Saturday, July 23, 2022

[DMANET] [CFP] 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022

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C a l l F o r P o s t e r s

27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022
26-30 September 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark
URL: https://esorics2022.compute.dtu.dk/cfs.html
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The 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
will include a poster session in order to provide a forum to present
work in progress, early research results, practical demonstrations and
experience reports in the interest areas of this year's symposium.


Important dates
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All submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. anywhere on earth on
the day of the corresponding deadline:

- Submission deadline: 25 July, 2022
- Notification to authors: 3 August, 2022
- Camera ready due: 10 August, 2022


Submission Guidelines
=====================

Each submission should contain a brief abstract, with an emphasis on
the motivation for the work, and should describe the main
contributions being presented. Submissions should only contain new and
unpublished results and should point to the difference between the
submission and any work under submission by the authors or any
published work.

Submissions will be evaluated on their potential to stimulate fruitful
discussions, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and promote
collaborations.

Poster proposals must be formatted according to the LNCS Proceedings
Template and are limited to five pages, not including references.
Submissions are not anonymous and must contain the authors' names and
affiliations. Accepted posters will be published in the proceedings.

Submissions must be in PDF and uploaded to the following EasyChair
website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=esorics2022 (ESORICS
2022 - Posters)

Submissions that do not comply with the formatting guidelines will be
rejected without review.

Questions shall be directed via email to esorics2022posters@easychair.org


Posters chair
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Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Posters program committee members
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Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, United States
Jose M. de Fuentes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Roberto di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Lorena González Manzano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan
Shin'Ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University, United States
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Pantaleone Nespoli, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Silvio Ranise, Universy of Trento and Fundazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Kéren Saint-Hilaire, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Matteo Signorini, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Dimitrios Vasilopoulos, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherladns

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Friday, July 22, 2022

[DMANET] PhD student position in Algorithms at IT University of Copenhagen

The algorithms group at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites applications from aspiring PhD students with a focus on algorithms for machine learning and data mining. The candidate is supervised by Associate Professor Martin Aumüller (ITU) and co-supervised by Professor Arthur Zimek (SDU, Odense). The ideal starting date is October 2022.

We are looking for excellent candidates with a strong background in the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms. The project is entitled "Benefit and Bias of Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Machine Learning and Data Mining". The goal is to design, implement, and evaluate nearest neighbor search techniques to speed-up key components for data mining and machine learning applications such as clustering and outlier detection.

The algorithms group at ITU carries out research in theoretical computer science and algorithm engineering. We strive for academic excellence and collegial respect. ITU co-hosts Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) jointly with the University of Copenhagen. Located in one of the most-livable cities in the world, we provide excellent salary, working conditions, and a down-to-earth research environment. Copenhagen has a strong educational system, a rich cultural life, universal healthcare, good childcare, and well-functioning infrastructure. Copenhagen is among the world's most livable cities according to the Economist Global Liveability Index.

The application deadline is August 15, 2022. Please see https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181463&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=5 for the full announcement with more information and instructions on how to apply. Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be sent to maau@itu.dk (Martin Aumüller) and zimek@imada.sdu.dk (Arthur Zimek).

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

[DMANET] 2nd CFP: 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022) - Online - Springer Publication

** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues
and networks **

-- 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition
(SoCPaR 2022) --

http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar22
http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar22

On the World Wide Web

December 14-16, 2022

** Plenary Speakers **
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Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Kaspar Riesen, University of Bern, Switzerland
Katherine Malan, University of South Africa, South Africa
Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico
René Natowicz, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Yifei Pu, Sichuan University, China

Proceedings of SoCPaR'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (
https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending)

Proceedings of SoCPaR'21:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6
Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI
Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink

History of SoCPaR series: http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar22/previous.php

**Important Dates**
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2022
Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022
Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022
Conference: December 14-16, 2022

**About SoCPaR 2022**
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After the success of the 13th International Conference on Soft Computing
and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2021), SoCPaR 2022 is organized to bring
together worldwide leading researchers and practitioners interested in
advancing the state-of-the-art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition,
for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines
among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers and
practitioners will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines
and gain inspiration to facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this
conference are thus focused on "Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and
Intelligent Pattern Recognition".

**Topics (not limited to)**
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Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to):
Evolutionary computing
Swarm intelligence
Artificial immune systems
Fuzzy Sets
Uncertainty analysis
Fractals
Rough Sets
Support vector machines
Artificial neural networks
Case Based Reasoning
Wavelets
Hybrid intelligent systems
Nature inspired computing techniques
Machine learning
Ambient intelligence
Hardware implementations

Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):
Information retrieval
Data Mining
Web Mining
Image Processing
Computer Vision
Bio-informatics
Information security
Network security
Steganography
Biometry
Remote sensing
Medical Informatics
E-commerce
Signal Processing
Control systems

**Submission Guidelines**
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Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the
conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines
to prepare your manuscript.

Paper format templates:
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324

SoCPaR'22 Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2022


** SoCPaR 2022 Organization **
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General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Switzerland, Switzerland

Program Chairs
Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
Nazar Zaki, United Arab Emirate University, UAE

Publication Chairs
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Special Session Chair
Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy

Publicity Chairs
Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India
Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Gabriella
Casalino <gabriella.casalino@uniba.it>


**Technical Contact**
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Dr. Ajith Abraham
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org

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[DMANET] Registration open: ICTAC autumn school, September 26-30, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Autumn School of the 19th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects
of Computing (ICTAC 2022)

September 26-30, 2022, Tbilisi, Georgia
https://viam.science.tsu.ge/clas2022/ictac/school.html

Part of the Computational Logic Autumn Summit (CLAS 2022)
https://viam.science.tsu.ge/clas2022
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The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry and government to present research
and exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical
aspects of computing and the exploitation of theory through methods and
tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote research
cooperation between developing and industrial countries.

