Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The
talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan
=============================================================
Title: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data
Types
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of
data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access
latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable
Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the
problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite
concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version
control system, where each update creates a new version and any two
versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function.
The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging
arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of
correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal
approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly
expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a
semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but
restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by
fully automated verification.
Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT
Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a
postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated
Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with
emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and
distributed systems.
Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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8th International Workshop on
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024
(in conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024)
September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Website: http://cbtworkshop.org/
*********************************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
================
* Submission deadline: June 6, 2024
* Notification to authors: July 22, 2024
* Camera-ready versions: August 19, 2024
*********************************************************************
=================
WORKSHOP HISTORY
=================
Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new
cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed
with different success. While some of them are slightly different
copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new
usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty
of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and
proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the
proposed systems are often skipped.
This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to
carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to
create a scientific background for a solid development of new
cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems.
The main topics include (but are not limited to):
* Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies
* Privacy-preserving technologies
* Cryptocurrency based trust systems
* Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
* Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems
* Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies
* Application and service cases of distributed ledgers technologies
* P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis
* Private transactions in blockchain based systems
* New usages of the blockchain technology
* Scalability solutions for blockchain systems
* Blockchain-defined networking
* Smart contracts
* Distributed Identity Management
* Distributed consensus and fault tolerance
* Blockhain Protocols and algorithms
* Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
* Token Economy, finance and payments
* Consensus mechanisms
* On-chain and off-chain code synergies
* Oracles, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens
* Decentralized applications and protocols
* Blockchain as a service
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SUBMISSION DETAILS
===================
Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts
following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to
16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references
and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2024 submission
site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2024
*Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please
make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious
self-references.
Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS
collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper
will not be included in the proceedings.
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PROGRAM COMMITEE
==================
PC Chairs:
Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs
Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
PC Members:
Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab
Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay
Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg
Mauro Conti - University of Padua
Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Hannes Hartenstein - KIT
Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Jiasun Li - George Mason University
Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University
Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs
Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin
Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin
Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico
Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute
==================
VENUE/FORMAT
==================
The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction
with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security,
ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from the
ESORICS 2024 website at https://esorics2024.org/
This call for papers and additional information about CBT 2024
can be found at http://cbtworkshop.org/
Kindly contact us at cbt2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or
questions.
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Dear all,
The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2024 will be held as a physical meeting
at IIT Dharwad during 11th July - 13th July, 2024. Please visit the website
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2024/ for registration and other details.
The FM Update Meeting is an informal event organized by the FM community in
India annually, with the aim of getting FM researchers together to present
and discuss topical developments in their areas of interest. Everybody
interested in the use of Formal Methods in Program Design and Verification
and Theoretical Computer Science is welcome to join.
If you would like to give a talk at the meeting, please send us a title and
an abstract of your talk to fmupdatemeet2024(a)gmail.com.
Best regards,
Organizing Committee,
FM Update Meeting 2024
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The
talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan
=============================================================
Title: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data
Types
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of
data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access
latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable
Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the
problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite
concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version
control system, where each update creates a new version and any two
versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function.
The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging
arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of
correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal
approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly
expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a
semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but
restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by
fully automated verification.
Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT
Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a
postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated
Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with
emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and
distributed systems.
Applications are invited for one post-doctoral position at the National
University of Singapore (NUS) focusing on *Automatic Programming**.*
This position will be part of a Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE)
Tier 3, multi-year research program named "Automated Program Repair"
which has been funded 2022-2027. This is a large research program
involving several research projects in analysis, verification, test
generation and applications related to program repair and automatic
programming. To find out about work done in the area of program repair
at NUS, kindly see the webpage
*https://nus-apr.github.io/*
The work will involve assured autonomy in software engineering by
expanding on the recent activity of the group in building
*AutoCodeRover*, available in arxiv. Specfically the work will be a
combination of genAI and formal methods.
/https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05427
/
/https://twitter.com/AbhikRoychoudh1/status/1777494000611852515/
Interested applicants are encouraged to start up a conversation with
Abhik Roychoudhury by emailing their CV, see https://abhikrc.com/ for
contact details.
--
-Abhik Roychoudhury
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
https://abhikrc.com
Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Data Privacy Management (DPM 2024 )
18th International Workshop
September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland
(co-located with ESORICS 2024)
website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/
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IMPORTANT DATES
======================
Submission Deadline:
-- June 6, 2024
Notification:
-- July 7, 2024
Camera Ready:
-- August 19, 2024
======
SCOPE
======
DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data
privacy management. Organizations are increasingly concerned
about the privacy of information that they manage (as witnessed,
for example, by lawsuits filed against organizations for
violating the privacy of customer's data). Thus, the management
of privacy-sensitive information is very critical and important
for every organization.
