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

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Invited Talks Section

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Panel Discussions Section

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Special Issues Section

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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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