/ Paper Submission Deadline: September 17, 2020 Workshop Co-Chairs: Yang Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Zhixin Liu, Yanshan University, China Submissions Procedures All workshops have their own websites, submission systems and due dates. List to all the workshops can be found here: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2020/cf-wkpaper.php Submitted manuscripts must be prepared in the English language according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in PDF file format. The manuscript (including figures, tables, appendices, references) should be no longer than 6 pages and at least 4 pages. Submitted manuscripts must not contain previously published material or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. At least one author of any accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop accepted. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msn2020 Click the above submission link and Select the appropriate workshops to submit the papers. MSN 2020 General Chairs: Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Lars Wolf, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany MSN 2020 Technical Program Committee Chairs: Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Moustafa Youssef, Alexandra University, Egypt MSN 2020 Workshop Chairs: Noriaki Kamiyama, Fukuoka University, Japan Tian Wang Huaqiao, University, China

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: June 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020** will** run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 June 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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ICSNC 2020 Special track: AI-5GaaS, Submission Deadline: 24 August
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

*Call for Contributions* *Note: Onsite and Online Options * In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. *Submission:* * 1. Inform the Chairs:* with the Title of your Contribution *2. Submission URL: * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Special track * *AI-5GaaS: Artificial Intelligence based 5G as a Service * *Chairs and Coordinators * Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr <erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr>, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr <muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr>* Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey *secinti(a)itu.edu.tr <secinti(a)itu.edu.tr> * *along with * *ICSNC 2020**, *The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform. On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever- complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure. According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in representing customer experience and their explanation abilities. To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the future of 5G. *Potential topics include, but are not limited to:* 1. Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks; 2. Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks; 3. Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms; 4. AI-based mobility management; 5. SDN/NFV for autonomous network management; 6. CDN solutions for next generation networks; 7. Application areas for 5GaaS; 8. Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS; 9. Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS; 10. APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS *Important Datelines * Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute *Submission: August 24 * Notification: September 13 Registration: September 23 Camera-ready: September 23 *Contribution Types:* - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] *Paper Format * - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html *Publications * - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org/ - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org/ *Paper Submission * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Registration * - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html *Contacts * *Chairs* Muge Erel-Ozcevik: erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Gokhan Secinti: secinti(a)itu.edu.tr ICSNC Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org

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SNAMS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Gizem Varkonyi 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) *SNAMS 2020 CFP:* Social network analysis is concerned with the study of relationships between social entities. The recent advances in internet technologies and social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, have created outstanding opportunities for individuals to connect, communicate or comment on issues or events of their interests. Social networks are dynamic and evolving in nature; they also involve a huge number of users. Frequently, the information related to a certain concept is distributed among several servers. This brings numerous challenges to researchers, particularity in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. The SNAMS 2020 is col-located with the The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS). SNAMS 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2020 is to provide the opportunity for students, scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Social Networks. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: *SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE* Systems and algorithms for social search Infrastructure support for social networks and systems Dynamics and evolution patterns of large and complex networks Social properties in systems design Learnings from operational social networks Data Collection Big Data and Social Paradigms *ALGORITHMS AND MODELS* Deep Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization Modeling Social Networks and behavior Management of social network data Streaming algorithms for social data Knowledge and innovation networks Methods for social and media analysis Models for network data Network analysis in human and social sciences Information propagation and assimilation in social networks Data mining and machine learning in social systems *APPLICATIONS* Novel social applications and systems Transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat) Special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine) Communities in social networks Collaboration networks New models of advertising and monetization in social networks Mobile advertising on OSNs Network visualization Social networks and online education Sentiment analysis on OSNs Multilingual social networks Social networks as agents of societal change *PRIVACY & SECURITY* Privacy and security in social systems Trust and reputations in social systems Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 20 July 2020 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: 1 November 2020 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snams2020 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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Fina Call for AICCSA 2020 [Virtual]: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, November 2-5, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* *AICCSA is going virtual* In light of the continued uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 situation, the safety and well-being of all the conference participants is our topmost priority. Therefore, the AICCSA Steering Committee has decided to move to *a virtual event *format for this year to be held from November 2-5. The 2020 paper review and acceptance processes will proceed normally. We will follow up with further details on conference registration, presentation formats, workshops, special sessions and tutorials. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *30th June Final Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * 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. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, 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. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *30th June 2020 (Final Extension)* Notification: *30th July 2020* Camera-ready: 25th August 2020 Registration: 4th September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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Sustainable Places 2020 (SP 2020) Digital Event
by Sustainable Places 2020 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

[DEFAULT_HEADER][ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6tsY8HZ9Y3K7NUngJF2VMsyAFfJbL946UO… ) [ ]( # ) Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 27 - 30 October 2020 / Digital Event Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP 2020 comes to you locally ! Our list of collaborators is growing. With already 13 workshops and over 50 projects planning contributions, we start the digital countdown now ! We are also glad to introduce in this newsletter edition our new silver sponsors : IREC, the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, and the 2 EU projects Tech4Win and SolarWin that will both contribute to a SP20 thematic session on BIPV – Building Integrated Photovoltaics (further details below). Call for Contributions is still open ! Our call for contributions remains opened until 13 September 2020. We look forward to receiving your contributions and to welcoming you to SP2020 Digital Event in October ! For registration and conference details visit https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/wqfWreTP8fhSIuPgxWxZ2vi9rQHyjF0jDM… Sincerely, The SP2020 Organisation Committee [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 Digital Event Content [ ]( # ) Thematic Session update: “BIPV - Building Integrated Photovoltaics” [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Five EU funded projects of [ Tech4Win ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Ezjp51JATF8DPhcNc7g21B5Df6tQe_28y_… ), [ SOLAR WIN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/XyWB1jabCncSQCvpVoamySBlzgxb0Bj88h… ), [ PVSITES ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/a8qiCHU9rH4ayaXf0ZO7W-OTpCKBG2ja3l… ), [ BIPVBOOST ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/RLTcPfKDk5F4T8tDVQsltxAZKfAkJPrOkx… ), [ Be-Smart ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Iw2DELT63n83a-fBB_OrFniprYROIicMZY… ) together with session chair [ IREC ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/_Ov9RbThvhxmXRKYm7TMyffzUDoq3eMPXS… ), are participating in the "BIPV - Building Integrated Photovoltaics" thematic session. This SP2020 session will feature presentations and roundtables involving several H2020 projects which are contributing to develop disruptive BIPV applications, to trigger the penetration of BIPV in the building sector, and to contribute to the creation of new opportunities and the diversification of the European PV manufacturing industry. All details on Thematic Sessions and Workshops contact info can be found on the [ SP2020 "Workshops and Events" webpage ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FYK9Hp_qUJ8Y0NaVyOgw_WwDc0dIaKi6MD… ). [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "Renewable Heating and Cooling Solutions for Buildings and Industry" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) This workshop will bring together fourteen H2020 EU-funded projects involving experts from the biomass, geothermal, solar thermal and heat pump sectors to discuss a common strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling for buildings and industry. [ SWS-Heating ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/vFTxH-rZUDAYXOcZomqCRxMP99SehKyNZ-… ), [ HYBUILD ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/DPYIUP7ZU9T2CTRRXh8dl6zI5tX5fulmDe… ), [ CREATE ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/fMhi4VA3WUPCMxrvvJgKKE-6MxEYtuZLU6… ), [ TRI-HP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/yNZ72Xxjcs0lcnJObmQ19V-Pk-tIvO9WAQ… ), [ HYCOOL ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/SNIjJv1xsvqOoTIZen_mwzCPdetSndM-v8… ), [ SHIP2FAIR ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/mVh3LzBPAOPgGsqAWsU5uGClfWnQ3Ajc3Y… ), [ SUNHORIZON ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6ZIXlIxuvWPphkePtAnBsOHxKgXH9NfAGb… ), [ Heat4Cool ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FenE8UtVqfSs5jgkvF-IyFtTHOW0olQuAH… ), [ GEOFIT ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/nJW-zdLrHK3_WM7y__kw92dRYUtoCFA3QA… ), [ SCORES ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/RpFAQr4-jwX9GCrUKilIF6wSKXVA29A4_m… ), [ Innova microSolar ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/wLOvrYTuo_4uppQVdJABhmC-EtPJH6lWgj… ), [ SolBioRev ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/rRuSxY70lBZgpEJAil2NesufGxg7Y7LJAb… ), [ Hybrid BioVGE ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/D8gV9R5Ksapwj_AxWp6rztCbS96l9N9HQF… ), [ RES4BUILD ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/UQxU8x2mQDTqqQ1dOmBzu2tjFILM_7G3ba… ) participating projects will be accompanied by the European Commission representative. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "Digitalization Tools for Energy-Efficient Renovation" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) This workshop will bring together a selection of H2020 EU-funded projects involving experts from the AECOO industry to discuss a common strategy in digitalization tools for energy-efficient renovation area. The aim is to pitch their progress, intermediate achievements and discuss the major technical and non- technical challenges they are currently facing. Not only a learning site, but an indispensable resource for filling the gap between theoretical digital opportunities and the realities of on-site construction, [ SPHERE ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/DYWyghm81EKbji3g1sTO0ajzK6RR6E0hyH… ), [ BIM4REN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4_FZX1Ub2KbA6HHCkCiZ27HN3qRliWL6zw… ), [ BIM4EEB ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/UspzDqaXIdG9Rv71Bbn1FKt73wQf7b1_1M… ), [ BIM-SPEED ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ZNCHAFPd9ZIU2lm7O46wyZDTGsxkZOVIaD… ), [ DIGIPLACE ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/OUrN3cj_H6pHfEFX6kECe87OLqvrXdmHXj… ), [ BIMERR ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/rFCj-0AchX2uEiN7UOjpQgFnPCu4meiHVq… ) are participating projects within this workshop. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "Sustainable Energy Skills in the Construction Sector" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The objective of this new workshop is to increase the number of skilled building professionals and/or blue collar workers across the building design, operation and maintenance value chain (designers, architects, engineers, building managers, technicians, installers, blue collar workers including apprentices, and other building professionals), with a specific focus on the engagement of SMEs. Two EU funded projects of [ INSTRUCT ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/MtOLrPOfwmm8NL1YFzqhmAFJvMVvO5QAw_… ), [ BIMEET ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/CIW6CCLRbosnfQgVuqT302jf4aiEVcKc9X… ) together with [ ASM ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/-Nx5wzlt6Dhy6wmjN3ikBbgdnLijgv0DyE… ) and [ R2M Solution ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/bndr_Becl67jc9kd4SlNsesZNgmW8f9snr… ) chairs will participate in this workshop. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "De-risking Energy Efficiency Investments" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Three H2020 projects [ EENVEST ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/DPWGfXDV-hujL_PvZB5rBbKRhLWA6PrHSg… ), [ TRIPLE-A ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/PUPnhJ4PLckfJoSP0Wwq4azTfmWLaYnFMl… ), [ QUEST ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/nliq1NkS4dHCcb6uAKsGNP6CN8yydbpBbn… ) are developing innovative solutions and are joining forces in this workshop at Sustainable Places 2020 to tackle challenges risen from the lack of statistical data on the energy and costs savings within energy efficiency investment projects, as well as on payment default rates, results in financial institutions attributing high risk premiums to energy efficiency investments. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "The BIM4EEB Project: a mid-term review of the BIM based tools for efficient renovation of buildings" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) This workshop is the interim conference of project BIM4EEB, BIM based fast toolkit for Efficient rEnovation of residential Buildings and is aiming to present the state of the art of the different BIM4EEB tools being demonstrated during the project: BIMeSimulator, BIM4Occupants, Connecting BIM and BACS, BIMPlanner, BIMMS, BIM Management system. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "Integrated Storage systems for Residential buildings" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) In this workshop, three Horizon 2020 EeB PPP projects [ MINISTOR ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VH-OETpjUzmJ_MHCKfwAbs6Jfz4dNKfqUz… ), [ HEAT INSYDE ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/xFdaw6R1LleqNnPpFPogJqani1N7wE90Zi… ), [ HYBUILD ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/RD7C25t1mEQz6efxAkQN0w-xmHYycjCt3H… ) will present and benchmark their research on innovative integrated storage systems based on alternative methods, such as thermochemical materials for both existing and new residential buildings. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 is organized by: [ ]( # ) French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy [ ]( # ) R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc [ ]( # ) Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery [ ]( # ) SP2020 is sponsored by: [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SDIA (Green Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ SDIA ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Tq4kxYgLLou92zXKQqF4vDo2El_9ArH12K… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/0T53_hCijxvw2V4GK60PiTQuStr00-VXHM… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) IREC (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ IREC ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ULaTURKThpmpVMOBod0uSwG99JN2ePxnW-… ), the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research - was created to contribute to the objective of creating a more sustainable future for energy usage and consumption, keeping in mind the economic competitivity and providing society with the maximum level of energy security. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SolarWin (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Receiving a grant by the EU Fast Track to Innovation program (FTI), [ SolarWin ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/r0eSTkdh0IRZPYF6md9K1qHo6aI7TJrh4w… ) is a project aiming to scale-up and validate next-generation transparent Photovoltaic (PV) windows for commercial use and mass-production by 2021. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Tech4Win (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Tech4Win ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/7GuJibs--msTQt-PuDvL_KU2gPsw1E1Wjh… ) aims to develop a highly innovative transparent photovoltaic (PV) window based on the combination of an inorganic UV selective multifunctional coating (UV filter + UV selective solar) that is deposited on the first laminated glass of the window, and an organic IR selective solar cell that is implemented at the gap spacer of the window. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) BuildUp (Media Partner) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ BUILD UP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/IfZco4SjVbSnIT8UgtQxt8O33hDywvF-pd… ) initiative was established by the European Commission in 2009 to support EU Member States in implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The BUILD UP web portal is intended to reap the benefits of Europe's collective intelligence on energy reduction in buildings for all relevant audiences. It will bring together new practitioners and professional associations while motivating them to exchange best working practices and knowledge and to transfer tools and resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Sponsorship opportunities [ ]( # ) Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 website, newsletters and conference dissemination material. Please contact us at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com ) to learn about sponsorship opportunities. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Publication opportunities [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/dnmWAuY0AMsWjGKTlckd4l-JlMibVCN3-O… ) [ ]( # )[DEFAULT_FOOTER]

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: June 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 June 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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ADHOCNETS 2020: The 12th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks
by Safa Otoum 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

The 12th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2020) *November 17-18, 2020 (will be held virtually)* https://adhocnets.org/ *Paper submission deadline: **July 06, 2020 (extended)* EAI is actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation to ensure the safety, comfort and quality of experience for attendees and a successful course of the event. EAI is committed to holding the conference in 2020 and Accepted Authors who are unable to attend the event in person will be given an option to present their submission online. In case the situation prevents the event from taking place in its original location, it will be held fully in an interactive, live online setting. *Scope: * The annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) focuses on ad hoc networking technologies and their applications. An ad hoc network is a wireless system, in which mobile or static nodes are connected using wireless links and cooperate to self-organize into a network without the requirement for any infrastructure such as access points or base stations. In recent years, ad hoc networks have been attracting increased attention from the research and engineering communities. The distributed and multi-hop nature of ad hoc networking as well as the highly dynamic topology of an ad hoc network due to node mobility has introduced many formidable challenges such as scalability, quality of service, reliability and security, and energy-constrained operations for the network. Ad hoc networking covers a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), airborne networks, underwater networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, etc. It promises a wide range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual AdHocNets conference is to provide a forum that brings together researchers and engineers from academia, government laboratories as well as industry to meet, network, exchange ideas and present their recent research work, and discuss future directions on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Following the success of ADHOCNETS’09-19, the 12th edition of the event, ADHOCNETS 2020, will be held in virtually from Paris Saclay. The conference will consist of keynote speeches, invited talks, and technical sessions. *Topics:* The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad-hoc networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) - Vehicle ad hoc networks (VANET) - Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks - Wireless sensor networks - Airborne networks - Underwater networks - Underground networks - Personal area networks - Body area networks - Home networks - Internet of Things (IoT) - Network architectural and protocol design - MAC, routing, and transport protocols - Resource allocation and management - Network control and management - Power control and management - Topology control and management - Quality of service (QoS) provisioning - Service discovery - Ranging and node localization - Time synchronization - Data aggregation - Network scalability and capacity - Reliability and fault tolerance - Security and privacy - Low-power wide-area IoT networking - Massive machine connections for IoT - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Cross-layer design for ad hoc networks - Software-defined networking for ad hoc networks - Network function virtualization for ad hoc networks - Edge/fog/cloud computing for ad hoc networks - Machine learning (or AI) for ad hoc networks - Performance modeling and analysis for ad hoc networks - Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols *Submission:* http://adhocnets2020.eai-conferences.org/submission/ *Publication: * All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by *Springer* and made available through *SpringerLink Digital Library*. ADHOCNETS proceedings are *indexed* in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL). *Special Issues:* Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: - Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.390) <https://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036> All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications <https://eudl.eu/journal/cogcom> - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications <http://eudl.eu/journal/mca> - *Additional publication opportunities:* - EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series <https://eai.eu/#!/publish/eai-springer-book-series> *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission deadline: *July 06, 2020 (Extended)* Acceptance notification: August 17, 2020 Camera-ready paper: September 14, 2020 Conference dates: November 17-18, 2020 *CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* *General Chair* Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris Saclay- Centralesupélec and Paris 13 University, France *TPC Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada Abdellatif Kobbane, ENSIAS Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco Feng Yan, Southeast University, China *Workshop Chair* Ismail Berrada, University Mohammed VI, Morocco *Publicity Co-Chairs* Hynbum Kim, University of North Carolina at wellmington, USA Khalil Ibahimi, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco Satheesh Kumar Marimuthu, National Engineering College, K R Nagar, Kovilpatti Safa Otoum, University of Ottawa, Canada *Publication Chair* Luca Foscini, University of Bologna, Italy Mohamed Elkamili, Higher School of Technology, Hassan II, Morocco *Tutorial chairs* Lynda Mokdad, University of Paris Est, France *Local Arrangement Chair* Sahar Hoteit, University of Paris Saclay, Centralesupélec, France *Web chairs* Ouns Bouachir Zayed University, Dubai, UAE Amine Abouaomar, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Morocco

