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

20 Oct '18

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

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

18 Oct '18

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

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

13 Oct '18

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

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

12 Oct '18

The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 - August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems' operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal (SCI) 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019

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