This poses several challenging problems, such as how to translate the
high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies,
administration of privacy-sensitive data, privacy preserving data
integration and engineering, privacy preserving access control
mechanisms, information-oriented security, and query execution on
privacy-sensitive data for partial answers. Starting from these
observations, the aim of DPM is to discuss and exchange ideas related
to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and
practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems
and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop.
Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are
encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged.
TOPICS
========
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Privacy in Machine Learning
- Privacy Information Management
- Privacy Policy-based Infrastructures and Architectures
- Privacy-oriented Access Control Languages and Models
- Privacy in Trust Management
- Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
- Privacy Data Integration
- Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance
- Privacy Services
- Privacy Policy Analysis
- Data Protection Regulations in Practice
- Cryptographic Protocols for Privacy
- Query Execution over Privacy Sensitive Data
- Privacy Preserving Data Mining
- Privacy for Integrity-based Computing
- Privacy Monitoring and Auditing
- Privacy in Social Networks
- Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications
- Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security
- Privacy in computer networks
- Privacy and RFIDs
- Privacy and Big Data
- Privacy in sensor networks
- Privacy in the Internet of Things
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
===================
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. Papers can be submitted as Full Papers or
Short Papers. Full papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS
format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Short
papers should be at most 8 pages in the LNCS format, including the
bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are
not required to read the appendices, so papers should be intelligible
without them.
Authors should indicate whether their paper is a short paper to
differentiate them from full papers. All submissions must be written
in English. It is planned to have accepted papers published by
Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, the
LNCS template can be found at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors.
Authors must submit their papers by the indicated deadline, using the
EasyChair web site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2024
Only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required
for the
final version of the accepted papers). All papers will be refereed. Accepted
papers must be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each
accepted
paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the
organizers, and present the paper.
GENERAL CHAIR
===============
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro ((Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
===============
Ken Barker (University of Calgary)
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================
Esma Aïmeur (University of Montreal)
Abderrahim Ait Wakrime (Mohammed V University)
Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Jordi Castellà-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Depeng Chen (Anhui University)
Mauro Conti (University of Padua)
Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria)
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (Polytechnique Montreal)
Mila Dalla Preda (University of Verona)
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita degli Studi di Milano)
Jose M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Lorena González Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
M. Emre Gursoy (Koç University)
Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa)
Marc Juarez (University of Edinburgh)
Christos Kalloniatis (University of the Aegean)
Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria)
Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Christophe Kiennert (Telecom SudParis)
Romain Laborde (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III)
Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen)
Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan)
Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University)
Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology)
David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano)
Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Utonoma de Barcelona)
Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Isabel Praça (GECAD / ISEP)
Ruben Rios (Universidad de Malaga)
Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano)
Vicenç Torra (Umeå University)
Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Isabel Wagner (University of Basel)
Jens Weber (University of Victoria)
Lena Wiese (University of Göttingen)
Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology)
==================
VENUE/FORMAT
==================
The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction with the 29th
annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. More
information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2024
website
at https://esorics2024.org/
This call for papers and additional information about DPM 2024
can be found at https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/
Kinldy contact dpm2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions.
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Preliminary CFPs with Deadline (July 15, 2024).
============================== UbiSec 2024 ==============================
Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024)
Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024
Organizer:
Central South University, China
http://ubisecurity.org/2024/
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Keynote Speeches Section
TBD.
======================================================================
Invited Talks Section
TBD.
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Panel Discussions Section
TBD.
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Special Issues Section
TBD.
======================================================================
Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements.
The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series:
(1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity.
(2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec").
(3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"!
The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields.
UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity.
UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Track 1: Cyberspace Security
--Security Model and Architecture
--Software and System Security
--Trustworthy Computing
--Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
--Machine Learning and AI Security
--Network Security
--Attacks and Defenses
--Intrusion Detection and Prevention
--Security in Web Services
--Security in Mobile Social Networks
--Security in Internet of Things
--Fraud and Cyber Crime
--Accounting and Auditing
--Applied Cryptography
--Database Security
--Authentication
--Forensics and Diagnostics for Security
--Information Hiding
--Security in Big Data and its Applications
--Blockchain and Distributed System Security
--Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems
--Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages
Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy
--Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy
--Privacy Modeling and Analysis
--Privacy-Preserving Computing
--Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
--Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity
--Privacy for the Internet of Things
--Privacy in Big Data and its Applications
--Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain
--Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks
--Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing
--Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning
Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity
--Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing
--Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships
--Anonymous Video Analytics Technology
--Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations
--Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity
--Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems
--Anonymous Communication Protocols
--Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks
--Anonymous Communication and Internet
--Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks
--Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity
--Anonymous Information Storage and Management
--Private and Anonymous Data Storage
--Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management
--Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios
--Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases
--Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems
--Anonymity in Edge Computing
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024
Author Notification: August 15, 2024
Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024
Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024
Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024
SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION
All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.