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[CFP] Authorship Identification of SOurce COde (AI-SOCO) Task @ FIRE2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

[Apologies for multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authorship Identification of SOurce COde (AI-SOCO) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-soco-2020/ To be organized at FIRE 2020 (http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2020/home) 10 - 13 December Virtual Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Task Description: -------------------------- General authorship identification is essential to the detection of undesirable deception of others' content misuse or exposing the owners of some anonymous hurtful content. This is done by revealing the author of that content. Authorship Identification of SOurce COde (AI-SOCO) focuses on uncovering the author who wrote some piece of code. This facilitates solving issues related to cheating in academic, work and open source environments. Also, it can be helpful in detecting the authors of malware softwares over the world. The dataset is composed of source codes collected from the open submissions in the Codeforces online judge. Codeforces is an online judge for hosting competitive programming contests such that each contest consists of multiple problems to be solved by the participants. A Codeforces participant can solve a problem by writing a solution for it using any of the available programming languages on the website, and then submitting the solution through the website. The solution's result can be correct (accepted) or incorrect (wrong answer, time limit exceeded, etc.). In our dataset, we selected 1000 users and collected 100 source codes from each one. So, the total number of source codes is 100,000. All collected source codes are correct and written using the C++ programming language. For each user, all collected source codes are from unique problems. Given the pre-defined set of source codes and their writers, the task participants should build systems that are able to detect the writer given any new, unseen before source codes from the previously defined writers list. Full task description can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-soco-2020/ ------------ Timeline ------------ 8th June - Open track websites 8th June – Training and development data release 31st July – Test data release 7th September – Run submission deadline 20th September – Results declared 31st October – Working notes and overview papers due (tentative) 10th-13th December - FIRE 2020 ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Ali Fadel, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Husam Musleh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Ibraheem Tuffaha, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Yaser Jararweh, Duquesne University, USA Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: ai-soco-fire(a)googlegroups.com Regards, Organizers of the Authorship Identification of SOurce COde (AI-SOCO) Task

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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IoTSMS 2020 CFP: The 7th International Conference on Internet of Things:Systems, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Yufei Sun 05 Jun '20

05 Jun '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2020/ Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) *IoTSMS 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020) 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 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 *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 20 July 2020 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: 1 November 2020 *SUBMISSION* 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. *JOURNAL-SPECIAL-ISSUE* Selected authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to indexed and highly ranked journals, including Cluster Computing. Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhodes Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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SNAMS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Yufei Sun 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) *SNAMS 2020 CFP:* Social network analysis is concerned with the study of relationships between social entities. The recent advances in internet technologies and social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, have created outstanding opportunities for individuals to connect, communicate or comment on issues or events of their interests. Social networks are dynamic and evolving in nature; they also involve a huge number of users. Frequently, the information related to a certain concept is distributed among several servers. This brings numerous challenges to researchers, particularity in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. The SNAMS 2020 is col-located with the The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS). SNAMS 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2020 is to provide the opportunity for students, scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Social Networks. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: *SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE* Systems and algorithms for social search Infrastructure support for social networks and systems Dynamics and evolution patterns of large and complex networks Social properties in systems design Learnings from operational social networks Data Collection Big Data and Social Paradigms *ALGORITHMS AND MODELS* Deep Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization Modeling Social Networks and behavior Management of social network data Streaming algorithms for social data Knowledge and innovation networks Methods for social and media analysis Models for network data Network analysis in human and social sciences Information propagation and assimilation in social networks Data mining and machine learning in social systems *APPLICATIONS* Novel social applications and systems Transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat) Special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine) Communities in social networks Collaboration networks New models of advertising and monetization in social networks Mobile advertising on OSNs Network visualization Social networks and online education Sentiment analysis on OSNs Multilingual social networks Social networks as agents of societal change *PRIVACY & SECURITY* Privacy and security in social systems Trust and reputations in social systems Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 20 July 2020 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: 1 November 2020 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snams2020 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Sustainable Places 2020 goes Digital
by Sustainable Places 2020 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

[DEFAULT_HEADER][ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/k2QIzmo0XfIQeaN3rI-JnCvzCV-W2DJVzf… ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 goes digital ! Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places 27 - 30 October 2020 | DIGITAL EVENT [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Postponed, and now we move online On Monday last week, we launched a survey on our database of earlier SP participants. We received over 150 responses, and it turns out that 75% of you are in favor of a virtual online event for this 2020 edition of Sustainable Places. Given this, we have now taken the decision to hold a virtual event. We realize that some attend SP specifically for the networking component, but we also received strong feedback to continue with the event (as opposed to cancellation) to facilitate project clustering and dissemination especially since many other events have been cancelled. Hence, we are committed to doing just that and we also have some innovative ideas to allow for networking sessions even if digital. To date at this early stage, we already have 13 workshops and over 50 projects making contributions to SP. That is a great start and now we can plan forward with confidence. Benefits and key highlights of SP2020 online An online event brings a lot of opportunities for new ways of knowledge sharing and networking. These are the key changes to remember : 1) Different Rate Structure: Speakers and Panelists: Early 150€ (before 30 June) – Normal 185€. Access to the full online series of events. These are likely 75% of our typical attendees presenting technical papers, showing project posters, organizing and participating in clustering workshops. Non-presenting Attendees: 50€. This rate is available to those that want to discover and participate in the event but are not presenting scientific contributions. 2) Facilitated workshops with technical platforms: We'll make the digital platform environment available. You'll have access to a recording that you can replay on the SP2020 website and embed into your own website after the event. 3) Less parallel sessions: We've extended the conference over 27-30 October 2020 to allow smoother technical organization and less parallel sessions. We do not anticipate anyone being at their computer all day. We instead anticipate that people will be able to map their own experience over the 4 days event. 4) All registered contributors get one entry as co-author for an Open Access non peer-reviewed technical paper (4-6 pages) to be published in the SP20 special issue of MDPI Proceedings. A select number of extended papers (up to 5) can be considered for publishing in Buildings free of charge. 5) A virtual Poster room is available for all registrants 6) A public plenary session chaired by the European Commission in which selected chairs will be invited to pitch an executive summary of their sessions and workshops. Call for Contributions is still open Our call for contributions remains opened until 13 September 2020. We look forward to receiving your contributions and to welcoming you to our digital SP2020 in October ! For registration and conference details visit https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/EAJZetvuTL9GJ4CnTC-Ytmyhguu14GwJx8… Sincerely, The SP2020 Organisation Committee [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=email%20response ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 is organized by: [ ]( # ) French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy [ ]( # ) R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc [ ]( # ) Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery [ ]( # ) SP2020 is sponsored by: [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SDIA (Green Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ SDIA ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6ta4Q87VJr0Sa1o1iHuhWP0KOr2qaFHKYn… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/E1jHveN7KKW4usZv6mHxULV4iia6Xku5AP… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) IREC (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ IREC ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/EShcGcEETAqy7E-qoQTeymlB9ZGsHK4-o_… ) - the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research - was created to contribute to the objective of creating a more sustainable future for energy usage and consumption, keeping in mind the economic competitivity and providing society with the maximum level of energy security. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SolarWin (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Receiving a grant by the EU Fast Track to Innovation program (FTI), [ SolarWin ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/9_0BSwd_8qIy_zaWwg1s5oD9ot0uhcxWl8… ) is a project aiming to scale-up and validate next-generation transparent Photovoltaic (PV) windows for commercial use and mass-production by 2021.Receiving a grant by the EU Fast Track to Innovation program (FTI), SolarWin is a project aiming to scale-up and validate next-generation transparent Photovoltaic (PV) windows for commercial use and mass-production by 2021. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Tech4Win (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Tech4Win ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/K8JtgxkTZ5lP-6soMYkTr2w8WGZ7dc7nNI… ) aims to develop a highly innovative transparent photovoltaic (PV) window based on the combination of an inorganic UV selective multifunctional coating (UV filter + UV selective solar) that is deposited on the first laminated glass of the window, and an organic IR selective solar cell that is implemented at the gap spacer of the window. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) BUILD UP (Media Partner) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ BUILD UP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6YA6BR_kihSXsHA0G8r5V3UsZutFE7WsDg… ) initiative was established by the European Commission in 2009 to support EU Member States in implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The BUILD UP web portal is intended to reap the benefits of Europe's collective intelligence on energy reduction in buildings for all relevant audiences. It will bring together new practitioners and professional associations while motivating them to exchange best working practices and knowledge and to transfer tools and resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Sponsorship opportunities [ ]( # ) Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 website, newsletters and conference dissemination material. Please contact us at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=SP2020%20Sponsorship ) to learn about sponsorship opportunities. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Publication opportunities [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/sVu7LQBJ8rib_KVMUAmhjAS7OJsXLILbo9… ) [ ]( # )[DEFAULT_FOOTER]

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CFP: ICSNC 2020, Special track: AI-5GaaS
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 31 May '20

31 May '20

*Call for Contributions* *Note: Onsite and Online Options * In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. *Submission:* * 1. Inform the Chairs:* with the Title of your Contribution *2. Submission URL: * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Special track * *AI-5GaaS: Artificial Intelligence based 5G as a Service * *Chairs and Coordinators * Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr <erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr>, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr <muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr>* Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey *secinti(a)itu.edu.tr <secinti(a)itu.edu.tr> * *along with * *ICSNC 2020**, *The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform. On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever- complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure. According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in representing customer experience and their explanation abilities. To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the future of 5G. *Potential topics include, but are not limited to:* 1. Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks; 2. Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks; 3. Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms; 4. AI-based mobility management; 5. SDN/NFV for autonomous network management; 6. CDN solutions for next generation networks; 7. Application areas for 5GaaS; 8. Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS; 9. Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS; 10. APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS *Important Datelines * Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute Submission: August 24 Notification: September 13 Registration: September 23 Camera-ready: September 23 *Contribution Types:* - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] *Paper Format * - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html *Publications * - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org/ - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org/ *Paper Submission * https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as *AI-5GaaS * *Registration * - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html *Contacts * *Chairs* Muge Erel-Ozcevik: erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Gokhan Secinti: secinti(a)itu.edu.tr ICSNC Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: June 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 27 May '20

27 May '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 June 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 26 May '20

26 May '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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Sustainable Places 2020: Request for your vote on potential switch to virtual platform
by Sustainable Places 2020 25 May '20

25 May '20

[DEFAULT_HEADER][ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Ka8CWJxogMvjiEVzJtfWCbnZgw4TRf0TGr… ) [ ]( # ) Sustainable Places 2020 (SP 2020) Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 28 - 30 October 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, France (or virtual) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Dear colleagues, We're collecting opinions on the most appropriate [ #SustainablePlaces2020 ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/IwRGpR2tIsQ12-XDUdMtOAdYPOHsBgLdJU… ) conference format (i.e. physical event vs. virtual online). Therefore, we kindly ask you to fill out this anonymous [ 3-question survey ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8sViXk9fAv2EPI-PY8iWgTG0Boc7-AxkfO… ) that should take no longer than 60 seconds to complete, we'd be very grateful for your vote! (Apologies for cross-posting and thanks to those who've already voted) Sincerely, The SP2020 Organisation Committee [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=email%20response ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 is organized by: [ ]( # ) French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy [ ]( # ) R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc [ ]( # ) Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery [ ]( # ) SP2020 is sponsored by: [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SDIA (Green Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ SDIA ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/9aW0Lj_H0frq35b9JAskGg303b5dnikgYb… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/HBF34tuJ3cvq44Oigpz0VZ4ouWizmTyAMG… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) BUILD UP (Media Partner) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ BUILD UP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Mc4qznLHNxacK2MlyN4Y5KP168ZLO50sBP… ) initiative was established by the European Commission in 2009 to support EU Member States in implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The BUILD UP web portal is intended to reap the benefits of Europe's collective intelligence on energy reduction in buildings for all relevant audiences. It will bring together new practitioners and professional associations while motivating them to exchange best working practices and knowledge and to transfer tools and resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Sponsorship opportunities [ ]( # ) Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. “Please contact us to learn about sponsorship opportunities. You download the [ sponsorship brochure ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/JwhxrqtBvep_Xh3ebtfET5NEhgTT9Ujqwg… ) and email the organisers at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=Newsletter%202%20reply ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Publication opportunities [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/WNWJch3qJpIDcGs3ZUOVOf49J4kKPhyUKL… ) [ ]( # )[DEFAULT_FOOTER]

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SI: Cybersecurity Management in the era of AI - Springer JONS
by Moayad Aloqaily 22 May '20

22 May '20

*Journal of Network and Systems Management - Springer* *Special issue on* *Cybersecurity Management in the era of AI* https://www.springer.com/journal/10922/updates/17974838 ***Submissions due:* October 31st, 2020**** *We encourage early submission, please check the open submission schedule policy below.* Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks have revolutionized the communication architecture, providing connectivity for people, things, data, applications, transport, and cities in smart networked environments, at faster data rates, reduced latencies, and acceptable costs. The massive number and volume of heterogonous connected devices in such an open space, as well as the advancements in human computer interaction (HCI), artificial intelligence (AI), computing and communication technologies have led to an increasing number of personal and ubiquitous intelligent systems. Such a wide deployment of connected smart technologies introduces new challenges to system security and privacy, mainly for Cyber-physical Systems. Cyberphysical is a term used for the integration of physical and computing domains as seen in many different areas such as medical, automotive, energy and other critical systems. Nowadays, cyberphysical systems are highly prone to cyber attacks and other forms of security threats at the communication layer due to system high connectivity characteristics. Some of today’s emerging security threats are hard to detect using traditional security and privacy measures and techniques. Therefore, innovative security methods and privacy protection solutions are needed to provide more secure and robust privacy-preserving intelligent cyber-physical systems. To achieve this, *cybersecurity management systems *need to adapt to the changing cyber security threats autonomously with minimal user intervention to provide maximum protection against cyber attacks, intrusions, malware and various types of data breaches. AI has the potential to be leveraged in different aspects of cybersecurity and cyberthreat detection. It has received significant interest lately, where a plethora of AI and other intelligent learning solutions such as deep and reinforcement learning are now being integrated into cybersecurity systems to provide more secure and robust privacy-preserving solutions for personal and ubiquitous systems. Such integration will play a vital role in providing enhanced security for intelligent autonomous systems and enables organizations to make crucial changes to their security landscape. This Special Issue invites theoretical and applied cutting edge research on standards, frameworks, models, and approaches on cybersecurity management in the era of AI and intelligent learning technologies. More specifically, we encourage original paper submissions on the most recent advances in security network and system management solutions using AI. The Special Issue also welcomes contributions from the industry perspective. Topics of interest include, but they are not limited to: - Cybersecurity management in cyber-physical systems using AI; - Security, privacy, and trust issues in cyber-physical systems; - Blockchain-enabled cyber-physical systems; - Utilizing AI technologies for cyber investigation and threat intelligence; - The integration of AI and Blockchain for security critical infrastructures; - Design, optimization and modeling of cybersecurity management systems; - AI and ML for intrusion detection/prevention in sensitive environments; - Advanced AI techniques to secure future Internet architectures/protocols; - Trust management in cyber-physical networks and systems; - Privacy management at edge of the network using machine learning; - Trustworthy data collection and processing using intelligent learning techniques; - Cybersecurity management of big data; - AI-based cybersecurity techniques for IoT, IoE, IoH, and IoV; - Cybersecurity of connected and autonomous vehicles; - Cybersecurity and AI for digital twin; - Management framework for intelligent secure networking. - Cybersecurity management to protect organizations’ sensitive data using intelligent learning techniques; - AI-enabled digital investigation; Planned Schedule *Open-submission schedule:* in this special issue, we implement an “open” submission approach, where we do not have a submission time period. Interested authors can submit the paper any time before the fixed deadline, and the review process will begin right after the paper submission, i.e., in a first-in first-serve fashion. The submission schedule is: - Manuscript due: *October 31st, 2020.* - Revision notification: within *two* months after the submission. - Revised paper due: within *one* month after the revision notification. - Final notification: *one* month after the revised paper notification. - Expected Publication of the Special Issue: *Second Quarter of 2021* (early accepted papers will be accessible online before the deadline). Submission Format and Review Guidelines The submitted manuscripts must be written in English and describe original research neither published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. *All papers will undergo a similarity check using iThenticate and the work similarity should be below 20%.* All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special issue, will go through an external peer-review process. Submissions should (*i*) conform strictly to the *Instructions for Authors* available on the JNSM website and (*ii*) be submitted through the *Editorial Management* system available at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jons. *Guest Editors of the Special Issue: * ● Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada ● Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia ● Paolo Bellavista, DEIS, Università di Bologna, Italy ● Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Parana, Brazil *Best Regards* *Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.*

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AICCSA 2020 [Virtual]: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, November 2-5, 2020
by Yufei Sun 22 May '20

22 May '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* *AICCSA is going virtual* In light of the continued uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 situation, the safety and well-being of all the conference participants is our topmost priority. Therefore, the AICCSA Steering Committee has decided to move to *a virtual event *format for this year to be held from November 2-5. The 2020 paper review and acceptance processes will proceed normally. We will follow up with further details on conference registration, presentation formats, workshops, special sessions and tutorials. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *15th June Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * 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. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, 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. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *15th June 2020 (Extended)* Notification: *30th July 2020* Camera-ready: 25th August 2020 Registration: 4th September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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CFP: The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing andApplications (BCCA 2020)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 20 May '20

20 May '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

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IEEE BCCA2020: The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
by Safa Otoum 13 May '20

13 May '20

*The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *NOV 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: - State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity - Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies - Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy - New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain - Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity - Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures - Authentication and authorization in Blockchain - Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic - Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies - Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security - Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies - Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques - Blockchain-based open-source tools - Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies - Vulnerabilities of smart contracts - Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Important Dates:* · Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 · Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 · Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Committee: * *Steering Committee* - Lo’ai Tawalbeh, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA - Gokay Saldamli, San Jose State University, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey - Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada - Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA *General Co-Chair* - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs* - Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada - Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia - Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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AICCSA 2020 CFP: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020
by Yufei Sun 11 May '20

11 May '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* I M P O R T A N T A N N O U N C E M E N T Given the current COVID-19 situation, the AICCSA board is studying different options regarding the 2020 edition of the conference that will cope with sanitary security policies, and guarantee the promotion of scientific interaction and dissemination of research results. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *15th May Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * 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. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, 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. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *15th May 2020 (Extended)* Notification: 30th June 2020 Camera-ready: 1st August 2020 Registration: 1st September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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IEEE ISCC PEDISWESA Workshop - Deadline EXTENDED: May 10th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 08 May '20