The ICTAC autumn school is a part of CLAS 2022 and will be held in Tbilisi,
Georgia, September 26-30, 2022. The school will be organized by the Tbilisi
State University. The intended audience of the winter school includes
master and PhD students as well as young researchers from the fields of
computer science and mathematics. The following lectures agreed to deliver
classes at the school:


- Gödel logics - the dominance of order, Matthias Baaz(Vienna University
of Technology)
- Verification and Model Checking with finite automata, Volker Diekert
(University of Stuttgart)
- Nominal techniques, Maribel Fernandez (King's College London)
- A logical bases for the verification of imperative programs, Tudor
Jebelean (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- The semantically reflected digital twin, Einar Broch Johnsen
(University of Oslo)
- Learning Meets Verification, Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck)
- Logical framework with union and intersection types, Luigi Liquori
(INRIA)
- To prove with a proof assistant or not to prove, Dmitriy Traytel
(University of Copenhagen)
-...

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REGISTRATION
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For the registration visit the Easychair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clas2022

The registration fee is 200/250 Euro for students (early till July 31/late
till August 31) and 350/400 for non-students (early till July 31/late till
August 31), which will include access to school materials, coffee breaks,
and social events (excursion and banquet). The registration fee for an
accompanying person is 150 Euro and includes only social events.
Participants affiliated with Ukrainian universities will have the
registration fee waived. Further support will be announced if funds get
available.

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ORGANIZERS
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Besik Dundua
Mikheil Rukhaia


Contact: bdundua@gmail.com

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[DMANET] Registration Open: ISR 2022, September 19-24, 2022, Tbilisi, Georgia

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13th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2022)

September 19-24, 2022, Tbilisi, Georgiahttps://viam.science.tsu.ge/clas2022/isr/

Part of the Computational Logic Autumn Summit (CLAS
2022)https://viam.science.tsu.ge/clas2022
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Term Rewriting is a simple but powerful model of computation with
numerous applications in computer science and mathematics. It is
heavily used in symbolic computation, formal reasoning, and program
verification. Rewriting-based techniques are useful in many other
fields as well, for instance, in quantum computing, biology, music...

The 13th International School on Rewriting (ISR 2022) will take place
at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. The
school is aimed at students, researchers and practitioners interested
in the use or the study of rewriting and its applications and offers
two parallel tracks:

- Basic track: introduction to first-order term rewriting and λ-calculus
with lectures by Aart Middeldorp, Sarah Winkler and Sandra Alves

- Advanced track: lectures on rewriting theory and applications
- Probabilistic term rewriting, Martin Avanzini
- Protocol Analysis using Maude-NPA, Santiago Escobar
- Automated Termination Analysis of Term Rewriting, Carsten Fuhs
- On the Confluence of Rewrite Systems, Raúl Gutiérrez
- Theorem Proving with Applications, Christopher Lynch
- Rule-based Programming with Rholog, Mircea Marin
- Tree Automata Techniques for Term Rewriting, Aart Middeldorp
- Modeling and Analysis of Real-time Systems in Rewriting Logic,
Peter Csaba Ölveczky
- Formal Methods for Machine Learning, Caterina Urban
- Constraint Programming for Analysis of Rewriting, Johannes Waldmann

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REGISTRATION
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For the registration visit the Easychair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clas2022


The registration fee is 200/250 Euro for students (early till July
31/late till August 31) and 350/400 for non-students (early till July
31/late till August 31), which will include access to school
materials, coffee breaks, and social events (excursion and banquet).
The registration fee for an accompanying person is 150 Euro and
includes only social events.

Participants affiliated with Georgian and Ukrainian universities will
have the registration fee waived. Further support will be announced if
funds get available.

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ORGANIZERS
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Besik Dundua
Temur Kutsia

Contact: bdundua@gmail.com
ISR 2022 is promoted by the IFIP WG1.6 and supported by Ivane
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

[DMANET] PhD position in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning / Artificial Intelligence, TU Graz

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]

The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) group at the Institute
of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, offers

a funded PhD student position

within knowledge representation and reasoning, and with a particular
focus in the field of Computational Argumentation in Artificial
Intelligence.

Central aims of Computational Argumentation are to investigate
representations of arguments, study their relationships, and perform
automated argumentative reasoning, with application domains, e.g., in
medical or legal reasoning, and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).

With the PhD project, we will advance the state of the art of
foundational research on the complex reasoning process underlying
argumentation. You will work on tasks ranging from representational
aspects, such as preference handling and explainability, to
computational aspects, such as complexity analysis and algorithmic
solutions for challenging (NP-hard) reasoning tasks.

We are looking for motivated and talented applicants with good
university degrees (MSc or equivalent) in Computer Science or
Mathematics (or comparable fields), and with solid background in one or
more of:
-logic, knowledge representation and reasoning, non-monotonic reasoning,
-logic programming, answer set programming, Boolean satisfiability,
-formal methods in computer science, e.g., computational complexity theory,
-graph theory, discrete mathematics, or
-strong implementation skills motivated by challenging combinatorial
problems and interest in theory.

The position is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), full-time,
and fixed-term for three years. The contract will be under the
collective agreement for university employees at TU Graz. Candidates
should be independent in organising their work, keen on working with
teams of experts (project partners), and fluent in English, oral and
written. Starting time can be as soon as possible, but some degree of
flexibility is possible.

An inclusive environment and balancing family and career are important
aspects to the group and university. We encourage women to apply.

Applications with
-a full curriculum vitae,
-a statement of your research interest,
-your Master's thesis and a list of subjects studied (together with
grades), and
-other relevant documents (e.g., recommendation letters)
should be sent electronically to Assistant Professor Johannes P.
Wallner, if possible as a single pdf file. In case of questions, don't
hesitate to contact Wallner for more information.

Deadline for applications is September 30, 2022.

