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

08 Apr '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

05 Apr '19

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

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

03 Apr '19

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

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

02 Apr '19

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

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

01 Apr '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

27 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2019 Author Notification: May 02, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

25 Mar '19

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

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

25 Mar '19

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

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

25 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Extended to April 1, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

19 Mar '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 – August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue: Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 - Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications (http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html) Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET - IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 - Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 - Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 - Journal of Systems Architecture (CCF B) Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Extended to April 1, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter Müller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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