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Sustainable Places 2019 (5-7 June, Cagliari): the two-week countdown begins now!
by Sustainable Places 2019 Organising Committee 22 May '19

22 May '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/4EtxfgGeY-IZNuq_H7nrvrjgJePtGrMAHr0Mt… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8eQSwirAQt6-dh1X3OaTV5YLbdjcDRbxe3N… ) Discover the Workshops & Papers Registration remains open right up through event initiation. Are you aware that the workshops and papers at Sustainable Places are trying to attract you for participation and engagement? Join them, get involved, make an impact and create new opportunities. At the following link, you can scroll through the 15 workshops and 35 papers/presentations as we see them to date so you can begin to plan your SP2019 experience. Excellent contributions. [ Download the paper & workshop overview ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/f-hoabBtThVkjf4bnEDMIFOGpyK4ICR2tQ6… ) Time to book travels Take note – Cagliari has more B&Bs and fewer hotels. Several locations are already fully booked – participants are encouraged to reserve now if they haven't already. An [ accommodations page is available at the SP2019 website ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/qkUXbm6-v_1JCed85OVTH2CHu282rp0gKUh… ) and if you need assistance/have questions, contact us at sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com. Draft Agenda Download the draft agenda and conference structure at the following link. It is still a working document while we receive last details and prepare the Agenda booklet, but most information is already in place. We are doing our best to consider requests related to travel / conflicts or constraints for persons with multiple contributions. There is still time to make limited adjustments and to consider contributions by exception. Contact us. [ Download the draft Agenda here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/YDJIgEdjVHMwtQTbhY-IlUhOGKJ8kPrYkEm… ) 5 June Infoday & Brokerage Event 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/1GN9wWYg0tbmQjuJO4-ATFGmCJtH6jk6rCE… ) [ Register for the Infoday ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Lxbxc7YeaKMviz_FHqlksmSAMzgi5iOoDOQ… ) [ Get the slides ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hiJFwIES078cVcUrf9wWtfwMNg5rShirV_1… ) Keynote Highlight We are proud to welcome Audrey Nugent, Head of Advocacy from the World Green Building Council to Sustainable Places 2019. She'll talk about the role of Green Building Council's in Europe and worldwide and trends affecting the building sector and sustainability protocols as we shift beyond buildings, toward cities and always with the wellness of people and the environment in our mind and actions. Collectively, the Green Building Council network is the largest sustainability organization worldwide with member councils in over 70 countries and approximately 49,000 members. CAM Training – Accredited Green Building Council Italia, Chapter Sardegna, will be offering "Formazione CAM" (training on Criteria Ambientale Minimi) to local area and national Italian building professionals free of charge on 5 June before SP2019 officially kicks off. That training is now accredited by the Order of Engineers Cagliari for 2 CfP credits (continuing education credits). [ download the CAM Flyer ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/3mbMzj5wKJ6wU-7nPRb2SskO5vXs6OhJ8vw… ) All participants may also be interested in the BuildUpon2 workshop on the 6th of June being organized by GBC Italia kicking off the Italian cluster for building renovation initiatives in cities. Read more about that at [ clicking here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/c_gZ8Z4C_Wb-qB0vbANwhJfhka2SB8OA1Dv… ), or discover the BuildUpon network [ at this link. ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ipmiAeqL9wNpbebDtaBjTaerJ8-MnSioxCy… ) Social Program City Tour – Discover Cagliari Discover Cagliari’s historical neighborhoods with a 2 hours free guided tour at the end of the first conference day on 5 June. Limited spaces available (60). Register here. 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/ec2GcJVLt4wxt8nI02Lqo0D_7eGCUR3AoW7… ) Self Organized Aside from 8 km Spiaggia del Poetto (Poet's Beach) directly located in Cagliari, Saregna is home to hundreds of coves and beaches. Don't hesitate to ask for some recommendations. Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities Insight Publishers MDPI Buildings We are 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. To take advantage of this possibility, check the appropriate box on the CfP or write to sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com to express interest. 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 Sponsored by [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/MUh-neusilpn1WNvzL8JDfxYb28f_FIDWdd… ) axpo IME legrand BTicino [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/dkxVkgGZl4TdIE0moWpipvaRtjbhpUB7T9T… ) Sustainable Places does not spam. 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CNSM 2019 - Paper Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2019 (extended)
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 18 May '19

18 May '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: Last call for contributions (17th May)
by Sustainable Places 2019 Organising Committee 15 May '19

15 May '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/GFG8XOmqmED1L3e3-_wpaBioy1zh44pzFJvwD… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Y0awO5qMuXjIZKHtRtGgKlZ78S_HJ8UW6cb… ) Last Call for Contributions The Call for Proposals submission deadline has been extended to Friday 17 May. After this time, the agenda will be produced and additions/changes to the agenda cannot be guaranteed. Many workshops however will welcome additional participants and may have the flexibility to adapt to presentation requests (not printed in the agenda but captured in rollup reports). Registration will remain open up through the event via the Xing platform or by wire transfer. Please pay attention however that accommodations in Cagliari are already becoming saturated. Time to plan your travels! Follow the link to submit your contribution. [ Click here to submit a contribution to SP2019 (no later than 17th May) ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/pWVczjI3e4Im8n6nP5Tl-YUKG1o6Cv7UQfJ… ) Workshop Highlight: Investing in Island Sustainability (6 June) [ ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8vK2hgZpdl7PxWiTc-lJm4WZ0kjKaXet1cB… ) Financing clean energy transition in EU Islands There are more than 2200 inhabited islands in the EU. Despite having access to renewable sources of energy, such as wind and wave energy, many of them depend on expensive fossil fuel imports for their energy supply. SP19 will feature a session dedicated to financing clean energy transition in EU islands chaired by Margot Pinault (European Commission, DG Energy, unit C3). The workshop will include a presentation by Brendan Devlin (European Commission, DG Energy, Directorate B) of the ‘Clean energy for EU islands’ initiative which provides a long term framework to help islands generate their own sustainable, low-cost energy. Feilim O’Connor (European Commission DG Energy, Unit C2) will introduce an overview of H2020 islands-related calls for proposals. Practical examples of available funding and past-supported projects in EU islands will be highlighted by the European Investment Bank (Reinhard Six) and SINLOC (Andrea Martinez). The INNOVATE H2020 Project and its one-stop-shop service on buildings renovation being deployed in Cyprus will be presented and discussed (Panayiotis Michael, NTUA & Aradippou Municipality). Pioneering and innovative sustainable islands: case studies and projects SP19 will also offer further insights on how European islands can lead the energy transition from a technological and organizational perspective. This will include presentations of the Smart Island Initiative (DAFNI Network, Kostas Komninos), the actual implementation of smart energy management concepts in Sardinia (Prof. Alfonso Damiano, University of Cagliari & Sardegna Ricerche), as well as innovative technologies and demonstration cases from the H2020 projects REACT (R2M Solution), INSULAE (DAFNI) and SMILE (RINA-C). Keynote Highlight We are proud to welcome Dr. Karim Selouane, the Founder and CEO of Resallience as a keynote speaker at Sustainable Places. Created via Vinci’s LEONARD Innovation and Foresight Platform, Resallience is a design office dedicated to adapting cities, territories, infrastructures and their use to climate change – a risk all stakeholders must now address. Dr. Selouane experiences span academia, industry and support to policy makers regarding strategies for the management of climate risks to territories, cities and projects. He is active in UNHabitat and topic related working groups at the European Commission. He will be speaking on the tools and methodologies available today that lead to improved design, site selection and operations of infrastructures to increase the resilience of our cities and the infrastructures that support them. Energy Efficiency Infoday & Brokerage Event Get a first look at 20 upcoming call topics within the Energy and NMBP Societal Challenge. Energy-efficient buildings (EeB) - Buildings in energy transition (B4E) Energy for consumers (EC) - Energy system (ES) - Smart cities and communities (SCC) [ Register to Energy Efficiency Infoday here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4BmPX1qAjmAO9GLKmbC1V0fcM2XHQLoJ7qt… ) Pitch your ideas! The session will be moderated and animated by: Margot Pinault – Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate General for Energy, Unit C.3., Buildings and Finance team; Brussels, Belgium Stavros Stamatoukos – Project advisor, European Commission, EASME – H2020 Energy Annabelle Rondaud – CEA – French NCP Energy coordinator Hop on the Sustainability Bus! How to get around at SP2019? We suggest using the electric trolley bus made available be the CTM Cagliari (Consorzio Trasporti e Mobilità) to take SP2019 attendees from the Center to the Lazzarretto on 6 and 7 June using a morning and afternoon shuttle schedule. The SP2019 Sustainability Bus is a result of the Zero Emission Urban Bus System Project (ZEEUS) with the vision to extend fully-electric solutions to the core parts of urban bus networks using various electrification technologies. CTM Cagliari is a demonstration case in the ZEEUS and will be presenting its results during the event. Thank you CTM! You can read more about the ZEEUS Project at [ www.zeeus.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/lJMNjQpUZrRFMceLjchJe4PkqznV5RhfTFZ… ) Discover the Workshops / Publish your Workshops High-impact clustering workshops continue to take shape in the thematic areas of Demand Response, Island Sustainability, Energy Storage, Influencing Behavior Change in EE, BIM, Concentrated Solar Power, Solar Thermal, District Heating & Cooling, Business Models for Deep Retrofit, Building Renovation in Cities, Harnessing Sun and Ambient Heat and others. So far, we're anticipating 16 workshops involving over 50 projects. These workshops want your attendance, engagement and input. Join them. In addition to the workshops, the technical session will feature 26 papers/presentations from projects and their results. The poster area is anticipating between 10-20 posters (feel free to bring your project posters!). For those organizing workshops, help us publish your workshop details on the webpage and in the agenda by submitting high quality CfPs. Many are already excellent. You can read more about workshops at SP2019 here: [ Discover SP2019 Workshops here ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/CizzmfgN5VQm2Cye65DYDoX4SOKRiuXzb-_… ) Sponsorship [ Axpo ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/YNmdN4CRkRhpUpl2iKwsW4eMnINGkWA4Rkj… ) has joined the [ LeGrande Group ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/P_jmglNnFVMLMY3wUDckazzyv_aqRmPC6c-… ) in Sponsoring Sustainable Places. Sponsorships allow us to take the program further and to increase the quality of the event overall. Both Axpo and Legrande will be participating and contributing to the event. We sincerely appreciate this support. For information related to sponsorship opportunities, contact us at sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com Social Program City Tour – Discover Cagliari Discover Cagliari’s historical neighborhoods with a 2 hours free guided tour at the end of the first conference day on 5 June. Limited spaces available (60). Register here. 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/ciowYAYj76dmnVZWqkuDAQChRKrwGErCYMb… ) Self Organized Aside from 8 km Spiaggia del Poetto (Poet's Beach) directly located in Cagliari, Saregna is home to hundreds of coves and beaches. Don't hesitate to ask for some recommendations. Media Partnership & Publishing Opportunities Insight Publishers MDPI Buildings We are 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. To take advantage of this possibility, check the appropriate box on the CfP or write to sustainableplaces(a)r2msolution.com to express interest. 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 Sponsored by IME legrand BTicino [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ucgq4sRKs7eIiCoWslZn4hjAOfIAOqLvmGi… ) 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/xSZYnSp5pEJE8Y2PqyCF-Zo9AAL1OPF_D1rMu…

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Sustainable Places 2019: Call for Proposals deadline extension (17th May)
by Sustainable Places 2019 Organising Committee 10 May '19

10 May '19

If you are not able to see this mail, click http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/tWjCWIbF6H0mIWbZSyX4GN7KOZt3-6DMRGLMN… ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/okgqBKPVIw0_8VBTBkTExNRp97QsJ-1oH6f… ) Contribution Deadline Extension Due to popular demand - and to give a little bit more time to those who are still organising workshops and technical contributions - the CfP deadline for Sustainable Places 2019 is extended until 17th May! This is your last chance to present at the Europe's #1 destination for research dissemination [ Click here to submit a contribution to SP2019 (no later than 17th May) ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6sV6FFikCxNUWbAVqwUv5RyO0uJJ8cqgzXu… ) 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 Sponsored by IME legrand BTicino [ Learn more about Sustainable Places at www.sustainableplaces.eu ]( http://2tuoh.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KP2iUgsRdeH5jG56SxffiJK-QKnUvHStrYO… ) 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/gntvLMFg_wscaYttFEmLLp_-BjmcbjkrctiWH…

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CNSM 2019 - Paper submissions due in 6 days: May 15th, 2019
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 09 May '19

09 May '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 May 2019 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 : May 15, 2019 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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ARES 2019 - Call for Workshop Paper
by res.mb.conference 07 May '19