-Contact Johannes P. Wallner:
https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ist/research/group-wallner/people/johannes-peter-wallner/
-Group
webpage: https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ist/research/group-wallner/
-This
call for applications:
https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ist/research/group-wallner/jobs/
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[DMANET] 4th BYMAT Conference - November 9 to November 11, 2022

Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the 4th BYMAT Conference– Bringing Young
Mathematicians Together. The conference will be held online from November 9
to November 11, 2022. Participation and attendance will be free of charge.
The conference is especially directed at PhD students in all areas of
mathematics and related disciplines, and indeed any young people who use
mathematics in their daily lives/jobs. Everyone, from undergraduates to
university professors or industry professionals, is more than welcome to
attend!
We expect contributed talks and posters to come mainly from PhD students,
young industry professionals, master's students and recent postdocs. The
official language of the conference will be English.
We will have short talks (15-20 minutes) distributed in thematic parallel
sessions, a poster session, 5 plenary talks delivered by young professors
and industry professionals, and 3 workshops.
Deadline for talks and poster proposals: July 31
More information on our website: https://bymat.webs.upv.es/index/
Contact information: bymatconference@gmail.com

Follow us on social media: Facebook.com/bymatConference Twitter:
@bymatConference

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

[DMANET] Postdoc position in UCD, Ireland in Energy Analytics. Closing date 26th July 2022"

*Post Title*: Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1
*Post Duration*: 15 months, full-time (A part-time equivalent may be
considered)
*Principal Investigator*: Dr Paula Carroll
*Location: *University College Dublin, Ireland,
*How to Apply*: via the UCD jobs portal https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
*UCD Job HR Reference No.*: 014735
*Closing Date*: 26-Jul-2022
*Project Summary*: Supporting Energy Communities - Operational Research and
Energy Analytics (SEC-OREA) aims to enable local energy communities (LECs)
to participate in the decarbonisation of the energy sector by developing
advanced efficient algorithms and analytics technologies. Our goal is to
create algorithms to support the design and operation of an LEC to use
renewable energy sources at a local level. The consortium brings together
expertise from Business, Climatology, Computational Methods, and Power
Systems with researchers in ULB Belgium, INRIA (Lille) France, UCD Ireland,
and IPE, Latvia.
*Duties*: the successful candidate will conduct a specified programme of
research and scholarship under the supervision and direction of the
Principal Investigator.:
1) Use Statistical or Machine Learning techniques to create renewable
electricity supply scenarios;
2) Use Statistical or Machine Learning techniques to create LEC demand
scenarios;
3) Support the consortium members to test their algorithms to design and
operate a Local Energy Community.
*Mandatory Requirements*: A PhD in Energy Systems Modelling or related area
such as Climate Services, Statistics, or Data Science for Energy
Applications; A demonstrated commitment to research and publications; An
understanding of the operational requirements for a successful research
project; Evidence of research activity.
*EDI Policies at UCD*: UCD is committed to creating an inclusive
environment where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded
equality of opportunity. We encourage applicants to consult UCD's equality,
diversity and inclusion policies here https://www.ucd.ie/equality/
*Further Details*: contact paula.carroll@ucd.ie

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[DMANET] [Deadline Approaching, July 27 -- firm --] Call for Papers - CBT 2022, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, co-located with ESORICS 2022, LNCS proceedings & special issues, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29-30 Sep 2022

[Apologies for cross-posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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6th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and
Blockchain Technology - CBT 2022

(in conjunction with ESORICS 2022, https://esorics2022.compute.dtu.dk/)

Copenhagen, Denmark, 29-30 Sep 2022

*(hybrid mode: in-person attendance is encouraged, but remote
participation will be made available upon request)*
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline: July 27, 2022 (*already extended, hard deadline*)

Notification: September 4, 2022

Camera Ready: September 20, 2022

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WORKSHOP HISTORY
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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 DLT and Smart-Contracts
* 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 consensus and fault tolerance
* Blockhain Protocols and algorithms
* Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
* Token Economy, finance and payments
* Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof-of-useful-work, ...
* On-chain and off-chain code synergies
* Oracles, DeFi, NFT dapps and protocols
* Blockchain as a service

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SUBMISSION DETAILS
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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 2022 submission
site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2022

*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
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PC Chairs:

* Nicola Dragoni, Technical University of Denmark
* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

PC Members:

* Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab
* Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay
* Artem Barger - IBM Research
* Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg
* Rainer Boehme - University of Innsbruck
* Karima Boudaoud - University of Nice
* Jeferson Campos-Nobre - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
* Richard Chbeir - University Pau & Pays Adour
* Alexandre Chepurnoy - IOHK Research
* James Chiang - Technical University of Denmark
* Jeremy Clark - Concordia University
* Mauro Conti - University of Padua
* Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
* Jeremie Decouchant - Delft University of Technology
* Matteo Dell'Amico - EURECOM
* Sven Dietrich - City University of New York
* Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui - EURECOM
* Joshua Ellul - University of Malta
* Nour El-Madhoun - EPITA Engineering School
* Antonio Faonio - EURECOM
* Paula Fraga - University of A Coruna
* Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
* Hannes Hartenstein - KIT
* Ryan Henry - University of Calgary
* Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
* Sandra Johnson - ConsenSys
* Ghassan Karame - NEC Research
* Jiasun Li - George Mason University
* Daniel-Xiapu Luo - Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Georgetown University
* Darya Melnyk - Aalto University
* Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
* Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
* Aafaf Ouaddah - Institut National des Postes et Telecommunications
* Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
* Alfredo Rial - University of Luxembourg
* Motoyoshi Sekiya - Fujitsu Limited
* Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs
* Weidong Shi - University of Houston
* Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin
* Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico
* Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute
* Edgar Weippl - SBA Research


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VENUE/FORMAT
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The workshop will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with
the 27th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security,
ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from
the ESORICS 2022 website at: https://esorics2022.compute.dtu.dk/

In-person attendance is encouraged, but remote participation will
be made available upon request.

