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[Last day for submission][** VIRTUAL **][** 14+ Special Issues **] CFP: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications
by Jun Feng 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

CFP: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020 [Last day for submission][**Virtual Conference**][**14+ Special Issues**][Submission Deadline (Hard): 25 September 2020] http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html **NEWS** The IEEE DependSys 2020 Conference was planned to be held in Fiji, December 14-16, 2020. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, as the safety of people is of the highest priority, the conference will be held virtually on December 14-16, 2020. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library after they are presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for a virtual presentation will be sent separately. Registration fees for the conference will be adjusted. IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 2. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 9.112) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 6.125) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 5.382) SI on Blockchain-enabled Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data Applications http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networ… 6. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.213) SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-ne… 7. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica (IF: 5.129) SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… 8. Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438) SI on Edge Intelligence: Neurocomputing Meets Edge Computing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/edge-intel… 9. IEEE Access (IF: 3.745) SI on Reliability in Sensor-Cloud Systems and Applications (SCSA) https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/reliability-in-sensor-cloud-sy… 10. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.788) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 11. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on Ubiquitous Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT and 6G: Architecture, Modelling and Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 12. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on High-Performance-Computing-Communications for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 13. MDPI Electronics (IF: 2.412) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 14. Software: Practice and Experience SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Submission Deadline (Hard): 25 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 25 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N27703) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 WeChat: junfeng10001000 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com

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[Last Call][** 14+ Special Issues **][** Virtual **] IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications
by Jun Feng 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

** Last Call ** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020 [**Virtual Conference**][**14+ Special Issues**][**Submission Deadline: Sep. 25**] http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html **NEWS** The IEEE DependSys 2020 Conference was planned to be held in Fiji, December 14-16, 2020. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, as the safety of people is of the highest priority, the conference will be held virtually on December 14-16, 2020. IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 2. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 9.112) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 6.125) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 5.382) SI on Blockchain-enabled Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data Applications http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networ… 6. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.213) SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-ne… 7. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica (IF: 5.129) SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… 8. Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438) SI on Edge Intelligence: Neurocomputing Meets Edge Computing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/edge-intel… 9. IEEE Access (IF: 3.745) SI on Reliability in Sensor-Cloud Systems and Applications (SCSA) https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/reliability-in-sensor-cloud-sy… 10. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.788) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 11. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on Ubiquitous Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT and 6G: Architecture, Modelling and Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 12. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on High-Performance-Computing-Communications for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 13. MDPI Electronics (IF: 2.412) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 14. Software: Practice and Experience SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Submission Deadline (Hard): 25 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 25 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N27703) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 WeChat: junfeng10001000 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com

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[** Virtual **][** 14+ Special Issues **][Submission Deadline: Sep. 25] CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, Dec. 14-16
by Jun Feng 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020 [** Virtual **][** 14+ Special Issues **][Submission Deadline: Sep. 25] http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html **NEWS** The IEEE DependSys 2020 Conference was planned to be held in Fiji, December 14-16, 2020. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, as the safety of people is of the highest priority, the conference will be held virtually on December 14-16, 2020. IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 2. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 9.112) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 6.125) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 5.382) SI on Blockchain-enabled Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data Applications http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networ… 6. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.213) SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-ne… 7. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica (IF: 5.129) SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… 8. Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438) SI on Edge Intelligence: Neurocomputing Meets Edge Computing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/edge-intel… 9. IEEE Access (IF: 3.745) SI on Reliability in Sensor-Cloud Systems and Applications (SCSA) https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/reliability-in-sensor-cloud-sy… 10. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.788) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 11. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on Ubiquitous Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT and 6G: Architecture, Modelling and Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 12. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on High-Performance-Computing-Communications for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 13. MDPI Electronics (IF: 2.412) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 14. Software: Practice and Experience SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Submission Deadline (Hard): 25 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 25 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N27703) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 WeChat: junfeng10001000 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com