08 May '20

*Please note the following update:* 1) Deadline extended: *May 10th* 2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 10th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2020

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 07 May '20

07 May '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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IEEE ISCC PEDISWESA Workshop - Deadline EXTENDED: May 10th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 04 May '20

04 May '20

*Please note the following update:* 1) Deadline extended: *May 10th* 2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 10th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2020

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Sustainable Places 2020: Conference format, workshop updates, and H2020 Green Deal calls
by Sustainable Places 2020 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

[DEFAULT_HEADER][ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/nuwGCyMuw9Y7-32jca5mobq851S6XRfIqB… ) [ ]( # ) Sustainable Places 2020 (SP 2020) Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 28 - 30 October 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, France (or virtual) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Dear colleagues, We are closely monitoring COVID-19 and working with the collaborators on whether to hold a physical or virtual event. We'll likely announce that decision in the next newsletter. In either case, you can count on [ #SustainablePlaces2020 ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/3hHnJqCNBWCTplMZKPQxpChneonkwyIIOj… ) to deliver value to your fall calendar as it always has! Sincerely, The SP2020 Organisation Committee [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) What's in store for SP2020? [ ]( # ) Workshop update: “Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in district Heating and Cooling solutions for sustainable living” [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Five EU funded projects [ TEMPO ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KpvDraD5n-uoRiTddRIqkOM7EVHC0hRCdo… ), [ HOTMAPS ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hyJDm4OBoL025yJKKfQ_JS55Mqg513eah4… ), [ THERMOS ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/YzdhKaX3JNLTXwTtBHkW2pOZlvWb7jELna… ), [ MATCHUP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VMVbAvXo7LFUY9NJION_RFUaN29cCDf6Bw… ), [ DRIMPAC ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KJIoylUB7ka5Bj1lPb1jpmCoLvD5P-nqop… ) are now participating in the "Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in district Heating and Cooling solutions for sustainable living" workshop. These sister projects, together with [ REWARDHeat ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/WfIdjNquefCFDqpWjvNT6QBHSWS8iheJLk… ), [ RELaTED ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/OPX53hozQtpzPPZIMW-MRXanVeNlivVh5f… ), [ INDIGO ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/i2MfLetWN5Lh02uPtHtUc52KxNhYI1tPSM… ) and workshop leader [ WEDISTRICT ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/E8iowG-CkZDrCXKpjPoZnW7N4Lu4mp4LmC… ) intend to exchange new ideas, lessons learnt from implementation, proposals about the integration of substantial shares of renewable energy sources in district heating and/or cooling (DHC) systems, reducing dependency of DHC on fossil fuels and ultimately leading to a more efficient and sustainable energy system. Details and contact info can be found on the [ SP2020 "Workshops and Events" webpage ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/t4Ltu8nwD5JQgS1bsdJjGFrRhRQH3i6CcJ… ). [ ]( # ) Workshop update: "Integrated Home Renovation Services" [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) New collaborators [ OPENGELA ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/7CjpOHtMDGI4oM5wM6GU6kNSPO25XGtsWF… ), [ PadovaFIT Expanded ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/pdIJ91ubfeIUkA72rwOY9bFHeadYSHEgC-… ), and [ RenoBooster ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/j4_rQnbfqRxzRjUxASgZX6zTl4HLCxBgul… ) have been added to the "Integrated Home Renovation Services" workshop. These two projects, along with [ RenoHUb ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/CMkCP_pt9s8t5UEhNhlNf0dBXlWwMoX3J3… ) and workshop leader [ TURNKEY RETROFIT ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/MKWxXF52rrDA_AlhMHWrGDEyP0K7biG91N… ) each aim at dramatically improving the quality of the renovation service by covering the whole “customer journey” from technical and social diagnosis, technical offer, contracting of works, structuring and provision of finance, to the monitoring of works and quality assurance. Details and contact info also on [ SP2020 "Workshops and Events" webpage ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Eda_7M5n1rGO41szYQ4l2JaXtI0pDtqvFj… ). [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Contributing project spotlight: [ ]( # ) Homes4Life, the new European certification for ageing in place [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ Homes4Life ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/xhm4Gvnz1CpIqrf9Yuba7NOi67apY6FVDy… ) is a European certification scheme based on an inspirational and realistic long-term vision of people’s needs and requirements in a holistic life-course approach. It helps developing better living environments integrating construction and digital solutions where this is beneficial. Homes4Life is currently recruiting at least 10 pilot buildings throughout Europe that will be pioneering the newly developed Homes4Life Certification Scheme for Ageing in Place. [ Register to the project Community of Interest ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/z8fR-fqWoMNzEt8e0yFnrnGhDVkwSxmzg6… ) to keep updated with our progress and to contribute! [ ]( # ) In related news: [ ]( # ) "Green Deal" upcoming H2020 calls [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The Commission announced in its "[ Communication on the European Green Deal Investment Plan ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4P5DcAE2vXNvLuwWT1jmJNey3eoM3gMQZw… )" the launching of a new call in support of the "European Green Deal" thus demonstrating the contribution of research and innovation to this central priority of the new Commission. The call will be part of the Horizon 2020 work programme for 2020, with an estimated budget of the order of EUR 1 billion. This dedicated Call will address directly the main priorities of the "Green Deal" which includes topics closely connected to SP2020 such as: Supplying clean, affordable and secure energy Mobilising industry for a clean and circular economy Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility It will establish a pathway for additional, related research and innovation initiatives in the context of Horizon Europe. SP2020 will offer plenty of networking opportunities to discuss and prepare proposals for these upcoming calls. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SP2020 is organized by: [ ]( # ) French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy [ ]( # ) R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc [ ]( # ) Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery [ ]( # ) SP2020 is sponsored by: [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) SDIA (Green Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ SDIA ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/YyTch2O0e8luH77AKqyurnigD3F-0dMUTI… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/9_JKx18tc4rVkiUkiz51fJJsA5cmFKI6W-… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) BuildUp (Media Partner) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) The [ BUILD UP ]( https://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/iqrg1SHA0bMIKcoipZnZbFQ0Ip-c6Qw5OZ… ) initiative was established by the European Commission in 2009 to support EU Member States in implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The BUILD UP web portal is intended to reap the benefits of Europe's collective intelligence on energy reduction in buildings for all relevant audiences. It will bring together new practitioners and professional associations while motivating them to exchange best working practices and knowledge and to transfer tools and resources. [ ]( # ) [ ]( # ) Sponsorship opportunities [ ]( # ) Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. “Please contact us to learn about sponsorship opportunities. 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AICCSA 2020 CFP: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ *AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers* I M P O R T A N T A N N O U N C E M E N T Given the current COVID-19 situation, the AICCSA board is studying different options regarding the 2020 edition of the conference that will cope with sanitary security policies, and guarantee the promotion of scientific interaction and dissemination of research results. Meanwhile we encourage authors to submit papers until the *15th May Extended Deadline.* *Possible papers extended versions in a special issue of the Cluster Computing journal* 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 *. * 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. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, 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. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* *All regular papers that will be presented during the conference will be invited for submission to the special issue of the Cluster Computing journal. The expanded version of the conference paper with more complete description of the work and additional results will undergo peer review process. * *Important Dates * Main conference papers deadline: *15th May 2020 (Extended)* Notification: 30th June 2020 Camera-ready: 1st August 2020 Registration: 1st September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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IEEE ISCC PEDISWESA Workshop - Deadline EXTENDED: May 10th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

*Sorry if you receive several copies of this email!* *Please note the following update:* 1) Deadline extended: *May 10th* 2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 10th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2020

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IEEE BCCA 2020: The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
by Ons Bouachir 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020) Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

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12th IEEE ISCC Workshop - PEDISWESA - Deadline: April 25th - REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

*Please note the following update:* ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: April 25th, 2020 - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 25th, 2020 - Submission deadline: *May 9th, 2020* - Acceptance notification: *May 29th, 2020* - Camera ready: *June 8th, 2020*

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12th IEEE ISCC Workshop - PEDISWESA - Deadline: April 25th - REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

*Please note the following update:* ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: 100 Euros - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: 125 Euros *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web-based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and maybe intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web-based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently, be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modelling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Submission link*: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeiscc2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Journal of Network and Systems Management - Springer (IF: 1.676) - Cluster Computing - Springer (IF: 1.85) *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *April 25th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 25th, 2020

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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CFP: The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020) Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES* Proposal submission: April 10th April 20th, 2020 Proposal acceptance notification: April 30th, 2020 Acceptance notification: July 25th, 2020 Camera-ready submission: August 5th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

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PEDISWESA 2020: The 12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures
by Ons Bouachir 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

*12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: April 25th, 2020 - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 25th, 2020

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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IEEE BCCA2020: The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
by Safa Otoum 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

*The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *NOV 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. *Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:* - State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity - Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies - Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy - New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain - Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity - Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures - Authentication and authorization in Blockchain - Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic - Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies - Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security - Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies - Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques - Blockchain-based open-source tools - Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies - Vulnerabilities of smart contracts - Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Important Dates:* · Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 · Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 · Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Committee: * *Steering Committee* - Lo’ai Tawalbeh, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA - Gokay Saldamli, San Jose State University, USA - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey - Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada - Lewis Tseng, Boston College, USA *General Co-Chair* - Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia - Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs* - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada - Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia - Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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FedCSIS 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS’2020) Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2020, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) (FedCSIS IEEE conference number: #49059) Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. KEY FACTS: expected Proceedings: IEEE Digital Library; indexing: Web of Science (since 2012); 22 Technical Sessions in 5 Tracks; Doctoral Symposium; conference fee covers 4 lunches and 3 social events; Sofia – capital of Bulgaria, city history goes back to Roman times (with some, recently uncovered and made available to see, fascinating ruins of Serdika – which is how Sofia was known during Tracian and Roman times). FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. As in the previous years, FedCSIS 2020 will host a data mining challenge. It will be organized on a, recently re-designed, Knowledge Pit platform: https://knowledgepit.ml The specific topic will be announced shortly, please check the competition site (or the conference portal). There will also be a special session devoted to this challenge at the FedCSIS 2020 conference. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This already includes Proceedings of FedCSIS 2018 (we are awaiting the decision for the FedCSIS 2019). Information about FedCSIS indexing / bibliometry / rankings can be found at: https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/indexation. FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS The FedCSIS 2020 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical Sessions: Track 1: Artificial Intelligence * Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (15th Symposium AAIA'20) * Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (9th International Workshop ASIR'20) * Formal Approaches to Vagueness in Relation to Mereology (1st Symposium FVRM'20) * Language Technologies and Applications (5th Workshop LTA'20) * Computational Optimization (13th Workshop WCO'20) Track 2: Computer Science & Systems * Advances in Computer Science & Systems (ACSS'20) * Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'20) * Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (13th Workshop CANA'20) * Multimedia Applications and Processing (13th Symposium MMAP'20) * Scalable Computing (11th Workshop WSC'20) Track 3: Network Systems and Applications * Advances in Network Systems and Applications (ANSA'20) * Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications (4rd Workshop IoT-ECAW'20) * Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (1st International Forum NEMESIS'20) Track 4: Information Systems and Technologies * Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'20) * Data Science in Health (DSH'19) (2nd Special Session DSH'20) * Information Systems Management (15th Conference ISM'20) * Knowledge Acquisition and Management (26th Conference KAM'20) Track 5: Software and System Engineering * Advances in Software and System Engineering (ASSE'20) * Cyber-Physical Systems (7th Workshop IWCPS’20) * Lean and Agile Software Development (4th International Conference LASD'20) * Model Driven Approaches in System Development (6th Workshop MDASD'20) * Software Engineering (40th IEEE Workshop SEW’20) Track 6: DS-RAIT'20 - 7th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Keynote title: Are you a Hybrid? Yes, of course, everyone is a Hybrid nowadays! * George Boustras, European University Cyprus Keynote title: Critical Infrastructure Protection – on the interface of safety and security * Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Keynote title: From Digital Transformation to Digital Ubiquity: The Role of Enterprise Modeling PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION + Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2020 (strict deadline, no extensions, submission system will be opened in the first week of March). + Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick and provided to the FedCSIS participants. + Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Technical Session organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15, 2020, 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 9, 2020 + Author notification: June 30, 2020 + Final paper submission and registration: July 15, 2020 + Conference date: September 6-9, 2020 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS in Social Media: FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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IEEE BCCA 2020: The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications
by Ons Bouachir 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020) Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains Important Dates: Submission deadline: May 25th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 Committee: *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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Sustainable Places 2020: Postponed to 28 - 30 October 2020 due to COVID_19
by Sustainable Places 2020 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/nWAI4fnvnUztyVjn22jwKlXzuDthd5s6oItMn… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ifXw7Jiv3k5i4LbOX-6UnsVkBmrDNPMISht… ) Sustainable Places 2020 (SP2020) Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 28 - 30 October 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, France New SP2020 dates Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SP organising committee has determined that postponing the event until 28-30 October 2020 is the safest course of action. Fall is beautiful in Aix-les-Bains, and Sustainable Places will still be the same great event it always is. We also were confirmed that the boat cruise on Lake Bourget is confirmed. The Call for Proposals (CfP) deadline is extended until 13th September, and the updated registration schedule has been posted on the [ SP2020 registration webpage ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/V8xwWIjbH6bBImAx5jQ9Zf_vmwptgJfqzm0… ). Early submissions are appreciated, they will help us assembling a more coherent and attractive programme. Our thoughts are with anyone affected by this outbreak. Maximum solidarity and respect for those on the front lines in our health care systems - Thank You. We remain fully available for all questions or concerns at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com ), and by then #STAYHOME. [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/2i7TJVBDZ7NE8PUrzAObphrVW4r-ZwRiTle… ) SP2020 is organized by: French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery SP2020 is sponsored by: SDIA (Green Sponsor) The [ SDIA ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VTzIUUeB4tO0wyQXC1zo344snLAE6q6Hezf… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/G005LHO4ZSyWZrPm_2G3B69WxbbtnVK8S0T… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). Sponsorship opportunities Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. “Please contact us to learn about sponsorship opportunities. You download the [ sponsorship brochure ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/CagMYIz_VYQ5zhzom4yN5y994VpV7qLYsXi… ) and email the organisers at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=Newsletter%202%20reply ) Publication opportunities Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/S14y6cWfHnwR96blvY1GAodlyyCRSnK9oa_… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. However, to be sure you don't receive any further communications related to Sustainable Places, please click to unsubscribe http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/_D-H-ChBdqUei1rKdqAUbqmU8RLxljtP3-CXA…

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Special Issue: Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security at Information Processing & Management Journal
by Yufei Sun 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] Special Issue: Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security Information Processing & Management Journal https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-processing-and-management/cal… *Call for Papers.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides practical solutions to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that has a plethora of exciting new applications in several areas, such as Information Systems (IS), Internet of Things (IoT), e-health, manufacturing, financial services, supply chain and logistics, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of information systems such as financial IS, health IS, education IS and industrial IS. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology, and maybe more so in the future with a decentralized information sharing platform. Blockchain technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blockchain, regardless of the application context. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks, intellectual property infringement or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this special issue is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the field of Blockchain for information systems management and security. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas of Blockchain-Information systems, which include, but not limited to: * State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity for Information systems * Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies for Information systems * Recent development and emerging trends using Blockchain for securing Information systems. * New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain * Theory of Blockchain for Information systems * Blockchain-based security of financial Information systems * Blockchain-based security of health Information systems * Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities Information systems * Blockchain for Internet of Things (IoT) Information systems * Authentication and authorization in Blockchain. * Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic for Information systems * Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies * Blockchain for Artificial Intelligence. * Scalability and efficiency of blockchain-based Information systems * Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security * Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies * Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques * Blockchain-based open-source tools for Information systems * Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies * Vulnerabilities of smart contracts * Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Submission Guideline:* Papers should be submitted electronically using the Elsevier submission system to Information Processing & Management ( https://www.evise.com/profile/#/IPM/login) and following the Journal submission guidelines. When submitting the manuscript please select the article type “*VSI: Blockchain for IS*” as the Article Type to ensure your manuscript be correctly assigned. Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. *Guest Editors:* Yaser Jararweh, Duquesne University, USA, jararwehy(a)duq.edu Sandra Hirsh, San Jose State University, USA, Sandy.hirsh(a)sjsu.edu Yin Yang, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, *yyang(a)hbku.edu.qa <yyang(a)hbku.edu.qa>* *Tentative Schedule:* Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2020 Authors First Notification: August 15, 2020 Revised papers Submission: October 15, 2020 Final Acceptance: December 1, 2020

