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CFP- Extension 6G special issue - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on 6G: What is Next? - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.038) Extended submission Deadline: 7 January 2019 (firm) We are undoubtedly witnessing the transition into the 4th industrial revolution. Societies are becoming ever more data- centric and data-dependent. The increasing data-dependence of future economies poses a severe challenge on mitigating the digital divide to avoid an unequal distribution of wealth. Radical automation of industrial manufacturing processes will drive productivity. Autonomous systems are hitting our roads, oceans and air space. Millions of sensors will be embedded into cities, homes and food production environments, and new systems operated by artificial intelligence which often will reside in new local 'clouds' and 'fog' environments will create a plethora of new applications. Communications networks resemble the nervous system of these new smart system paradigms. 5G made a significant step towards developing a low latency tactile access network, and by providing new additional wireless nerve tracts, i.e., data pipes. With the increase of large autonomy of systems, the protection of 'nervous system' against malicious attacks becomes increasing important. Moreover, the system autonomy and the large number of distributed sensor systems demand the simultaneous integration of new energy harvesting concepts. The move from personalized communication to machine-type communication demands radically new communication network architectures. The objective of this special issue is to define the framework of the 6th generation of communication networks, its services and break-through technologies. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under consideration by any other journals. Particular emphasis is placed on radically new concepts and ideas which are not just an evolution of 5G technologies. The topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Key drivers and 6G requirements - New wireless backhaul and fronthaul solutions - New security concepts - Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into new wireless systems solutions and applications innovative applications - New network architectures - Concepts and technologies to harness new spectrum - New energy harvesting technologies, and integration into mobile network architectures - Techniques to improve energy efficiency - New approaches to simultaneously increase peak data rates and data density not only in urban environments - New system architectures stemming from the combination of computing, communication and storage. - Breakthrough technologies and concepts Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to topics under consideration in this special issue. Contributions describing an overall working system and reporting real world deployment experiences are particularly of interest. Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research material presented in a tutorial or survey style. Manuscript format must adhere to the IEEE VT Magazine submission guidelines: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscripts to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee Extended submission Deadline: 7 January 2019 (firm) Guest Editors: Harald Haas (h.haas(a)ed.ac.uk) The University of Edinburgh, U.K. Xiaohu You (xhyu(a)seu.edu.cn) Southeast University, China Jaafar Elmirghani (J.M.H.Elmirghani(a)leeds.ac.uk) University of Leeds, U.K. Klaus David (david(a)uni-kassel.de) Kassel University, Germany Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez(a)umh.es) Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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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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IEEE WoWMoM 2019 (EXTENDED DEADLINE 6th Jan 2019): call for papers
by Andrea Passarella 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WoWMoM 2019 Call for Papers 9-12 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://cs.ucf.edu/wowmom2019/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** SUBMISSION DEADLINE (ext): JANUARY 6th, 2019 ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WoWMoM is a CORE "A" ranked conference http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2019 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia content. To provide users with high quality of experience, especially under moderate to high utilization, appropriate architectural networking paradigms are necessary. At the same time, Internet of Things environments, wearable computing and sensors, support a diverse range of domains and services, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding complex behaviours and systems. These are some of the challenges that are of interest to IEEE WoWMoM 2019. The IEEE WoWMoM 2019 conference takes a broader view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking in general. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Specific areas of interest: - Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks - Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Cognitive communications and networking - Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Internet/Web of Things - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Mobile applications and services over 5G networks - Mobile big data networking and services - Mobile cloud computing - Mobile edge computing - Mobile health networking - Mobile network traffic characterization and measurements - Mobile social networks - Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Network virtualisation and software-defined wireless networks - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Participatory, mobile and urban sensing - Resource management for QoS/QoE provisioning - RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - Satellite and space networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Virtual mobile infrastructure - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please refer to the conference website for the detailed submissions instructions, including the type of papers that can be submitted. ACCEPTED PAPERS For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors is mandatory. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2019 and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference for unjustified reasons. EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS Selected Papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission (ext): January 6th, 2019 Full manuscript due (ext): January 6th, 2019 Acceptance notification: March 15, 2019 Camera-Ready version due: Mid April, 2019 Conference Dates: 9-12 June, 2019 For any additional information feel free to contact the PC chairs at maria(a)csd.uoc.gr and jasleen(a)cs.unc.edu

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CFP - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC-19)
by SWC IEEE 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