This call for papers and additional information about CBT 2022
can be found at http://cbtworkshop.org/

Kinldy contact cbt2022@easychair.org in case of doubts or questions
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[DMANET] 2nd CFP: 22nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'22) - Online - Springer Publication

** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues
and networks **

-- The 22nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
(HIS'22) --

http://www.mirlabs.net/his22
http://www.mirlabs.org/his22

On the World Wide Web

December 13-15, 2022

Proceedings of HIS'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series.
(https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending)

Proceedings of HIS'21:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96305-7

Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI
Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink

History of HIS series: http://www.mirlabs.net/his22/previous.php

**Important Dates**
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2022
Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022
Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022
Conference: December 13-15, 2022

**About HIS 2022**
------------------

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of
modern
artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of
the next generations of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to
Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) investigations is the awareness in the
academic communities about the necessity of the combined approaches to
solving the remaining challenging problems in artificial/computational
intelligence. Hybrid Intelligent Systems are recently getting popular
due to their capabilities in handling several real-world complexities
involving imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness. HIS'22 built on the
success of the previous HIS conferences. HIS'22 is the 22nd
International conference that brings together researchers, developers,
practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence,
agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing
techniques. It aims to increase the awareness of the research community
about the broad spectrum of hybrid approaches. It brings together
worldwide AI researchers to present their cutting-edge results, discuss
the current trends in HIS research, and develop a collective vision of
future opportunities. Thereby helping the researchers and practitioners
establish international collaborative opportunities, and as a result,
advancing the state-of-the-art of the field.

**Topics (not limited to)**
---------------------------

Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems.
Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization
techniques.
Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques.
Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization
algorithms.
Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary
algorithms.
Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated
annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.).
Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques.
Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical
inference, case-based reasoning etc.
Autonomic computing.
Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA
computing, membrane computing etc.
Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications

**Submission Guidelines**
-------------------------

Submission of paper should be made through the submission page
from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website
for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.

Paper format templates:
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324


HIS'22 Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=his20220

**Plenary Talks**
----------------------------------------
You are welcome to attend 11 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned
professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available
on conference website.

Speaker 1: Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Title: Interpretability and Explainability in Intelligent Systems

Speaker 2: Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Title: TBA

Speaker 3: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Title: TBA

Speaker 4: Kaisa Miettinen, Multiobjective Optimization Group, Faculty
of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Title: Some Perspectives to Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective
Optimization Methods.

Speaker 5: Kaspar Riesen, Institute of Computer Science, University of
Bern, Switzerland
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Title: Four Decades of Structural Pattern Recognition - An Overview of
the Three Major Epochs

Speaker 6: Katherine MALAN, Department of Decision Sciences, University
of South Africa
Title: Landscape analysis of optimisation and machine learning search
spaces.

Speaker 7: Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications,
Tokyo, Japan
Title: Computer Vision for Expressing Texture Using Sound-Symbolic Words


Speaker 8: Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Title: Cybersecurity: the road ahead

Speaker 9: Patricia MELIN, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana,
Mexico
Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems based on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic
and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms and their application to Pattern
Recognition.

Speaker 10: René NATOWICZ, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel,
France
Title: Machine Learning in Graphs: Where Are We So Far?

Speaker 11: Yifei Pu, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University,
China
Title : Analog Circuit Implementation of Fractional-Order Memristor:
Arbitrary-Order Lattice Scaling Fracmemristor.

**HIS 2022 Organization**
-------------------------

General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Artūras Kaklauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Program Chairs
Ketan Kotecha, Symbiosis International University, India
Ganeshsree Selvachandran, UCSI University, Malaysia

Publication Chairs
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Special Session Chair
Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy

Publicity Chairs
Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India
Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr.
Gabriella Casalino <gabriella.casalino@uniba.it>

** For all other Technical Contact **
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Dr. Ajith Abraham
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
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[DMANET] Full Professor Position in Discrete Mathematics at University of Kassel, Germany

The Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Kassel invites applications for a

Full Professorship (W3) in „Discrete Mathematics".

We are looking for an excellent scientist with an internationally recognized research portfolio in discrete mathematics, specifically in the areas of graph theory, combinatorics, discrete geometry, or discrete optimization, and with strong relations to applications, for example in engineering, data science and machine learning, computer science, or biology.

The closing date for applications is the 18th of August, 2022.

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Monday, July 18, 2022

[DMANET] Huawei Ph.D Position (CIFRE)- Energy optimization in IP networks

Dear all,

The Operation Research team of the Data Communication Network Algorithm and Measurement Technology Laboratory<https://hr.huawei.com/orgarchive/index.html#/?orgcode=048427>, Huawei France Research Center, located in the Paris area, is looking for highly motivated candidates for a CIFRE PhD thesis on Network Optimization.

Energy optimization in IP networks

PhD thesis
Global warming has become a major concern for several decades. Information and communications technology "ICT" sector accounts for between 5% and 9% of the global electricity consumption per year [1], and telecommunication networks is taking an important part. Manufacturers have an urging need to design novel mechanisms/methods to optimize energy. In [2] authors have proposed methods for minimizing the energy consumption in the networks by rerouting traffic in an unsplittable way so that the maximum link utilization is no more than 50%. In [3], authors investigate the potential turning-off of some nodes in the network, when the traffic is low. They proposed an algorithm that aims to remove network links without causing traffic disruption during energy-saving periods. Some other recent works have been made in [4] combining energy aware routing and planning problems.
In practice, several constraints have to be satisfied before turning-off any equipment in the network. Indeed, as the traffic fluctuates during time, any decision needs to guarantee all services with respect to all SLAs (e.g., Delay, Packet loss...). This requires to consider several traffic scenarios in the planning phase. On the other hand, the energy efficiency of a device depends on several parameters that need to be evaluated over their full life cycle (LCA analysis) to evaluate the whole environmental impacts<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact> of any product. One future challenge for the telecommunication operators is the replacement of some equipment in the networks in order to improve the performance of the energy efficiency.
The PhD thesis will focus on two main aspects:


· Network devices replacement: The goal is to improve existing networks by suggesting the replacement of some devices in order to achieve better energy efficiency. Given a telecommunication network and a fixed budget (number of replacement, monetary budget,...etc.), the goal is to compute the optimal strategy (in terms of energy consumption) to replace/add/remove nodes, links and devices, without exceeding the given capacity budget.