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IF 7.921 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Special Issue on Advanced Aerial Mobility
by Javier Manuel Gozalvez Sempere 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Special Issue on Advanced Aerial Mobility* *(Impact Factor 7.921)* Recent advances in unmanned aviation opened new opportunities for the aviation industry. Encouraged by the successful demonstrations of projects such as the U-Space and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM), the aviation industry around the world is moving towards more advanced applications of air mobility including services such as air taxi and air ambulance. At the same time, the academic research community is finding new challenges to address in high-density, low altitude flying UASs. Advanced aerial mobility refers to “transformative and disruptive new airborne technology supporting an ecosystem designed to transport people and things to locations not traditionally served by current modes of air transportation, including both rural and the more challenging and complex urban environments”, according to the National Academies Press. The platforms that are being developed for advanced aerial mobility applications are typically short-range, runway independent, and highly automated vehicles such as the electric powered Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVToL) aircraft. Along with new platforms, there are new developments emerging in other areas including vertiport design, software, sensors, alternative energy generation and storage solutions. Community testbeds and service frameworks (e.g., Aerial Experimentation Research Platform for Advanced Wireless and U-Space framework for safe and secure access to airspace) are being developed for experimentation of advanced aerial mobility applications around the world. New challenges are predicted in areas including airspace operations, traffic management, vehicle health integrity monitoring, and human-autonomy teaming, to name a few. In parallel, there is a need for identifying efficient strategies for micro-weather modeling and prediction, collision avoidance in close encounters, detection of uncooperative and rogue aircraft, and geofencing and GPS-denied operation strategies among others. Advances are also required in communication, navigation, and surveillance domains. Airborne communication options ranging from LTE and 5G networks to satellite links, as well as direct and over-the-air radio frequency links using either licensed or unlicensed frequency spectrum need to be investigated. This special issue aims to share the progress and efforts being made by researchers, practitioners, and regulators towards advanced aerial mobility. This call solicits novel concepts that are currently being pursued or transformative ideas envisioned for this emerging area of research. Original submissions that discuss research, development, experimentation, and evaluation strategies that support advanced aerial mobility are encouraged within the following scope or related areas: - Autonomous air space operations: Flight planning, scheduling, and tracking - Airborne communications: 5G and beyond-5G cellular, satellite, and radio frequency and other (e.g., optical) communication support for UAS, for both air-ground (AG) and air-air (AA) - Aerial platforms: Aerodynamics, power, propulsion, energy efficiency - Command, control, navigation, and surveillance: Aircraft identification, beyond visual line of sight and beyond radio line of sight communication, and navigation in GPS denied areas - Remote Identification (ID) support for UAS using low-power wide-area network technologies: Theoretical/simulation results, analysis, and experiments with technologies such as LoRa, Sigfox, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.X and 5.X, NB-IoT, and ASTM standards for remote ID - Multi-vehicle cooperation: Collision avoidance and conflict management and resolution - Traffic Management: Geofencing, air corridors, and trajectory design and optimization - Human-autonomy and teaming: Best practices and strategies for pilots to interact with unmanned systems in the same air space - Noise mitigation: Acoustic modeling, measurement, and control strategies - Weather Prediction and Modeling: Prediction and modelling of micro-weather at low altitudes - Computing paradigms: Edge computing, fog computing and cloud computing support for UAS, including machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches - Experimental Platforms: Experimental results and proof-of-concept prototypes related to advanced aerial mobility - Security: Communications, navigation, and surveillance security, including techniques to ensure both physical layer security and higher-level security Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research or technical material presented in a tutorial or survey style. All manuscripts must adhere to the IEEE VTM guidelines at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php. Authors should submit a PDF version of their manuscript to (select Special Issue when submitting) http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee *Important Dates* Submissions by: 15 November 2020 First Round Reviews by: 12 February 2021 Second Round Submissions by: 29 March 2021 Second Round Reviews by: 15 May 2021 Final articles received by: 25 May 2021 Publication: September 2021 *Guest Editors* Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA) Uwe-Carsten Fiebig (Institute of Communications and Navigation of DLR, Germany) David W. Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA) Helka-Liina Määttänen (Ericsson, Finland) Ismail Guvenc (North Carolina State University, USA) K.V.S Hari (Indian Institute of Science, India) Editor in Chief: Prof. Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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[Virtual][**14+ Special Issues**][Submission Deadline: Sep. 25] CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, Dec. 14-16
by Jun Feng 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020 [Virtual][**14+ Special Issues**][Submission Deadline: Sep. 25] http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html ** NEWS: ** The IEEE DependSys 2020 Conference was planned to be held in Fiji, December 14-16, 2020. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, as the safety of people is of the highest priority, the conference will be held virtually on December 14-16, 2020. IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 2. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 9.112) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 6.125) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 5.382) SI on Blockchain-enabled Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems and Big Data Applications http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networ… 6. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.213) SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-ne… 7. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica (IF: 5.129) SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… 8. Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438) SI on Edge Intelligence: Neurocomputing Meets Edge Computing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/edge-intel… 9. IEEE Access (IF: 3.745) SI on Reliability in Sensor-Cloud Systems and Applications (SCSA) https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/reliability-in-sensor-cloud-sy… 10. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.788) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 11. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on Ubiquitous Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT and 6G: Architecture, Modelling and Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 12. Journal of Systems Architecture (IF: 2.552) SI on High-Performance-Computing-Communications for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… 13. MDPI Electronics (IF: 2.412) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 14. Software: Practice and Experience SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Submission Deadline (Hard): 25 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 25 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N27703) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 WeChat: junfeng10001000 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com

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