07 May '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 15 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2019 and their submission deadlines: *2nd International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security (BASS 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The Third International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management (CyberTIM 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 14th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR 2019) /10.05.2019 *2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT 2019) / 30.04.2019 *8th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Security Engineering for Cloud Computing (IWSECC 2019) / 30.04.2019 *International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2019) / 09.04.2019 *1st International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The First Location Privacy Workshop (LPW 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 6th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2019) / 05.05.2019 *The 4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2019) / 06.05.2019 *International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence (WCTI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *Workshop on Industrial Security and IoT (WISI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 12th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2019) / 10.05.2019 Workshop @CD-MAKE 2019 and its submission deadline: *MAKE-Explainable AI Workshop (MAKE - EXAI) / April 22, 2019 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposiums 2015-2018 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2019. The Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2019 and will offer you the following opportunities: Disseminate the results of your EU research projects Meet potential project partners Exchange ideas within the scientific community Explore Surrey This year, 3 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2019) / 01.05.2019 *International Workshop on Next Generation Security Operations Centers (NG-SOC 2019) / no paper submissions *International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Critical Port Infrastructures (PCSCP 2019) / 30.04.2019 ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK General Co-Chairs 2019 Gareth Howells, University of Kent, UK Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Local Arrangement Chair 2019 Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Chair 2019 Steve Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Program Committee Co-Chair 2019 Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dr. Alastair MacWillson, Chair of Institute of Information Security and Chair of Qufaro@Bletchley<mailto:Qufaro@Bletchley> Park Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019

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ARES 2019 - Call for Workshop Paper
by res.mb.conference 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 15 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2019 and their submission deadlines: *2nd International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security (BASS 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The Third International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management (CyberTIM 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 14th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR 2019) /10.05.2019 *2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT 2019) / 30.04.2019 *8th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Security Engineering for Cloud Computing (IWSECC 2019) / 30.04.2019 *International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2019) / 09.04.2019 *1st International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The First Location Privacy Workshop (LPW 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 6th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2019) / 05.05.2019 *The 4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2019) / 06.05.2019 *International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence (WCTI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *Workshop on Industrial Security and IoT (WISI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 12th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2019) / 10.05.2019 Workshop @CD-MAKE 2019 and its submission deadline: *MAKE-Explainable AI Workshop (MAKE - EXAI) / April 22, 2019 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposiums 2015-2018 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2019. The Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2019 and will offer you the following opportunities: Disseminate the results of your EU research projects Meet potential project partners Exchange ideas within the scientific community Explore Surrey This year, 3 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2019) / 01.05.2019 *International Workshop on Next Generation Security Operations Centers (NG-SOC 2019) / no paper submissions *International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Critical Port Infrastructures (PCSCP 2019) / 30.04.2019 ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK General Co-Chairs 2019 Gareth Howells, University of Kent, UK Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Local Arrangement Chair 2019 Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Chair 2019 Steve Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Program Committee Co-Chair 2019 Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dr. Alastair MacWillson, Chair of Institute of Information Security and Chair of Qufaro@Bletchley<mailto:Qufaro@Bletchley> Park Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019

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ARES 2019 - Call for Workshop Paper
by res.mb.conference 25 Apr '19

25 Apr '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 15 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2019 and their submission deadlines: *2nd International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security (BASS 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The Third International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management (CyberTIM 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 14th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR 2019) / 30.04.2019 *2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT 2019) / 30.04.2019 *8th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Security Engineering for Cloud Computing (IWSECC 2019) / 30.04.2019 *International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2019) / 09.04.2019 *1st International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The First Location Privacy Workshop (LPW 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 6th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2019) / 05.05.2019 *The 4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2019) / 06.05.2019 *International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence (WCTI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *Workshop on Industrial Security and IoT (WISI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The 12th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2019) / 30.04.2019 Workshop @CD-MAKE 2019 and its submission deadline: *MAKE-Explainable AI Workshop (MAKE - EXAI) / April 22, 2019 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposiums 2015-2018 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2019. The Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2019 and will offer you the following opportunities: Disseminate the results of your EU research projects Meet potential project partners Exchange ideas within the scientific community Explore Surrey This year, 3 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2019) / 01.05.2019 *International Workshop on Next Generation Security Operations Centers (NG-SOC 2019) / no paper submissions *International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Critical Port Infrastructures (PCSCP 2019) / 30.04.2019 ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK General Co-Chairs 2019 Gareth Howells, University of Kent, UK Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Local Arrangement Chair 2019 Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Chair 2019 Steve Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Program Committee Co-Chair 2019 Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dr. Alastair MacWillson, Chair of Institute of Information Security and Chair of Qufaro@Bletchley<mailto:Qufaro@Bletchley> Park Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019

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CFP - CNSM 2019 - 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '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 May 2019 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 : May 15, 2019 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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Deadline Extension - Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Submission deadline extended until April 22, 2019 Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2019 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Extended Submission Deadline: April, 8, 2019 April 22, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 **** HIGHLIGTHS **** KEYNOTES Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Titel: Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Applications & Recent Developments Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Title: tba Alastair MacWillson, Cambridge-Analytica Research Title: tba SOCIAL EVENTS Official Welcome Reception on Monday, August 26, 2019 / Canterbury City Tour incl. Visit of the Canterbury Cathedral on Tuseday, August 27, 2019 / Official Conference Dinner and Visit of Dover Castle & Dover White Cliffs on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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[Deadline: 14 April] CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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ARES 2019 - Call for Workshop Paper
by res.mb.conference 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 9 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2019 and their submission deadlines: *2nd International Workshop on Behavioral Authentication for System Security (BASS 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The Third International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management (CyberTIM 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 14th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR 2019) / 30.04.2019 *2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT 2019) / 30.04.2019 *8th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2019) / 10.05.2019 *2nd International Workshop on Security Engineering for Cloud Computing (IWSECC 2019) / 30.04.2019 *International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2019) / 09.04.2019 *1st International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2019) / 10.05.2019 *The First Location Privacy Workshop (LPW 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 6th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2019) / 05.05.2019 *The 4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2019) / 06.05.2019 *International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence (WCTI 2019) / 10.05.2019 *Workshop on Industrial Security and IoT (WISI 2019) / 30.04.2019 *The 12th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2019) / 30.04.2019 Workshop @CD-MAKE 2019 and its submission deadline: *MAKE-Explainable AI Workshop (MAKE - EXAI) / April 22, 2019 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposiums 2015-2018 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2019. The Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2019 and will offer you the following opportunities: Disseminate the results of your EU research projects Meet potential project partners Exchange ideas within the scientific community Explore Surrey This year, 3 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2019) / 01.05.2019 *International Workshop on Next Generation Security Operations Centers (NG-SOC 2019) / no paper submissions *International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Critical Port Infrastructures (PCSCP 2019) / 30.04.2019 ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK General Co-Chairs 2019 Gareth Howells, University of Kent, UK Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Local Arrangement Chair 2019 Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK Program Committee Chair 2019 Steve Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK Program Committee Co-Chair 2019 Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dr. Alastair MacWillson, Chair of Institute of Information Security and Chair of Qufaro@Bletchley<mailto:Qufaro@Bletchley> Park Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019

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Call for paper - JPDC Special Issue on "Theories, Algorithms and Modeling for Privacy Computing"
by Jesson Butt 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Call for papers Special Issue in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on "Theories, Algorithms and Modeling for Privacy Computing" Special Issue website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu… *Introduction* With more data including personal information being hosted online such as cloud, privacy leakage is becoming one of serious concerns in online community. In practice, different temporal, spatial or application cases often demand different privacy protection solutions. Most of traditional approaches are case by case or based on a specific application circumstance. Therefore, we need to develop a systematic and quantized privacy characterization towards systematic computing model describing the relationships between protection level, profit and loss as well as the complexity of integrated privacy protection models Privacy computing is emerging as a paradigm to systematically scope privacy protection and related techniques. This special issue focuses on fundamental challenges of privacy computing – theories, algorithms and modelling while applications and general principles are not in the focus. Papers on theoretical foundations and algorithms with strong analytical contributions are encouraged for submission. *Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:* · Parallel, Distributed and Scalable modelling for privacy protection · Theories and foundations for privacy computing · Languages and compilers for privacy computing · Privacy computing model and modelling · Privacy quantification, formal description · Privacy operation and modelling · Data utility and privacy loss theories · Context adaptive cryptography or privacy protection · Data analytics oriented privacy models and reasoning · Private information exchange and sharing models · Privacy inference and reasoning *Submission Instructions* Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu…. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the journal website submission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select the appropriate section in the drop-down menu upon submission. It is "VSI: TAM Privacy Computing" for this special issue. In your cover letter, please also clearly mention the title of the SI. *Submission Deadline: * 30 April 2019 *Guest Editors* Jinjun Chen (contact point), Jinjun.Chen(a)gmail.com, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Laurence Yang, ltyang(a)gmail.com, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Deadline Extension - Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Submission deadline extended until April 22, 2019 Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2019 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Extended Submission Deadline: April, 8, 2019 April 22, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 **** HIGHLIGTHS **** KEYNOTES Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Titel: Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Applications & Recent Developments Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Title: tba Alastair MacWillson, Cambridge-Analytica Research Title: tba SOCIAL EVENTS Official Welcome Reception on Monday, August 26, 2019 / Canterbury City Tour incl. Visit of the Canterbury Cathedral on Tuseday, August 27, 2019 / Official Conference Dinner and Visit of Dover Castle & Dover White Cliffs on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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[Deadline: 14 April] CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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[Deadline: 14 April] CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 **** HIGHLIGTHS **** KEYNOTES Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Titel: Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Applications & Recent Developments Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Title: tba Alastair MacWillson, Cambridge-Analytica Research Title: tba SOCIAL EVENTS Official Welcome Reception on Monday, August 26, 2019 / Canterbury City Tour incl. Visit of the Canterbury Cathedral on Tuseday, August 27, 2019 / Official Conference Dinner and Visit of Dover Castle & Dover White Cliffs on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Last Reminder: ARES 2019 - Extended Submission Deadline
by res.mb.conference 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Submission Deadline ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) **** HIGHLIGTHS **** KEYNOTES Wojciech Samek, Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Titel: Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Applications & Recent Developments Awais Rashid, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Bristol Title: tba Alastair MacWillson, Cambridge-Analytica Research Title: tba SOCIAL EVENTS Official Welcome Reception on Monday, August 26, 2019 / Canterbury City Tour incl. Visit of the Canterbury Cathedral on Tuseday, August 27, 2019 / Official Conference Dinner and Visit of Dover Castle & Dover White Cliffs on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Extended Submisson Deadline: March 30, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[Deadline: 1st April] CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Extended to April 1, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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[Deadline Extension: 1st April] CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Extended to April 1, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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CFP - CNSM 2019 - 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 17 Mar '19

17 Mar '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 May 2019 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 : May 15, 2019 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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Extended Submission Deadline - Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Submission Deadline ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Extended Submisson Deadline: March 30, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[Deadline Extension: 1st April] CFP: IEEE Blockchain 2019
by Blockchain IEEE 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Extended to April 1, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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 Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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CFP - CNSM 2019 - 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Mohamed-Faten.Zhani＠etsmtl.ca 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '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 May 2019 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 : May 15, 2019 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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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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CFP: A Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on “Security and Privacy in Internet of Vehicles”
by Xueqin Liang 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Call for Papers: A Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on “Security and Privacy in Internet of Vehicles” Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important part of intelligent transportation system. It enables information sharing and the gathering of information on vehicles/autonomous vehicles, roads, and their surroundings through V2X communications. IoV faces various security and privacy chal-lenges, for example, various types of attacks including jamming, tampering and eavesdropping. This special issue aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial organizations ad-dressing emerging security and privacy issues in IoV. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): •Security framework of IoV •Privacy-preserving data aggregation •Trust and reputation in IoV •Secure routing in IoV •Secure and privacy-preserving V2X communications •Secure vehicular fog computing •Security in cloud based IoV •Access control in IoV •Vulnerability scanning technologies for IoV •Intrusion detection technologies for IoV •Blockchain and the IoV •Accountability in IoV Important Dates Paper submission:December 1, 2018 (Extended to December 20, 2018) Acceptance notification:Feb 15, 2019 Final papers:Mar 15, 2019 Submission Format and Guidelines All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vehicular-communications/2214-2096/guide-…. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the paper submis-sion system at https://www.evise.com/profile/#/VEHCOM/login. The authors must select as “SI –SP-IoV” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors or the Editor-in-Chief. Editor in Chief Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma Guest Editors Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China, Email: xyhuang(a)fjnu.edu.cn Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK, Email: y.l.wu(a)exeter.ac.uk Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China & Aalto University, Finland, Email: zyan(a)xidian.edu.cn

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2019
by res.mb.conference 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

"Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence" Call for Papers - CD-MAKE 2019 3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, TC 12, IFIP WG 8.4, WG 8.9 and WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2018 Machine learning is the workhorse of Artificial Intelligence with enormous challenges in various application domains. It needs a concerted international effort without boundaries, supporting collaborative and integrative cross-disciplinary research between experts from diverse fields. Conference Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Conference Website https://cd-make.net<https://cd-make.net/> Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 Submission Deadline (soft deadline): April, 8, 2019 Author Notification: May, 24, 2019 - Author registration before June 13, 2019 Camera Ready Deadline (hard deadline): June, 23, 2019 Conference: August, 26-29, 2019 EasyChair Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2019 The goal of the CD-MAKE conference is to act as an innovative catalysator and to bring together researchers from the following seven thematic sub-areas in a cross-disciplinary manner, to stimulate fresh ideas and to encourage multi-disciplinary problem solving: - DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation, discovery) - LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, contextual adaptation, explainable-AI, causal reasoning - VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction - PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML - NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML - TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis, manifold learning - ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted Papers will appear in a Volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and there is also the opportunity to publish in our MAKE Journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make In line with CD-MAKE we organize the 2nd workshop on explainable AI (ex-AI): https://hci-kdd.org/make-explainable-artificial-intelligence-2019 In line with the ex-AI session we have 2019 a unique opportunity for interested authors. We have an open call for papers in the Springer/Nature BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Support (MIDM, SCI-Impactfactor 2.134) during the whole year, where papers can be submitted and - given acceptance - can also be presented at the conference. Vice versa, we have the opportunity that presented papers at the conference can be expanded and published into the journal: https://hci-kdd.org/special-issue-explainable-ai-medical-informatics-decisi…

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain
by Blockchain IEEE 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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Call for Papers: ARES 2019
by res.mb.conference 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

ARES 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019) August 26 - August 29, 2019, Canterbury, UK http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** CD-MAKE 2019 (https://cd-make.net/) will be co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2018 conference was 22,3% (full papers only). ARES 2018 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and ESORICS as leading security conference in Europe (A2) ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2019 Shujun Li, University of Kent Program Committee Chair 2019 Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: May 24, 2019 Proceedings Version: June 23, 2019 Conference: August 26 - August 29, 2019 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2019 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2019 More information can be found here: *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call For Paper: a Special Issue of Information Sciences on Big Data Privacy
by Xueqin Liang 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Call For Paper: a Special Issue of Information Sciences on Big Data Privacy The massive deployment of networking, communications and computing technologies has brought us into the era of big data. Huge volumes of data are today generated and collected due to human-computer interaction, device-device communications, data outsourcing, environment sensing and behavior monitoring. Many such data often encode privacy-sensitive information related to individuals and support the inference of a large variety of privacy-sensitive information through the use of data analytics, data mining and machine learning. Thus, preserving privacy in the context of big data is a critical requirement in cyber-space. Obviously, preserving privacy of big data is even more challenging when dealing with many emerging technologies, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, edge computing, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, social net-working, and next generation communication systems. Although technologies and theories are widely studied and applied to ensure data privacy in recent years, existing solutions are still inef-ficient, especially for big data. Preserving privacy of big data introduces additional challenges with regard to computational complexity, efficiency, adaptability, personality, flexibility, fi-ne-graininess and scalability. Big data privacy promises many novel solutions and at the same time, many challenges should also be overcome. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss various aspects of big data privacy, explore key theories, investigate significant algorithms, protocols and schemes and innovate new solutions for overcoming major challenges in this significant research area. Topics include but are not limited to: •Theoretical aspects of big data privacy •Privacy-preserving computing models and techniques •Fine-grained and personalized privacy preservation •Privacy auditing and provenance management on big data •Adaptive privacy preservation on big data •Scalability of big data privacy protection •Big data privacy protection based on blockchain •Secure big data computation and verification •Privacy-preserving big data search and query •Privacy preservation in big data fusion •Privacy-preserving machine learning and data mining •Privacy digitalization and computation •Economic studies on big data privacy Important Dates Paper submission due:December 1st, 2018 (extended) Notification of decision:February 1st, 2019 Revision due:May 1st, 2019 Acceptance notification:July 1st, 2019 Approximate publication date:Late 2019, subject to journal publication schedules Submission Format Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/ins Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “VSI:BigDataPrivacy” when they identify the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/ Guest Editors Prof. Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China & Aalto University, Finland, Email: zheng-yan.pz(a)gmail.com Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Email: rob-ertdeng(a)smu.edu.sg Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA, Email: bertino(a)purdue.edu

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology �� 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan 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, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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FedCSIS 2019 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Call for Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Leipzig, Germany, 1-4 September, 2019 www.fedcsis.org <http://www.fedcsis.org/> The 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, project dissemination meeting, special session, etc.). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until November 20, 2018. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. Invitation is extended also to existing events that would like to join the vibrant FedCSIS ecosystem. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2018 – held in Poznań, Poland – attracted 349 papers, of which 74 were accepted as regular full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 21%). Some events accepted additionally regular short, position and communication papers. FedCSIS 2018 regular full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position and communication papers have been published in a separate volumes of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series. Regular and short papers are submitted for indexation in Clarivate Web of Science (where they have been indexed since 2012), as well as to other indexing services, e.g. Scopus, DBLP, etc. Publications As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. *Only* papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume, which will not be submitted to the IEEE), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN, IEEE Catalog and DOI numbers, under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Position and Communication Paper volumes (separate as each category) will be published with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. Event Proposals Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1.The nature of the Event. 2.The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3.The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4.Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5.Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6.Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by November 20, 2018 to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org <mailto:secretariat@fedcsis.org> More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/cfe

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Blockchain-2019: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Blockchain IEEE 20 Oct '18

20 Oct '18

Call for Workshops Proposals The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) Atlanta, USA, July 14-17, 2019 http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019). Each workshop provides a forum to address a specific topic at the forefront of blockchain technology and related research topics. A workshop associated with Blockchain-2019 can be either one full day or half day in length. Proceedings of all the workshops will be available to the workshop attendees. All workshop papers will be included in the main conference proceedings and published by IEEE CPS, which is collected by IEEE Explore and indexed by EI. Submissions of workshop proposals must reach the workshop chair by November 30th, 2018. Workshop Proposal Submission Each workshop proposal (maximum five pages) must include the following in this order: l Title of the workshop l Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for full-day workshop l Scope and topics of the workshop (max 1 page) l Rationale (max 1 page) w Why is the topic current and important? w Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality? w Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors? w How the workshop differs from others; i.e., related workshops and conferences of similar topic? l A one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications, including research and conference/workshop organizing experience l Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus) l Planned format of the workshop, including w Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule w Preferred day of workshop w Number of refereed papers w Unique, creative and novel workshop formats are strongly encouraged l Draft Call for Papers (max 1 page) l A description of the publicity and promotion plan For previously-held workshops, in addition to the above, proposals must provide the following information, for two most recent incarnation of the workshop (either at this or another conference): l Number of submissions l Number of accepted papers l Number of registered attendees Proposal Evaluation Criteria l The workshop is within the scope of Blockchain and concerns a coherent and important technical topic of high interest in the community. l Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other Blockchain-2019 workshops. l Its potential impact on the target community, including likely high participation. l Research caliber of the PC committee and PC chairs. Workshop Preparation and Organization Timeline l Workshop Submission Due: No later than November 30, 2018 l Decision Notification: No later than December 15, 2018 (decision will be made on a rolling-basis) l CFP and Website for each Workshop are due: No later than January 30, 2019 l Suggested Submission Deadline for Workshops: March 15, 2019 l Suggested Workshop Paper Notification: Apr 15, 2019 l Submission of Camera Ready Papers to Publisher (hard deadline): May 02, 2019 Please submit your workshop proposal to both Workshop Chairs with the subject heading "IEEE Blockchain-2019 workshop proposal" * Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, raymond.choo(a)utsa.edu<mailto:raymond.choo@utsa.edu> * Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, luca.chiaraviglio(a)gmail.com<mailto:luca.chiaraviglio@gmail.com>

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CFW: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC-19)
by Ding Daisy 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

*Call for Workshop Proposals* The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC-19) August 19th-23rd 2019, Leicester, UK Website: http://www.smart-world.org/2019/atc The IEEE ATC 2019 Organization Committee invites proposals for half and full-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of advanced and trusted computing and its related areas. The workshop papers will be included in the main conference proceedings and published by IEEE CPS, which is collected by IEEE Explore and indexed by EI. *Workshop Proposal Format* Each workshop proposal (maximum 5 pages) must include (please follow the following order in your proposal): l Title of the workshop l Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for full-day workshop l Scope and topics of the workshop (max 1 page) l Rationale (max 1 page) w Why is the topic current and important? w Why the workshop may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality? w Why the workshop may attract a large number of attendees, in addition to the authors? w Why the workshop differs from others; i.e., related workshops and conferences of similar topic? l A short biography of the organizers (up to 200 words) l Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus) l Planned format of the workshop, including w Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule w Preferred day of workshop w Number of refereed papers w Unique, creative and novel workshop formats are strongly encouraged l Draft Call for Papers (max 1 page) l A description of the publicity and promotion plan l If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including the number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees, etc. is welcome to receive. If a similar workshop has been organized at recent ATC/SmartWorld/UIC/ScalCom/IoP/SCI, please state whether your proposed workshop is similar or different. *Workshop Preparation and Organization Timeline* l Proposal Submission Deadline: *D**ec 31, 2018* l Notification of Selection: *January 10, 2019* l Website for each workshop on:* February 1, 2019* l Deadline for workshop paper submission: *April 10, 2019* l Acceptance/rejection announcement: *May 5, 2019* l Final workshop papers due: *May 19, 2019* Please submit your workshop proposal to the following IEEE ATC 2019 Workshop Chairs with subject “ATC2019 workshop proposal”: · Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT), Italy, marinella.petrocchi(a)iit.cnr.it; · Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA, yu.chen.fifi(a)gmail.com; · Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China, wxding(a)xidian.edu.cn.

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Call For Paper: a Special Issue of Information Sciences on Big Data Privacy
by Xueqin Liang 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

Call For Paper: a Special Issue ofInformation Scienceson Big Data Privacy The massive deployment of networking, communications and computing technologies has brought us into the era of big data. Huge volumes of data are today generated and collected due to human-computer interaction, device-device communications, data outsourcing, environment sensing and behavior monitoring. Many such data often encode privacy-sensitive information related to individuals and support the inference of a large variety of privacy-sensitive information through the use of data analytics, data mining and machine learning. Thus, preserving privacy in the context of big data is a critical requirement in cyber-space. Obviously, preserving privacy of big data is even more challenging when dealing with many emerging technologies, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, edge computing, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, social networking, and next generation communication systems. Although technologies and theories are widely studied and applied to ensure data privacy in recent years, existing solutions are still inefficient, especially for big data. Preserving privacy of big data introduces additional challenges with regard to computational complexity, efficiency, adaptability, personality, flexibility, fine-graininess and scalability. Big data privacy promises many novel solutions and at the same time, many challenges should also be overcome. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss various aspects of big data privacy, explore key theories, investigate significant algorithms, protocols and schemes and innovate new solutions for overcoming major challenges in this significant research area. Topics include but are not limited to: · Theoretical aspects of big data privacy · Privacy-preserving computing models and techniques · Fine-grained and personalized privacy preservation · Privacy auditing and provenance management on big data · Adaptive privacy preservation on big data · Scalability of big data privacy protection · Big data privacy protection based on blockchain · Secure big data computation and verification · Privacy-preserving big data search and query · Privacy preservation in big data fusion · Privacy-preserving machine learning and data mining · Privacy digitalization and computation · Economic studies on big data privacy Important Dates Paper submission due: October 1st, 2018 extended to December 1st, 2018 Notification of decision: February 1st, 2019 Revision due: May 1st, 2019 Acceptance notification: July 1st, 2019 Approximate publication date: Late 2019, subject to journal publication schedules Submission Format Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at www.elsevier.com/locate/ins. Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “VSI:BigDataPrivacy” when they identify the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/ Guest Editors Prof. Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China & Aalto University, Finland, Email: zhengyan.pz(a)gmail.com Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Email: robertdeng(a)smu.edu.sg Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA, Email: bertino(a)purdue.edu

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CFP: The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Blockchain IEEE 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 - August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) 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-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. 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 with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * 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 Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) 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. Blockchain 2018 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 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal (SCI) 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019

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Fwd: Call for Poster and Demo: SpaCCS 2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity)
by Jesson Butt 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 10 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 15 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 20 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SpaCCS 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SpaCCS 2018. SpaCCS 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storageas well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems (10) Security and privacy in blockchain 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE BDCloud 2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Arne Wilston 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud 2018. BDCloud 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SocialCom 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SocialCom 2018. SocialCom 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and Networking as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Chairs: Du Phan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE ISPA 2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications)
by Jesson Butt 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "ISPA 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to ISPA 2018. ISPA 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics (1) Systems and Architectures Track - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

