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CFP for The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023)

Anastasija Nikiforova Leave a comment

On behalf of the organizers (Technical Program Chair, Steering Committee, and finally publicity chair) of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023), I am inviting everyone, who is conducting research in this area, to consider submitting the paper to it.

Call for Papers:

New advancements in wireless communication systems such as Fifth-Generation (5G), Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G), and Sixth-Generation (6G) networks will allow for new and unprecedented services to be made available for users with nearly unlimited capacity. These services will be the core driver for future digital transformation of our cities and communities. This will be accompanied by a ubiquitous deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and supported by computing capacity that will be available at the edge of the network and in the cloud. This computing infrastructure will handle the processing of data generated by users and services. Such a complex and diverse system will require the applications running on the computing/networking infrastructure to be Intelligent, efficient and sustainable. Additionally, the infrastructure will require smart control and automation systems to integrate and manage its different components. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will play a significant role in the design, deployment, automation, and management of future services. This will include applications that will be running on the edge and on cloud servers, networking applications to handle the flow of data between the users and the computing system, and intelligent automation and management software operating on the system. The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Services is aiming to provide an opportunity to present state of the art research in the intersections of Computing, Networking, and Services that are supported by Artificial Intelligence.

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccns2023

Researchers from both the industry and academia are encouraged to submit their original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to the following main tracks:

💡Track 1: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals

  • Artificial Intelligent Systems
  • Artificial Intelligent Theory
  • Artificial Intelligent applications in Computers and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligent and Robotics Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligent and cloud computing
  • Artificial Intelligent for Economic paradigms and game theory
  • Machine and Deep Learning of Knowledge
  • Artificial Intelligent based Distributed Knowledge and Processing
  • Artificial Intelligent for Human-Robot Interactions

💡Track 2: Intelligent Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Intelligent IoT Applications and Services
  • Intelligent security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
  • Intelligent Internet of Things architectures and protocols
  • Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Blockchain-based application in Intelligent Manufacturing: Industrial Internet of Things,
  • Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Industry 4.0
  • Intelligent manufacture and management
  • Consensus and mining algorithms suited for resource-limited IoTs
  • Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS
  • Blockchain-based energy optimization techniques in WSN
  • Blockchain-based Software defined networks

💡Track 3: Edge Intelligence and Federated Learning

  • Distributed and federated machine learning in edge computing
  • Theory and Applications of Edge Intelligence
  • Middleware and runtime systems for Edge Intelligence
  • Programming models compliant with Edge Intelligence
  • Scheduling and resource management for Edge Intelligence
  • Data allocation and application placement strategies for Edge Intelligence
  • Osmotic computing with edge continuum, Microservices and MicroData architectures
  • ML/AI models and algorithms for load balancing
  • Theory and Applications of federated learning
  • Federated learning and privacy-preserving large-scale data analytics
  • MLOps and ML pipelines at edge computing
  • Transfer learning, interactive learning, and Reinforcement Learning for edge computing
  • Modeling and simulation of EI and edge-to-cloud environments
  • Security, privacy, trust, and provenance issues in edge computing
  • Distributed consensus and blockchains at edge architecture
  • Blockchain networking for Edge Computing Architecture
  • Blockchain technology for Edge Computing Security
  • Blockchain-based access controls for Edge-to-cloud continuum
  • Blockchain-enabled solutions for Cloud and Edge/Fog IoT systems
  • Forensic Data Analytics compliant with Edge Intelligence

💡Track 4: Intelligent Networking in Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Wireless Communication

  • Intelligent Networking in Beyond 5G/6G Network Architectures
  • large-scale Internet of Things in B5G/6G
  • Vehicular networks in B5G/6G
  • Blockchain with lightweight computation
  • Service and applications for vehicular clouds in B5G/6G
  • Future internet architectures for B5G/6G
  • Intelligent networking services
  • Emerging networks in B5G/6G
  • Byzantine-tolerant FL
  • Churn-tolerant FL
  • FL for NGN and 6G
  • B5G/6G based IoT healthcare systems

💡Track 5: Intelligent Big Data Management and Processing

  • Intelligent Data Fusion
  • Intelligent Analytics and Data mining
  • Intelligent Distributed data management
  • Distributed transaction for blockchain
  • Intelligent Data Science and Data Engineering
  • Protocols for management and processing of data

