[AISWorld] ACM TOIT Special Issue on Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems

[Raymond Choo]

https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications.
pdf

 

 

Call for Papers 

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Cyber-physical system (CPS) integrates both cyber world and man-made
physical world using sensors, actuators and other Internet of Things (IoT)
devices, to achieve stability, security, reliability, robustness, and
efficiency in a tightly coupled environment. Prevalence of such
cyber-physical ecosystem (inherently of distributed nature) imposes exacting
demands on architect models and necessitates the design of distributed
solutions and other novel approaches. This is essential in order to suitably
address the security and privacy concerns since CPS ecosystem involves
humans as a part of its core. Blockchain technology offers a distributed and
scalable solution to maintain a tamper-resistant ledger, which does not
require a central authority. Thus, it can best fit the need of distributed
solution to above mentioned security issues in CPS. However, the challenge
in integrating Blockchain with CPS is yet to be addressed, which requires
various cyber-physical nodes to work effectively and collaboratively in an
asynchronous environment. The goal of this special issue is to bring
together researchers from different sectors to focus on understanding
security challenges and attack surfaces of modern cyber-physical systems,
and architect innovative solutions with the help of cutting-edge blockchain
related technologies. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to following:

.        Blockchain and mobile systems

.        Security of transportation system using blockchain

.        Use of blockchain to support mobile smart services and applications

.        Blockchain in edge and cloud computing

.        Blockchain schemes for decentralized secure transaction

.        Distributed ledger and consensus schemes for CPS

.        Performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes

.        Energy aware protocols and blockchain applications 

.        Fault tolerance and  blockchain for CPS  

.        Decentralized (mobile) processing, computing, and storage
infrastructure

.        Blockchain for Software-defined networking based CPS

.        Cybersecurity, protection, integrity, trust and privacy issues for
SDN-based CPS

.        Blockchain and smart contracts for CPS security

 

Important Dates

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Full Paper Submission:  Nov 30, 2019

Decisions on Acceptance/ Rebuttal: Mar 30, 2020 

Final Papers Submission:  May 1, 2020

 

Guest Editors

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Dr. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

University of Texas at San Antonio, USA 
raymond.choo at fulbrightmail.org <mailto:raymond.choo at fulbrightmail.org> 

Dr. Uttam Ghosh

Vanderbilt University, USA

Uttam.ghosh at vanderbilt.edu <mailto:Uttam.ghosh at vanderbilt.edu> 

Dr. Deepak Tosh

University of Texas El Paso, USA

dktosh at utep.edu <mailto:dktosh at utep.edu>  

Dr. Reza M. Parizi

Kennesaw State University, USA

rparizi1 at kennesaw.edu <mailto:rparizi1 at kennesaw.edu> 

Dr. Ali Dehghantanha

University of Guelph, CA

adehghan at uoguelph.ca <mailto:adehghan at uoguelph.ca> 

 

ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief 

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Professor Ling Liu 

Department of Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology ling.liu at cc.gatech.edu
<mailto:ling.liu at cc.gatech.edu> 

 



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