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Final Extension CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

Final Extension on Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 14, 2018 (11:59pm HST, final extension as requested by some authors.) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 1 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SocialCom 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SocialCom 2018. SocialCom 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and Networking as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Chairs: Du Phan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE BDCloud 2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Arne Wilston 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 1 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud 2018. BDCloud 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE ISPA 2016 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications)
by Jesson Butt 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 1 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "ISPA 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to ISPA 2018. ISPA 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics (1) Systems and Architectures Track - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.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 Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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Final: CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/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 Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies 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/2018/socialcom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE BDCloud2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 23 Aug '18

23 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Co-Chairs Lina Yao, University of New South Wales, Australia Hongzhi Yin, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiqing Wang, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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Final CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 23 Aug '18

23 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS Series. 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 The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> (or up to 18 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 two reviewers. 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. 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. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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Final CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/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 The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

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Final CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/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 Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies 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/2018/socialcom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.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 Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS Series. 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 The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> (or up to 18 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 two reviewers. 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. 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. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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Call for Papers: ROOTS
by res.mb.conference 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium 2018 (ROOTS) Academic workshop co-located with DeepSec<https://www.deepsec.net/> November 16/17, Vienna "Science First! Round two." at DeepSec 2018: The ROOTS Academic Workshop Call for Papers DeepSec will again host ROOTS, Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium, an academic workshop co-located with the DeepSec conference. ROOTS solicits contributions that focus on theorems and root shells: things you absolutely cannot argue with in security. The first European symposium of its kind, ROOTS aims to provide an industry-friendly academic platform to discuss trends in exploitation, reversing, offensive techniques, and effective protections. Submissions should provide novel attack forms, describe novel reversing techniques, or effective deployable defenses. Submissions can also provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art, and pinpoint promising areas that have not received appropriate attention in the past. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New exploitation techniques and methodologies - New reverse engineering techniques and methodologies - The role of exploitation in the science of security - The role of reverse engineering in the science of security - New unintended models of programming and execution wherein the program is encoded in data, metadata, descriptors, etc. - Formal models of exploitation and formal methods for exploitation - Systematization of knowledge in exploitation - Systematization of knowledge in reverse engineering - Exploitation of trending platforms and architectures: IoT, cloud, SDNs, etc. - Reverse engineering of trending platforms and architectures: IoT, cloud, SDNs, etc. - Exploitation perspectives on emerging trust models: SGX, blockchains, etc. To facilitate interaction with industry, the ROOTS ticket be will valid for all DeepSec conference tracks on both days, including the industry tracks, and tickets for the industry track will be valid for ROOTS. PC & Publisher Program Chair: René Pfeiffer (DeepSec) General chair: Edgar Weippl (TU Wien, SBA Research) Co-Chair: Adrian Dabrowski (TU Wien, SBA Research) Program & Review Commitee Patroklos (argp) Argyroudis (CENSUS S.A.) Jean-Philippe Aumasson (Kudelski Security, Switzerland) Herbert Bos (V.U. Amsterdam) Stephen Checkoway (University of Illinois at Chicago) Gynvael Coldwind (Google Security Team) Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen) Thomas Dullien (Google Project Zero) Aurelien Francion (EURECOM) Mario Heiderich (Cure53) Vasileios Kemerlis (Brown University) René Mayrhofer (JKU Linz) Marion Marschalek (BlackHoodie) Collin Mulliner (Trifinite) Marcus Niemietz (RUB) Alexander Peslyak (Openwall) Konrad Rieck (TU Braunschweig) Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt) Sebastian Schinzel (FH Münster) Juraj Somorovsky (Hackmanit) Filippo Valsorda (Cloudflare) Edgar Weippl (TU Wien, SBA Research) Fabian Yamaguchi (TU Braunschweig, LeftShift) Stefano Zanero (University Politecnico di Milano) Publication Application for inclusion in ACM DL via the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) is pending. See http://authors.acm.org/main.html for details about the author's rights. Submission instructions Submissions to ROOTS are not limited in page count, but their length should be commensurate with the results. We expect that 5--10 pages of two-column PDF using the sigconf template<https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> should be sufficient. We encourage submissions of papers based on results previously presented at industry or hacker conferences, so long as the papers themselves have not been presented elsewhere. We also encourage Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) submissions. Papers should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=roots2018. Submissions need not be anonymous. Submissions should not contain endorsements of specific products or vendors. Important dates (tentative) Submissions system will open on May 1st. Submission deadline: August 26 (extended) (anywhere in the world) Author notification: September 15 Camera-ready papers due: October 5 Workshop and DeepSec: November 29/30 Travel cost reimbursement Authors will be expected to present their papers at ROOTS. ROOTS will follow the industry conference practice of reimbursing presenters for lodgings at the conference hotel (limited to two nights) and up to EUR 800 of other travel expenses.

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Co-Chairs Lina Yao, University of New South Wales, Australia Hongzhi Yin, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiqing Wang, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/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 The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

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CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Blockchain Technology PMC
by res.mb.conference 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Call for Papers: Special issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications Aims and scope In recent years, the blockchain technology is having an ever growing popularity, in particular for what concerns its application cryptocurrencies. As a matter of fact, Bitcoin is currently the most known application of the blockchain technology, and a number of alternative cryptocurrencies have been defined and are currently used, e.g., Litecoin or Monero. However, the application of blockchain is not limited to cryptocurrencies. The immutability of the transactions and the absence of trusted intermediaries make the blockchain technology suitable to be applied in many research and business scenarios, and a number of blockchains are currently available on the market. For instance, permissioned blockchains are meant to address those business scenarios where transactions needs to be private, and their processing must be executed within a predefined group of known participants. Moreover, some blockchains (such as Ethereum or Quorum) allow the execution of Smart Contracts, thus paving the way to a very large plethora of new interesting applications of the technology in several fields, such as: Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, Supply Chain Management, Social Networks, and many others. The aim of this special issue is to gather latest research results concerning blockchain technology and its application on relevant scenarios, such as the ones previously listed. Researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry and academia are encouraged to present their recent achievements and research directions in this area. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Blockchain Technologies * Blockchain foundations * Consensus algorithms * Smart Contracts * Blockchain security * Attacks on blockchain based systems * Blockchain Operation and Governance * Scalability of blockchain based systems * Governance Models and Experiences * Performance of blockchain based systems * Interoperability of Blockchains * Blockchain Standardisation * Blockchain Analysis * Transactions analysis * Smart Contracts analysis * Identity Management * Privacy and anonymity on blockchain * Lightweight protocols based on blockchain * Energy consumption issues * Blockchain Applications * Cryptocurrencies * Internet of Things * Smart Property * Cyber Physical Systems * Cloud and Edge Computing * Supply Chain Management * Social Networking * e-Health * Industrie 4.0 * Media Production * Education * Government * others Guest Editors Paolo Mori, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council of Italy, Pisa, Italy Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany Laura Ricci, Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Wien, Austria Important Dates Manuscript Due: 15 November, 2018 Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2019 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 15 July, 2019

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CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/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 Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies 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/2018/socialcom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.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 Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/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 The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> (or up to 18 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 two reviewers. 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. 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. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Co-Chairs Lina Yao, University of New South Wales, Australia Hongzhi Yin, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiqing Wang, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/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 The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

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CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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CFP: IEEE SocialCom 2018 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 08 Jul '18

08 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking ( SocialCom 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/socialcom/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 Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Big social media data · Social media infrastructure and cloud computing · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies 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/2018/socialcom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, National College of Ireland, Ireland Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Co-Chairs Lina Yao, University of New South Wales, Australia Hongzhi Yin, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiqing Wang, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.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 Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/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 The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

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CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/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 The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> (or up to 18 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 two reviewers. 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. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. 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. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Call for Participation - ARES & CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR Participation ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2). Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ HIGHLIGHTS ************ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: - Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics - Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, and Korea University, Seoul Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for paper - Information Sciences SI on Privacy Computing: Principles and Applications
by Jesson Butt 20 May '18

20 May '18

Call for paper - Information Sciences SI on Privacy Computing: Principles and Applications While more and more data including personal information is being hosted online such as cloud infrastructure, privacy leakage is becoming one of most challenging concerns in information collection, sharing or analysis. In practice, different temporal, spatial or application cases often demand different privacy protection solutions. Accordingly, most of traditional approaches are case by case or based on a specific application circumstance. It is on demand for a systematic and quantized privacy characterization towards systematic computing model describing the relationships between protection level, profit and loss as well as the complexity of integrated privacy protection models because real-world applications with privacy are changing across time, space and different domains. This special issue focuses on the new paradigm of privacy computing for principles and applications. High quality publications are solicited from engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges on principles and applications of privacy computing. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: · Fundamental principles for privacy computing · Privacy principles for information sensing, collection, engineering and distribution · Privacy protection based information hiding and sharing principles · Privacy preserving data publishing principles · Privacy information integration, synergy and storage · Privacy operation and modelling methodologies · Privacy protection methodologies and principles · Privacy applications in cloud, social networks, IoT and Industrial Internet · Privacy, security, trust, autonomy, reliability, fault-tolerance – association principles · Privacy, AI, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery – association principles *Submission Instructions * All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins) The authors must select as “SI: PriCom” when they reach the “Article Type” step in submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020- 0255/guide-for-authors. *Important Dates* · 30/05/2018 Paper submission due (can be by 15 June 2018 at latest) · 30/08/2018 Review due · 30/10/2018 Revision due · 30/11/2018 Decision due · 30/12/2018 Final due *Guest Editors* Prof. Jinjun Chen, Jinjun.Chen(a)gmail.com, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Prof. Laurence Yang, ltyang(a)gmail.com, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Cyber Security and Digital Investigation Workshop - MobiSPC 2018
by Dr.Kashif Saleem 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hi, We'd like to invite you to submit your papers for the 4th International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2018) that will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2018), on August 13-15, 2018, Gran Canaria, Spain. The main objective of this workshop is to invite papers that illustrate new ideas, innovative research results, or systematic reviews in the areas of Cyber Security and Digital Investigation. Complete details are available on the conference website : https://sites.google.com/site/csdi2018/home <http://saiconference.com/FICC> The workshop aims to bring researchers together from academia and industry to share the state-of-the art research and development in the areas of Cyber Security and Digital Investigation. Looking forward to your submissions. Best Regards, Kashif Saleem

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018, Deadline extended until May 7
by res.mb.conference 01 May '18

01 May '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 07, 2018 Author Notification: June, 01, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to May 7, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 30, 2018 Author Notification: June, 01, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 30, 2018 Author Notification: June, 01, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018, Deadline Extension
by res.mb.conference 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline until March 30, 2018 ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2). Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ HIGHLIGHTS ************ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: - Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics - Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, and Korea University, Seoul Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 30, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 More information can be found here: ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 30, 2018 Author Notification: June, 01, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018, Deadline Extension
by res.mb.conference 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline until March 30, 2018 ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2). Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ HIGHLIGHTS ************ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: - Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics - Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, and Korea University, Seoul Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 30, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 More information can be found here: ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018, Deadline Extension
by res.mb.conference 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline until March 30, 2018 ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2). Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ HIGHLIGHTS ************ First confirmed keynote speaker: Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 30, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 More information can be found here: ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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CFP: 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things (SPTIoT 2018), New York, USA.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things (SPTIoT 2018), New York, USA https://sites.google.com/site/ieeesptiot2018/ In conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-18 <http://www.cloud-conf.net/trustcom18/> August 1-3, 2018 | New York, USA. The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a key infrastructure for the development of smart ecosystems. IoT is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of devices communicating with each other and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to real time problems such as ageing populations, climate change, healthcare, and battlefield monitoring etc. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in domains such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as IoT, big data, networking, wireless communication, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security, privacy and trust issues in IoT environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. It follows the success of SPTIoT 2017 in Sydney, Australia. *Scope and Topics: * The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security, privacy and trust in IoT systems. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Security, privacy and trust in Integration of IoT devices and their data - Security, privacy and trust in IoT cloud services and resources - Secure IoT data query, analysis, and visualization - Security, privacy and trust in real-time IoT data analysis - IoT device actuation and feedback - Secure Mobile sensing and data analysis - Security, privacy and trust in analysis of social media posting and crowdsourcing - Security, privacy and trust in Fusion of sensor data with the social media postings - Security, privacy and trust in Edge/fog computing services for IoT - Security, privacy and trust in IoT Big data - Cyber-attacks detection and prevention; - Cyber security based on post-quantum cryptography - Cyber defence strategies and responsibilities in IoT system - Cyber threats and threat intelligence - Efficient/Secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms in IOT - Physical Unclonable Functions for IoT Security - Cryptanalysis and attacks on cryptosystems - Authentication and access control in IoT - IoT networking and communication security - Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT *Paper Submission Guidelines* Papers submitted to the symposium should be written in English conforming to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Format <https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/file/2014_04_msw_a4_format.doc> (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). The paper should be submitted through the symposium EasyChairsubmission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sptiot2018>. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers up to 6 pages in length. Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS CPS and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the symposium and present the paper. *Paper submission page:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sptiot2018 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: April 15, 2018 Authors notification: May 15, 2018 Camera-ready due: June 15, 2018 Registration: June 15, 2018 *Program Committee Chairs:* Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ben Martini, University of South Australia, Australia *Program Committees:* Junghee Lee, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Haoxiang Wang Go, Perception Laboratory, USA Jun Zheng, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Ximeng Liu, Singapore Management University, Singapore Lei Zhang, East China Normal University, China Ke Zeng, Microsoft, USA Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Debiao He, Wuhan University, China Yu Jiang, Tsinghua University, China George Grispos, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Ke Zeng, Microsoft, USA Feng Lin, University of Colorado Denver, USA Huijun Wu, Twitter Inc, USA Chi yang, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Mukesh Prasad, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Daniel Sun, Data61, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Włodzisław Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick 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 Events' 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 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) • Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 • Authors notification: June 24, 2018 • Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 • Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org 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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CFP: Australasian Database Conference ADC2018 (co-located with DASFAA and PAKDD), ONE WEEK LEFT!
by Jesson Butt 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