· Robust devices shutdown: The goal is to investigate the effects of shutdown of some network components when they are not fully-used. Given a set of scenarios (e.g., a multi-period traffic matrix), we have to decide which components to turn-off/on at every period of the time horizon such that all traffic demands are satisfied, the number of turned-off/on devices per period is bounded and the total energy saving is maximum.
Specific Requirements
Candidates should have a Master degree in Operation Research, Computer Science, or Applied Mathematics from a University or a Grande Ecole. They should have a solid background in Combinatorial Optimization. Knowledge of telecommunications will be appreciated.

English: Operational

Contacts

- Dr. Youcef Magnouche (youcef.magnouche@huawei.com<mailto:youcef.magnouche@huawei.com>), Dr. Sébastien Martin (sebastien.martin@huawei.com)
Application
To apply please send a complete CV, a cover letter, grades of University/Grande Ecole studies, and references. The position is for 3 years starting as soon as possible.


Deadline: Application must be submitted as soon as possible. We will continue accepting applications until the position is filled.


Huawei
The Huawei France Research Center (PRC) located in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris area, is responsible for advanced research in the fields of Algorithm and Software design, Aesthetics, MBB & Home devices and Parallel Computing, to create and design the innovative technologies and software platforms.

References
[1] https://www.enerdata.net/publications/executive-briefing/between-10-and-20-electricity-consumption-ict-sector-2030.html
[2] R. Wang, Z. Jiang, S. Gao, W. Yang, Y. Xia and M. Zhu, "Energy-aware routing algorithms in Software-Defined Networks," Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, 2014, pp. 1-6.
[3] Okonor, Obinna, et al. "Dynamic link sleeping reconfigurations for green traffic engineering." International Journal of Communication Systems 30.9 (2017): e3224.
[4] Zhang, Jinhong, et al. "TEAP: Traffic Engineering and ALR policy based Power-aware solutions for green routing and planning problems in backbone networks." Computer Communications 173 (2021): 27-44.


Youcef MAGNOUCHE, PhD
Senior Research Engineer

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Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab
Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

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Sunday, July 17, 2022

[DMANET] The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies [10 Special Issues]

CFP: The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Privacy Enhancing
Technologies
The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing (IEEE PriComp
2022)
Dec. 15-18, Haikou, China
[Submission Deadline: Sep. 1]

http://www.ieee-smart-world.org/2022/pricomp/

PriComp 2022 is the 8th in this series of conferences started in 2015 that
are devoted to algorithms and architectures for Privacy Computing. PriComp
conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries
around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency,
performance, reliability, security and interoperability of Privacy
Computing systems and applications.

Following the traditions of the previous successful PriComp conferences
held in Fuzhou, China (2015); Qingdao, China (2016); Melbourne, Australia
(2017); Boppard, Germany (2018); Canterbury, UK (2019); Hainan, China
(2020) and Xi'an, Shanghai, China (online, 2021); PriComp 2022 will be held
in Haikou, China. PriComp 2022 will focus on an evolving pathway from
privacy protection to privacy computing, by serving as an international
premier forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and
government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and
discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on
all aspects of privacy computing. The conference of PriComp 2022 is
co-organized by Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Institute
of Information Engineering, CAS, and Hainan University.


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Important Dates
==================
Workshop Proposal: July 15, 2022
Paper Submission: September 01, 2022
Author Notification: October 01, 2022
Camera-Ready Submission: October 31, 2022
Conference Date: December 15-18, 2022


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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
==================
- Theories and foundations for privacy computing
- Programming languages and compilers for privacy computing
- Privacy computing models
- Privacy metrics and formalization
- Privacy taxonomies and ontologies
- Privacy information management and engineering
- Privacy operation and modeling
- Data utility and privacy loss
- Cryptography for privacy protection
- Privacy protection based information hiding and sharing
- Data analytics oriented privacy control and protection
- Privacy-aware information collection
- Privacy sensing and distribution
- Combined and comprehensive privacy protection
- Privacy-preserving data publishing
- Private information storage
- Private integration and synergy
- Private information exchange and sharing
- Privacy inference and reasoning
- Internet and web privacy
- Cloud privacy
- Social media privacy
- Mobile privacy
- Location privacy
- IoT privacy
- Behavioral advertising
- Privacy in large ecosystems such as smart cities
- Privacy of AI models and systems
- AI for privacy computing
- Privacy and blockchain
- User-centric privacy protection solutions
- Human factors in privacy computing
- Privacy nudging
- Automated solutions for privacy policies and notices
- Legal issues in privacy computing and other interdisciplinary topics


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Paper Submission
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
submission website (https://edas.info/N29960) with PDF format. The
materials presented in the papers should not be published or under
submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with
over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10
fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author
Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the
paper at the conference.


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Special Issues
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All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index
(EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers.
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in SCI &
EI indexed prestigious journals.
1. Special issue on "Dark side of the Socio-Cyber World: Media
Manipulation, Fake News, and Misinformation", IEEE Transactions on
Computational Social Systems
http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/si/220412_IEEE%20TCSS_SI.pdf
2. Special issue on "Responsible AI in Social Computing", IEEE Transactions
on Computational Social Systems
https://www.ieeesmc.org/images/publications/pdfs/Call_for_Paper_-_SI_on_Responsible_AI_in_Social_Computing.pdf
3. Special issue on "Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence",
Information Science
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/decentralized-trust-management-with-intelligence
4. Special issue on "Resource Sustainable Computational and Artificial
Intelligence", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational
Intelligence
5. Special issue on "Smart Blockchain for IoT Trust, Security and Privacy",
IEEE IoT Journal
https://ieee-iotj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IEEEIoT-SmartBlockchain-TSP.pdf
6. Special issue on "Edge Computing Optimization and Security", Journal of
Systems Architecture
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-papers/edge-computing-optimization-and-security-vsi-edgeos2022
7. Special issue on "Distributed Learning and Blockchain Enabled
Infrastructures for Next Generation of Big Data Driven Cyber-Physical
Systems", Journal of Systems Architecture
http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/si/JSA_SI_0331.pdf
8. Special issue on "Distributed and Collaborative Learning Empowered Edge
Intelligence in Smart City", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tosn/pdf/ACM_TOSN_CFP1210-1640635690003.pdf
9. Special issue on "Robustness, Privacy, and Forensics in Intelligent
Multimedia Systems" Information Science
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/forthcoming-special-issues/robustness-privacy-and-forensics-in-intelligent-multimedia-systems

