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Join us for the 8th edition of Sustainable Places! The #1 destination for EU research collaboration and market opportunities
by Sustainable Places 2020 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

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

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

09 Dec '19

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

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

06 Dec '19

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

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

06 Dec '19

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

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SCE 2020 CFP: The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Cities Systems Engineering (SCE 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SCE2020/index.php> in conjunction with The 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SCE 2020 CFP* Smart cities provide next generation engineering approaches for urbanization. Smart cities aim to exploit the intellectual and social capital as its core ingredient for urbanization, in addition to the physical and ICT infrastructure. Smart cities are driven by several interdependent trends. These include a pressing need for environmental sustainability, and peoples’ increasing demands for personalisation, mobility and higher quality of life. Technological developments such as miniaturization of devices, internet of things (IoT), big data, and decreasing costs of computational entities have also accelerated the smart cities developments. Smart cities encompass all aspects of modern day life, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, work, businesses, social interactions, governance, etc. It is therefore necessary to engineer smart cities as complex systems of systems supported by a converged ubiquitous infrastructure. A key challenge in the realization of smart cities is to create an ecosystem of digital infrastructures that are able to work together and enable dynamic real-time interactions between various smart city subsystems. With this background, this workshop invites submissions that propose state of the art solutions for smart cities systems engineering. A particular focus of the workshop are the studies that involve cloud computing, fog computing, and mobile edge computing technologies. Original articles including modelling and empirical studies and development, as well as relevant surveys are welcome. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * IoT based developments for smart cities engineering * Big data technologies for smart cities * Modelling and analysis of smart city technologies and systems * Mobile applications for smart cities * Analytics for smart cities * Cloud computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Fog and edge computing based approaches for smart city engineering * Cloudlet based approaches for smart city engineering * Studies focused on communication networks for smart cities * Information management for smart cities * Smart buildings, smart homes and smart energy grids * Transportation, healthcare, and governance for smart cities * Security and privacy of smart city systems *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SCE and FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SCE 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory (BAT 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2020/index.php> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *BAT 2020 CFP* A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog, mobile computing, social networking, wireless communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open issues and exciting directions for research communities. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems, cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry, who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and related protocols. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed data store for blockchain * Distributed transaction for blockchain * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanism * Blockchain in cloud computing * Blockchain in mobile and edge computing * Deployment and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected vehicles * Blockchain in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Blockchain and Financial Networks * Blockchain in vehicular network * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain and governance/policy/regulation * Game theory and blockchain * Real-world blockchain-based system analysis and optimization * Experience papers with blockchain * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Secure smart contract and chain code *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the BAT and SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on BAT 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV 2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2020/> in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/> Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *SDN-NFV 2020 CFP* The emerging networking techniques such as Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are promising a complete paradigm shift in how we manage our future networks. With their enormous benefits which include reducing the operational cost, better resources utilization and easier management requirements, the adoption of such technologies is gaining momentum. Supported by a well-defined basis such as network virtualization and the decoupling of the data and control planes, the integration of SDN and NFV with current systems might be a straightforward process. However, this might incur many challenges which require deep analysis to propose creative solutions. In the (SDN-NFV 2020) workshop, we are aiming to invite researchers from both the academia and the industry to present their state-of-the-art research efforts and findings and to open the doors for discussion about how to contribute of the advancement of this important research field. The Fourth International workshop on Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) will be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the areas of SDN, NFV, 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing. We are mainly interested in receiving state of the art work on different aspect of SDN and NFV management system, security and privacy, cloud computing and big data supported SDN and NFV, to mention but few. The topics of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design * Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Architectures and Design * SDN-NFV Integration * SDN-NFV Orchestration * SDN-NFV Based Control plane design * SDN-NFV Based Data plane design * SDN-NFV Performance Management * SDN-NFV support for Cloud based DataCenter * SDN-NFV support for 5G Networks * SDN-NFV support for Internet of Things (IoT) * SDN-NFV support for Big Data Computing * SDN-NFV support for large scale storage system * Hardware system design for SDN-NFV * SDN-NFV Security management * Radio Access Network virtualization * SDN-NFV in access networks * Edge and Fog Computing * Cloud Computing * Case studies *Submission* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDN-NFV and SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages max in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Important Dates:* Submission Date: 10th January, 2020 Notification to Authors: 28th February, 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March, 2020 Please send any inquiry on SDN-NFV 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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

05 Dec '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section) *FMEC 2020 CFP:* Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2020 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 5th January 2020 (Extended) Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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

26 Nov '19

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

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

04 Oct '19

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

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