CFP: Australasian Database Conference ADC2018 (co-located with DASFAA and PAKDD) *** ADC2018 Call for papers *** The Australasian Database Conference (ADC) is an annual forum for sharing the latest research progresses and novel applications of database systems, data driven applications and data analytics for researchers and practitioners in these areas from Australia, New Zealand and in the world. In 2018 the conference will be co-located with DASFAA2018, and be held at Gold Coast, Australia, during May 24-27. The conference Web site is at http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/conferences/adc2018/ *** ADC 2018 welcomes contributions related to all aspects of database theory, techniques, and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Cloud, distributed, and parallel databases - Data cleaning - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Data warehousing - Database integration - Database performance and tuning - Graph databases - High-dimensional and temporal data - Mobile databases - Multimedia databases - Privacy and security in databases - Query processing and optimization - Semi-structured data and XML - Social data management - Spatial data processing and management - Stream and sensor data management - Uncertain and probabilistic databases - Web databases - AI in big data *** Contribution Types *** - Research and Industry Full Papers (12 pages) - Demonstration Papers (4 pages) *** Instructions *** - Submitted papers must be original contributions and cannot be under review for any other forum. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will form a volume in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. - All submitted papers must be in English and conform to the formatting instructions for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) including references and figures. - Submitted files must be in PDF, where the following page limits apply: 12 pages for research/industry papers, and 4 pages for demonstration proposals. - The format style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions Page (pdf). - Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ADC, and presentation. - ADC follows single blind review which means that authors' information must be included in the submission. *** Submissions *** - The submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work. - The submission page is here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adc2018 *** Important Dates *** - Paper submission: February 19, 2018 - Author Notification: March 26, 2018 - Camera-Ready Deadline: April 5, 2018 - Conference Date: May 24-27, 2018 *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** General Chair: Rui Zhang (The University of Melbourne, Australia) PC Chairs: Junhu Wang (Griffith University, Australia) Gao Cong (Nanyang Technical University, Singapore) Jinjun Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Publication Chair: Jianzhong Qi (The University of Melboourne, Australia) Publicity Chair: Lijun Chang (The University of Sydney, Australia) Local Organization Chairs: Sen Wang (Griffith University) Sibo Wang (University of Queensland)

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/) Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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One Post-doc and Two PhD Scholarships
by Jinjun Chen 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

We are now offering One Post-doc and Two PhD scholarships in the area of Data Security & Privacy or Blockchain; or Data Analytics in Healthcare/FinTech. 1. For One Post-doc, please refer to the website - http://www.swinburne.edu.au/about/jobs/search-apply/ --> Job search --> All vacancies --> "Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( School of Software & Electrical Engineering)". Alternatively, you can email to Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au for further detail. - 3-year fixed-term - Salary: Level B $91849 ~ $98691 - Plus 17% Superannuation - deadline: 5pm 28 Nov 2017 2. For Two PhD scholarships · Annual stipend $26,288 per year (2017 rate) for three years · Tuition fee waive for up to four years · Thesis allowance · Annual travel fund available We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Students need to meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements ( http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/). Interested candidates are invited to contact Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au with following references: 1. Your CV with your research interest 2. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees 3. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not your first language

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CFP: IEEE CEM; SI on Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in Internet of Things
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine [Impact Factor: 1.153**] * *Special issue on: Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in Internet of Things * (http://cesoc.ieee.org/call-for-papers.html) *Submission Deadline: September 30, 2017 * The current activities in Internet of Things (IoT) are focused on architectures & protocols for efficient interconnection of heterogeneous Things, Infrastructure deployment and creation of Value-Added Services. IoT is the latest Internet evolution that incorporates billions of Internet-connected devices that range from cameras, sensors, RFIDs, smart phones, and wearables, to smart meters, vehicles, medication pills, signs and industrial machines. IoT devices can deliver timely and accurate information that is needed to solve Internet-scale problems that have been too difficult to tackle before. Current IoT infrastructure deployed with smart sensing devices with limited computational capabilities (named as edge devices). Real time computing in such resource constraint edge devices is a challenging task whereas edge computing plays a vital role in IoT systems while implementing real-time computing. Edge computing is a novel paradigm that extends distributed computing and related services to the edge of the IoT networks with limited resources and computational power. As a result, edge computing became Quality of Service (QoS) parameter for IoT infrastructure. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT networks as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of IoT systems make security a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in domains such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust-reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. This special issue focuses on cutting-edge research from both academia and industry, with an emphasis on novel techniques and tools in secure and resource-efficient computing in Internet-of-Things to these problems, with a multidisciplinary approach. Topic of interest include, but not limited to following • Theoretical analysis for IoT computing systems • Edge computing architectures and solution design patterns • Edge computing for Internet of Things • Storage, data, and analytics for edge computing design and networking • Cryptography algorithms for IoT • Secure and efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms for IoT • Security, Privacy and Trust (PST) management of IoT • Big-data trust, security and privacy in IoT • Sensor Key Management Protocols • Key management and distribution • Validations and Testbed *Author Guidelines * The authors are required to submit full papers describing original research. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of eight pages (10-point font) in a standard IEEE two-column format - http://goo.gl/1yszpb. *Submission instructions* Submissions should follow IEEE standard template and should consist of the following: (i) A manuscript of maximum 8-page length: A pdf of the complete manuscript layout with figures, tables placed within the text, (ii) A source file in Word or Latex format, and (iii) High resolution original photos and graphics as JPEG files are required for the final submission. Images embedded in Word or Excel documents are not suitable; however, figures and graphics may be provided in a PowerPoint slide deck, with one figure/graphic per slide. Articles which have been previously published at a conference needs to have at least 40% new material as clarified in the cover letter of the submission The manuscripts need to be submitted online using the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cemag. The authors need to select "Special Section: Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in IoT" in Step-1 of submission process to ensure that the article is reviewed for this Special Call. For any questions, please contact guest editor Dr. Deepak Puthal. *Timeline (Tentative): * Submission deadline: September 30, 2017 Reviews due (accept/reject notification): November 30, 2017 Notification of final acceptance: February 28, 2017 Publication: End of 2018 *Editor-in-Chief:* Saraju P. Mohanty University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA *Guest editors: * Deepak Puthal (Corresponding guest editor) School of Computing and Communications University of Technology Sydney, Australia Email: Deepak.Puthal(a)uts.edu.au Xuyun Zhang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Auckland, New Zealand Email: xuyun.zhang(a)auckland.ac.nz

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UCC 2017, Austin, Texas, USA: Final Call for Papers
by Ashiq Anjum 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017) December 5-8, 2017 – Austin, Texas, USA – Call for Participation Website: http://ucc-conference.org Venue AT&T Hotel & Executive Education Conference Center 1900 University Avenue Austin, TX 78705 Context & Scope Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2017, to be held in Austin, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. History This will be the 10th 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) and Shanghai, China (UCC 2016). BDCAT and predecessor conferences have been co-located with UCC for the past several events. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models * Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations * Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications * Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Integration of Cloud systems with edge devices * Virtualization technologies and other enablers * Economic models and scenarios of use * Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring * Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business, as well as large-scale foundations for Big Data and analytics * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology, such as government regulation, security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility Computing contexts * Hands-on activities, tutorials, and instructional sessions on new technologies and methods Important Dates Paper submissions due 30 Aug 2017 Notification of acceptance 23 Sep 2017 Camera ready papers due 30 September, 2017 Early registration deadline 30 September, 2017 Regular registration deadline 31 October, 2017 * (Separate calls for submissions will be issued by each workshop or tutorial accepted) Manuscript guidelines Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, which include an optional free collaborative cloud-based LaTeX authoring tool. Papers should be prepared in two-column single-spaced format. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2017 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2017) Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and need to conform to the ACM conference format guidelines. Manuscript submissions must be received by the announced submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. See also the call for posters and the workshop pages on the ucc-conference.org web site. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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[INVITATION] Contribute to the Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Springer
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Dear Colleague, I am editing a section with Professor Jinjun Chen (*SECTION: Big Data Security and Privacy*) of Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies publish by Springer. https://meteor.springer.com/project/dashboard.jsf?id=643&tab=About Editors-in-Chief for this projects are Sherif Sakr and Albert Y. Zomaya. We are inviting your contribution to publish in the Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies that should have a length of about 2500-4000 words (i.e. 5-8 pages). For more details, please find the attachment. Can you please let us know (Use following details to contact), if you can contribute a paper to the section. Your quick confirmation is much appreciated. Dr. Deepak Puthal University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia Email: Deepak.puthal(a)gmail.com Professor Jinjun Chen Swinburne University of Technology, VIC, Australia Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Thanks, Deepak

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CFP: IEEE CEM; SI on Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in Internet of Things
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine [Impact Factor: 1.153**] * *Special issue on: Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in Internet of Things * (http://cesoc.ieee.org/call-for-papers.html) *Submission Deadline: September 30, 2017 * The current activities in Internet of Things (IoT) are focused on architectures & protocols for efficient interconnection of heterogeneous Things, Infrastructure deployment and creation of Value-Added Services. IoT is the latest Internet evolution that incorporates billions of Internet-connected devices that range from cameras, sensors, RFIDs, smart phones, and wearables, to smart meters, vehicles, medication pills, signs and industrial machines. IoT devices can deliver timely and accurate information that is needed to solve Internet-scale problems that have been too difficult to tackle before. Current IoT infrastructure deployed with smart sensing devices with limited computational capabilities (named as edge devices). Real time computing in such resource constraint edge devices is a challenging task whereas edge computing plays a vital role in IoT systems while implementing real-time computing. Edge computing is a novel paradigm that extends distributed computing and related services to the edge of the IoT networks with limited resources and computational power. As a result, edge computing became Quality of Service (QoS) parameter for IoT infrastructure. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT networks as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of IoT systems make security a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in domains such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust-reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. This special issue focuses on cutting-edge research from both academia and industry, with an emphasis on novel techniques and tools in secure and resource-efficient computing in Internet-of-Things to these problems, with a multidisciplinary approach. Topic of interest include, but not limited to following • Theoretical analysis for IoT computing systems • Edge computing architectures and solution design patterns • Edge computing for Internet of Things • Storage, data, and analytics for edge computing design and networking • Cryptography algorithms for IoT • Secure and efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms for IoT • Security, Privacy and Trust (PST) management of IoT • Big-data trust, security and privacy in IoT • Sensor Key Management Protocols • Key management and distribution • Validations and Testbed *Author Guidelines * The authors are required to submit full papers describing original research. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of eight pages (10-point font) in a standard IEEE two-column format - http://goo.gl/1yszpb. *Submission instructions* Submissions should follow IEEE standard template and should consist of the following: (i) A manuscript of maximum 8-page length: A pdf of the complete manuscript layout with figures, tables placed within the text, (ii) A source file in Word or Latex format, and (iii) High resolution original photos and graphics as JPEG files are required for the final submission. Images embedded in Word or Excel documents are not suitable; however, figures and graphics may be provided in a PowerPoint slide deck, with one figure/graphic per slide. Articles which have been previously published at a conference needs to have at least 40% new material as clarified in the cover letter of the submission The manuscripts need to be submitted online using the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cemag. The authors need to select "Special Section: Secure and Resource Efficient Computing in IoT" in Step-1 of submission process to ensure that the article is reviewed for this Special Call. For any questions, please contact guest editor Dr. Deepak Puthal. *Timeline (Tentative): * Submission deadline: September 30, 2017 Reviews due (accept/reject notification): November 30, 2017 Notification of final acceptance: February 28, 2017 Publication: End of 2018 *Editor-in-Chief:* Saraju P. Mohanty University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA *Guest editors: * Deepak Puthal (Corresponding guest editor) School of Computing and Communications University of Technology Sydney, Australia Email: Deepak.Puthal(a)uts.edu.au Xuyun Zhang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Auckland, New Zealand Email: xuyun.zhang(a)auckland.ac.nz