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Sustainable Places 2020: ENGIE Silver Sponsor, DHC workshop & first keynote Speakers announced
by Sustainable Places 2020 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/mr/FQKHpmF90KwtPl4WzlU21AUAvnBJiIb8W9lq… ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/p7T9ln5m83zNXr6fRHpBjmEFIIq2In8a1C… ) Sustainable Places 2020 (SP2020) Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 3-5 June 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, France Introducing SP2020 Silver Sponsor ENGIE Lab [ ENGIE Lab CRIGEN ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/5oR8zwCmksslpicX8DGnLkOg3yt9II8QCF… ), part of the ENGIE Labs network, is ENGIE Group’s corporate center for R&D and high-level expertise devoted to new energy resources (hydrogen, biogas and gas liquefaction), new energy uses in towns and cities, the buildings and industries of tomorrow and emerging technologies (computer sciences and Al, drones and robots, nanotechnologies and sensors). At Sustainable Places 2020, ENGIE will introduce [ PLATOON ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/-VFg5js7B475pjdPOXu-LItD4aPkKwFPwU… ) - Digital PLAtform and analytic TOOls for eNergy – a H2020 project coordinated by its teams which will support the European efforts for modernisation of the European electricity grid, while offering access to cheaper and sustainable energy for energy consumers and maximising social welfare. COVID-19 update In relation to the COVID-19 outbreak, at this stage it is not envisaged to move the conference dates. However the organisation committee is closely monitoring the situation and will reassess the situation by the end of April. We strongly advise SP2020 delegates to book their travels with flexible tariffs in case the event would eventually be postponed. We hope not ! We remain available to answer your questions at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com ) Integration of renewables in DHC for Sustainable Living There is a large potential to integrate substantial shares of renewable energy sources in district heating and/or cooling systems, reducing dependency of DHC on fossil fuels and ultimately leading to a more efficient and sustainable energy system. A number of EU funded projects are currently working on this topic. The objective of the workshop is to share WEDISTRICT project concept with other sister projects and interested stakeholders in order to exchange new ideas, lessons learnt from implementation, proposals about the successful integration of renewable technologies in DHC. Participating projects : [ WEDISTRICT ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/Z9PtEHmF3MC5fgxNCNfoIMZSvnxX7-1SIG… ), [ REWARDHeat ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/lYwYYFRzp7ZW35o5MC4V-eufdkPjchoT0R… ), [ RELaTED ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/csZpLeCtkfQbtu43r-Y1aWbl0Lp1OkBaZ_… ), [ INDIGO ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/3WxFcUFGyABPqQU9pUsiDyz88F9f2LIy50… ). Chair of the workshop: [ Maria Victoria Cambronero Vazquez ]( mailto:mvcambronero@acciona.com ) (ACCIONA) Introducing first SP2020 Keynote Speakers We are honoured to present our first confirmed SP2020 keynote speakers: Margot Pinault, Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate General for Energy, Unit C.3- Energy Efficiency Policy and Financing Max Schulze, Chairman of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. Christophe Ménézo, Deputy head of Solar Academy Graduate School, Vice Chancellor of University Savoie Mont Blanc in Charge of Real Estate and Energy Transition Simon PERRAUD, Deputy Director, CEA Liten Read further about their short bios and a get a teaser of their speech [ here ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/MmMYNX4dxGQb3UR30lheKwhKF6TNQOUhTA… ). INES National Institute of Solar Energy [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/a3SE2YeTjslLYALBVYflL30bszMq4ovNUE… ) INES, the French National Institute of Solar Energy, is the host of SP2020 together with CEA and the Savoie Mont-Blanc University. It is the reference center in France, and one of the first in Europe, dedicated to research, innovation and training on solar energy. Discover the latest INES video presentation [ here ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/m-OpDkZeTYuEYXclTgYRq-T81kO3rUecD5… ). Exclusive visits of INES industrial facilities will be offered to SP2020 delegates. Places are limited, hence we recommend to contact us to make sure we reserve a place for you. Early-bird registration closes soon! Fee schedule (VAT Inclusive) Early-bird rate (until 31 March) | 380 EUR standard rate (April to June) | 430 EUR 5+ Registration multipack (until 8 May) | 330 EUR/each Student, Press | 200 EUR [ Take advantage of the SP2020 early-bird discount ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/kAlRK4wDxxsaXgQqpUE_j5RQmaTSiS-sqR… ) SP2020 is organized by: French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery SP2020 is sponsored by: SDIA (Green Sponsor) The [ SDIA ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/7FLRfKQnCc23Esgp2CmphyFFgkuWEJIlW2… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. ENGIE Lab (Silver Sponsor) Sponsorship opportunities Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. “Please contact us to learn about sponsorship opportunities. You download the [ sponsorship brochure ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/DaLMDtTQy_WF4f_dfDhF-Zozk0YlLA_PqV… ) and email the organisers at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=Newsletter%202%20reply ) Publication opportunities Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/08cCSmyCi_mQsVckkTDQk2yVUjTSgsbXTz… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. 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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff - Performance analysis and optimization - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques - Smart contract and chain code - Applications and services based on blockchain - Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain - Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) - Blockchain in cyber physical systems - Blockchain in social networking - Blockchain in supply chain management - Blockchain in agriculture - Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles - Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing - Blockchain in mobile cellular networks - Blockchain in edge and cloud computing - Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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[CFP] (PEDISWESA 2020) the 12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures
by Ons Bouachir 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

*12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: April 25th, 2020 - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 25th, 2020

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Call for Workshops Proposals for AICCSA 2020: November 2nd to November 5th, 2020
by Yufei Sun 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) November 2nd to November 5th, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/call-for-contributions/call-for-workshops *Call for Workshops Proposals* 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020 will be held in Antalya, Turkey. AICCSA 2020 invites proposals for workshops on specific aspects that complement the conference main tracks in related areas to Computer Systems and Applications. We seek proposals across a wide range of topics and levels ranging from fundamentals to the latest advances in hot topic areas. *Important Dates* *Workshop proposals due: April 10, 2020* Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2020 *Submission* Workshop Proposals and any related enquiries should be sent be email to the workshop Chairs. *Workshop Chairs* Mohamad Alsmirat, Jordan University of Science and Technology ( masmirat(a)just.edu.jo) Hedi Karray, INP-ENIT, University of Toulouse, France (mkarray(a)ieee.org) *Proposal Requirements* Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and submitted in PDF Format. Proposals should contain the following information. 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop. 2. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest and how it complement the main conference 3. The proposed organizing committee and the technical program committee. 4. The workshop submission and processing system 5. Experience of the main organizers in organizing similar events previously 6. Contact details of the main organizers *Notes for the Workshop Organizers* Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following: 1. Producing a web page and a “Call for Papers/Participation” for their workshop. The URL should be sent to the AICCSA Workshops chairs. It should mention that at least one author of each accepted submission should attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the appropriate registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the registration of at least one author is required for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings. 2. Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ensure that this page limit has been adhered to. 3. Taking full responsibility of workshop submission, reviewing process and decisions 4. Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publication of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. 5. Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page. 6. Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings. 7. If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the AICCSA 2020 Organizing Committee may propose to merge that workshop with another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community. In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are insufficient number of submissions, while we may consider the paper for the main tracks. 8. Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers must be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The workshop organizers should also try to observe an acceptance rate that is no higher than 50%. *The AICCSA 2020 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following:* • Providing a link to a workshop’s local page. • Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop. • In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. • Inclusion of the workshop accepted papers into the main proceedings and provide to Participants. Please send any question to: Mohamad Alsmirat, Jordan University of Science and Technology ( masmirat(a)just.edu.jo) Hedi Karray, INP-ENIT, University of Toulouse, France (mkarray(a)ieee.org)

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Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals of IEEE Blockchain 2020
by Blockchain IEEE 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals The IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues related to Blockchain. The themes of the Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of blockchain. The organizers of the workshops and special sessions shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/session program. The registration fees for workshops and special sessions will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or sessions. The main conference will provide workshop/session facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions will be published by in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs via email by May 15, 2020: - Title of the workshop/session (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date. The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. In order to encourage the workshop/session organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/session organizers: (1) If a workshop will have at least 10 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then one of the main organizers can choose either to waive one of his or her papers for registrations or to get the travel grant to attend the conference. (2) If a workshop/session will have at least 20 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then the main organizers can also invite one keynote speaker for the workshop and the conference will provide free registration and travel grant for the keynote speaker. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2020! IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs: Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA (yu.chen(a)sjsu.edu<mailto:yu.chen@sjsu.edu>) And also Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi)

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Sustainable Places 2020: Early-bird registration ends 31st March, clustering workshops, SDIA, and CEA-INES visit
by Sustainable Places 2020 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/RYDTGCIzt2KoZZlTOjzJ0AES2iTv0yr9jlVdr… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Bl5yLHnvvXvkqwVLVwLzfoAQu6q-hO7RMLu… ) Sustainable Places 2020 (SP2020) Europe’s #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities. Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 3-5 June 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, France First workshop announcements Sustainable places consists of keynotes, clustering workshop sessions, technical paper sessions and poster displays. Already, clustering workshops are taking shape. Below is a first look at four SP2020 workshops being planned. You can find information about all the workshops at [ www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/-fembhvXc9carcNGaqxaV4oHJLejVbFgDdb… ) and if you are organizing a workshop and would like us to help promote it – we’re happy to do that. "Behavioural Change 2.0" This workshop will present cutting-edge, ICT solutions based on innovative technologies incorporating a number of different aspects such as energy efficiency, smart buildings, human-centric automations etc. As all of the participating projects focus on behavioural change with focus on the successful interaction with the users, the proposed approaches are dynamic and interdisciplinary further involving social and behavioural sciences. In this way, the presented solutions are structured in such a way as to foster end-user engagement & motivation while minimizing any foreseen nuisance. Chair of the workshop: [ Evangelos Zacharis (HYPERTECH) ]( mailto:e.zacharis@hypertech.gr?subject=Behavioural%20Change%20WS%20at%20SP20 ) "Deep Renovation 2.0" “Deep renovation Joint Workshop 2.0” is being organised by the [ P2Endure ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ZRQR368XQ17WOjRKthvS4GuGIgE0gydQlsO… ), [ EENSULATE ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/AqPqsCArSsjsocgOs8rD0mBV7Q6vr1nDp2c… ), and [ ENVISION ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/C4-GWJ4k2nAbGW5cbngvvub0DPjzA9d8SyA… ) projects, and will be a unique hands-on showcase of innovative deep renovation of building solutions. One of the key objectives of the workshop is to raise awareness on the most innovative building renovation and energy saving solutions and as well as to present and discuss altogether the main features of P2ENDURE e-Marketplace. Chair of the workshop: [ Michelle Giordano (RINA Consulting) ]( mailto:michelle.giordano@rina.org?subject=Deep%20Renovation%202.0%20workshop%20at%20SP20 ) "Construction Skills 2.0 - Digitalization Tools for an Energy-Efficient Renovation" Digital transformation is slowly progressing in the European construction industry, which means a huge gap between theoretical digital opportunities and the realities of on-site construction. Digitalization is the key challenge to support the renovation interventions since it may contribute to collaboration, cost efficiency, and time savings. At the same time, it guarantees process quality along with all the renovation phases, solving some of the hindrances due to the uncertainty of the process. Particularly, the use of Building Models allows to store and share the information about the existing building through Building Information Modelling (BIM). This is a crucial point to avoid uncertainties, since the models are fed and checked by all stakeholders. Chair of the workshop: [ Mohamed Elagiry (R2M Solution) ]( mailto:mohamed.elagiry@r2msolution.com?subject=Construction%20Skills%202.0%20WS%20at%20SP20 ) "Solar and Thermal 2.0 - Renewable Heating and Cooling Solutions for Buildings and Industry" RHC technologies play an essential role in developing a carbon-neutral building stock and industry in Europe, thus providing a fundamental contribution to the achievement of the EU climate targets. Existing technologies, including bioenergy, geothermal, solar thermal and ambient heat, have enormous potential to support a carbon-neutral economy & contribute significantly to the overall portfolio of renewable energy sources. This workshop will bring together a selection of H2020 EU-funded projects involving experts from the biomass, geothermal, solar thermal and heat pump sectors to discuss a common strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling for buildings and industry. Participating projects include: [ SWS-Heating ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/CrJENTIhsLshT6jGC3Y-oHwREMs0Gwq1nha… ) – [ HYBUILD ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FZ86DMU1A3luymcTkn3YKaUZWJsKa_b7PZv… ) – [ CREATE ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8oGnZdYGmwenalhmj9FA_uJ4C_FQsQZoauj… ) – [ TRI-HP ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/rBIuRskEWlFdT-BKqRLLJz_M55plCz4NXtq… ) – [ HYCOOL ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/UsHoTqXojfvIf9VV7cmbiVmQ7y1nS-U9K_X… ) – [ SHIP2FAIR ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/SCn-ZnFwLqWgQkQaomjNg6FmC6vaHqnTTjl… ) – [ SUNHORIZON ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/wpnNWY7vvsKqMrSWeNNUvjMJyBqvxS-iNZ3… ) – [ Heat4Cool ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/OObh6Nw3ruPEo0U9B8TGdAHyEkmZA53XQED… ) – [ GEOFIT ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/pVXIKgCPYKHxmcOAY_V1jhlZ2cbyIj42ZPi… ) Chair of the workshop: [ Andrea Frazzica (CNR ITAE) ]( mailto:andrea.frazzica@itae.cnr.it?subject=RHC%20WS%20at%20SP20 ) "Integrated Home Renovation Services" Europe faces a profound challenge – to triple the current renovation rate in order to meet its climate and energy goals. For project promoters such as homeowners, the renovation process can be complicated, shaped by the ambiguity of the interventions to implement, combined with a lack of knowledge on existing solutions, as well as a lack of services to coordinate all required market actors involved in the renovation process. This often results in lengthy, time- consuming and disruptive renovation processes for both occupants and neighbours (e.g. noise, dust, need to move out, etc.). This workshop led by [ TURNKEY-RETROFIT ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/AvG2cB1hCBPa6qcqSM3yb4Qa6mNNqmXRByQ… ) will bring together several H2020 EU-funded projects which aim at creating or replicating innovative “Integrated Home Renovation services” throughout Europe. Each project aims at dramatically improving the quality of the renovation service by covering the whole “customer journey” from technical and social diagnosis, technical offer, contracting of works, structuring and provision of finance, to the monitoring of works and quality assurance. Chairs of the workshop: [ Dominique Caccavelli (CSTB) ]( mailto:dominique.caccavelli@cstb.fr?subject=Integrated%20Renovation%20WS%20at%20SP20 ) & [ Margaux Barrett (BPIE) ]( mailto:margaux.barrett@bpie.eu?subject=Integrated%20Renovation%20WS%20at%20SP20 ) CEA-INES pilot site visit On 5th June, SP2020 will offer a visit to the Heterojunction CEA-INES Pilot Line Interested parties should email [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=SP20%20Newsletter%20reply ) and will be asked for personal information for security purposes. Places are limited and spots are held on a first-come first-serve basis. Early-bird registration closes soon! Fee schedule (VAT Inclusive) Early-bird rate (until 31 March) | 380 EUR standard rate (April to June) | 430 EUR 5+ Registration multipack | 330 EUR/each Student | 200 EUR [ Take advantage of the SP2020 early-bird discount ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ORFLFHGBo7T62M9J60cKU9qnt_HLcff5AuJ… ) SP2020 is organized by: French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery SP2020 is sponsored by: SDIA (Green Sponsor) The [ SDIA ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/O4cRmOPdApMopKhnVOlvWosNhZtiLHs_t7f… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. Sponsorship opportunities Sponsors may elect a general (green or silver) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. “Please contact us to learn about sponsorship opportunities. You download the [ sponsorship brochure ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/apchakeoWdyBn-iqmaPcmfJryn3beJMjXEn… ) and email the organisers at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=Newsletter%202%20reply ) Publication opportunities Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. SP2019 Buildings issue Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 4-6 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. SP2019 Proceedings edition [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/00__tl1s3l229n5qgfTp3Z_i8fGWlPrunIh… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. 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AICCSA 2020 CFP: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, November 2nd to November 5th, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) November 2nd to November 5th, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers 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 disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 .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. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, 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. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s topic. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Important Dates * *Main conference papers deadline: 20th April 2020* Notification: 30th June 2020 Camera-ready: 1st August 2020 Registration: 1st September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: cihantunc(a)email.arizona.edu and yijararwehy(a)just.edu.jo

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The 2nd International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC) - Deadline Extended
by Safa Otoum 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

*The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC)* *In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2020* http://www.pkucareer.com/NMIC2020.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=eb035e44-b725ba9a-eb076d4b-000babda03…> *Call for Papers* The new computation technologies, such as big data analytics, modern machine learning technology, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing, have the great potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be intelligent and trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), software-defined network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms for fast and efficiently delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop, there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation technologies. The ultimate goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency, which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are many open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be enforced with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data analytics, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures and protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the computation-enabled network. The NMIC workshop 2020 solicits the papers that address the technical challenges and applications of the distributed computations for networking, the intelligent computations supported by the novel networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations. We envision that the combination of computations with networking will provide more effective computation support for applications and enable the network to be more intelligent, trustworthy, and efficient. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Networking architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and communications - Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking - In-network computation for future networks, inter-data center networking, and 5G - Information-centric networking with/for computations - Intelligent Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with networking - Intelligent service function/computation chaining - Security, privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking - Collection and processing for big network data - Distributed computations for network anomaly detection and security - Integrating Blockchain with networking - Network function virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for distributed computations - Networking computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR - In-network data computations for network measurement and management - Distributed artificial intelligence with/for networking - Data modeling and applications of networking - Big data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other applications *SI updates as follows.* Selected papers will be recommended to Journal of Network and Systems Management (Springer) , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Wiley's Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Journal of Intelligent and Converged Networks (jointly published by International Telecommunication Union and Tsinghua University Press) for potential publications. *Important Dates*: Submission deadline: *February 15, 2020, **New deadline: Feb. 29.* Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 Camera-ready: April 15, 2020 Workshop: July 8-10, 2020 *TPC Chairs* Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Lei Jiao, University of Oregon, USA Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan *Web Chair* Kaigui Bian, Peking University, China *Publicity Chairs* Safa Otoum, University of Ottawa, Canada Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE *Steering Committee* Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Xiaoming Fu, University of Gottingen, Germany Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA *Keynote Speaker* Prof. Kui Ren, Zhejiang University, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist Bio: Kui Ren is Professor and Associate Dean of College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, where he also directs the Institute of Cyber Science and Technology. Before that, he was SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kui’s current research interests include Data Security, IoT Security, AI Security, and Privacy. He received IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award in 2017, SUNY Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award in 2017, Sigma Xi/IIT Research Excellence Award in 2012, and NSF CAREER Award in 2011. Kui has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and received several Best Paper Awards, including ACM AsiaCCS’18, IEEE ICDCS'17, IWQoS'17, and ICNP'11. His h-index is 67, and his total publication citation exceeds 29,000 according to Google Scholar. Kui is a Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. He currently serves as an area/associate editor for ACM Trans. On Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Trans. on Service Computing, IEEE Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Computer Networks.

