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

18 Jan '19

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems�� operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi��an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

17 Jan '19

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

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

17 Jan '19

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

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

17 Dec '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems�� operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi��an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

11 Dec '18

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

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

10 Dec '18

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

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

03 Dec '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems�� operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi��an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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

30 Nov '18

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

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

06 Nov '18

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

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

06 Nov '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 �C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems�� operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: �� Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology �� Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms �� Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology �� Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff �� Performance analysis and optimization �� Simulation and performance evaluation techniques �� Smart contract and chain code �� Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology �� Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain �� Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) �� Blockchain in cyber physical systems �� Blockchain in social networking �� Blockchain in supply chain management �� Blockchain in agriculture �� Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles �� Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing �� Blockchain in mobile cellular networks �� Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal ��SCI�� 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee General Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, NTU, Singapore General Co-chairs Peter M��ller, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi��an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Universit�� degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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