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CfP: MACIS 2017, Submission: Sep 3 / Conference: Nov 15-17 / Vienna, Austria
by res.mb.conference 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

*** Call for Papers MACIS 2017 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences November 15-17, 2017 Vienna, Austria. Web site: https://macis2017.sba-research.org/ **** MACIS is a series of biennial conferences focusing on research in mathematical and computational aspects of computing and information science. MACIS 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective four-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. +++ Important Dates +++ Submission deadline (REGULAR/SHORT papers): September 3, Sunday (SHORT papers are decided on a rolling basis) Notification deadline for all submissions: October 2, Monday Registration opens: October 2, Monday Camera-ready due: October 15, Sunday Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. +++ MACIS 2017 Organization +++ General Chair: Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria PC Chairs: Johannes Bloemer, Paderborn University, Germany Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Austria MACIS Steering Committee: Ilias Kotsireas (Chair), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Siegfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Thomas Sturm, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Dongming Wang, Beihang University, China Jinzhao Wu, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Chee Yap, New York University, USA +++ Proceedings +++ All accepted SHORT or REGULAR papers (details, below) are planned to appear in a conference proceedings volume published by Springer LNCS (pending approval). In addition, REGULAR papers have the opportunity to be considered for post-conference special issues of the journal ``Mathematics in Computer Science'' (MCS http://link.springer.com/journal/11786) by Birkhauser/Springer. +++ MACIS 2017 Topics +++ MACIS authors are required to choose one of the following tracks: Track 1: Foundation of Algorithms in Mathematics, Engineering & Scientific Computation Track Chairs: Matthew England (Coventry University, UK), Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame, USA), Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Elias Tsigaridas (INRIA, France) Topics: quantifier elimination and decision procedures; global optimization; differential equations; numeric, symbolic, interval and hybrid solution techniques; satisfiability modulo theories; combinations of logics and deductive engines; applications, especially in systems analysis and formal verification; solving (parametric) polynomial systems Track 2: Combinatorics and Codes in Computer Science Track Chairs: Daniel Augot (INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France), Alexander May (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), Alfred Wassermann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Topics: combinatorics, enumerative, combinatorial designs, their analysis and algorithmic constructions of them, complexity problems in combinatorics; codes constructions, decoding methods and their complexity, information theory aspects, Kolmogorov complexity Track 3: Data Modeling and Analysis Track Chairs: Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Joachim Giesen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Giorgos Kollias (IBM Research, USA) Topics: knowledge discovery; data mining; differential privacy, pattern recognition; complex knowledge - representation and management; foundations and theories for data analysis - systems; design and analysis of machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis for big data Track 4: Mathematical Aspects of Information Security and Cryptography Track Chairs: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Switzerland), Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Guenael Renault (ANSSI, France) Topics: security models; formal methods for security and privacy; design and analysis of algebraic, elliptic, number theoretical, code-based, lattice-based and hash-based cryptographic primitives; algebraic cryptanalysis, algebraic attacks, number theoretical algorithms, mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography; (lattices, codes); algorithms and software for symbolic computation in cryptography - For general inquiries regarding MACIS 2017, please send e-mail to Dimitris Simos <dsimos(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dsimos@sba-research.org>> - For inquiries regarding MACIS topics, please send e-mail to Johannes Bloemer <bloemer(a)mail.uni-paderborn.de<mailto:bloemer@mail.uni-paderborn.de>> or to Temur Kutsia <kutsia(a)risc.jku.at<mailto:kutsia@risc.jku.at>> +++ Submission Guidelines +++ Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research: - REGULAR papers are up to 15 pages, and SHORT papers are up to 5 pages, including references. - Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. - Please use the LNCS format from Springer: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip - Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by using the easychair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macis2017. - For detailed submission guidelines please see the MACIS website: https://macis2017.sba-research.org

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017 - Deadline Extended to June 1, 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 16 May '17

16 May '17

---- Call for Papers extended to June 1, 2017 ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) August 29 - September 1, 2017 https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/ CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2) Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3) Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4) Topological data analysis (i.e. topology data mining), 5) Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6) Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7) Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Important Dates: * Proposals for Workshops, Special Sessions, Tutorials: April, 19, 2017 * Submission Deadline: extended to June 1, 2017 Author * Notification: June, 21, 2017 Camera Ready Deadline: July, 07, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers extended to June 1, 2017 ----

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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Secure Internet of Things - SIoT
by Sofiane Lagraa 15 May '17

15 May '17

======================== Apologies for any cross-posting ======================== CfP - International Workshop on Secure Internet of Things - SIoT 2017, 14 - 15 of September, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Oslo, Norway Workshop Description and Scope ============================== The International Workshop on Secure Internet of Things 2017 (SIoT 2017) will be held in conjunction with the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) in Oslo, Norway at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), on September 14-15 2017. The proceedings of the workshop will be submitted to IEEE Explore. SIoT is a community where interested stakeholders, from academia and industry, can present their original work on providing a secure environment for connecting systems in an Internet-specific structure. The wide spread of mobile and embedded devices, able to connect to a network and share information, requires a careful look at the security risks taken by end users. In this context, the workshop will focus on contributions related to the security of mesh and machine-to-machine networks, secure software stacks running on ubiquitous network nodes, and algorithms used to provide secure end-to-end communication between nodes. Workshop Topics =============== The focus of this workshop is to create a secure environment for connecting systems in an Internet-specific structure. These may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Threat Models in Internet of Things * Attack Strategies for Internet of Things * Security Architectures * Secure Mobile Applications * Secure Mobility Management * Intrusion and Malware Detection * Security in Wireless Sensor Networks * Reliable Interactions with Network Services * System and Data Integrity * Scalability and Robustness for Internet of Things * Identity Management in Internet of Things * Trustworthiness in Internet of Things * Secure Operating Systems * Privacy in Internet of Things * Adaptive Security in Internet of Things Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 25th, 2017 * Author Notification: July 29th, 2017 * Camera Ready: August 14th, 2017 * SIoT Workshop and ESORICS Conference: September 14-15th, 2017 Submission Guidelines ===================== Papers submitted for publishing must adhere to the IEEE template and should be at most 10 pages in this format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. The original settings of textwidth and textheight should be preserved. Accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE. Note that authors of accepted papers must guarantee that one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. For more details, please visit our website: http://siot-workshop.org/

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Call forWorkshop Papers: ARES 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 04 May '17

04 May '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 9 workshops which range from “start-ups” to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2017 and their submission deadlines: *12th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2017) / Deadline has passed *10th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2017) / Deadline has passed *6th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2017) / 08.05.2017 *6th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2017) / 14.05.05.2017 *4th International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2017) / 22.05.2017 *4th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2017) / 07.05.2017 *3rd International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2017) / 08.05.2017 *2nd International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2017) / 07.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2017) / 14.05.2017 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops in conjunction with ARES 2016, in Salzburg, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the third time in conjunction with ARES 2017. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 4 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2017) / 10.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Securing Critical Infrastructures (S-CI 2017) / 08.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Supply Chain Security, Resilience and Accountability (SC-SRA 2017) / no paper submissions *1st International Workshop on Creating Identity – Trustworthy Ecosystems (CITE 2017) / no paper submissions ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Andrea Servida, European Commission, Belgium Neil D. Lawrence, University of Sheffield and Amazon, UK Marta Milo, University of Sheffield, UK ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017

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Call forWorkshop Papers: ARES 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 9 workshops which range from “start-ups” to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2017 and their submission deadlines: *12th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2017) / 01.05.2017 *10th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2017) / 01.05.2017 *6th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2017) / 01.05.2017 *6th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2017) / 01.05.2017 *4th International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2017) / 22.05.2017 *4th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2017) / 07.05.2017 *3rd International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2017) / 01.05.2017 *2nd International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2017) *new* / 07.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2017) / 01.05.2017 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops in conjunction with ARES 2016, in Salzburg, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the third time in conjunction with ARES 2017. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 5 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *3rd International Workshop on Security Testing And Monitoring (STAM 2017) / 30.04.2017 *2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2017) / 03.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Securing Critical Infrastructures (S-CI 2017) / 01.05.2017 *1st International Workshop on Supply Chain Security, Resilience and Accountability (SC-SRA 2017) / no paper submissions *1st International Workshop on Creating Identity – Trustworthy Ecosystems (CITE 2017) / no paper submissions ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Andrea Servida, European Comission, Belgium Neil D. Lawrence, University of Sheffield and Amazon, UK Marta Milo, University of Sheffield, UK ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

---- Call for Papers due to May, 15, 2017 ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) August 29 - September 1, 2017 https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2) Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3) Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4) Topological data analysis (i.e. topology data mining), 5) Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6) Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7) Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Important Dates: * Proposals for Workshops, Special Sessions, Tutorials: April, 19, 2017 * Submission Deadline: May, 15, 2017 Author * Notification: June, 14, 2017 Camera Ready Deadline: July, 07, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to May, 15, 2017 ----

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Deadline approaching: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Ding Daisy 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New submission deadline: April 15th, 2017 (confirmed) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - Secure and Resource-Efficient Edge Computing 2017 (SecureEdge 2017) https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/wssecureedge2017.html IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE 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 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 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. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 -> extended to 15th April, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. 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). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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Deadline approaching: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! New confirmed submission deadline: April 15, 2017 * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks 7. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.942) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) - 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wspbio2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsucer2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 18th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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Deadline approaching: The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 (final) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) - International Workshop on Security Measurements of Cyber Networks ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssmcn2017.html) - International workshop on Security in Big Data ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecbd2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Security of the Internet of Everything (SecIoE) (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecioe2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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SPTIoT 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things), 1-4 August 2017, Sydney, Australia
by Madhumita Takalkar 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Dear All, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things (SPTIoT 2017), 1-4 August 2017, Sydney, Australia In conjunction with IEEE TrustCom-17<http://stprp-activity.com/TrustCom2017> Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ieeesptiot2017/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: April 15, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2017 Camera Ready Copies: May 31, 2017 Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sptiot2017 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers presented at the symposium, after further revision, will be recommended to special issues of reputable SCI/EI-indexed journals. ------------ Introduction: The Internet of Things (IoTs) is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of machines communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to real real-world problems such as ageing populations, climate change, healthcare, transport, and battlefield monitoring etc. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust a challenging problem to solve on the one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most if not all applications of IoT in domains such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and and developers from different background areas such as IoT, big data, networking, wireless communication, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security, privacy and trust issues in IoT environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security, privacy and trust in IoT systems. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Security, privacy and trust in Integration of IoT devices and their data · Security, privacy and trust in IoT cloud services and resources · Secure IoT data query, analysis, and visualization · Security, privacy and trust in real-time IoT data analysis · IoT device actuation and feedback · Secure Mobile sensing and data analysis · Security, privacy and trust in analysis of social media posting and crowdsourcing · Security, privacy and trust in fusion of sensor data with the social media postings · Security, privacy and trust in Edge/fog computing services for IoT · Security, privacy and trust in IoT Big data · Cyber-attacks detection and prevention · Cyber security based on post-quantum cryptography · Cyber defense strategies and responsibilities in IoT system · Cyber threats and threat intelligence · Efficient/Secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms in IOT · Physical Unclonable Functions for IoT Security · Cryptanalysis and attacks on cryptosystems · authentication and access control in IoT · IoT networking and communication security · Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sptiot2017. Papers should be limited up to 6 pages in IEEE format (authors are allowed to purchase up to 2 extra pages.). Templates can be downloaded here for Word<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to IEEE TrustCom-17<http://stprp-activity.com/TrustCom2017> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS CPS and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Program Committee Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Committees (Partial): Prem P. Jayaraman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Chi yang, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand Amar A. Rasheed, Armstrong University, USA Rabi N Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Chang Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Priyadarsi Nanda, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Neeraj Kumar, Thapar University, India Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kind Regards, Workshop Program Committee IEEE TrustCom 2017<http://stprp-activity.com/TrustCom2017> UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. 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CFP: IEEE CIT 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New submission deadline: April 15th, 2017 (confirmed) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - Secure and Resource-Efficient Edge Computing 2017 (SecureEdge 2017) https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/wssecureedge2017.html IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE 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 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 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. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 -> extended to 15th April, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. 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). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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CFP: ICA3PP 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! New confirmed submission deadline: April 15, 2017 * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks 7. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.942) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) - 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wspbio2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsucer2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 18th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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CFP: NSS 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 (final) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) - International Workshop on Security Measurements of Cyber Networks ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssmcn2017.html) - International workshop on Security in Big Data ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecbd2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Security of the Internet of Everything (SecIoE) (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecioe2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFP: NSS 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017 (final) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) - International Workshop on Security Measurements of Cyber Networks ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssmcn2017.html) - International workshop on Security in Big Data ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecbd2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Security of the Internet of Everything (SecIoE) (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecioe2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFP: IEEE CIT 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! New submission deadline: April 15th, 2017 (confirmed) * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - Secure and Resource-Efficient Edge Computing 2017 (SecureEdge 2017) https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/wssecureedge2017.html IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE 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 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 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. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 -> extended to 15th April, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. 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). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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CFP: ICA3PP 2017 (Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2017)
by Ding Daisy 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! New confirmed submission deadline: April 15, 2017 * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks 7. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.942) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) - 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wspbio2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsucer2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 -> extended to 15 April, 2017 (final) Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 18th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/ ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage:https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017 - Deadline extended to March 31, 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extended to March 31,2017! ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 31, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Deadline approaching - 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks 7. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.942) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) - 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wspbio2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsucer2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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Deadline approaching - The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Ding Daisy 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August, 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada IEEE 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 CIT2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT2017 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. The IEEE CIT2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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Deadline approaching - The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) - International Workshop on Security Measurements of Cyber Networks ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssmcn2017.html) - International workshop on Security in Big Data ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecbd2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/ ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Proposals for Sessions/Workshops/Tutorials: March, 06, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April, 01, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage:https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/ ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Proposals for Sessions/Workshops/Tutorials: March, 06, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April, 01, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage:https://cd-make.net https://cd-make.net/