*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 *Introduction* Computing systems are growing in capability and complexity including hardware, software, communications, networks, platforms, services, etc. Advanced computing aims to discover, develop, and deploy novel computing and networking systems. At the same time, computing must be trustworthy to engender confidence that systems will remain secure and available. Trust/distrust relationships embedded in computing systems and networks are key factors to enable dynamic interactions and cooperation of various users and services. Trusted computing aims at making these systems and services available, predictable, accountable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persistent, and secure. ATC conferences have taken a leading role in addressing these challenges and achieving practical advanced computing systems with truly trustworthy services. Started in 2005, the series of ATC conferences have been held at Nagasaki (Japan), Vienna (Austria), Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong (China), Oslo (Norway), Brisbane (Australia), Xi‚Äôan (China), Banff (Canada), Fukuoka (Japan), Vietri sul Mare (Italy), Bali (Indonesia), Beijing (China), Toulouse (France), San Francisco Bay Area (USA), and Guangzhou (China). IEEE ATC 2019 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in the most innovative research, development and applications related to Advanced Computing and Trusted Computing. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC-19) will be held in Leicester, UK from August 19th to 23rd, 2019. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - High Performance Computing and Networking - Service Computing and Engineering - Cloud Computing, Fog Computing and Edge Computing - Software Defined Networks and Systems - Green Computing and Communications - Mobile and Wearable Computing - Vehicular Networks and Systems - IoT/IoE Technologies and Applications - Big Data Analytics and Technologies - Advanced Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) - Advanced Cognitive Computing and Machine Learning - Advanced Affective Computing and Robotics - Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - Trust Specifications, Models, Management, and Standards - Trust, Security, and Privacy in Smart Systems - Blockchain Technology and Applications - Cyber Life, Society and Intelligence - Cyber Physical Systems and Their Safety - Cyber Trust, Security, Privacy and Ethics *Submissions* All papers need to be submitted electronically via the 2019 congress website. Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in Conference Proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues. Workshop and Special Session Proposals in the area of advanced and trusted computing are also encouraged. *Special Session on * Advanced and Trusted Models and Techniques for Fighting Fakes *Important Dates* Workshop Proposal: December 31st, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: February 19th, 2019 Authors Notification: April 19th, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: May 19th, 2019 General Chairs Zheng Yan, Xidian Univ. & Aalto Univ., China & Finland Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, USA Program Chairs Weizhi Meng, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Workshop Chairs Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Journal Special Issue Chairs Chonggang Wang, IntelDigital, USA Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Publicity Chairs Wenhai Sun, Purdue University, USA Entao Luo, Hunan university of Science and Engineering, China Shushu Liu, Aalto University, Finland Demo and Poster Chairs Yulong Fu, Xidian University, China Khan Muhammad, Sejong University, Republic of Korea Local Arrangement Chair Feng Chen, De Montfort University, UK Honorary Chairs Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA Hui Li, Xidian University, China Advisory Committee Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Chonggang Wang, IntelDigital, USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA Hui Li, Xidian University, China Raimo Kantola, Aalto university, Finland

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CFP- 6G special issue - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on 6G: What is Next? - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.038) We are undoubtedly witnessing the transition into the 4th industrial revolution. Societies are becoming ever more data- centric and data-dependent. The increasing data-dependence of future economies poses a severe challenge on mitigating the digital divide to avoid an unequal distribution of wealth. Radical automation of industrial manufacturing processes will drive productivity. Autonomous systems are hitting our roads, oceans and air space. Millions of sensors will be embedded into cities, homes and food production environments, and new systems operated by artificial intelligence which often will reside in new local 'clouds' and 'fog' environments will create a plethora of new applications. Communications networks resemble the nervous system of these new smart system paradigms. 5G made a significant step towards developing a low latency tactile access network, and by providing new additional wireless nerve tracts, i.e., data pipes. With the increase of large autonomy of systems, the protection of 'nervous system' against malicious attacks becomes increasing important. Moreover, the system autonomy and the large number of distributed sensor systems demand the simultaneous integration of new energy harvesting concepts. The move from personalized communication to machine-type communication demands radically new communication network architectures. The objective of this special issue is to define the framework of the 6th generation of communication networks, its services and break-through technologies. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under consideration by any other journals. Particular emphasis is placed on radically new concepts and ideas which are not just an evolution of 5G technologies. The topics of interest include, but not limited to: - Key drivers and 6G requirements - New wireless backhaul and fronthaul solutions - New security concepts - Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into new wireless systems solutions and applications innovative applications - New network architectures - Concepts and technologies to harness new spectrum - New energy harvesting technologies, and integration into mobile network architectures - Techniques to improve energy efficiency - New approaches to simultaneously increase peak data rates and data density not only in urban environments - New system architectures stemming from the combination of computing, communication and storage. - Breakthrough technologies and concepts Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to topics under consideration in this special issue. Contributions describing an overall working system and reporting real world deployment experiences are particularly of interest. Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research material presented in a tutorial or survey style. Manuscript format must adhere to the IEEE VT Magazine submission guidelines: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscripts to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee Submission Deadline: 15 Dec 2018 Guest Editors: Harald Haas (h.haas(a)ed.ac.uk) The University of Edinburgh, U.K. Xiaohu You (xhyu(a)seu.edu.cn) Southeast University, China Jaafar Elmirghani (J.M.H.Elmirghani(a)leeds.ac.uk) University of Leeds, U.K. Klaus David (david(a)uni-kassel.de) Kassel University, Germany Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez(a)umh.es) Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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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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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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