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AIEC 2020 CFP: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence <https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/home> & Edge Computing <https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/home> (AIEC 2020) in conjunction with *The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/>* Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *AIEC 2020 CFP* Artificial Intelligence (AI) became a popular wide area for the latest- generation of software-oriented solutions. Lately, AI has been considered as a hot topic due to its huge applications and it attracted attention from academia as well as industrial and end users while receiving positive media coverage. AI is advancing at considerable speed and lead to many widely beneficial applications, variant from Machine Translation to Medical Image Computing. From R&D perspectives, AI acquires incredible amounts of progress in terms funding investors devoted on AI applications. According to AI efforts, Edge Computing (EC) has become an essential solution to overcome the strangulation of emerging technology development according to its benefits of minimizing data transmission, reducing service latency and easing cloud computing pressure. Also, the scope of EC is very diverse on large application area, such as smart grid and smart city, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and healthcare. Furthermore, the EC provide significant gains which include low-latency thus allowing close cooperation in sophisticated mobile applications and on the core network to reduce traffic volume as data streaming along the way to the distant data center is no longer necessary. The evolution of new technologies of communication such as 5G made communication so much easier where the latency is lower and memory bandwidth is higher, the border between edge infrastructure and mobile devices will be even imprecise and EC will become more attractive. The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing (AIEC) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry who are working on Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing as well as their integration, to exchange research ideas and identify new research challenges in this emerging field.The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Big Data mining at the Edge · Machine Learning at the edge · Architectures of Edge AI for IoT · Security on the Edge · Resource-friendly Edge AI Model Design · Resource Management for Edge AI · Applications/services for Edge AI · Communication and Networking Protocols for Edge AI · Software Platforms for Edge *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the AIEC and 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. In addition, 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: 23rd February, 2020 Notification to Authors: 1st March, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on AIEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: *emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com>*

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BAT 2020 CFP: The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS 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: 10th February, 2020 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SCE 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCE 2020 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 focused 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 SCE and 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: 10th February, 2020 (Final and Firm) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDE 2020 CFP: The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] *The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) <http://www.emergingtechnet.org/SDE2020/> * in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDE 2020 CFP* Software Defined Infrastructures consists of fully virtualised compute, networking, storage and other resources are abstracted away from the underlying physical infrastructure through software, such as Software Defined Data Centre. This allows policy-based infrastructure provisioning and enables IT automation. Software-defined infrastructure is not tied to specific hardware and can operate without or with little human involvement. This paradigm fully integrated and automated IT functions and resources. Software Defined Data Centre combines can be a result of a combination of all software defined technologies, such as SDN, SDStore, SDCompute, SDSec etc, otherwise called Software Defined Everything. Cloud computing is one major factor driving the growth of software defined everything. The International workshop for Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) is calls for contributors to present and discuss the most recent research results, innovations, trends, and concerns in the fields the new emerging opportunity of Software Defined Everything. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Trends in SDE, theories, applications and trends · SDE Markets · Security in SDE · Software defined data centre · Software defined infrastructures · Software defined IOT/Edge · Software Defined – Centralized Vs Decentralized infrastructure · Software-Defined WAN · Softwarization methodologies for SDE · SDE on demand · SDE as a service · Business models for SDE · Adaptive Software for SDE · SDE and Vendor-lock-in · SDE Business Agility · Business case for SDE · SDE and compliance *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDE and SDS 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. In addition, 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: 10th February, 2020 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDE2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTNAT 2020 CFP: The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

* [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation]* *The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2020/index.php>* in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *IoTNAT 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 2020) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). The IoTNAT 2020 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 IoTNAT and 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: 10th February, 2020 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on IoTNAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Sustainable Places 2020: The four-month countdown begins
by Sustainable Places 2020 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

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Upon potential agreement under discussion from the EU representative instances, this new partnership is to be implemented under the Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027). Keynote speakers Christophe Menezo, Deputy Head of Solar Academy Graduate School Pr. Ménézo is Deputy Vice Chancellor of University Savoie Mont Blanc in Charge of Real Estate and Energy Transition. He is Director of the CNRS Research Federation on Solar Energy (FédESol) and in charge of the Green/smart building topic in the French/Singaporean Network on Renewable Energy (SINERGIE). His current research is led at the National Institute of Solar Institute (INES), [ LOCIE lab ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/NDtLdroMZVM0ASvKZIlZ2d7KXdSCZ-z6G58… ) working on energy in the built environment. Max Shulze, Chairman of the board of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. Max Schulze is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the digital technology sector. He has been an advocate for creating affordable & sustainable digital infrastructure for Europe to empower innovators that solve the world’s most complex challenges. As the Chairman of the [ Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/eM6AoDVERKXSSR3Kb9Udt5CZ0nXwDRVM6Mp… ) he has made it his mission to bring together companies across all sectors to realize his goal of net-positive digital infrastructure for Europe. Gala dinner cruise on the lake On 3rd June, SP2020 will offer a [ cruise on the lake Bourget ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/cpgFnssJBj_s2gGnhoaYYgtEdho8q5gQ--I… ) for the gala dinner. One complementary ticket is included in the [ registration ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/kxhamXUE1fw0VCl0r--YJ1sTVjrx3kKRUyR… ) fee. Additional tickets are available for guests. Early-bird registration closes soon! Fee schedule Early-bird rate (up through 31 March) | 380 EUR standard rate (April to June) | 430 EUR 5+ Registration multipack | 330 EUR/each Student | 200 EUR [ Take advantage of the SP2020 early-bird discount ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/79rGmSCijiKtMRQ72f-OekTGhW5anEwZoui… ) SP2020 is proudly sponsored by The [ SDIA ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/bE1xAgYQgaEIcB37rfUqxLg3gkrfHhSS0CA… ) - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. - is an inter-industry association enabling collaboration in sustainable, zero impact digital infrastructure that is accessible to the next-generation of innovators. The SDIA strives to bring together companies, individuals and governments to advocate and realize key initiatives such as heat-reuse, smarter power consumption and efficient use of resources. New CfP topic: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure This year, we invite contribution proposals on building and city sustainability: Circular Economy Digital Twins Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Local Energy Communities We're also including a special thematic focus on: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure The SDIA will host a track on the opportunity of creating a net-positive digital infrastructure. As one of the key topics on the European agenda, SDI combines digitalisation, climate protection, and data sovereignty of the new presidency. As the 4th industrial revolution - digitalization - is accelerating, we face a once in a decade opportunity. For the first time we can decouple economic growth from resource consumption. The digital economy can be the first one that creates economic value without consuming exponentially more minerals, more energy, and other planetary resources. In this track we will explore the various opportunities from heating districts and greenhouses with data centers, to using digital infrastructure as energy-flexibility systems and how the emerging European computing infrastructure will look like. We will demonstrate that the digital economy creates a viable & needed opportunity for sustainable digital infrastructure. [ Contribute to SP2020! Download the Call for Proposals (deadline: 30 April 2020) ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/3-qjgVIsj90zsopfH0wCkTp2NDYDhLtmVR6… ) Sponsorship opportunities Sponsors may elect a general (green or gold) sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event and platform. All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. 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The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC) 2020
by Ons Bouachir 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

*Sorry if you received multiple copies of this call* *The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC)* *In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2020* http://www.pkucareer.com/NMIC2020.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=eb035e44-b725ba9a-eb076d4b-000babda03…> *Call for Papers* The new computation technologies, such as big data analytics, modern machine learning technology, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing, have the great potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be intelligent and trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), software-defined network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms for fast and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop, there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation technologies. The ultimate goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency, which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are many open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be enforced with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data analytics, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures and protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the computation-enabled network. The NMIC workshop 2020 solicits the papers that address the technical challenges and applications of the distributed computations for networking, the intelligent computations supported by the novel networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations. We envision that the combination of computations with networking will provide more effective computation support for applications and enable the network to be more intelligent, trustworthy, and efficient. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Networking architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and communications - Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking - In-network computation for future networks, inter-data center networking and 5G - Information-centric networking with/for computations - Intelligent Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with networking - Intelligent service function/computation chaining - Security, privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking - Collection and processing for big network data - Distributed computations for network anomaly detection and security - Integrating Blockchain with networking - Network function virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for distributed computations - Networking computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR - In-network data computations for network measurement and management - Distributed artificial intelligence with/for networking - Data modelling and applications of networking - Big data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other applications *Important Dates*: Submission deadline: *February 15, 2020* Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 Camera ready: April 15, 2020 Workshop: July 8-10, 2020 *Committees* *TPC Chairs* Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Lei Jiao, University of Oregon, USA Ryoichi Shinkuma, Kyoto University, Japan *Web Chair* Kaigui Bian, Peking University, China *Publicity Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc. Ottawa, Canada Safa Otoum, University of Ottawa, Canada Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE *Steering Committee* Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Xiaoming Fu, University of Gottingen, Germany Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA *Keynote Speaker* Prof. Kui Ren, Zhejiang University, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist Bio: Kui Ren is Professor and Associate Dean of College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, where he also directs the Institute of Cyber Science and Technology. Before that, he was SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kui’s current research interests include Data Security, IoT Security, AI Security, and Privacy. He received IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award in 2017, SUNY Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award in 2017, Sigma Xi/IIT Research Excellence Award in 2012, and NSF CAREER Award in 2011. Kui has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and received several Best Paper Awards, including ACM AsiaCCS’18, IEEE ICDCS'17, IWQoS'17, and ICNP'11. His h-index is 67, and his total publication citation exceeds 29,000 according to Google Scholar. Kui is a Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. He currently serves as an area/associate editor for ACM Trans. On Cyber Physical Systems, IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Trans. on Service Computing, IEEE Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Computer Networks.

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SCICE 2020 CFP:The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCICE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCICE 2020 CFP* The new stream of smart technologies like Smart health, smart cities, smart industries, smart agriculture, smart environment, smart transportation, smart homes, smart education, smart business, smart energy, smart grids, and so on are the components that aid the mankind to build smart community. However, they require, typically, design and development of innovative technologies, standards, and protocols apart from their architectures and frameworks. IoT has emerged as an extension to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with low-cost and Internet-enabled solution for connecting and accessible anything from anywhere. In addition, such smartness derived due to the artificial intelligence yields in production of tremendous amounts of data. The data increases as a baby-boomer requiring efficient tools to analyze and extract suitable inferences for services in order to extend smart living. Cloud, Edge and Big Data acquired enormous attention in the light of massive data storage and analytics. With the large cohorts of gazette shrewdness and hi-tech population, the infrastructure, service delivery becomes expensive and difficult to manage for cities and governments. Automating systems through utilization of IoT, Cloud, Edge, Big Data, and M2M tools and technologies demonstrate great opportunity to reduce operating costs significantly, utilize those savings more effectively, and provide better services to communities for smarter living. This workshop provides a platform to the researchers to publish their innovative ideas, extensive analysis of their comparative studies, critical review of existing research and position papers in the above areas to meet the smart living requirements. *The topics of interest include but are not limited to:* · Emerging concepts of IoT for smart community · Platform architectures for smart community · Data analytics for smart community · Privacy preserving data mining for smart community · Big data integrity and confidentiality for smart community · Data and knowledge as a service for smart community · Security and privacy applications for smart community · Real-time and stream processing techniques and algorithms for smart community · Real-life case studies for smart community · Proactive/predictive and advanced machine learning models for smart community · Simplified and distributed data processing techniques for smart community · Ubiquitous machine learning for smart community · Fog computing for smart community · Data warehouse for smart community · Soft computing techniques for smart community · Optimization for smart community · Resource utilization and Resource Management for smart community · Security and Trust for smart community · Application Development for smart community · Wireless Sensor Networks for smart community · Mobile Data Services for smart community · Cloud Computing for smart community *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SCICE and 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: 10th February, 2020 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCICE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDN-NFV2020 CFP:The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDN-NFV 2020 CFP* The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDN-NFV 2020) workshop, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of SDN, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN and NFV, to mention but few. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design * Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Architectures and Design * SDN-NFV Integration * SDN-NFV Orchestration * SDN-NFV Based Control plane design * SDN-NFV Based Data plane design * SDN-NFV Performance Management * SDN-NFV support for Cloud based DataCenter * SDN-NFV support for 5G Networks * SDN-NFV support for Internet of Things (IoT) * SDN-NFV support for Big Data Computing * SDN-NFV support for large scale storage system * Hardware system design for SDN-NFV * SDN-NFV Security management * Radio Access Network virtualization * SDN-NFV in access networks * Edge and Fog Computing * Cloud Computing * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDN-NFV and SDS 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: 10th February, 2020 (Firm and Final) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals of IEEE Blockchain 2020
by Blockchain IEEE 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals The IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues related to Blockchain. The themes of the Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of blockchain. The organizers of the workshops and special sessions shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/session program. The registration fees for workshops and special sessions will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or sessions. The main conference will provide workshop/session facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions will be published by in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs via email by Feb. 15, 2020: - Title of the workshop/session (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date. The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. In order to encourage the workshop/session organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/session organizers: (1) If a workshop will have at least 10 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then one of the main organizers can choose either to waive one of his or her papers for registrations or to get the travel grant to attend the conference. (2) If a workshop/session will have at least 20 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then the main organizers can also invite one keynote speaker for the workshop and the conference will provide free registration and travel grant for the keynote speaker. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2020! IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs: Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA (yu.chen(a)sjsu.edu<mailto:yu.chen@sjsu.edu>) And also Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi)

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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BAT 2020 CFP: The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS 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: 1st February, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTNAT 2020 CFP : The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *IoTNAT 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 2020) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). The IoTNAT 2020 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 IoTNAT and 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on IoTNAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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AIEC 2020 CFP: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence <https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/home> & Edge Computing <https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/home> (AIEC 2020) in conjunction with *The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/>* Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *AIEC 2020 CFP* Artificial Intelligence (AI) became a popular wide area for the latest- generation of software-oriented solutions. Lately, AI has been considered as a hot topic due to its huge applications and it attracted attention from academia as well as industrial and end users while receiving positive media coverage. AI is advancing at considerable speed and lead to many widely beneficial applications, variant from Machine Translation to Medical Image Computing. From R&D perspectives, AI acquires incredible amounts of progress in terms funding investors devoted on AI applications. According to AI efforts, Edge Computing (EC) has become an essential solution to overcome the strangulation of emerging technology development according to its benefits of minimizing data transmission, reducing service latency and easing cloud computing pressure. Also, the scope of EC is very diverse on large application area, such as smart grid and smart city, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and healthcare. Furthermore, the EC provide significant gains which include low-latency thus allowing close cooperation in sophisticated mobile applications and on the core network to reduce traffic volume as data streaming along the way to the distant data center is no longer necessary. The evolution of new technologies of communication such as 5G made communication so much easier where the latency is lower and memory bandwidth is higher, the border between edge infrastructure and mobile devices will be even imprecise and EC will become more attractive. The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing (AIEC) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry who are working on Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing as well as their integration, to exchange research ideas and identify new research challenges in this emerging field.The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Big Data mining at the Edge · Machine Learning at the edge · Architectures of Edge AI for IoT · Security on the Edge · Resource-friendly Edge AI Model Design · Resource Management for Edge AI · Applications/services for Edge AI · Communication and Networking Protocols for Edge AI · Software Platforms for Edge *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the AIEC and 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. In addition, 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: 21st February, 2020 Notification to Authors: 1st March, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on AIEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: *emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com <emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com>*

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SCE 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCE 2020 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 focused 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 SCE and 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: 1st February, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FMEC 2020 (Final Call) : Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 1st February 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* * Keynote Speakers * Prof. Mérouane Debbah, Huawei France Research Center, France Prof. Pascal Lorenz, The University of Hau-Alsace, France. Prof. Nabil Abdennadher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDS-2020 (Final CFP) : Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) 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 2020 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 2020 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 France 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: 1st February 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* * Keynote Speakers * Prof. Mérouane Debbah, Huawei France Research Center, France Prof. Pascal Lorenz, The University of Hau-Alsace, France. Prof. Nabil Abdennadher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDS-2020 (Final CFP) : The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) 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 2020 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 2020 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 France 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: 25th January 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FMEC 2020 CFP (Final Call) : The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 25th January 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SECEI 2020 CFP : The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SECEI2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SECEI 2020 CFP* The digital world is expanding rapidly and advances in new computing platforms such as Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT computing. All of which are pushing to adapt and to migrate to from legacy computing paradigms to the new ones. Enterprises earnestly contemplate how to migrate its software application to gain their enormous benefits which include on-demand availability of resources, reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements. They are looking for methodologies that accelerate migrating their software application towards modern computing in effective cost and time. The challenges behind migrating existing software applications varies depending on the architectures of these applications and the targeted computing platforms. These changes lay behind of software architecture migration, data migrating, manage data offloading, software packaging and virtualization, and automating application deployment. The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2020) is aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software architected migration. * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software refactoring. * Software workflow mining. * Software orchestration mining. * Software virtualization. * Software warping. * Software packaging * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT transformation models. * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software quality models. * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SECEI and SDS 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SECEI 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE ITCVT2020 Workshop Co-located with NOMS 2020 (Firm and Final deadline)
by Ons Bouachir 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Call for Papers The Third Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) in conjunction with https://emergingtechnet.org/ITCVT2020/ IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 20-24 April 2020 - Budapest, Hungary https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org/ Following the theme of NOMS 2020 on Management in the Age of Softwarization and AI, and building on the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of ITCVT2020 is to present research and experience results in the areas of intelligent transportation and smart vehicular technology. Intelligent transportation systems integrated with self-managed vehicular and wireless network technologies will improve the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many challenges face intelligent transportation and connected vehicles technologies, which can be resolved using artificial intelligence and softwarization. Authors are invited to submit papers and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITCVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles with the aid of softwarization and AI. *Topics of Interest* Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below: *Management of Smart Vehicular Systems* · Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving · Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems · Cooperative Driving and Traffic Management · Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks · In-Vehicle Networks and Communications *AI for Vehicular Network and Service Management* · Connected Services and Mobility management · Management and Artificial Intelligence for CAV · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Congestion and awareness control in CAV · Advanced driver assistance systems *Energy-Efficient Vehicular Networks* · Green Vehicular Communication and Services · Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles · Cooperative solutions for vehicular network power management *Security and Privacy of CAV* · Cyber-threat free CAV environment · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Security and Privacy of CAV *Paper Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted through JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3500 *Proceedings* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. *Program Co-Chairs* · Dr. Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics, Ottawa, Canada · Prof. Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey · Prof. Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 19 January *22 January (Firm deadline)* Notification to Authors: 9 February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 March 2020