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FedCSIS 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 Strict submission deadline: May 10, 2017 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2017) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. In the past, FedCSIS Proceedings have been published in IEEE DL and indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science, SCOPUS, DBLP and other indexing engines. FedCSIS organizers will endeavor the same, as well as additional indexations for the 2017 Proceedings. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'17 - 12th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'17 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'17 - 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'17 - 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'17 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- LTA'17 - 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'17 - 10th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'17 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BigDAISy'17 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'17 - 10th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'17 - 4th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'17 - 2nd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- MMAP'17 - 10th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WAPL'17 - 6th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages --- WSC'17 - 9th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'17 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'17 - 1st International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'17 - 1st Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- SoFAST-WS'17 - 6th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'17 - 6th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'17 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'17 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- ISM'17 - 12th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'17 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'17 - 23rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TAMHE'17 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education --- UHH'17 - 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare --- WGSEE'17 - 1st Workshop on Gamification Software for Education and Enterprises * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'17 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'17 - 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'17 - 5th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- IoTM'17 - 1st Workshop on Internet of Things, Process Modelling and Microservices --- IWCPS'17 - 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- LASD'17 - 1st International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- MIDI'17- 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-37 - The 37th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop * DS-RAIT'17 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Professor of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy and Senior Member of the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO), Brazil, Keynote title: Carving Reality at its Digital Joints: The Role of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling in Next-Generation Information Systems Engineering - Marjan Mernik, Professor, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Keynote title: Domain-Specific Languages: A Systematic Mapping Study - Zbigniew Michalewicz, Chief Scientist, Complexica, Australia, Keynote title: How to sell more at a higher margin - Peter Palensky, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Keynote title: Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent Electrical Power Grids - Jan Vitek, Professor, Computer Science, Northeastern University, USA, Keynote title: Data Analysis for the Masses PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick 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 at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' 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). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS

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CFP: The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) - International Workshop on Security Measurements of Cyber Networks ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssmcn2017.html) - International workshop on Security in Big Data ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wssecbd2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFP: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks 7. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.942) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) - 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wspbio2017.html) - 2nd International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsucer2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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CFP: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Ding Daisy 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - Secure and Resource-Efficient Edge Computing 2017 (SecureEdge 2017) IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE 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 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 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. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. 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). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by office＠ares-conference.eu 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[CFP] The 1st International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (colocated with CCGrid, deadline: January 13th)
by Ashiq Anjum 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] Please find below a call for papers for ICFEC’2017 ** Submission deadline: January 13th, 2017 ** http://fec-conf.gforge.inria.fr/ ** Colocated with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017 ** May 14th 2017 − Madrid, Spain ------------------------ The 1st International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC'2017) Madrid, May 14th 2017 http://fec-conf.gforge.inria.fr/ CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to Madrid for the 1st International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing. The Conference will be held as part of/in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources, academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing infrastructures to smaller ones, massively distributed at the edge of the network. The Fog and Edge Computing paradigms are expected to improve the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users. Co-located with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) in Madrid, Spain on May 14th 2017, the first International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing will be a forum gathering a large community around all the challenges related to this new generation of Utility Computing. On the one hand, the development of Fog and Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and middleware techniques to build and operate a set of small and geographically distant data centers that host virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the use of Fog and Edge clouds requires to extend current programming models and to propose new abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take benefit from such massively distributed systems. The conference seeks to attract theoretical and technical contributions to any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management software stack to domain-specific applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing * Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Fog/Edge storage * Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Fog/Edge Computing applications * Latency/locality-critical applications * Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds IMPORTANT DATES * Technical papers submission deadline: January 13th, 2016 * Authors notifications: Feb. 15th, 2017 * Camera-ready paper: Feb. 28th, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. See formatting templates for details: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on technical strength, originality, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fec2017. PUBLICATION Proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Paper submitted could be accepted as REGULAR paper (10 pages) or SHORT papers (6 pages), depending on the review scores. ORGANISATION * General Chairs: - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Ashiq Anjum (University of Derby, UK) * Program Chairs: - Anthony Simonet (Inria, France) - Shangguang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) - Adrien Lebre (Inria, France) * Program Committee Members - Frederico Alvares De Oliveira (Ecole des Mines Nantes, Inria, France) - Luis Antunes Veiga (Technical University of Lisbon, INESC-ID, Portugal) - Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, USA) - Jesus Carretero (University of Madrid, Spain) - Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria, Canada) - Helene Coullon (Ecoles des Mines de Nantes, Inria, France) - Thierry Coupaye (Orange Labs, France) - Frederic Desprez (Inria, France) - Javier Diaz-Montes (Rutgers University, USA) - Gilles Fedak (Inria, University of Lyon, France) - Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida, USA) - Matthew Forshaw (Newcastle University, UK) - Harshit Gupta (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - Philipp Leitner (University Of Zurich, Switzerland) - Manolis Marazakis (ICS-Forth, Greece) - Christine Morin (Inria, France) - Satish Narayana Srirama (University of Tartu, Estonia) - Benoit Parrein (University of Nantes, France) - Ioan Petri (School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK) - Guillaume Pierre (IRISA, University of Rennes, France) - Aravinda Rao (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Stefan Schulte (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Stefano Secci (LIP6 UPMC, France) - Wei Tan (IBM, USA) - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain) - Amir Vahid Dastjerdi (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Zibin Zheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Publicity chair: - Carlos Westphall (University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

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CFP: The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFP: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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CFW: 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 15, 2017 The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of IEEE CIT-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft Call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “CIT2017 workshop proposal”:* liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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CFW: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 15, 2017 The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of ICA3PP-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft Call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “ICA3PP2017 workshop proposal”: *liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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CFP: The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) WORKSHOPs - 3rd International Workshop on 5G Security and Machine Learning ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/wsiw5gs2017.html) While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Blockchain and Bitcoin Security - Complex Systems Security - Cyber Hacking and Protection - Database and System Security - Data Protection and Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware Detection - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security, Trust and Privacy in Internet of Things - Security, Trust and Privacy in Crowdsourcing, Crowdsensing and CrowdPayment - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart-X Systems - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - Wantermarking and Digital Rights Management - World Wide Web Security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chairs Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFW: 11th International Conference on Network and System Security
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 11th International Conference on Network and System Security Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb 15, 2017 The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of NSS-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “NSS2017 workshop proposal”: *raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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CFP: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE 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 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 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. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. 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). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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CFP: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Eurecom, INRIA, France Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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IEEE CIT 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Ding Daisy 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 15, 2017 The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of IEEE CIT-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft Call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “CIT2017 workshop proposal”:* liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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CFP for ANT 2017, Madeira, Portugal (Paper Submission Due: December 22, 2016)
by Mohamed Amine FERRAG 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

[Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] *The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017) * * Madeira, Portugal * * May 16-19, 2017 * Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/ *Important Dates =========== - Workshops Proposal Due: November 1, 2016 - Paper Submission Due: December 22, 2016 - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 ANT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-i ndex/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) - Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer ( http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) ANT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.a cadiau.ca/seit-17/). Conference Tracks ============== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - Internet of Things - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences - Multimedia and Social Computing - Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications - Smart Environments and Applications - Systems Security and Privacy - Systems Software Engineering - Vehicular Networks and Applications - General Track COMMITTEES ========= General Chairs Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program Vice Chairs Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et MŽtiers, France Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Publicity Chairs Rui Din’s, Instituto de Telecomunica ›es, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada -- __________________________________________________ *Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag* *Assistant Professor* *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 <mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com> **(Primary)* * ferrag.mohamedamine(a)univ-guelma.dz <ferrag.mohamedamine(a)univ-guelma.dz>* *maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net <maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net>* *HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ <https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/>* ____________________________________________________

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ICA3PP 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Ding Daisy 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 15, 2017 The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of ICA3PP-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft Call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “ICA3PP2017 workshop proposal”: *liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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NSS 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Ding Daisy 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

*Call for Workshops Proposals* 11th International Conference on Network and System Security Helsinki, Finland 21-23 August, 2017 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/index.html *Important Dates:* - Workshop Proposal Due: Feb 15, 2017 The NSS 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic in the field of NSS-2017 and its related areas. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). *Proposal Format* - Title of the workshop - Draft call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Please submit your workshop proposal to the following emails with subject “NSS2017 workshop proposal”: *raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi

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CFP: The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)
by Ding Daisy 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *The 11th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2017)* August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/ NSS 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, adaptive, active and high performance defense systems which are distributed and networked. The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to network and system security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability, trustworthiness, and sustainability of computer networks and systems. The aim of NSS is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. NSS 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful events of Network and System Security. Previous editions were held in: Taipei (2016), New York City, USA (2015), Xi'an, China (2014), Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia; (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Active Defense Systems - Adaptive Defense Systems - Analysis, Benchmark of Security Systems - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Big Data Trust, Security and Privacy - Biometric Security - Complex Systems Security - Database and System Security - Data Protection - Data/System Integrity - Digital Forensics - Distributed Access Control - Distributed Attack Systems - Denial-of-Service - High Performance Network Virtualization - High Performance Security Systems - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Intelligent Defense Systems - Insider Threats - Intellectual Property Rights Protection - Internet and Network Forensics - Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Key Distribution and Management - Large-scale Attacks and Defense - Malware - Network Resiliency - Network Security - RFID/NFC Security and Privacy - Security Architectures - Security for Critical Infrastructures - Security for Cyber Physical Systems - Security in Cloud and Grid Systems - Security in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Security and Privacy in Smart Grid - Security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Security Policy - Security Protocols - Security Simulation and Tools - Security Theory and Tools - Standards and Assurance Methods - Trusted Computing - Trust Management - World Wide Web Security Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/NSS2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The NSS 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs: Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Refik Molva, Eurocom, France Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Workshop Chair Silke Holtmmans, Nokia, Finland Xin Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Publicity Chair Li Yang, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yang Xiang (Chair), Deakin University, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chair Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China

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CFP: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)
by Ding Daisy 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017)* August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests - Parallel and Distributed Architectures - Software Systems and Programming Models - Distributed and Network-based Computing - Big Data and its Applications - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing - Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Eurecom, INRIA, France Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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CFP: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Ding Daisy 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)* *August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland* URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada IEEE 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 CIT2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT2017 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. The IEEE CIT2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT2017 website ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - 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 - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publication Chair Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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FedCSIS 2017 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Call for Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org The 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, research dissemination meeting, special session). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until November 2, 2016. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2016 - held in Gdańsk, Poland – attracted 512 papers, of which 130 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 25%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2014 full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers are being published in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by October 30, 2016). Publications As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume, which will not be submitted to the IEEE), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN, IEEE Catalog and DOI numbers, under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Position Papers volume will be published with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. Event Proposals Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, a clear description and justification of the theme, and a short list of topics. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by November 2, 2016, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/cfe