Excecutive General Chair
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
General Chairs
Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China
Guihua Duan, Central South University, China
Program Chairs
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Program Vice Chairs
Track 1: Cyberspace Security
Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom
Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan
Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China
Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China
Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China
Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India
Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China
Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity
Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China
Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania
Zhe Qu, Central South University, China
Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China
Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China
Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA
Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China
Registration Chair
Pin Liu, Central South University, China
Conference Secretariat
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China
Web Chairs
Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China
Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China
Steering Committee
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair)
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania
Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
Yang Xu, Hunan University, China
Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Program Committee
Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail:
http://ubisecurity.org/2024/
Previous Proceedings
UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8
UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9
UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4
Contact
Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com.
Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/
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Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor
Director of Institute of Computer Networks,
School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering,
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,
P. R. China, 510006
Mobile: +86-13360581866
Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/
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Dr. Qin Liu
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Hunan University
Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082
Mobile: +86-13548577157
Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com
Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (CFPs).
=====================CALL FOR PAPERS=============================
The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing
IEEE DASC 2024
http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/
joint conference IEEE DASC/PICom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2024
5-8 November 2024 - Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines
=====================INTRODUCTION=============================
As computer and communication systems, as well as other systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Autonomous Robotic Systems, become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability and Security play critical roles in supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. It remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security of a large-scale computing environment. Trusted and autonomic computing/autonomous systems need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, from natural sciences to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a variety of fields, as well as new software, architectures, and communication technology that support the integration of the constituent technologies. IEEE DASC 2024 will be held during November 5-8, 2024, in Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2024, IEEE PICom 2024, and IEEE CBDCom 2024. It aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange theoretical and implementation results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust, and/or autonomic computing, and autonomous systems.
=====================TRACKS AND TOPICS=============================
- Track 1: Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing
- Track 2: Network and System Security and Privacy
- Track 3: Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems
- Track 4: Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques
- Track 5: Autonomic and Secure Computing with AI/ML
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Self-Organization and Organic Computing
- Cognitive Computing and Self-Aware Computing
- Energy Management in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems
- Dependable & Fault-tolerant Computing in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time System
- Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing
- Security and Privacy in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems
- Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Network and System Security and Privacy
- Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems
- Software/Apps/Tools Development for Dependable and Secure Applications
- IoT and Sensor Network, Big Data, Smart Grid, Aerospace, Transportation Applications
=====================IMPORTANT DATES==========================
Paper Submission Due: 15 Jun 2024
Authors Notification: 15 Aug 2024
Camera-ready Submission: 15 Sep 2024
=====================SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION===================
Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop, and special session papers need to be submitted in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal Special Issues.
Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference.
Regular Tracks: 6-8 pages - WiP/Workshop/Special Session Tracks: 4-6 pages
=====================ORGANIZING COMMITTEE=============================
-Honorary Chairs-
- Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
- Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
-General Chairs-
- Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
- Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan
-General Executive Chairs-
- Moayad Aloqaily, Mohamad Bin Zayed Univ., UAE
- Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Japan
-Program Chairs-
- Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA
- Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
-Program Co-chairs-
- Mohamed Rahouti, Fordham University, USA
- Wei Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
- Adnan Anwar, Deakin University, Australia
- Shan Jiang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA
- Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA
-Workshop & Special Session Chairs-
- Preeti Mishra, Doon University, India
- Arafatur Rahman, University of Wolverhampton, UK
-WiP & LBI Chairs-
- Saqib Ali, Univ. of Agri. Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik, Tripura University, India
-Publicity Chairs-
- Mubashir Rehmani, Cork Inst. of Tech., Ireland
- Junjun Zheng, Hiroshima University, Japan
- Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
- Senthil Kumar, Mepco Schlenk Eng. College, India
- Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA
-Steering Committee-
- Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
- Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China
- Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
- Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Program Committee:
Please check the "Program Committee" web page on the conference website for details:
http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/tpc/
Contact: Please email inquiries concerning DASC 2024 to Prof. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan: zakirulalam AT gmail DOT com.
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Dr. Qin Liu
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Hunan University
Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082
Mobile: +86-13548577157
Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com
Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/
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