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FMEC 2020 CFP : The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 25th January 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SCICE 2020 CFP:The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing
by Gizem Varkonyi 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Workshop on Smart Community with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SCICE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCICE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCICE 2020 CFP* The new stream of smart technologies like Smart health, smart cities, smart industries, smart agriculture, smart environment, smart transportation, smart homes, smart education, smart business, smart energy, smart grids, and so on are the components that aid the mankind to build smart community. However, they require, typically, design and development of innovative technologies, standards, and protocols apart from their architectures and frameworks. IoT has emerged as an extension to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with low-cost and Internet-enabled solution for connecting and accessible anything from anywhere. In addition, such smartness derived due to the artificial intelligence yields in production of tremendous amounts of data. The data increases as a baby-boomer requiring efficient tools to analyze and extract suitable inferences for services in order to extend smart living. Cloud, Edge and Big Data acquired enormous attention in the light of massive data storage and analytics. With the large cohorts of gazette shrewdness and hi-tech population, the infrastructure, service delivery becomes expensive and difficult to manage for cities and governments. Automating systems through utilization of IoT, Cloud, Edge, Big Data, and M2M tools and technologies demonstrate great opportunity to reduce operating costs significantly, utilize those savings more effectively, and provide better services to communities for smarter living. This workshop provides a platform to the researchers to publish their innovative ideas, extensive analysis of their comparative studies, critical review of existing research and position papers in the above areas to meet the smart living requirements. *The topics of interest include but are not limited to:* · Emerging concepts of IoT for smart community · Platform architectures for smart community · Data analytics for smart community · Privacy preserving data mining for smart community · Big data integrity and confidentiality for smart community · Data and knowledge as a service for smart community · Security and privacy applications for smart community · Real-time and stream processing techniques and algorithms for smart community · Real-life case studies for smart community · Proactive/predictive and advanced machine learning models for smart community · Simplified and distributed data processing techniques for smart community · Ubiquitous machine learning for smart community · Fog computing for smart community · Data warehouse for smart community · Soft computing techniques for smart community · Optimization for smart community · Resource utilization and Resource Management for smart community · Security and Trust for smart community · Application Development for smart community · Wireless Sensor Networks for smart community · Mobile Data Services for smart community · Cloud Computing for smart community *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SCICE and 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) * Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCICE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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5GET 2020 CFP: The 4th International Symposium on 5G Emerging Technologies, Paris, France. April20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 4th International Symposium on 5G Emerging Technologies (5GET 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/5GET2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *5GET 2019 CFP* A new generation in cellular mobile and wireless communications will be commercialized in 2020, which is referred to as the fifth generation (5G) systems. Wide range of applications and services are expected to be enabled by the introduction of the 5G. Most importantly, 5G will serve as the enabling architecture and standard for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, Low Power-Wide Area networks, high-speed cellular systems. This can serve wide range of wireless applications with needs of few bits per seconds and extended geographic areas coverage with delay-sensitive communications to communications with gigabits per seconds with very low latency and delay in terms of milliseconds. 5G is expected to utilize and exploit new technologies, techniques and protocols at the different communication layers including software-defined radio, massive antenna systems, Beamforming, MIMO systems, mmWave and optical communications, utilizing higher frequency bands, green networking and communications, small-scale cells, performance-energy efficient communications protocols, etc. 5GET 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of 5G based systems and related technologies. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating 5G challenges. That is, the objective of 5GET 2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of 5G systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * 5G Architecture and design * PHY, MAC , routing novel communication protocols for 5G * 5G applications, services and Testbeds * Green networking in 5G * Social-aware 5G networks * IoT networking in 5G * Software Defined Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Access in 5G Networking * Spectrum utilization and sharing * Massive MIMO Communications * Dynamic Beamforming techniques * Free Space Optical communications * Heterogenous cells and communications * Millimeter wave communications * Coordinated and small-scale cell communications * Device-to-Device Communications and networking * Security and privacy for 5G *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the 5GET and 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on 5GET 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDN-NFV2020 CFP:The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDN-NFV 2020 CFP* The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDN-NFV 2020) workshop, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of SDN, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN and NFV, to mention but few. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design * Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Architectures and Design * SDN-NFV Integration * SDN-NFV Orchestration * SDN-NFV Based Control plane design * SDN-NFV Based Data plane design * SDN-NFV Performance Management * SDN-NFV support for Cloud based DataCenter * SDN-NFV support for 5G Networks * SDN-NFV support for Internet of Things (IoT) * SDN-NFV support for Big Data Computing * SDN-NFV support for large scale storage system * Hardware system design for SDN-NFV * SDN-NFV Security management * Radio Access Network virtualization * SDN-NFV in access networks * Edge and Fog Computing * Cloud Computing * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDN-NFV and SDS 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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SDE 2020 CFP: The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] *The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) <http://www.emergingtechnet.org/SDE2020/> * in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDE 2020 CFP* Software Defined Infrastructures consists of fully virtualised compute, networking, storage and other resources are abstracted away from the underlying physical infrastructure through software, such as Software Defined Data Centre. This allows policy-based infrastructure provisioning and enables IT automation. Software-defined infrastructure is not tied to specific hardware and can operate without or with little human involvement. This paradigm fully integrated and automated IT functions and resources. Software Defined Data Centre combines can be a result of a combination of all software defined technologies, such as SDN, SDStore, SDCompute, SDSec etc, otherwise called Software Defined Everything. Cloud computing is one major factor driving the growth of software defined everything. The International workshop for Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) is calls for contributors to present and discuss the most recent research results, innovations, trends, and concerns in the fields the new emerging opportunity of Software Defined Everything. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Trends in SDE, theories, applications and trends · SDE Markets · Security in SDE · Software defined data centre · Software defined infrastructures · Software defined IOT/Edge · Software Defined – Centralized Vs Decentralized infrastructure · Software-Defined WAN · Softwarization methodologies for SDE · SDE on demand · SDE as a service · Business models for SDE · Adaptive Software for SDE · SDE and Vendor-lock-in · SDE Business Agility · Business case for SDE · SDE and compliance *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDE and SDS 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. In addition, 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDE2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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BAT 2020 CFP: The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP IoTNAT 2020: The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies
by Gizem Varkonyi 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *IoTNAT 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 2020) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). The IoTNAT 2020 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 SCE and 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: 1st February, 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on IoTNAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals of IEEE Blockchain 2020
by Blockchain IEEE 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals The IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues related to Blockchain. The themes of the Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of blockchain. The organizers of the workshops and special sessions shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/session program. The registration fees for workshops and special sessions will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or sessions. The main conference will provide workshop/session facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions will be published by in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs via email by Jan. 05, 2020: - Title of the workshop/session (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date. The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. In order to encourage the workshop/session organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/session organizers: (1) If a workshop will have at least 10 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then one of the main organizers can choose either to waive one of his or her papers for registrations or to get the travel grant to attend the conference. (2) If a workshop/session will have at least 20 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then the main organizers can also invite one keynote speaker for the workshop and the conference will provide free registration and travel grant for the keynote speaker. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2020! IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs: Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA (yu.chen(a)sjsu.edu) And also Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi)

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FMEC 2020 CFP: The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 25th January 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE ITCVT2020 Workshop Co-located with NOMS2020 (deadline extension)
by Ons Bouachir 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Call for Papers The Third Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) in conjunction with https://emergingtechnet.org/ITCVT2020/ IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 20-24 April 2020 - Budapest, Hungary https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org/ Following the theme of NOMS 2020 on Management in the Age of Softwarization and AI, and building on the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of ITCVT2020 is to present research and experience results in the areas of intelligent transportation and smart vehicular technology. Intelligent transportation systems integrated with self-managed vehicular and wireless network technologies will improve the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many challenges face intelligent transportation and connected vehicles technologies, which can be resolved using artificial intelligence and softwarization. Authors are invited to submit papers and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITCVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles with the aid of softwarization and AI. *Topics of Interest* Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below: *Management of Smart Vehicular Systems* · Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving · Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems · Cooperative Driving and Traffic Management · Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks · In-Vehicle Networks and Communications *AI for Vehicular Network and Service Management* · Connected Services and Mobility management · Management and Artificial Intelligence for CAV · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Congestion and awareness control in CAV · Advanced driver assistance systems *Energy-Efficient Vehicular Networks* · Green Vehicular Communication and Services · Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles · Cooperative solutions for vehicular network power management *Security and Privacy of CAV* · Cyber-threat free CAV environment · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Security and Privacy of CAV *Paper Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted through JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3500 *Proceedings* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. *Program Co-Chairs* · Dr. Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics, Ottawa, Canada · Prof. Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey · Prof. Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK. *Important Dates* Submission Date: *19 January 2020 * Notification to Authors: 9 February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 1 March 2020

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SDS-2020 (Final CFP): The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) 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 2020 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 2020 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 France 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: 25th January 2020 (Final and Firm Extension) *Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020* *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTNAT 2020 CFP: The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies
by Yufei Sun 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *IoTNAT 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 2020) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). The IoTNAT 2020 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 SCE and 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on IoTNAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SCE 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCE 2020 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 focused 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 SCE and 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE ITCVT2020 Workshop Co-located with NOMS2020
by Moayad Aloqaily 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

*Call for Papers* The Third Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) in conjunction with https://emergingtechnet.org/ITCVT2020/ IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 20-24 April 2020 - Budapest, Hungary https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org/ Following the theme of NOMS 2020 on Management in the Age of Softwarization and AI, and building on the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of ITCVT2020 is to present research and experience results in the areas of intelligent transportation and smart vehicular technology. Intelligent transportation systems integrated with self-managed vehicular and wireless network technologies will improve the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many challenges face intelligent transportation and connected vehicles technologies, which can be resolved using artificial intelligence and softwarization. Authors are invited to submit papers and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITCVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles with the aid of softwarization and AI. *Topics of Interest* Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below: *Management of Smart Vehicular Systems* · Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving · Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems · Cooperative Driving and Traffic Management · Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks · In-Vehicle Networks and Communications *AI for Vehicular Network and Service Management* · Connected Services and Mobility management · Management and Artificial Intelligence for CAV · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Congestion and awareness control in CAV · Advanced driver assistance systems *Energy-Efficient Vehicular Networks* · Green Vehicular Communication and Services · Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles · Cooperative solutions for vehicular network power management *Security and Privacy of CAV* · Cyber-threat free CAV environment · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Security and Privacy of CAV *Paper Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted through JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3500 *Proceedings* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. *Program Co-Chairs* · Dr. Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics, Ottawa, Canada · Prof. Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey · Prof. Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK. *Important Dates* Paper Submission: *January 5th, 2020* Notification of Acceptance: *January 26th, 2016* Camera Ready: *February 16th, 2020*

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SECEI 2020 CFP: The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SECEI2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SECEI 2020 CFP* The digital world is expanding rapidly and advances in new computing platforms such as Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT computing. All of which are pushing to adapt and to migrate to from legacy computing paradigms to the new ones. Enterprises earnestly contemplate how to migrate its software application to gain their enormous benefits which include on-demand availability of resources, reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements. They are looking for methodologies that accelerate migrating their software application towards modern computing in effective cost and time. The challenges behind migrating existing software applications varies depending on the architectures of these applications and the targeted computing platforms. These changes lay behind of software architecture migration, data migrating, manage data offloading, software packaging and virtualization, and automating application deployment. The International Symposium on Software Engineering for Cloud, Edge and Internet of Things Systems (SECEI 2020) is aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software architected migration. * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software refactoring. * Software workflow mining. * Software orchestration mining. * Software virtualization. * Software warping. * Software packaging * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT transformation models. * Cloud, Edge, Fog and IoT software quality models. * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SECEI and SDS 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SECEI 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IoTNAT 2020 CFP: The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies
by Yufei Sun 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The sixth International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTNAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *IoTNAT 2020 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 20 billion by 2020. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2020. 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 2020) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020). The IoTNAT 2020 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 SCE and 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on IoTNAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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BAT 2020 CFP: The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) 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 2020 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 2020 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 France 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: 5th January 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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FMEC 2020 CFP: The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 29 Dec '19

29 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 5th January 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC) 2020
by Ons Bouachir 25 Dec '19

25 Dec '19

*The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC)* *In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2020* http://www.pkucareer.com/NMIC2020.html <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=eb035e44-b725ba9a-eb076d4b-000babda03…> *Call for Papers* The new computation technologies, such as big data analytics, modern machine learning technology, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing, have the great potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be intelligent and trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), software-defined network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms for fast and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop, there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation technologies. The ultimate goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency, which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are many open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be enforced with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data analytics, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures and protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the computation-enabled network. The NMIC workshop 2020 solicits the papers that address the technical challenges and applications of the distributed computations for networking, the intelligent computations supported by the novel networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations. We envision that the combination of computations with networking will provide more effective computation support for applications and enable the network to be more intelligent, trustworthy, and efficient. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Networking architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and communications - Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking - In-network computation for future networks, inter-data center networking and 5G - Information-centric networking with/for computations - Intelligent Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with networking - Intelligent service function/computation chaining - Security, privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking - Collection and processing for big network data - Distributed computations for network anomaly detection and security - Integrating Blockchain with networking - Network function virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for distributed computations - Networking computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR - In-network data computations for network measurement and management - Distributed artificial intelligence with/for networking - Data modelling and applications of networking - Big data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other applications *Important Dates*: Submission deadline: *February 15, 2020* Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 Camera ready: April 15, 2020 Workshop: July 8-10, 2020 *TPC Chairs * • Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA • Ruidong Li, National Institute of Informationand Communications Technology (NICT), Japan • Michele Nogueira, Federal University ofParana, Brazil *Web Chair * • Ka-Cheong Leung, The University ofHong Kong, China *Publicity Chairs * • Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE • Moayad Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc., Canada • Safa Otoum, University of Ottawa, Canada *Steering Committee * • Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China • Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA • Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan • Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany

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SDS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 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. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) 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 2020 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 2020 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 France 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: 5th January 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDE 2020 CFP: The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] *The International Workshop on Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) <http://www.emergingtechnet.org/SDE2020/> * in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDE 2020 CFP* Software Defined Infrastructures consists of fully virtualised compute, networking, storage and other resources are abstracted away from the underlying physical infrastructure through software, such as Software Defined Data Centre. This allows policy-based infrastructure provisioning and enables IT automation. Software-defined infrastructure is not tied to specific hardware and can operate without or with little human involvement. This paradigm fully integrated and automated IT functions and resources. Software Defined Data Centre combines can be a result of a combination of all software defined technologies, such as SDN, SDStore, SDCompute, SDSec etc, otherwise called Software Defined Everything. Cloud computing is one major factor driving the growth of software defined everything. The International workshop for Software Defined Everything (SDE2020) is calls for contributors to present and discuss the most recent research results, innovations, trends, and concerns in the fields the new emerging opportunity of Software Defined Everything. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: · Trends in SDE, theories, applications and trends · SDE Markets · Security in SDE · Software defined data centre · Software defined infrastructures · Software defined IOT/Edge · Software Defined – Centralized Vs Decentralized infrastructure · Software-Defined WAN · Softwarization methodologies for SDE · SDE on demand · SDE as a service · Business models for SDE · Adaptive Software for SDE · SDE and Vendor-lock-in · SDE Business Agility · Business case for SDE · SDE and compliance *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDE and SDS 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. In addition, 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDE2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP - WF-IoT Special Session on IoT for Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery (deadline Jan 3rd, 2020)
by Tortonesi Mauro 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