* More special issues will be added later.
http://www.ieee-smart-world.org/2022/pricomp/si.php


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
- Fenghua Li, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China
- Laurence T. Yang, Hainan University, China
- Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Chairs
- Hui Li, Xidian University, China
- Mamoun Alazab, Charles Darwin University, Australia
- Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Local Chairs
- Weidong Qiu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Jieren Cheng, Hainan University, China

Publicity Chairs
- Bocheng Ren, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Peng Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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Dr. Jun Feng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Mobile: +86-18827365073
WeChat: junfeng10001000
E-Mail: junfeng989@gmail.com

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[DMANET] [CFP] 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigations Challenges CFTIC 2022 (Virtual)

*2nd International Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigations
Challenges*

*October 10-11, 2022, Taking Place Virtually from the
UK*

https://easychair.org/cfp/CFTIC2022


Cyber forensics and threat investigations has rapidly emerged as a new
field of research to provide the key elements for maintaining security,
reliability, and trustworthiness of the next generation of emerging
technologies such as the internet of things, cyber-physical systems,
cloud/edge/fog computing, software-defined network, and network function
virtualization. Complicated efforts are required in suitable and timely
manners against any threats detected within these systems. Moreover, new
frameworks are required to collect and preserve potential evidential data
in suitable and timely manners as well. To guarantee proper cyber-defenses
and strategies against the expanding landscape of criminal activities as
well as rapidly advancing emerging technologies.

The main motivation for this Workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on cyber forensics and threat investigations for
emerging infrastructures to disseminate current research issues and
advances. Original technical papers describing new, state-of-the-art
research, will be considered. The Workshop welcomes submissions that
evaluate existing research results by reproducing experiments. The aim of
this workshop is to provide insight for the discussion of the major
research challenges and achievements on various topics of interest.

*Important Dates*

*Technical Paper Submission Deadline: **15 September 2022*

*Poster and Demo Track Submission Deadline: **20 September 2022*

*Authors Notifications: **30 September 2022*

*Camera Ready due: **05 October 2022*

*The registration is **free-off-charge **for All members of the
Association **(Thanks to our financial supporters who made this possible)*

Scope of The Workshop

*Technical Paper Track*

Papers on practical as well as theoretical topics and problems in various
topics related to cyber forensics and threat investigations are invited,
with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools to collect data from
networked systems and services in emerging technologies (such as the ones
can be found in cyber-physical systems and Internet of things,
cloud/edge/fog computing, software-defined network, and network function
virtualization). Topics include (but are not limited to):

· Forensics and threat investigations in IoT

· Forensics and threat investigations in peer-to-peer, and social
networks

· Forensics and threat investigations in SDN/NFV

· Forensics and threat investigations in Cloud Computing

· Forensics and threat investigations in Smart Technologies Systems
(Smart Cars, Smart Homes, Smart Cities)

· Dark Web Investigations, Forensics, and Monitoring

· Forensics and threat investigations in Virtual private networks

· Security and Privacy in Clouds, Fog Computing, and 5G, and 6G

· Security and Privacy in IoT, SDN/NFV, and Edge Computing

· Security and Privacy in Smart Technologies Systems (Smart Cars,
Smart Homes, Smart Cities)

· Forensics and visualization of Big Data

· Trusted Computing in Smart Technologies Systems (Smart Cars, Smart
Homes, Smart Cities)

· Tools and services for cyber forensics and threat investigations

· OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)

· Cooperative and distributed forensics and threat investigations

· Advanced threat investigations, forensic and anti-forensic
techniques

· Attack detection, traceback and attribution in Emerging
Technologies

· Malware Analysis and Attribution

· Digital Evidence Extraction/Analysis using Artificial
intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining

· Data exfiltration techniques from networked devices and services
(e.g. cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things)

· Methods for reconstruction of Digital Evidence in Emerging
Technologies

· Forensics and threat investigations in E-health/M-health

· Vulnerability & threat detection and mitigation techniques for
networked services

· Novel large-scale investigations and Machine Learning techniques
to analyze intelligence data sets and logs

We also encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of
cybersecurity, cyber defense, and digital crimes.

*Poster and Demo Track*

CFTIC 2022 solicits the submission of posters and demos on specific aspects
of cyber forensics and threat investigations, particularly related to the
subject areas indicated by the CFTIC 2022 topics of interest. Posters
provide a forum for authors to present their work in an informal and
interactive setting. They allow authors and interested participants to
engage in discussions about their work. In particular, a poster submission
should motivate its relevance to the communities of cyber forensics and
threat investigations, and summarize the main challenges, experiences, and
novel ideas. A demonstration should present an existing tool or research
prototype. Authors are expected to provide a demonstration during the
poster and demonstration session. A demonstration submission should clearly
describe the motivation, the novelty of the contribution, and the
applicability of the tool or prototype to specific use cases. Posters or
demonstrations can be submitted for evaluation in the form of an extended
abstract. Submissions are limited to 1 page including references. All
submissions must present only original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review at any other venue. Demonstrations must include in
the abstract of the paper a link to a video of up to 5 minutes hosted in a
permanent location. The video must show the existing tool or research
prototype in action. Moreover, demonstrations are encouraged to include a
link to a website where the source code of the produced software is
available when it is possible.

