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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2021, AoE (Firm deadline without extension) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021, AoE Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2021, AoE Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff • Performance analysis and optimization • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques • Smart contract and chain code • Applications and services based on blockchain • Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) • Blockchain in cyber physical systems • Blockchain in social networking • Blockchain in supply chain management • Blockchain in agriculture • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles • Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing • Blockchain in mobile cellular networks • Blockchain in edge and cloud computing • Blockchain in next generation communications and networks • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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IoTSMS 2021CFP: The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
by Gizem Varkonyi 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2021) *http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2021/index.php>* Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *IoTSMS 2021 CFP:* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. The number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 30.9 billion by 2025. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 25 billion objects by 2025. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impact; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The IEEE Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2021) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modeling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility * Green by Internet of Things * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * IoT and sustainable Growth *IMPORTANT DATES:* *Submission Date: 5 September, 2021* Notification to Authors: 10 October, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 30 October, 2021 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the IoTSMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *JOURNAL-SPECIAL-ISSUE* Selected authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to indexed and highly ranked journals, including Cluster Computing. Please send any inquiry to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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SDS 2021 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Yufei Sun 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021. *SDS 2021 CFP:* Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019, SDS' 2020), The Eighth International conference on Software Defined Systems 2021 (SDS'2021) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2021 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SDS Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 5 September, 2021* Notification to Authors: 10 October, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 30 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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[Deadline: 14 August] IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop - EnergyCom: Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management
by Ons Bouachir 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

International Workshop on *Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management (EnergyCom2021)* *http://icnetlab.org/**EnergyCom2021**/* <http://icnetlab.org/EnergyCom2021/> *in conjunction with **IEEE GlobeCom 2021.* *https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-workshop-intelligent-communications-decentralized-* *energy**-management-**energycom* <https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-workshop-intelligent-…> 7-11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain *Scope and topics of the workshop:* The need for clean energy has become crucial with population growth, the abundant demand in traditional energy resources and the need for the decarbonization of economy to curb climate change. The solution ahead is to shift to and integrate more renewable and clean sources of energy with the existing conventional energy infrastructure as well as offer end-users a more active role in the integrated management of their energy resources (grid, loads, storage, microgeneration). Energy trading platforms are mechanisms used to attain increased energy demands while meeting participants’ satisfaction (i.e., consumers, prosumers, and utility grids). Participant satisfaction is driven by two main factors: stable coverage of energy demand and profit maximization, which can be fostered by demand response programs. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading platforms should find a win-win balance, where all participants are able to make some profit and meet their energy demand under any circumstances. However, under certain circumstances, this balance between energy demand and profit can be affected. Some consumers may not be able to buy energy due to the lack of funds. Moreover, some prosumers, that are solely responsible of energy storage management, are not able to sell all their excess energy. Additionally, energy storage management becomes costly over time and can affect the prosumer overall profit. Lastly, scalability and security are additional challenges that must be tackled. In this context, intelligent communications, as well as decentralized technologies, have emerged as a solution to these issues. For instance, deep and reinforcement learning coupled with fast and reliable communication infrastructures such as B5G, provide great opportunities to improve the way energy prosumers and consumers communicate with the grid. A decentralized energy management system takes advantage of various technologies, and effective communication is used to ensure optimal utilization of the available resources. Incorporation of advanced technologies such as blockchain, distributed intelligence, and federated learning can considerably overcome the technical challenges and reduce market barriers, which in essence would attract the adoption of this disruptive technology. The aim of the International Workshop on Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management is to bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent communications and computing for decentralized energy management. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in energy management systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools, and frameworks in technological areas related to optimization of the energy management infrastructure in the context of smart cities and other relevant application domains. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · Design of multi-objective models for energy management systems, including demand response · Big data analytics in energy management · Intelligent infrastructure architectures for energy systems · Cooperative systems for energy management · Security and privacy for decentralized energy systems · Next-generation networks for energy management · Connected services and energy mobility management · Autonomous and connected energy in smart cities · Green energy cities and infrastructure · P2P energy trading/sharing models · Management of large-scale energy systems · Energy-efficient industrial IoT · Blockchain for energy management · Advanced communications and computing for energy storage · B5G technology for energy systems *Workshop Organizers:* · Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, xAnalytics Inc.*, Ottawa, Canada*. · Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, *Istanbul, Turkey.* · Prof. *Carlos Henggeler Antunes*, University of Coimbra, *Portugal*. *Invited Speaker:* - Prof.* Salil Kanhere*, UNSW Sydney, *Australia*. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N28614 *Important Dates: *Papers due: *13 July, 2021** 14 August, 2021 (Firm deadline)* Acceptance notification: 15 September, 2021 Camera-ready paper due: 15 November, 2021