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ITNG2017 Cybersecurity Symposium submission reminder
by Dr.Kashif Saleem 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello Everyone, This is a kind reminder that the paper submission for ITNG2017 Cybersecurity Symposium is due this Friday, October 14. Please submit your paper or draft at http://www.itng.info/submission.php <http://www.itng.info/submission.php> If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you. Best regards, Ping ----- Ping Wang, PhD, CISSP

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications)
by Andrew Clashe 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to High Performance Computing and Communications or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to HPCC 2016. HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of High Performance Computing and Communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Grid and cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing, Utility computing 10. Big Data, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics on HPC 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Vinh Tung Le, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE SmartCity 2016 (Smart City)
by Arne Wilston 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 1 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SmartCity 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Smart City or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SmartCity 2016. SmartCity2016 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Smart City as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSS 2016 (Data Science and Systems)
by Jesson Butt 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 1 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "DSS 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Data Science and Systems or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to DSS 2016. DSS 2016 (Data Science and Systems) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Data Science and Systems as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics A. Data Science • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security, Privacy and Trust in Data • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as Health, Energy, Cybersecurity, Transport, Food, Soil and Water, Resources, Advanced Manufacturing, Environmental Change, and etc. Chairs: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSS 2016 (Data Science and Systems)
by Jesson Butt 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Call for Poster and Demo: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 1 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "DSS 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Data Science and Systems or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to DSS 2016. DSS 2016 (Data Science and Systems) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Data Science and Systems as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics A. Data Science • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security, Privacy and Trust in Data • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as Health, Energy, Cybersecurity, Transport, Food, Soil and Water, Resources, Advanced Manufacturing, Environmental Change, and etc. Chairs: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE SmartCity 2016 (Smart City)
by Arne Wilston 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Call for Poster and Demo: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 1 October 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SmartCity 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Smart City or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SmartCity 2016. SmartCity2016 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Smart City as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications)
by Andrew Clashe 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Call for Poster and Demo: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 28 September 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2016 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to High Performance Computing and Communications or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. ====== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to HPCC 2016. HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of High Performance Computing and Communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Grid and cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing, Utility computing 10. Big Data, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics on HPC 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Vinh Tung Le, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK

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Final CFP: IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Final Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2016 (11:59pm HST, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Final CFP: Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2016), Shanghai, China
by Ashiq Anjum 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

************************************************************************** Final Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due : 31 August, 2016 - Author Notification : 25 September, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due : 30 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Publicity Chair Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Shruti Kohli, University of Birmingham, UK Programme Committee Members Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jong Hoon Ahnn, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Adel Taweel, Kings College London, UK Varun Soundararajan, Google, USA Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan Dongfang Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Thomas Bohnert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Kesheng Wu, Berkeley Lab, USA Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK Marco Netto, IBM Research Zhangbing Zhou, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Xiao Chen, Jiangsu University, China Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Andre Luckow, BMW Dan Chen, Wuhan University, China Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Been-Chian Chen,National University of Tainan,Taiwan Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and The University of Chicago, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Guanjun Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Yan Tang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research, Ireland Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jie Cui, Anhui University, China Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA Jose Brito, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ali R Butt, Virginia Tech,USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Li, Beihang University, China Mohsin Farid, University of Derby, UK Samer Al-Kiswany, The University of British Columbia, Canada Jie Cui, Anhui University, Hefei, China Sajjad A Madani,COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Manzur Murshed, Federation University, Australia Silvio Pardi,Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne, Australia Kune Raghavendra, ADRIN,DOS, India Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Said Jai Andaloussi, Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE Hemant Sharma, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Khalid Elgazzar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joarder Kamal, Monash University, Australia Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Renyu Yang Beihang University, China Xiangjun Shen, Jiangsu University, China Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016) Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.

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Final CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

Final Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China

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CFP: IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Final CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Final Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 22, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China

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Trust 2016 Call for Participation
by office＠ares-conference.eu 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Apologies for multiple postings **************************** TRUST 2016 -- Call for Participation **************************** Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to participate in the 9th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing. TRUST 2016 is an international conference that explores new ideas and experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. It provides an excellent opportunity for personally interacting with leading experts and peer researchers in a very attractive and easily accessible venue. **************************** WHEN: August 29-30, 2016. WHERE: Vienna, Austria. **************************** The program consists of eight presentations, covering topics such as trust and key management, attestation, and embedded and hardware security. At the same time, we are delighted to have two exciting keynote presentations by: - Prof. Virgil D. Gligor (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), on "Establishing and Maintaining Root of Trust on Commodity Computer Systems". Abstract: http://trust2016.sba-research.org/?page_id=13 - Prof. Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, Germany), on "DRAM PUFs". Abstract: http://trust2016.sba-research.org/?page_id=13 The detailed program can be found here: http://trust2016.sba-research.org/?page_id=546 **************************** For more information, notably on the technical program committee, the venue, and the registration, please refer to the conference website: http://trust2016.sba-research.org/ **************************** Kindly forward this email to other interested parties. We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna! Moritz Wiese, Somayeh Salimi (Publicity and Publication chairs)

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 22, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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CFP : The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China
by Ashiq Anjum 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due: 30 July, 2016 - Author Notification: 21 August, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: 21 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Programme Committee Members Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jong Hoon Ahnn, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan Dongfang Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Thomas Bohnert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Kesheng Wu, Berkeley Lab, USA Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK Marco Netto, IBM Research Zhangbing Zhou, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Xiao Chen, Jiangsu University, China Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Andre Luckow, BMW Dan Chen, Wuhan University, China Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Been-Chian Chen,National University of Tainan,Taiwan Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and The University of Chicago, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Guanjun Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Yan Tang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research, Ireland Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jie Cui, Anhui University, China Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA Jose Brito, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ali R Butt, Virginia Tech,USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Li, Beihang University, China Mohsin Farid, University of Derby, UK Samer Al-Kiswany, The University of British Columbia, Canada Jie Cui, Anhui University, Hefei, China Sajjad A Madani,COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Manzur Murshed, Federation University, Australia Silvio Pardi,Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne, Australia Kune Raghavendra, ADRIN,DOS, India Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Said Jai Andaloussi, Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE Hemant Sharma, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Khalid Elgazzar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joarder Kamal, Monash University, Australia Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Renyu Yang Beihang University, China Xiangjun Shen, Jiangsu University, China Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016) Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.

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Extended CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Call for papers: As requested, we have extended the submission deadline to 22 August 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT), but this is firm then. The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 22, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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Security Rockstars – Start-up Competition - apply now until July 15, 2016
by office＠ares-conference.eu 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Security Rockstars - Start-up Competition in Information Security https://www.securityrockstars.com ********* APPLY NOW until July 15, 2016 ********* Apply now for “Security Rockstars” - the European Information Security Start-up Competition organized by SBA Research and supported by partners from the public and private sector. The competition's goal is to find and support innovative ideas and solutions in the area of Information Security. Submission deadline for proposals is 15 July 2016. The final pitch takes place in the context of the CCS Conference on 24 October 2016 in Vienna (https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2016/) ******** PRICES: ******** First place: 20.000 EUR Second place: 10.000 EUR Thirs place: 5.000 EUR TOP 25 A detailed business plan will be drawn up under the guidance of experts and with the help of the "Innovation Box" by WhatAVenture. 25+ experts - university professors, serial entrepreneurs, CISOs of Fortune 500 companies and venture capitalists - will screen these concepts and give feedback. Additionally, the best 25 will receive an invitation to attend the final event of the competition taking place during ACM CCS 2016, one of the most acknowledged international academic conferences for information security. TOP 10 The Top 10 participants will be invited to join a 5-day start-up boot camp in Vienna as well as receive the opportunity to present their idea at a vendor booth at the Security Rockstars finals. TOP 5 The Top 5 participants will present in front of an expert jury as well as 250+ senior security professionals from Top 500 companies and leading universities during the Security Rockstars finals on the 24th of October in the Hofburg in Vienna. ******** IMPORTANT DATES: ******** 15 July 2016 - Submission deadline for the abstract 1 August 2016 - Nomination Top 25 1 September 2016 - Submission deadline for the business plan 24 September 2016 - Nomination Top 5 20 October 2016 - Sponsor workshops and “Meet the Founders” evening event 21 October 2016 - Sponsor workshops and pitch training 22 October 2016 - Presentation training 23 October 2016 - Final workshop and day of preparation with the experts from WhatAVenture 24 October 2016 - ACM CCS 2016 in Vienna with the final pitches as well as award ceremony ******** SUBMISSION ******** Stage 1 – Abstract To make entering the competition easy for early-stage start-ups as well, only a short abstract or pitch deck is necessary during the first stage, summarizing the problem and its technical solution (max. one page) as well as presenting the team and the business model (max. one page). For more information please visit: https://www.securityrockstars.com Follow Security Rockstars on Facebook and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/SecRockStars https://twitter.com/SecRockStars/ SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 1040 Vienna /Austria https://www.sba-research.org/

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CFP: HotPlanet 2016 - 7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement
by Ding Daisy 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *HotPlanet 2016 - 7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement* *Workshop @ Ubicomp <http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2016/> / ISWC 2016* *September 12-16, Heidelberg, Germany* The last decade has seen a rapid, planet-scale growth in deployment and usage of smart mobile devices, ambient sensors, smartphone applications and advanced communication technologies. This era has prompted for large-scale, planet-wide data collection, storage, processing and dissemination technologies, advancing our knowledge about human behaviour and interactions at a planetary scale. Evolution of such technologies and methodologies, in addition to the high investments in Internet of things (IoT) deployments, has inherently led to a number of security, privacy and ethical issues as well as new systems, networking, and application challenges. This 7th HotPlanet workshop will bring together networking, wireless, mobile computing and systems research to understand the challenges ahead and advance the dialogue on topics related to large-scale measurements and big data analytics centred on individuals. It aims to attract publications on data collection and analysis, such as knowledge-discovery methodologies, large-scale data mining, and big social media data and location traces analytics, but also on deployment challenges, such as innovative real-world measurement technologies, end-user applications, large-scale deployment experiences, and innovative large-scale mobile sensing systems. Topics of interest include: · Big data analytics (social media, mobility traces, prediction techniques, etc.) · Mobile sensing systems · Big data privacy & security · Large scale measurement methodologies · Novel social & sensing application · Open source and virtualized sensing infrastructure · Cloud computing paradigms for decentralized analysis · Incentive models for encouraging users and businesses to collect and contribute data · Profiling, personalisation, geo-targeting · Programming paradigms for large scale data collection · Data quality issues · Internet of Things · Smart energy-aware systems · Large scale mobile application and market experience · Regulatory, legal and ethical issues in planet-wide data collection Important Dates Paper Submission June 14, 2016 Notification June 26, 2016 Camera Ready Version Due July 3, 2016 Submission Instructions Submissions are now open. Click on the following link to submit your paper (via HotCRP): http://wi-stream-1.cse.nd.edu/hp16 The TPC accepts original submissions that are not under review, or published at, previous workshops, conferences, or journals. Submissions may not exceed 6 pages double column, including figures, tables, references, and appendices. Authors are required to use the ACM template for submissions:http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. All submissions will be evaluated via a single-blind review process: please include author names and affiliation in the submission. *Program Committee* *Organizing Committee* Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University, USA *Program Chairs* Ou Zhonghong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA

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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 30 May '16

30 May '16

Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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CFP:The 3rd IEEE/ACM Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA), Shanghai, China
by Ashiq Anjum 27 May '16

27 May '16

Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdsea2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due: 30 July, 2016 - Author Notification: 21 August, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: 21 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering, and Applications (BDSEA) is an annual international conference series. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include application and renamed as BDSEA 2016. The conference series aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing and applications. BDSEA 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructure Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Programme Chair BDSEA 2016 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdsea2016/ Professor Ashiq Anjum, BE (Elect Eng), MSc (CS), PhD (CS), FHEA Professor of Distributed Systems Department of Computing and Mathematics College of Engineering and Technology University of Derby Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB Email: ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch<mailto:ashiq.anjum@cern.ch> & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk> Phone: +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 Web: http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 27 May '16

27 May '16

Call for Position Papers 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) The FedCSIS 2016 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS: EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions. Paper publication: Position papers will be published as a SEPARATE ELECTRONIC VOLUME (of the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems series; annals-csis.org) WITH an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. These papers will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. However, they will be indexed in the CrossRef, BazEkon, J-Gate, and submitted for indexing to: SCOPUS, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. Paper submission: Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program. About FedCSIS 2016: FedCSIS 2016 is organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Chairs of FedCSIS Conference Series Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki Contact FedCSIS at secretariat(a)fedcsis.org

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CFP: IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 25 May '16

25 May '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/2016/dss/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 Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers - Extended Deadline: May 31, 2016!
by CD-ARES 2016 24 May '16

24 May '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 extended to May 31, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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