💡Track 6: Intelligent Security and Privacy

  • Authentication and authorization
  • Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic
  • Privacy technologies
  • Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques
  • Blockchain-based open-source tools
  • Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies
  • Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems
  • Blockchain Consensus Algorithms
  • Blockchain-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention
  • Security and Privacy in Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure
  • Attacks on Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure
  • Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Smart Grid

💡Track 7: Blockchain Research & Applications for Intelligent Networks and Services

  • State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity
  • Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures
  • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and ITS)
  • Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies
  • Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain
  • New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain
  • Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity
  • Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security
  • Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies
  • Blockchain in social networking
  • Performance metric design, modeling and evaluation of blockchain systems
  • Network and computing optimization in blockchains
  • Experimental prototyping and testbeds for blockchains
  • Blockchain networking for Edge Computing Architecture
  • Blockchain technology for Edge Computing Security
  • Blockchain-based access controls for Edge-to-cloud continuum
  • Blockchain-enabled solutions for Cloud and Edge/Fog IoT systems
  • Forensic Data Analytics compliant with Edge Intelligence

Two workshops are scheduled to take place as part of ICCNS that you cannot miss, namely:

🗓️🗓️🗓️ IMPORTANT DATES

  • Full paper submission: April 21st, 2023 (Firm and Final)
  • Full paper acceptance notification: May 6th, 2023
  • Full paper camera-ready submission: May 20th, 2023
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For any inquiries, please contact: intelligenttechorg@gmail.com.

Submit the paper and meet our team in Valencia in June, 2023!
 

With best wishes,

ICCNS2023 organizers

CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2023)

Anastasija Nikiforova Leave a comment

On behalf of the organizers and as a publicity chair, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2023), which will be held in conjunction Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit.

Huge amount of data is being generated and transmitted everyday. To be able to deal with this data, extract useful information from it, store it, transmit it, and represent it, intelligent technologies and applications are needed. The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA) is a peer reviewed conference, whose objective is to advance the Data Science field by giving an opportunity for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest findings in the field. It will also invite key persons in the field to share their current knowledge and their future expectations for the field. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

💡Applied Public Affairs, incl. but not limited to Campaign Management, Mass Communication Politics, Political Analysis, Survey Sampling
💡Business Analytics, incl. but not limited to Stock Market Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence
💡Finance, incl. but not limited to Risk Management, Algorithmic Trading, Fraud Detection, Financial Analysis
💡Computer Science, incl. but not limited to Database Management Systems, Scientific Computing, Computer Vision, Fuzzy Computing, Feature Selection, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Meta-Learning, Process Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Big Data, Web Analytics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Data Fusion, Performance Analysis and Evaluation, Evolutionary Computing and Optimization, Hybrid Methods, Granular Computing, Recommender Systems, Data Visualization, Predictive Maintenance, Internet of Things (IoT), Web Scraping
💡Sustainability, incl. but not limited to Datasets on Sustainability, Sustainability Modeling, Energy Sustainability, Water Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Risk Analysis
💡Cybersecurity, incl. but not limited to Data Privacy and Security, Network Security, Communication Security, Cryptography, Fraud Detection, Blockchain
💡Environmental Science, incl. but not limited to GIS, Climatographic, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analysis, Weather Prediction and Tracking,
💡Biotechnologies, incl. but not limited to Gnome Analysis, Drug Discovery and Screening and Side Effect Analysis, Structural and Folding Pattern, Disease Discovery and Classification, Bioinformatics, Next-Gen Sequencing
💡Smart City, incl. but not limited to City Data Management, Smart Traffic, Surveillance, Location-Based Services, Robotics
💡Human Behaviour Understanding
💡Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data
💡Pattern Recognition
💡Transparency in Research Data
💡Data and Information Quality
💡GPU Computing
💡Crowdsourcing

🗓️🗓️🗓️ IMPORTANT DATES

  • Paper submission:  March 15, 2023  
  • Acceptance notification:  May 20th, 2023
  • Full paper camera-ready submission: October 1st, 2023
    Conference Dates: October 24-26, 2023
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All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in IDSTA2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication. 
For any inquiries, contact intelligenttechorg@gmail.com.

Submit the paper and meet our team in Kuwait in October, 2023!
 

With best wishes,

IDSTA2023 organizers

“Emerging issues and innovations” track as part of IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023 is open for submissions!

Anastasija Nikiforova Leave a comment

On behalf of the co-chair of “Emerging issues and innovations” track I sincerely invite everyone whose research focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems, to submit their work to this track, which is part of EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART – one of the most recognized conference in e-Government, ICT and public administration and related topics!