Submission

Paper submissions must present original research or experiences.
Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research
are also encouraged. Only original papers that have not been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Also, extended
versions of conference or workshop papers that are already published may be
considered as long as the additional contribution is at least 30% new
content from the original. Each submission must be written in English,
accompanied by a 75 to 200-word abstract, and a list of up to 5 keywords.
There is a length limitation of 4 pages (at least 10pt font, one-column
format) for extended abstracts including (title, abstract, figures, tables,
and references). Submissions must be in ECEASST-CFTIC 2022 template.
Authors should submit their papers electronically via the EasyChair online
submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cftic2022>.

· ECEASST-CFTIC-Latex-Template
<https://conceptechint.net/ECEASST-cls-XXX-CFTIC-2022.zip>

· ECEASST-CFTIC-Word-Template
<https://conceptechint.net/ECEASST-%20CFTIC-2022.doc>

The submission processes will be managed by easychair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cftic2022> If you have used this
system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your
first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by
clicking the "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of
registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are
ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to
the system.

Publication

CFTIC 2022 proceedings are to be published open access via the Electronic
Communications of the EASST Journal (ECEASST) indexed in *Scopus*, *DBLP,* and
listed in the *Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)*. Selected papers
presented at the workshop, after further revision, will have the
opportunity to be published in special issues in indexed and/or high-impact
factor journals (details on the website).

Main Contact

If you have any further questions please contact the workshop organizers
via https://www.acfti.org/contact

This Workshop is Technically Supported by

Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (www.acfti.org)

Industrial Cybersecurity Center (www.cci-es.org)

Send by Andrew Zayin on Behalf of CFTIC2022 PC Chairs.

Andrew Zayin Ph.D, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP
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Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators
https://www.acfti.org
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[DMANET] 2nd CFP: 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2022) - Online - Springer Publication

** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues
and networks **

-- The 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
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http://www.mirlabs.org/isda22
http://www.mirlabs.net/isda22

On the World Wide Web

December 12-14, 2022

Proceedings of ISDA'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series.
(https://www.springer.com/series/15179 [1]) (Approval Pending)

Proceedings of ISDA'21:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96308-8 [2]
Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI
Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink

History of ISDA series: https://www.mirlabs.org/isda22/previous.php [3]

**Important Dates**
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2022
Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022
Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022
Conference: December 12-14, 2022

**About ISDA 2022**
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The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design
and Applications (ISDA) is a major international conference
bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners
who work in the areas of intelligent systems and their applications
in industry and the real world. Every year, ISDA attracts
authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the
21st conference, which was held online, this year's event
will also be held online during December 12-14, 2022.

ISDA 2022 is expected to provide an opportunity for
researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions,
scientific results, and methods in solving intriguing
problems in the fields of artificial intelligence and
its real-world applications. The conference programme
will include workshops, special sessions, tutorials,
prominent keynote speakers, and regular paper presentations
in parallel tracks. All submitted papers will be reviewed
by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality,
significance, quality, and clarity. Conference contents will
be submitted for inclusion in Springer and other Abstracting
and Indexing (A&I) databases.

**Topics (not limited to)**
---------------------------

Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications
Intelligent Image and Signal Processing
Intelligent Internet Modeling
Intelligent Data mining
Intelligent Business Systems
Intelligent Control and Automation
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Knowledge Management
Innovative Information Security
Innovative Networking and Communication Techniques
Web Intelligence
Intelligent Software Engineering

**Submission Guidelines**
-------------------------

Submission of a paper should be made through the submission page
from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website
for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.

Paper format templates:
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324
[4]

ISDA'22 Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda2022 [5]

**Plenary Talks**
----------------------------------------
You are welcome to attend 11 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned
professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available
on conference website.

Speaker 1: Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Title: Interpretability and Explainability in Intelligent Systems

Speaker 2: Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Title: TBA

Speaker 3: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Title: TBA

Speaker 4: Kaisa Miettinen, Multiobjective Optimization Group, Faculty
of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Title: Some Perspectives to Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective
Optimization Methods.

Speaker 5: Kaspar Riesen, Institute of Computer Science, University of
Bern, Switzerland
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Title: Four Decades of Structural Pattern Recognition - An Overview of
the Three Major Epochs

Speaker 6: Katherine MALAN, Department of Decision Sciences, University
of South Africa
Title: Landscape analysis of optimisation and machine learning search
spaces.

Speaker 7: Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications,
Tokyo, Japan
Title: Computer Vision for Expressing Texture Using Sound-Symbolic Words

Speaker 8: Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Title: Cybersecurity: the road ahead

Speaker 9: Patricia MELIN, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana,
Mexico
Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems based on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic
and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms and their application to Pattern
Recognition.

Speaker 10: René NATOWICZ, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel,
France
Title: Machine Learning in Graphs: Where Are We So Far?

Speaker 11: Yifei Pu, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University,
China
Title : Analog Circuit Implementation of Fractional-Order Memristor:
Arbitrary-Order Lattice Scaling Fracmemristor.

** ISDA 2022 Organization **
-------------------------
General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Andries Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Program Chairs
Yukio Ohsawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Sabri Pllana, Center for Smart Computing Continuum, Forschung
Burgenland, Austria
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Huelva, Spain

Publication Chairs
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Special Session Chair
Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy

Publicity Chairs
Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India
Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr.
Gabriella Casalino <gabriella.casalino@uniba.it>

**Technical Contact**
---------------------
Dr. Ajith Abraham
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org

Links:
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[1] https://www.springer.com/series/15179
[2] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96308-8
[3] https://www.mirlabs.org/isda22/previous.php
[4]
https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324
[5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda2022
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Friday, July 15, 2022

[DMANET] The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing (PriComp 2022)

CFP: The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing (IEEE
PriComp 2022)
Dec. 15-18, Haikou, China
[Submission Deadline: Sep. 1]

http://www.ieee-smart-world.org/2022/pricomp/

PriComp 2022 is the 8th in this series of conferences started in 2015 that
are devoted to algorithms and architectures for Privacy Computing. PriComp
conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries
around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency,
performance, reliability, security and interoperability of Privacy
Computing systems and applications.