****************************************************************************** IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 5-9 April 2020 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Special Session on IoT for Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery https://wfiot2020.iot.ieee.org/special-sessions-track-19-4/ CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** Natural and manmade disasters can occur unpredictably and range in severity from something locally manageable to large scale events that require external intervention. Smaller scale events typically involve local law enforcement and emergency responders. On the other hand, when large scale disasters occur, they can cause widespread damage and overwhelm the ability of local governments and authorities to respond. In such situations, Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is essential for a rapid and robust response. Across the spectrum of these operations, IoT, Smart Cities, and Smart Environments can significantly improve the ability of emergency responders to quickly understand the situation and conditions (also known as developing Situation Awareness). IoT can help with assessing potential damage that has been caused (e.g., to the city infrastructure, communications and power grid, road conditions, transportation services, etc.). Application of IoT to supply chain management can provide very rapid insights into the logistical situation and result it faster resupply of critically needed materials. User-centered / peer-to-peer IoT services can enable victims to help each other, thereby accelerating the recovery effort. Finally, pervasive deployment of IoT in the context of hospitals and medical services can improve triage and care for those in need. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The scope and technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Smart city monitoring and leveraging services in smart city environments for disaster response and other activities. * Integration of IoT capabilities into Emergency Response Centers. * Requirements, examples, and use cases for deployment of IoT for disaster relief and emergency response. * IoT data analytics and visualization for emergency response. * Service-oriented computing, standards and standardization of APIs for IoT and smart cities. * Applications of IoT for logistics and supply chain management, especially in the context of disaster relief. * Applications of IoT for emergency medical response, including monitoring of hospital conditions (availability of space, supplies, and needed expertise / equipment). * Novel integration of IoT-based physiological monitors and emergency responders for triage. * IoT to monitor critical infrastructure, including power grid, transportation, and communications. * Challenges and solutions to deploying and using IoT in degraded environments (e.g., when infrastructure, communications, and electrical power may be limited). * Architectural aspects of bridging civilian and military IoT infrastructure, including federation, security, information, and communication architectures, work flow / business processes, interoperability and Integration of disparate technologies. * Information management challenges for military application of IoT – trustworthiness, pedigree, provenance, and enabling military commanders and missions to benefit from IoT generated information. * Examples of physical instantiations of military IoT systems built from commercially available elements and architectures. * Security challenges related to co-existence and interconnection of military and civilian IoT networks. * Resilience to adversarial security attacks and misuse / abuse of IoT infrastructure and capabilities. * Challenges related to reliability and dependability, especially when IoT becomes mission critical. * Zero-configuration or other approaches to simplify the deployment and configuration of IoT, especially in coalition settings where disparate IoT resources need to coexist and interoperate. * Knowledge discovery, including semantic and syntax discovery of information provided by IoT. * Challenges related to actuation of IoT devices, especially with real-time requirements * Power challenges for tactically deployed IoT devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: January 3rd, 2020 Acceptance Notification: January 26th, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: February 27th, 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER SUBMISSION Submit papers at: https://epapers.org/wf-iot2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZERS Dr. Niranjan Suri US Army Research Laboratory Adelphi, MD Dr. Konrad Wrona NATO Communications and Information Agency The Hague, The Netherlands Dr. Frank T. Johnsen Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) Kjeller, Norway -- 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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Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! The #1 destination for EU research collaboration and market opportunities
by Sustainable Places 2020 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/Rlf2yHQisGUwdjJntwHMVpyz1UetHBEpou_Lv… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/jHBQpFCFlhRu5jFjKeWVPcIrUzxBXpQjh4t… ) Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! 3-5 June 2020 / Aix-les-Bains, FR Europe's #1 destination for dissemination of research, collaboration, networking and the creation of market opportunities This year, we invite a special focus on: Circular Economy Digital Twins Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Local Energy Communities But all building sustainability topics and project workshops are welcome! [ Submit a contribution ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/t7oAgIE_64dGHRyGHmHPyT8OsKz6d6jjik8… ) Sustainable Places consists of: Keynote speakers Technical paper sessions Thematic workshops & EU project clustering Exhibition area (posters, brochures and prototypes) Local area visits Excellent people, collaboration and discussion Conference Agenda Participants have the opportunity to submit technical papers for publication, organize workshops for individual projects or for the clustering of projects without papers, to display brochures, posters and prototypes in informal exposition areas (free of charge), or participate without a particular submission to the various sessions, workshops and networking opportunities. Each year, representatives of the European Commission have attended to hold contractor workshops, brief upcoming call topics, or present various initiatives of the European Framework Programme. The Venue Local event organizer Etienne WURTZ - Head of the CEA solar and building division It is a pleasure to welcome you again in Aix-les-Bains, the French Riviera of the Alps. You‘ll have the opportunity to discover the French National Solar Energy Institute. SP2020 will take place within the new building of the engineering school Polytech Annecy-Chambery. We’ll also organize a scientific school the week after Sustainable Places. I hope you will enjoy the event and I look forward to meeting all of you in June ! The new Chambery site of Polytech (2 Avenue du lac d'Annecy, 73370 Le Bourget-du-Lac), the engineering school of Savoie Mont Blanc University, will be the primary venue location for all SP2020 project meetings, parallel sessions or locations for special requests / events. Just a few steps away from Polytech is the landmark Helios building of INES where the SP2020 catering and networking opportunities will be held (50 Avenue du Lac Léman, 73370 Le Bourget-du-Lac). We invite everyone to make the most of Sustainable Places 2020. Rooms for special requests, project meetings (public/private), or events are offered free of charge all week. Organized by French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission National Institute of Solar Energy R2M Solution University Savoie Mont Blanc Graduate School Solar Academy Polytech Annecy Chambery Sponsorship opportunities Sponsors may elect a general sponsorship, to sponsor various parts of the event (e.g. lunch or coffee break) or registration packages that make possible local or student registrations.All sponsors will be featured in SP2020 promotional literature and are welcome to display materials in the foyer areas. We welcome industrials to get involved in the support of this event. Download the [ sponsorship brochure ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Q6tU7hVPEE4pZRA3C68rb7BxN3pIysfd-xp… ) and get in touch at [ sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com ]( mailto:sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com?subject=SP2020%20first%20newsletter%20reply ) Publication opportunities Buildings (peer-reviewed) Should contributors wish to be considered for a full-length (7-9 pages) journal submission, they should check the appropriate CfP application option. Proceedings (not peer-reviewed) All contribution types (e.g. posters, workshops, presentations, etc.) can write a 3-4 page summary to be included in the SP2020 Proceedings edition. [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/kvIZa0zwsJu3NM1FeYm2eQlbL-Y3FO2jw9l… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. However, to be sure you don't receive any further communications related to Sustainable Places, please click to unsubscribe http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/3r4MySroZTzNnesCQaQg1FEzLEPVSUqUJiJ7Z…

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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Call for Chapters: Security and Privacy Solutions for the Internet of Energy
by Mohamed Amine FERRAG 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

*Call for Chapters: Security and Privacy Solutions for the Internet of Energy* Full Chapters Due: January 20, 2020 https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4436 Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key of modern and future life. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly, to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new form of consumption, such as electric cars. The dilemma with this increase consumption is, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of Internet of Energy to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution on the Internet of Energy involves a significant change inside of the consumer where consumers will also become a producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. The main problem in the development of the Internet of Energy is not located at the physical medium but mainly in the delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks on the Internet of Energy network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high-performance Internet of Energy. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in the delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack, etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control, and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high-performance smart grids Objective This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography for the Internet of Energy. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of security and privacy. Recommended Topics • Threat models and attack strategies for Internet of Energy • Security and privacy in Internet of Energy with AI • Identification and biometrics in Internet of Energy • Security and privacy in cloud/fog/edge computing • Trust management architectures • Security and privacy in cooperative machine learning • Security architectures and protection mechanisms for Internet of Energy • Security applications and management of Internet of Energy • Security of Big Data in Internet of Energy • Intrusion and malware detection/prevention technologies for Internet of Energy • Security of Cyber physical Internet of Energy systems • Models for risk identification and assessment in Internet of Energy networks • Lightweight cryptographic algorithms and protocols Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *November 15, 2019* a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by *November 29, 2019* about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *January 20, 2020*, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ <http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/>prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Security and Privacy Solutions for the Internet of Energy. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager. -- _________________________________________________________________________ *Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag* Senior Lecturer Class A Department of Computer Science Guelma University, BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 661 87 30 51 E-mails: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com / ferrag.mohamedamine(a)univ-guelma.dz Homepage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/

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Joint CFP for Workshops co-located with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020 (deadline Jan. 5th, 2020)
by Tortonesi Mauro 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS - NOMS 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 20-24 April 2020 // Budapest, Hungary Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************* The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) will be held on 20-24 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2020 will follow the 32 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2020 will feature the following 6 co-located workshops, which will be held immediately prior or after the main Technical Program, to further disseminate fine-tuned research, and that are organized around the main conference theme: Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to check the website of each workshop to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions through JEMS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2020) Web site: https://annet2020.loria.fr/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3497 AnNet aims to present research and experience results in data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning are promising to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies (DISSECT 2020) Web site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/dissect/2020/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3502 DISSECT will offer a venue for bringing together students, researchers, and professionals from academia and industry sharing common interest on security challenges related to the design and management of the distributed networks and infrastructures. DISSECT is intended to (1) discussing these challenges as well as future trends on security management, (2) presenting and discussing work-in-progress security-related research on cutting-edge technologies, and (3) strengthening collaboration and research ties among peers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International workshop on Graph-based network Security (GraSec 2020) Web site: https://grasec.uni.lu Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3501 Graph-based modeling offers the advantage of understanding complex attacks and determining the root cause of an attack. However, existing graph mining tools for anomaly detection over streaming events are not adapted for cyber-security problems while the corresponding data continuously appears in the form of complex graphs. The main goal of GraSec is to present research and experience results in graph applications on network and cybersecurity as well as the defensive and offensive tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) Web site: http://emergingtechnet.org/ITCVT2020/index.php Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3500 The aim of the ITCVT workshop is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and vehicle technology. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITCVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of smart cities and other application domains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0 Web site: http://management-for-industry40.icb.at/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3499 The Industry 4.0 revolution presents a multitude of management related challenges including the transition from ISA-95 to RAMI4.0/IIRA based automation for production automation, the integration of legacy OT with emerging IT technologies, the automation/digitalisation across value networks involving a multitude of stakeholders in complex relationships, and the formation of large to very large System of Systems (SoS). This workshop will focus on a number of core engineering and management issues for Industry 4.0, associated theory, architectures, frameworks, security and experimental experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Orchestration for Software Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI 2020) Web site: http://o4sdi.unibo.it/o4sdi5 Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3498 The O4SDI workshop addresses the challenges of facilitating orchestration and programmability of generalized virtual functions in Software Defined Infrastructures (SDI), enabling cloud and network providers to deploy integrated services across different resource domains. Orchestration mechanisms will facilitate the live deployment and lifecycle management of these virtual elements, at the application level, the server level, and the network level within a single domain and across multiple domains, ultimately enabling dynamic establishment of generalized virtual functions chains, according to service requirements. ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 5th, 2020 Acceptance Notification: January 26th, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: February 16th, 2020 Registration Deadline: March 1st, 2020 -- 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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SCE 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCE 2020 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 focused 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 SCE and 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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BAT 2020 CFP: The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDN-NFV2020 CFP:The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization , Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Yufei Sun 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDN-NFV 2020 CFP* The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDN-NFV 2020) workshop, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of SDN, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN and NFV, to mention but few. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design * Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Architectures and Design * SDN-NFV Integration * SDN-NFV Orchestration * SDN-NFV Based Control plane design * SDN-NFV Based Data plane design * SDN-NFV Performance Management * SDN-NFV support for Cloud based DataCenter * SDN-NFV support for 5G Networks * SDN-NFV support for Internet of Things (IoT) * SDN-NFV support for Big Data Computing * SDN-NFV support for large scale storage system * Hardware system design for SDN-NFV * SDN-NFV Security management * Radio Access Network virtualization * SDN-NFV in access networks * Edge and Fog Computing * Cloud Computing * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDN-NFV and SDS 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: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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FMEC 2020 CFP: The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides 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 2020 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 2020 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 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: 5th January 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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IEEE ITCVT2020 Workshop Co-located with NOMS2020
by Ons Bouachir 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Call for Papers The Third Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) in conjunction with https://emergingtechnet.org/ITCVT2020/ IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 20-24 April 2020 - Budapest, Hungary https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org/ Following the theme of NOMS 2020 on Management in the Age of Softwarization and AI, and building on the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of ITCVT2020 is to present research and experience results in the areas of intelligent transportation and smart vehicular technology. Intelligent transportation systems integrated with self-managed vehicular and wireless network technologies will improve the quality and delivery performance of diversified vehicular services. Many challenges face intelligent transportation and connected vehicles technologies, which can be resolved using artificial intelligence and softwarization. Authors are invited to submit papers and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITCVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles with the aid of softwarization and AI. *Topics of Interest* Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas listed below: *Management of Smart Vehicular Systems* · Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving · Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems · Cooperative Driving and Traffic Management · Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks · In-Vehicle Networks and Communications *AI for Vehicular Network and Service Management* · Connected Services and Mobility management · Management and Artificial Intelligence for CAV · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Congestion and awareness control in CAV · Advanced driver assistance systems *Energy-Efficient Vehicular Networks* · Green Vehicular Communication and Services · Power Management of Smart Electric Vehicles · Cooperative solutions for vehicular network power management *Security and Privacy of CAV* · Cyber-threat free CAV environment · Blockchain Systems for CAV · Security and Privacy of CAV *Paper Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted through JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3500 *Proceedings* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore. *Program Co-Chairs* · Dr. Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics, Ottawa, Canada · Prof. Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey · Prof. Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK. *Important Dates* Paper Submission: *January 5th, 2020* Notification of Acceptance: *January 26th, 2016* Camera Ready: *February 16th, 2020*

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IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020: Call for Workshop Proposals - Extended Deadline: Oct 17th, 2019
by Tortonesi Mauro 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

********************************************************************* CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS - NOMS 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 20-24 April 2020 // Budapest, Hungary Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) will be held on 20-24 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2020 will follow the 32 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2020 will feature a number of workshops to further disseminate fine-tuned research, that are organized around the main conference theme: Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020 invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, which will be held prior or immediately after the main NOMS 2020 Technical Program. The main purpose of the NOMS 2020 Workshops is to provide a forum for evaluating new frontiers in research, development, integration, standards, advance service provisioning, and user communities addressing smart and hyper-connected environments, virtualization, programmability in native softwarization of networking technologies. All workshops would need to complement the main conference theme and topics that include management of 5G and Beyopnd Networks, Fixed and Mobile Networks and Services, Clouds, Vertical Eco-Systems, Converged network operations and seamless secure services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each workshop proposal must include: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Names, addresses, and a short (200 words) bio of the major organizers (e.g., TPC (Co-) chair(s), OC General (Co-)chair(s)) 3. A brief description (1 page) of the technical issues addressed by the workshop. State reasons why and how the workshop would attract the NOMS 2020 audience. 4. Organizing Committee (OC) and Technical Program Committee (TPC) 5. Likely contributors and targeted audience. 6. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively and interactive discussions. 7. If applicable, a description of the past events of the workshop, including all statistics of submitted/accepted papers and attendee numbers. If the workshop does not have past editions, please provide estimates and explain a strategy on how to reach the targets of paper submissions and attendees. 8. Publicity and advertising plan to attract paper submissions and attendees. 9. A draft of 1-page "Call for Papers (CFP)" including title, description, topics and important dates. 10. The workshop website address, if applicable. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of NOMS 2020 by email to the following addresses: - Marc-Oliver Pahl <pahl(a)net.in.tum.de> - Mauro Tortonesi <mauro.tortonesi(a)unife.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission: October 17, 2019 (extended!) - Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2019 (extended!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tentative* Schedule for Accepted Workshops - Paper submission deadline (coordinated): January 15, 2020 - Paper acceptance notification (coordinated): February 15, 2020 - Camera-ready version due (coordinated): February 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs - Marc-Oliver Pahl, Technischen Universität München, Germany - Mauro Tortonesi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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Final Call for Poster and Demo - IEEE CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Final Call for short, poster and demo papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/poster.htm Key dates: Submission Deadline: 07 October 2019 (HST) Notification: 10 October 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 15 October 2019 Submissions Please email your short/poster/demo papers to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "CloudCom 2019 poster demo submission". The page limit is 4 pages in IEEE CS format. Publication: Accepted short/poster/demo papers will be published in the main conference CloudCom 2019 Proceedings which will be published by IEEE CS Press. Topics of interest for short/poster/demos, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE CIT 2019 (Computer and Information Technology), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Final Call for papers: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2019), 11-13 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 25, 2019 (11:59pm HST) Notification: October 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 25, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction IEEE CIT 2019 is the 19th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Information Technology - Blockchain - Cloud Computing - Data Science and Systems - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and Radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Web Technologies 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/2019/cit/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 selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Program Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Workshop Chairs Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

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J-BHI Special Issue on “Blockchain and Healthcare Computing”
by Blockchain IEEE 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS J-BHI Special Issue on “Blockchain and Healthcare Computing” With the development of society, health has received increasing attentions. The development of science and technology has also promoted the protection of health. In recent years, the rapid development of computing and networking technologies has improved the ability to collect, measure, and analyze health-related data, and thus tremendous opportunities have opened up for healthcare computing. Meanwhile, these technologies have also brought new challenges and issues. For example, patients’ diagnostic records stored in hospital management systems may be tampered with, which may affect the patients’ health management and insurance compensation. Blockchain has received increasing attention from academia and industry in recent years. It enables transparent interactions of different parties in a more secure and trusted network. The traceability of blockchain allows data to be retained on the blockchain from every step of the data generation process, to endorse the quality of the data and to ensure the correctness of data analysis and mining. The content recorded in the blockchain cannot be tampered with, so it can be used to record important information in health management, provide accurate and reliable health knowledge for network users, and provide accurate information for auditing. This special issue aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial organizations addressing emerging issues in blockchain and healthcare computing (blockchain combined with computing for healthcare). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The design and implementation of testbed and infrastructure of blockchain in computing for healthcare - Blockchain and medical devices - Blockchain and wearables (mobile healthcare with blockchain) - Access control of healthcare information based on blockchain - Blockchain for data collection and analysis in healthcare computing - Blockchain for communication network management in healthcare computing - Payment system based on blockchain in healthcare - Accountability in healthcare computing based on blockchain - Privacy in healthcare computing based on blockchain - Theories about blockchain evolution in healthcare computing Guest Editors Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China; Aalto University, Finland F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia Wei Chen, Fudan University, China Key Dates Deadline for Submission: 1 Oct, 2019 First Reviews Due: 1 Dec, 2019 Revised Manuscript Due: 1 Feb, 2020 Final Decision: 1 April, 2020

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IoT Simulator Release
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] We have released code for the Internet of Things (IoT) Simulator (IoTSim-Edge and IoTSim-Stream). Individual simulator properties are listed as follows. Find this link to download the simulator and user manual. LINK: https://rajivranjan.net/iotsim/iotsim-release/ The unique features provided by *IoTSim-Edge* - New IoT application graph modeling abstraction that allows practitioners to define the data analytic operations and their mapping to different parts of the infrastructure (e.g. IoT and edge). - The abstraction that supports modeling of heterogeneous IoT protocols along with their energy consumption profile. - It allows practitioners to define the configuration of edge and IoT devices along with the specific protocols they support for networking. - The abstraction that supports modeling of mobile IoT devices. - It also captures the effect of handoff caused by the movement of IoT devices. - This supports a cooperative edge-to-edge communication that allows the transfer of the processed data of the respective IoT device by one edge via another edge. The unique features provided by *IoTSim-Stream* - Support modeling data incentive IoT-based applications using stream processing model (aka stream graph applications). - Support modeling Multicloud environment as an execution environment for stream graph application. - Support user-defined resource provisioning and scheduling policies. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#m_-3330104304073237774_m_1892702028698550911_m_-3945926137371949188_m_-8366651989250049870_m_-6523994613213037580_m_-2017505527304677882_m_-4519534350942287427_m_727204774248704102_m_5942769565029891256_m_-3388761656478675448_m_1469688015519361039_m_-4389534215475672548_m_7480604196536126110_m_1759200226978514695_m_-6200877099479937359_m_1952820866678730786_m_-882225267650174955_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Extended CFP - The 2019 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2019)
by Andrew Clashe 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Extended CALL FOR PAPERS The 2019 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2019) In conjunction with The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science December 11-13, 2019, Sydney, Australia www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~bzho9612/apscc2019 PUBLICATION Proceedings will be published with CloudCom 2019 by IEEE CS Press. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: September 25, 2019 (extended) Notification of paper acceptance: Oct. 15, 2019 Cameral ready due: Oct. 25, 2019 Registration due: Oct. 25, 2019 APSCC is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT/telecommunication-driven business services and application services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of Services Computing. APSCC 2019 expects to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Sydney - the world famous beautiful city in Australia, and continues to establish the status of APSCC as one of the major conferences on the services computing. Topics of interest for each of the main research tracks of the 2019 conference edition include, but are not limited to: - Cloud/Utility/Web Computing/BigData - Foundations of Services Computing - Social/Peer-to-Peer/Mobile/Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing - Service-centric Computing Models - Integration of telecommunication SOA and Web services - Business Process Integration and Management - Security in Services - Applications PAPER SUBMISSIONS 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. 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. Please use the following link for APSCC 2019 paper submission: http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~bzho9612/apscc2019/submission.html Steering Committee Chair Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Chairs Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Program Committee Chairs Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Publicity Chair Dong Yuan, University of Sydney, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo - IEEE CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Call for short, poster and demo papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/poster.htm Key dates: Submission Deadline: 05 October 2019 (HST) Notification: 10 October 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 15 October 2019 Submissions Please email your short/poster/demo papers to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "CloudCom 2019 poster demo submission". The page limit is 4 pages in IEEE CS format. Publication: Accepted short/poster/demo papers will be published in the main conference CloudCom 2019 Proceedings which will be published by IEEE CS Press. Topics of interest for short/poster/demos, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Extended CFP: IEEE CIT 2019 (Computer and Information Technology), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Call for papers: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2019), 11-13 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 25, 2019 (11:59pm HST) Notification: October 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 25, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction IEEE CIT 2019 is the 19th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Information Technology - Blockchain - Cloud Computing - Data Science and Systems - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and Radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Web Technologies 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/2019/cit/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 selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Program Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Workshop Chairs Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