The annual IFIP EGOV2023 will be hosted 5-7 September 2023 in Budapest by the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. The conference focuses on e-Government, Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, GovTech, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation, Digital society, artificial intelligence, policy information, policy informatics, smart cities, and social innovation. Several types of submissions are possible, including completed research, ongoing research, reflections & viewpoints, posters, and workshops. The conference consists of 10 tracks:

  • General E-Government and E-Governance Track
  • General e-Democracy & e-Participation track
  • ICT and Sustainable Development Goals Track
  • Digital Society Track
  • AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track
  • Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track
  • Open data: social and technical aspects Track
  • Emerging Issues and Innovations Track
  • Digital and Social Media Track
  • Legal Informatics

And while the conference consists of 10 tracks you will definitely find relevant, my personal recommendation is “Emerging issues and innovations” track (chairs: Marijn Janssen, Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Csaba Csaki, Francesco Mureddu).


🎯🎯🎯 “Emerging issues and innovations” track focuses on new topics emerging in the field of ICT and public sector, including public-private ecosystems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
💡Looking ahead into Social innovation
💡The future of government, policy making and democracy
💡Global challenges that go beyond nation states (such as migration, climate change etc.) and require international collaboration of individual governments
💡Digital transformation in public sector context
💡The future of digital governance
💡Public values in transforming the government
💡The role of government in eCities and sustainable living
💡The role of the public sector in Human Centered Society
💡Self Service Structures for Inclusion
💡Public-private sector collaboration and integration;
💡Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO), smart contracts and blockchain
💡Preparing for the policy challenges of future technologies;
💡Regulating misinformation
💡New technologies for automated decision-making
💡The future public sector use and regulation of latest AI solutions;
💡Public use as well as regulations of industry 4.0 and the internet of things
💡The relationships of governments and Fintech
💡Upcoming issues of eVoting including application of digital signatures in the public sector
💡Online public community building
💡Utilization of digital billboards
💡Latest trends in co-creation and service delivery
💡Forward looking insights from case studies – let it be successful or failed experiments.
 

🗓️🗓️🗓️ IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023
PhD Colloquium deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023
Poster submission deadline: 20 May 2023
PhD Colloquium: 4 September 2023
Conference: 5-7 September 2023

Do not miss 3 days of discussions around e-Government, Digital Government, Open Government, Smart Government, GovTech, eParticipation and e-Democracy, and related topics like social media, digital transformation, Digital society, artificial intelligence, policy information, policy informatics, smart cities, and social innovation. Mark your calendar – 31 March 2023 for submitting your paper, and 5-7 September 2023 for attending the conference!

The conference is organized by the IFIP 8.5 Working group (WG8.5) and the Digital Government Society (DGS). The aim of WG 8.5 is to improve the quality of e-government information systems at international, national, regional and local levels. The WG8.5 emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches for information systems in public administration. DGS is a global, multi-disciplinary organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and impacts of digital government. Read more here.

CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData): where the Edge meets the Cloud

Anastasija Nikiforova Leave a comment

On behalf of the organizers, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData), which will be held in conjunction with the 23rd  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID2023).

The MegaData objective is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of big data systems. The focus of the workshop is on a novel and practical, systems-oriented work, where MegaData, whose moto this year is “MegaData: where the Edge meets the Cloud”, offers an opportunity to showcase the latest advances in this area and discuss and identify future directions and challenges in management and engineering of big data systems.

MegaData covers the area of Big Data operations (management, engineering, and analytics) within Cloud and Edge computing models. It aims to report on the advances and trends in Big Data deployment architectures from both the infrastructure and application levels. Papers presenting recent results, research issues, practical applications, case studies, and industrial implementations are welcome.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following:

  • Resource management and scheduling mechanisms for data systems
  • Auto Scaling and elastic scaling approaches and mechanisms
  • Data governance and privacy of “data in motion” and “data at rest” over edge/cloud
  • Emerging Data deployment models in IoT, IoT-to-Cloud, Edge/fog
  • Federated Learning and edge intelligence for big data systems
  • Advances data storage models, including object stores and key-value stores
  • Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance
  • Big Data workflows (data management, data wrangling, automated workflows)
  • Data pipeline (data lake to analytics, new data stream architectures, edge/fog, cloud enabled solutions)
  • High-performance Data Analytics applications
  • Adaptive offloading techniques among Fog, Edge, and Cloud Computing

Important dates

  • Submission open: December 1st, 2022
  • Paper submission Deadline: January 15th, 2023
  • Acceptance notification: February 10th, 2023
  • Camera-ready submission: March 17th, 2023
  • Conference Dates: May 1st, 2023

We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages (including references and appendices) in two-column IEEE template format. Papers need to be submitted through the EasyChair submission portal.

