[AISWorld] Information Systems Frontier CFP: Mitigating Cyber Threats and Defense in Data Intensive Smart Cities

[Charles Liu]

This special issue will focus on the research, development and application of these foundations, particularly on the scientific foundations, technologies, and practices from different disciplines and countries that can improve the security and dependability of complex systems in smart cities. This special issue solicits cutting-edge research from both academia and industry, with an emphasis on novel techniques and tools to perceive, reason, learn and act on a wide range of data collected from different (attempted) attacks, sophisticated advanced persistent threat campaigns, etc; as well as bringing together solutions from different disciplines to address the underpinning cyber security threats.



Topic of interest relating to smart cities (e.g. smart grids, intelligent systems and technology, and critical information infrastructure) include, but are not limited to the following:

  *   Big data analytics for cyber threat identification and/or cyber security mitigation in smart cities and related concepts and technologies such as smart grids, intelligent systems and technology, and critical information infrastructure
  *   Behavioral security for cyber threat identification and/or cyber security mitigation in smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Context aware data security in smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Cyber defense in intelligence systems and technologies for smart cities
  *   Cyber forensics or cyber intelligence for smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Cyber security, system security and information security for smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Cyber threats and protection in smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Cyber threats and hunting in smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Secure and efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms, including post-quantum cryptography, in smart cities and related concepts and technologies
  *   Security frameworks, architectures and protocols, particularly lightweight solutions, for IoT nodes in smart cities
  *   Security, privacy and trust issues in IoT, cloud, fog, big data, social networks, and other contemporary technologies relating to smart cities
  *   Security, privacy and trust management in IoT, cloud, fog, big data, social networks, and other contemporary technologies relating to smart cities
  *   Social-legal aspects of cyber security (e.g. legal liability of security breaches)



Submission details:



The author instructions for preparation of manuscripts can be found at the Information Systems Frontiers<http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796> journal web page Author Guidelines web page. Articles which have been previously published at a conference needs to have at least 50% new material as clarified in the cover letter of the submission. Manuscript must be submitted online using the following URL: https://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/default.aspx, and the authors need to select "Special Issue: Cyber_Smart_Cities" during the submission process.



Authors of selected high quality papers from the 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2018) relevant to this special issue, will be invited to submit an extended paper for consideration in this special issue. Each selected paper must be substantially extended, with at least 60% difference from its conference version.



Timeline:



Submission deadline: November 30, 2018

First round of reviews due (accept/reject notification): January 30, 2019

Second round of reviews due: March 30, 2019

Final acceptance: June 30, 2019

Camera-ready version due: July 30, 2019

Publication: Late 2019


Guest editors:



Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Ph.D.

Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security

The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Email: Raymond.Choo at fulbrightmail.org<mailto:Raymond.Choo at fulbrightmail.org>



Deepak Puthal, Ph.D.

School of Electrical and Data Engineering

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Email: Deepak.Puthal at uts.edu.au<mailto:Deepak.Puthal at uts.edu.au>



Zhechao Charles Liu, Ph.D.

Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security

The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Email: Charles.Liu at utsa.edu<mailto:Charles.Liu at utsa.edu>



Chonggang Wang, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow

Innovation Labs, Interdigital Communications, USA

Email: drchongwang at gmail.com<mailto:drchongwang at gmail.com>

A PDF version of the CFP can be found at: http://organ-assoc.business.utsa.edu/isfrontiers/forthcoming1/CFP%20SI_Cybersecurity_ISF%20v3.4.pdf

Charles Z. Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security
University of Texas at San Antonio