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IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020: Call for Workshop Proposals - Deadline: Sep 30th, 2019
by Tortonesi Mauro 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS - NOMS 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 20-24 April 2020 // Budapest, Hungary Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ********************************************************************* The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) will be held on 20-24 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2020 will follow the 32 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2020 will feature a number of workshops to further disseminate fine-tuned research, that are organized around the main conference theme: Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020 invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, which will be held prior or immediately after the main NOMS 2020 Technical Program. The main purpose of the NOMS 2020 Workshops is to provide a forum for evaluating new frontiers in research, development, integration, standards, advance service provisioning, and user communities addressing smart and hyper-connected environments, virtualization, programmability in native softwarization of networking technologies. All workshops would need to complement the main conference theme and topics that include management of 5G and Beyond Networks, Fixed and Mobile Networks and Services, Clouds, Vertical Eco-Systems, Converged network operations and seamless secure services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each workshop proposal must include: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Names, addresses, and a short (200 words) bio of the major organizers (e.g., TPC (Co-) chair(s), OC General (Co-)chair(s)) 3. A brief description (1 page) of the technical issues addressed by the workshop. State reasons why and how the workshop would attract the NOMS 2020 audience. 4. Organizing Committee (OC) and Technical Program Committee (TPC) 5. Likely contributors and targeted audience. 6. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively and interactive discussions. 7. If applicable, a description of the past events of the workshop, including all statistics of submitted/accepted papers and attendee numbers. If the workshop does not have past editions, please provide estimates and explain a strategy on how to reach the targets of paper submissions and attendees. 8. Publicity and advertising plan to attract paper submissions and attendees. 9. A draft of 1-page "Call for Papers (CFP)" including title, description, topics and important dates. 10. The workshop website address, if applicable. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of NOMS 2020 by email to the following addresses: - Marc-Oliver Pahl <pahl(a)net.in.tum.de> - Mauro Tortonesi <mauro.tortonesi(a)unife.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission: September 30, 2019 - Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tentative* Schedule for Accepted Workshops - Paper submission deadline (coordinated): January 15, 2020 - Paper acceptance notification (coordinated): February 15, 2020 - Camera-ready version due (coordinated): February 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs - Marc-Oliver Pahl, Technischen Universität München, Germany - Mauro Tortonesi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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CFP: IEEE CIT 2019 (Computer and Information Technology), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Call for papers: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2019), 11-13 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 5, 2019 (11:59pm HST) Notification: October 5, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction IEEE CIT 2019 is the 19th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Information Technology - Blockchain - Cloud Computing - Data Science and Systems - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and Radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Web Technologies 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/2019/cit/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 selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Program Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Workshop Chairs Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

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Final CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Final Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo 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/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Fwd: CFP: IEEE CIT 2019 (Computer and Information Technology), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 19 Aug '19

19 Aug '19

Call for papers: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2019), 11-13 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 5, 2019 (11:59pm HST) Notification: October 5, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction IEEE CIT 2019 is the 19th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Information Technology - Blockchain - Cloud Computing - Data Science and Systems - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and Radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Web Technologies 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/2019/cit/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 selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Program Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Workshop Chairs Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

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Extended CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

Extended Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo 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/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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CFP: IEEE CIT 2019 (Computer and Information Technology), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Call for papers: The 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2019), 11-13 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 5, 2019 (11:59pm HST) Notification: October 5, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cit/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction IEEE CIT 2019 is the 19th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Information Technology - Computer Science - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and Radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Web Technologies 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/2019/cit/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 selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Program Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Workshop Chairs Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

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CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo 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/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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CNSM 2019 - Workshops: Deadline approaching
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

Dear all, This is just a gentle reminder that there are 3 co-located Workshops with CNSM 2019, 21-25 October 2019 in Halifax, Canada. * 2nd International Workshop on High-Precision Networks Operations and Control (HIPNET 2019) * 2nd Workshop on Segment Routing and Service Function Chaining (SR+SFC 2019) * 1st International Workshop on Analytics for Service and Application Management (AnServApp 2019) The submission deadline for the Workshop papers is July 15, 2019. We encourage you to submit long/short papers to CNSM 2019 Workshops! More information is available at: http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2019/workshops.html Sorry for multiple postings. Kind regards, Nur & Remi CNSM 2019 TPC Co-Chairs

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CFP: CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil / Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy/ Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita’ di Napoli, Italy - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway /Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain / Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo 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/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Rajan, Newcastle University, UK Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Sustainable Places 2019 (5-7 June, Cagliari): Event Success!
by Sustainable Places 2019 Organising Committee 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/TEgG0nzJNYe7pktnvemh3gQjjm-J35FqETcoL… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/gkRI2PC88HGnhg6TR1H4tukLu2S4QUYavS3… ) Event Success! A sincere thank you to all our participants and everyone who contributed to the largest edition yet of Sustainable Places. In total, approximately 350 people came through the event. Some highlights are captured in the following images. SP2019 Highlights: 180 Conference Registrants 100 Local area professionals trained by GBC Italia (CAM Environmental Training) 70 / Full Capacity EU Infoday & Brokerage Event 50 SmartEn City pre-event workshop 80 Local Italian Stakeholder participating in Smart Grid Community Sessions 15 Clustering Workshops 9 Inspiring keynotes [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/teX_m1EtjJ_B-51UWeuadsk56MKyBJGUv1-… ) Thursday evening aperitivo Pre-Events [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Yfj8hM-IXCq9wgNITpsTzq9oXNqtZED-Qrd… ) The REACT project visits Carloforte (pilot) [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6cwnQ-vgSTNawEMr7UYSUQiS3RiMRpGUm2n… ) The DRIVE project holding its GA at the Lazzaretto [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6VjbsANKT5FwxEcCbVzAX3jFPtCfmWF0NQt… ) Training Local Area Professionals with GBC Italia Keynote speakers [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/RU7zws_lCaRvwuN_BMT4v_7ZTJG0rlp7HrY… ) Workshops & Sessions [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/9Uj_OF_U6usjR9jtafpG465EiCNg0G3UCSF… ) Social program [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FGqnRKCJm5R5D1t1g_UE-2odw_1j2KyfQN_… ) City tour and Gala Dinner [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/DHwGYVLOPpyV-COvl37dItpcYS2Y8Brx7pU… ) Finding Flamingos! Thanks to the projects [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/xHzRk2tqMM8ePiADDkjiDnYfr0Y92fe9Rqh… ) See you next year in Aix les Bains! [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4JugATeLqi1UnVfWq8t4hSN2ZAg1gk9XMwy… ) And thanks one last time to all those that helped make SP2019 possible! Organized by French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission Comune di Cagliari R2M Solution University of Cagliari With the Patronage of Sardegna Ricerche GBC Italy Comune di Cagliari Comune di Quartu CRS4 Parco Molentargius Saline Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities Insight Publishers MDPI Buildings [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4sF6ZItjoBDx-rlpF-BSAPjEIYB9NOiH2cm… ) proceedings Sponsored by [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/oF3KtPh_v7pOFiyTv2fczVKAMW0GKKXGoWW… ) axpo IME legrand BTicino [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KEWPCjYomb90CVjTZiaMV5sJumOpWF7WBRy… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. However, to be sure you don't receive any further communications related to Sustainable Places, please click to unsubscribe http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/EnYmx3GieSeG0Km6VFzyIbu9DgRglqz9qyo6E…

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CNSM 2019 - Less than one week before deadline: June 15th, 2019
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - CNSM 2019 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management 21-25 October 2019, Halifax, Canada Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2019 (extended) http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2019/ ******************************************************************** The 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2019 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2019 will focus on the theme "Embracing the New Wave of AI". The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2019 will be published open access on the conference Web site (with IFIP copyright). Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2019 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Network Management - Software-defined networks - Virtual networks - Overlay networks - Wireless networks and cellular networks - Sensor networks - Internet of Things networks - Information-centric networks - Enterprise networks and campus networks - Data center networks - Optical networks - IP networks - Home networks - Access networks - SCADA networks and distributed control systems - Smart cities and smart grids Management Paradigms - Centralized management - Distributed management - Hierarchical management - Federated management - Autonomic and cognitive management - Policy-based management - Pro-active management - Energy-aware management - Quality of experience-centric management Service Management - Cloud computing services - Content delivery services - Multimedia services - Internet connectivity and Internet access - Internet of Things services - Security services - Context-aware services - Information technology services Business Management - Economic aspects - Multi-stakeholder aspects - Service level agreements - Lifecycle aspects - Process and workflow aspects - Legal perspective - Regulatory perspective - Privacy aspects Functional Areas - Deployment management - Fault management - Configuration management - Accounting management - Performance management - Security management Management Technologies - Network function virtualization - Software-defined networking - Orchestration - Cloud computing and cloud storage - Communication protocols - Middleware - Data models, information models semantic models - Operations support systems and business support systems - Information visualization Methods - Mathematical optimization - Control theory - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory - Machine learning, artificial intelligence - Evolutionary algorithms - Economic theory and game theory - Mathematical logic and automated reasoning - Data mining and (big) data analysis - Monitoring and measurements - Computer simulation experiments - Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation - Field trials -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 8 pages excluding references (full papers) or 4 pages excluding references (short papers). They have to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS. Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission : June 15, 2019 (extended) Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2019 Camera Ready due : August 30, 2019 Conference : October 21-25, 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Yixin Diao, PebblePost, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, France Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France James Hong, POSTECH, Korea Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA

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CNSM 2019 - Less than two weeks before deadline: June 15th, 2019
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - CNSM 2019 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management 21-25 October 2019, Halifax, Canada Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2019 (extended) http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2019/ ******************************************************************** The 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2019 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2019 will focus on the theme "Embracing the New Wave of AI". The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2019 will be published open access on the conference Web site (with IFIP copyright). Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2019 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Network Management - Software-defined networks - Virtual networks - Overlay networks - Wireless networks and cellular networks - Sensor networks - Internet of Things networks - Information-centric networks - Enterprise networks and campus networks - Data center networks - Optical networks - IP networks - Home networks - Access networks - SCADA networks and distributed control systems - Smart cities and smart grids Management Paradigms - Centralized management - Distributed management - Hierarchical management - Federated management - Autonomic and cognitive management - Policy-based management - Pro-active management - Energy-aware management - Quality of experience-centric management Service Management - Cloud computing services - Content delivery services - Multimedia services - Internet connectivity and Internet access - Internet of Things services - Security services - Context-aware services - Information technology services Business Management - Economic aspects - Multi-stakeholder aspects - Service level agreements - Lifecycle aspects - Process and workflow aspects - Legal perspective - Regulatory perspective - Privacy aspects Functional Areas - Deployment management - Fault management - Configuration management - Accounting management - Performance management - Security management Management Technologies - Network function virtualization - Software-defined networking - Orchestration - Cloud computing and cloud storage - Communication protocols - Middleware - Data models, information models semantic models - Operations support systems and business support systems - Information visualization Methods - Mathematical optimization - Control theory - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory - Machine learning, artificial intelligence - Evolutionary algorithms - Economic theory and game theory - Mathematical logic and automated reasoning - Data mining and (big) data analysis - Monitoring and measurements - Computer simulation experiments - Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation - Field trials -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 8 pages excluding references (full papers) or 4 pages excluding references (short papers). They have to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS. Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission : June 15, 2019 (extended) Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2019 Camera Ready due : August 30, 2019 Conference : October 21-25, 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Yixin Diao, PebblePost, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, France Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France James Hong, POSTECH, Korea Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA

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Sustainable Places 2019 (5-7 June, Cagliari): See you next week!
by Sustainable Places 2019 Organising Committee 30 May '19

30 May '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/7fVC0oE1Q79lZar73gtAMpeHcaMFwr00dlNEI… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/TslNbVcAKkQt1Y4N58qj1fw1dJJzRYY3P5h… ) Agenda out! We have a great agenda. Browse through it at the link below and plan your SP2019 Experience. Hardcopies will be part of the registration bag (along with a SP2019 sustainable water bottle). Each workshop and each session moderator are interested in your participation and engagement. Join them, get involved, make an impact and create new opportunities. Registration remains open up and through the event. Join us. [ Download the Agenda here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/o93o1_Cr7c1xmSZXuS-KuLOAQ-omeY_jnYf… ) 5 June Infoday & Brokerage Event – Get the Slide We encourage all SP2019 participants to take advantage of the Infoday and Brokerage Event organized by the French Energy NCP Network and the European Commission. Topic areas will include Energy-efficient buildings (EeB), Buildings in energy transition (B4E), Energy for consumers (EC), Energy system (ES) and Smart cities and communities (SCC) To help participants prepare their pitches – we now have the set of slides that will be used during the event and that cover the 20 upcoming call topics. Get them below! [ Infoday Flyer ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/pQr85hAGHKT8lZOc1SyQpDbOFi3mMjlDKQ3… ) [ Register for the Infoday ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/l2bBosauW5XtRnxNaDdxmhY832mWzHmhAt1… ) [ Get the slides ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/wxRo0xATdCgJf2m0M69zCcpiWRuh2ZtVPei… ) Keynote Highlight We are proud to welcome Prof. Annalisa Bonfiglio of the University of Cagliari (DIEE) who serves as President of CRS4 – Centro Ricerche, Sviluppo, Studi Superiori in Sardegna (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia). For over 25 years, CRS4 has focused on digital technologies applied to biosciences, energy, environmental sciences, cultural heritage, human interactions, etc. More recently, these research efforts have been focused on the development of technological projects for the smart city of Cagliari, trying to take into account the complexity deriving from applying digital technologies to the typical processes of a medium-size, ancient, Italian city, located in an island just in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The next challenge is to extend this approach to the entire island of Sardinia, trying to make a successful matching between technology and socio-economical aspects of the territory. We are also excited to welcome and introduce engineers Niccolò Elia Sovico & Sergio Pedolazzi for their closing ceremony keynote "Crowdsourcing Sustainable Places." They believe that all of us should be able to get involved in making sustainability projects happen – so they launched ENER2CROWD, the first Italian lending crowdfunding platform for energy saving and renewable energy projects. Come hear about how this innovative startup plans to disrupt the sustainability landscape. "Italian Day" – Smart Energy Communitie Looking to practice your Italian? Don't miss the "Italian Day" session on Friday 7th June dedicated to Smart Energy Communities focusing on innovative technologies and smartening of the grid in Italy. The participation of over 100 local area professionals and public stakeholders is expected. Workshop Highlight [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/cUyUHdnSau0r0YnBlHZye7-aKe31wCfdAL5… ) Targeting Urban Planners, Architects, Contractors and other built environment stakeholders, this workshop will provide a holistic and thought-provoking view on how nature based solutions are increasingly a part of sustainable places and the tools and methods to maximize the impact of their implementation. [ Download the workshop flyer here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/s0YGsdhKayPv6mAJY6XPhV2wyOgt2cvUmqZ… ) Social Program - Don't forget to sign up! City Tour – Discover Cagliari Discover Cagliari’s historical neighborhoods with a 2-hour free guided tour at the end of the first conference day on 5th June. Limited spaces available (60). National Park Visit Immediately following the event on the afternoon of 7th June, the organizing committee is making available a guided visit to the Molentargius-Saline natural park which covers over 1600 hectares and which is famous for the numerous colonies of flamingos that live there. Since the decommissioning of the salt extraction activities, the park has been redeveloped and transformed into what is now one of the richest birdlife park of Sardinia. The park is ideal for an experience in contact with nature, just five minutes away from the city center and the guided tour will allow you to discover the characteristics and peculiarities of the area. [ Register for the City tours here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/LI2fuufCyIbo2DhpbKV2qx0dunQmZN6cciG… ) Symposia Room Names to Places You may have noticed our workshop rooms have thematic names. They are associated with the below images. We hope you have the opportunity to discover them. Spiaggia Rosa Grotta di Nettuno Barumini Cala Mariolu Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities Insight Publishers MDPI Buildings [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/UO5oI2mw6n0Bg4cUCG6vOc_5fAFkbeGHRIV… ) proceedings We are proud to announce a media partnership with Insight Publishers for SP2019 and beyond. Insight will publish a Projects Magazine to be distributed at SP19 and until 20 May, there is still publication opportunities for projects and workshops participating at SP2020. For information, please contact Sam Davis at sam(a)ipl.eu.com. All technical contributions submitted to SP2019 will be published by MDPI in Open Access format. Apart from this, extended papers can be considered for publication in dedicated issue of the Journal Buildings. Organized by French alternative energy and atomic energy Commission Comune di Cagliari R2M Solution University of Cagliari With the Patronage of Sardegna Ricerche GBC Italy Comune di Cagliari Comune di Quartu CRS4 Parco Molentargius Saline Sponsored by [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8D9A0a1xguHIFHGxPU6HwQV_uJgAg-Y46RA… ) axpo IME legrand BTicino [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/9nXmfp-HBVT8WLDD8NdJFd1tgSTSvb5Uht2… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. However, to be sure you don't receive any further communications related to Sustainable Places, please click to unsubscribe http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/aGKnRFhti3tCx5RkK-KkdaG-lsLcSaupGebkF…

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