Best papers presented at the workshop will be selected, and the corresponding authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publications in: Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Big Data and Edge Intelligence on Springer Cluster Computing (IF 2.3)

Submit the paper and meet our team in Bangalore, India in May, 2023!

With best wishes,

MegaData organizers – Yaser Jararweh, Feras M. Awaysheh, Moath Jarrah, Anastasija Nikiforova, Sadi Alawadi

IDSTA2021

International conference on the Intelligent Data Science (IDSTA2021): one conference – a ton of impressions

Anastasija Nikiforova Leave a comment

This November I had another great experience – participation in one of my favorite conferences – International conference on the Intelligent Data Science (IDSTA2021) collocated with Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA). Unfortunately, due to the pandemics we were not able to meet each other in person in Tartu, Estonia – a local organizer of this edition. But the organization was still perfect from their side. I was super delighted to serve a publicity chair for this conference for the second time (I mean IDSTA2020 and IDSTA2021).

IDSTA2021
Source: IDSTA2021

In short – 2 days (November 15-16), 50+ talks delivered by very skilled, experienced and knowledgeable researchers ready to establish and develop discussions around their topics during 13 sessions, 4 incredible keynotes delivered by Tarik Taleb, Omer Rana, Helen (Eleni) Karatza, Srijith Rajamohan, Ph.D.. Very lively discussions, insightful presentations and great environment!

Apart of serving as a publicity chair, I act as a reviewer, so I am a part of Program Committee, the session chair (for 2 sessions) and the (co-)author and presenter of two papers. One conference – 5 roles 😀 And what is even cooler is that my efforts have been also noticed by organisers and listed in Message from the General Chairs – it is always pleasant to notice you have been mentioned as a person, who contributed and whose contribution and efforts have been really highly evaluated.

Very briefly on my talks :

  • “ShoBeVODSDT: Shodan and Binary Edge based vulnerable open data sources detection tool or what Internet of Things Search Engines know about you” (authored by Artjoms Daskevics and Anastasija Nikiforova) devoted to the study, which proposes a tool for non-intrusive testing of open data sources for detecting their vulnerabilities, called ShoBeVODSDT. It supports the identification of vulnerabilities at early security assessment stages and does not require the implementation of active and possibly disruptive techniques. ShoBeVODSDT uses two IoTSE (Internet of Things Search Engines) – Shodan and Binary Edge – by extending their features with the advanced capabilities built in it. It allows inspecting 8 predefined data sources, representing both rational databases, NoSQL databases and data stores – MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, Cassandra and Memcached – on their vulnerabilities and their extent. Our observation shows that security features built into the database allow to protect against unauthorized access, but there are databases with low security features, where it is possible to connect to nearly all IP addresses by retrieving information from them. Even more, in some cases the databases, which do not use security mechanisms, have been already compromised.
  • “Stakeholder-centred Identification of Data Quality Issues: Knowledge that Can Save Your Business” (authored by Anastasija Nikiforova and Natalija Kozmina), in scope of which (1) we perform a literature analysis to compile a list of the most commonly occurring data quality issues, (2) considering the diversity and quantity of different data quality requirements and/or dimensions, we reduce the list of defects after running a brainstorming session followed by DELPHI analysis involving 12 experts, (3) the resulting list of defects is validated by 30 users with advanced data quality knowledge by means of applying the data quality analysis to real-world data that are freely accessible to all stakeholders (specifically, a pool of 30 open data sets). This leads us to the list of key data quality issues, which may be of advantage to the data holder and the data user giving both a higher level of confidence that the data are error-free and can be used without causing financial losses for business. These requirements, however, are expected to be used as input of the specification for the web-based data quality analysis tool to be developed.
IDSTA2021, Session chair
IDSTA, session 2
ShoBeVODSDT: Shodan and Binary Edge based vulnerable open data sources detection tool or what Internet of Things Search Engines know about you

Great event, great people, great emotions and impressions! Thank you, IDSTA2021 and your supportive and super-friendly team!