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CFP: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Firm Deadline: 5 Sept 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: September 5, 2021, AoE (Firm deadline without extension) Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021, AoE Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 15, 2021, AoE Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff • Performance analysis and optimization • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques • Smart contract and chain code • Applications and services based on blockchain • Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) • Blockchain in cyber physical systems • Blockchain in social networking • Blockchain in supply chain management • Blockchain in agriculture • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles • Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing • Blockchain in mobile cellular networks • Blockchain in edge and cloud computing • Blockchain in next generation communications and networks • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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[Deadline Extended: 14 August] IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop - Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems using Futuristic Technologies (Firm Deadline)
by Safa Otoum 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop *Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems using Futuristic Technologies* (*https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-18-workshop-securing-next-generation-connected-healthcare-systems-using-futuristic <https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-18-workshop-securing-nex…>* ) 7-11 December 2021 (Madrid, Spain) (https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Recent advancements in computing and communication technologies have enabled the development of connected healthcare systems that depend primarily on IoT and Edge technologies. However, the security and privacy of next-generation smart healthcare systems are of major concern, in order to provide an efficient rollout of connected healthcare. Futuristic technologies like Blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) are pioneering system security solutions and can provide significant support for healthcare systems. In this context, this workshop will concentrate on the crucial aspects of IoT security in connected healthcare environments, which will not only benefit from cutting-edge methodological approaches but also assist in the rapid scalability and improvement of these systems. It also aims to use blockchain technology for communication and data security, as well as trust management, in a smart city IoT environment. The aim of this workshop is to bring together developers, academics, and professionals interested in IoT/edge security and privacy developments and applications for the advancement of connected healthcare systems. Original research contributions are welcomed in all major fields, including but not limited to: - IoT healthcare security and privacy. - Ultra-lightweight cryptography for healthcare. - QoE/QoS in healthcare-IoT/edge. - Healthcare IoT applications using distributed and federated learning. - Cryptology: Theory and Applications in Healthcare IoT. - Access management in connected healthcare IoT. - Detection, Protection, and Prevention in a Cyber Threat-Free Healthcare IoT environment. - Simulation and performance evaluation mechanisms for healthcare-IoT networks - 5G innovations for IoT in healthcare. - ML-based healthcare IoT applications. - Blockchain-based healthcare IoT infrastructures. - Blockchain security connecting different IoT-healthcare protocols. - Digital Twin for healthcare IoT systems. *Steering Committee:* *Prof. Hussein Mouftah*, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. *Prof. Zygmunt Haas*, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. *General Co-Chairs:* *Dr. Safa Otoum*, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. *Dr. Ismaeel Al Ridhawi*, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait. *Dr. Nadra Guizani*, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. *Invited Speaker:* *Prof. Amr Mohamed*, Qatar University, Qatar. *Important Dates:* Workshop Papers Due: *15 July 2021 **August 14th, 2021 (Firm and Final)* Papers Acceptance Notification: *15 September 2021* Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: *15 November 2021*

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Call for Paper: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Extended Deadline: 5 Aug 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: August 05, 2021, Thursday Notification of Acceptance: September 18, 2021, Saturday Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 06, 2021, Wednesday Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff • Performance analysis and optimization • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques • Smart contract and chain code • Applications and services based on blockchain • Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) • Blockchain in cyber physical systems • Blockchain in social networking • Blockchain in supply chain management • Blockchain in agriculture • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles • Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing • Blockchain in mobile cellular networks • Blockchain in edge and cloud computing • Blockchain in next generation communications and networks • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop - EnergyCom: Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management (Extended Deadline: 14 August)
by Julia Marino 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

International Workshop on *Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management (EnergyCom2021)* *http://icnetlab.org/EnergyCom2021**/* <http://icnetlab.org/EnergyCom2021/> *in conjunction with **IEEE GlobeCom 2021.* *https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-workshop-intelligent-communications-decentralized-energy-management-energycom* <https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-workshop-intelligent-…> 7-11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain *Scope and topics of the workshop:* The need for clean energy has become crucial with population growth, the abundant demand in traditional energy resources and the need for the decarbonization of economy to curb climate change. The solution ahead is to shift to and integrate more renewable and clean sources of energy with the existing conventional energy infrastructure as well as offer end-users a more active role in the integrated management of their energy resources (grid, loads, storage, microgeneration). Energy trading platforms are mechanisms used to attain increased energy demands while meeting participants’ satisfaction (i.e., consumers, prosumers, and utility grids). Participant satisfaction is driven by two main factors: stable coverage of energy demand and profit maximization, which can be fostered by demand response programs. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading platforms should find a win-win balance, where all participants are able to make some profit and meet their energy demand under any circumstances. However, under certain circumstances, this balance between energy demand and profit can be affected. Some consumers may not be able to buy energy due to the lack of funds. Moreover, some prosumers, that are solely responsible of energy storage management, are not able to sell all their excess energy. Additionally, energy storage management becomes costly over time and can affect the prosumer overall profit. Lastly, scalability and security are additional challenges that must be tackled. In this context, intelligent communications, as well as decentralized technologies, have emerged as a solution to these issues. For instance, deep and reinforcement learning coupled with fast and reliable communication infrastructures such as B5G, provide great opportunities to improve the way energy prosumers and consumers communicate with the grid. A decentralized energy management system takes advantage of various technologies, and effective communication is used to ensure optimal utilization of the available resources. Incorporation of advanced technologies such as blockchain, distributed intelligence, and federated learning can considerably overcome the technical challenges and reduce market barriers, which in essence would attract the adoption of this disruptive technology. The aim of the International Workshop on Intelligent Communications for Decentralized Energy Management is to bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent communications and computing for decentralized energy management. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in energy management systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools, and frameworks in technological areas related to optimization of the energy management infrastructure in the context of smart cities and other relevant application domains. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · Design of multi-objective models for energy management systems, including demand response · Big data analytics in energy management · Intelligent infrastructure architectures for energy systems · Cooperative systems for energy management · Security and privacy for decentralized energy systems · Next-generation networks for energy management · Connected services and energy mobility management · Autonomous and connected energy in smart cities · Green energy cities and infrastructure · P2P energy trading/sharing models · Management of large-scale energy systems · Energy-efficient industrial IoT · Blockchain for energy management · Advanced communications and computing for energy storage · B5G technology for energy systems *Workshop Organizers:* · Dr. *Moayad Aloqaily*, xAnalytics Inc.*, Ottawa, **Canada*. · Prof. *Öznur Özkasap*, Koç University, *Istanbul, Turkey.* · Prof. *Carlos Henggeler Antunes*, University of Coimbra, *Portugal*. *Invited Speaker:* - Prof.* Salil Kanhere*, UNSW Sydney, *Australia*. *Submission Link:* https://edas.info/N28614 *Important Dates:* Papers due: *13 July, 2021** 14 August, 2021 (Firm deadline)* Acceptance notification: 15 September, 2021 Camera-ready paper due: 15 November, 2021

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Call for Paper: IEEE Blockchain-2021 (Extended Deadline: 5 Aug 2021)
by xueqin_liang＠outlook.com 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021) December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/ 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-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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. * Important Dates Paper Submission: August 05, 2021, Thursday Notification of Acceptance: September 18, 2021, Saturday Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 06, 2021, Wednesday Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday * Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology • Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff • Performance analysis and optimization • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques • Smart contract and chain code • Applications and services based on blockchain • Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) • Blockchain in cyber physical systems • Blockchain in social networking • Blockchain in supply chain management • Blockchain in agriculture • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles • Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing • Blockchain in mobile cellular networks • Blockchain in edge and cloud computing • Blockchain in next generation communications and networks • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency * Journal Special Issues Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals: • IEEE Network Magazine • IEEE Internet of Things Journal • Telecommunication Systems • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing • International Journal of Intelligent Systems • Mobile Information Systems • Cluster Computing • Journal of Signal Processing Systems • MDPI Electronics • MDPI Sensors * Author Instructions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 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. * Instruction for Double-blind Submission • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. • Remove acknowledgments. • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search. • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information. • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review." • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review. • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review. * Organizing Committees General Co-Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia Program Co-Chairs Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Summit Chair Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK

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SDS 2021 CFP: The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021.
by Gizem Varkonyi 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021. *SDS 2021 CFP:* Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and management (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019, SDS' 2020), The Eighth International conference on Software Defined Systems 2021 (SDS'2021) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2021 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SDS Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 7 August, 2021* Notification to Authors: 30 September, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 15 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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