Following the traditions of the previous successful PriComp conferences
held in Fuzhou, China (2015); Qingdao, China (2016); Melbourne, Australia
(2017); Boppard, Germany (2018); Canterbury, UK (2019); Hainan, China
(2020) and Xi'an, Shanghai, China (online, 2021); PriComp 2022 will be held
in Haikou, China. PriComp 2022 will focus on an evolving pathway from
privacy protection to privacy computing, by serving as an international
premier forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and
government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and
discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on
all aspects of privacy computing. The conference of PriComp 2022 is
co-organized by Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Institute
of Information Engineering, CAS, and Hainan University.


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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal: July 15, 2022
Paper Submission: September 01, 2022
Author Notification: October 01, 2022
Camera-Ready Submission: October 31, 2022
Conference Date: December 15-18, 2022


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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
==================
- Theories and foundations for privacy computing
- Programming languages and compilers for privacy computing
- Privacy computing models
- Privacy metrics and formalization
- Privacy taxonomies and ontologies
- Privacy information management and engineering
- Privacy operation and modeling
- Data utility and privacy loss
- Cryptography for privacy protection
- Privacy protection based information hiding and sharing
- Data analytics oriented privacy control and protection
- Privacy-aware information collection
- Privacy sensing and distribution
- Combined and comprehensive privacy protection
- Privacy-preserving data publishing
- Private information storage
- Private integration and synergy
- Private information exchange and sharing
- Privacy inference and reasoning
- Internet and web privacy
- Cloud privacy
- Social media privacy
- Mobile privacy
- Location privacy
- IoT privacy
- Behavioral advertising
- Privacy in large ecosystems such as smart cities
- Privacy of AI models and systems
- AI for privacy computing
- Privacy and blockchain
- User-centric privacy protection solutions
- Human factors in privacy computing
- Privacy nudging
- Automated solutions for privacy policies and notices
- Legal issues in privacy computing and other interdisciplinary topics


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Paper Submission
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
submission website (https://edas.info/N29960) with PDF format. The
materials presented in the papers should not be published or under
submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with
over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10
fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author
Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the
paper at the conference.


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Special Issues
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All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index
(EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers.
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in SCI &
EI indexed prestigious journals.
1. Special issue on "Dark side of the Socio-Cyber World: Media
Manipulation, Fake News, and Misinformation", IEEE Transactions on
Computational Social Systems
http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/si/220412_IEEE%20TCSS_SI.pdf
2. Special issue on "Responsible AI in Social Computing", IEEE Transactions
on Computational Social Systems
https://www.ieeesmc.org/images/publications/pdfs/Call_for_Paper_-_SI_on_Responsible_AI_in_Social_Computing.pdf
3. Special issue on "Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence",
Information Science
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/decentralized-trust-management-with-intelligence
4. Special issue on "Resource Sustainable Computational and Artificial
Intelligence", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational
Intelligence
5. Special issue on "Smart Blockchain for IoT Trust, Security and Privacy",
IEEE IoT Journal
https://ieee-iotj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IEEEIoT-SmartBlockchain-TSP.pdf
6. Special issue on "Edge Computing Optimization and Security", Journal of
Systems Architecture
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-papers/edge-computing-optimization-and-security-vsi-edgeos2022
7. Special issue on "Distributed Learning and Blockchain Enabled
Infrastructures for Next Generation of Big Data Driven Cyber-Physical
Systems", Journal of Systems Architecture
http://cyber-science.org/2022/assets/files/si/JSA_SI_0331.pdf
8. Special issue on "Distributed and Collaborative Learning Empowered Edge
Intelligence in Smart City", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tosn/pdf/ACM_TOSN_CFP1210-1640635690003.pdf
9. Special issue on "Robustness, Privacy, and Forensics in Intelligent
Multimedia Systems" Information Science
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/forthcoming-special-issues/robustness-privacy-and-forensics-in-intelligent-multimedia-systems

* More special issues will be added later.
http://www.ieee-smart-world.org/2022/pricomp/si.php


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
- Fenghua Li, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China
- Laurence T. Yang, Hainan University, China
- Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Chairs
- Hui Li, Xidian University, China
- Mamoun Alazab, Charles Darwin University, Australia
- Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Local Chairs
- Weidong Qiu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Jieren Cheng, Hainan University, China

Publicity Chairs
- Bocheng Ren, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Peng Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

--
Dr. Jun Feng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Mobile: +86-18827365073
WeChat: junfeng10001000
E-Mail: junfeng989@gmail.com

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[DMANET] PhD position in Explainable Combinatorial Optimisation (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to work on the intersection between combinatorial optimisation, AI, and explainability. The goal of the project is to develop novel combinatorial optimisation methods that not only exhibit excellent performance, but also concisely break down the main factors behind automated decision-making in a way that is easy for humans to interpret.

The ideal candidate has excellent algorithmic and programming skills, as demonstrated through projects or programming competitions. Knowledge on formal reasoning, logic, and SAT solving is highly desirable, as well as knowledge on operations research and constraint programming. Candidate lacking skills in one area may make up for it with a strong background in another area. Willingness to contribute to teaching is also important.

The candidate will join the newly formed XAIT Delft AI Lab alongside three other PhD students. The aim of the lab is to develop novel approaches that focus on the explainable aspect of artificial intelligence for transportation and other civil engineering problems and promote AI-related education. The position is for five years. The extra year compared to the usual four-year contract accommodates the 20% additional AI-related education related activities.

The PhD student will be supervised by Dr Emir Demirović and Dr. Gonçalo Correia at TU Delft (The Netherlands).

The deadline for applications is August 21. Interviews will follow shortly after.

For more details, please see the formal ad: https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=7687&jobTitle=PhD%20position%20in%20Explainable%20Combinatorial%20Optimisation

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[DMANET] [Deadline Extended] The First Workshop on Advanced Security of the Digital Twin and the Metaverse (ASDTM), BCCA 2022

The first Workshop on

*Advanced Security of the Digital Twin and the Metaverse (ASDTM)*

http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/Workshops/ASDTM2022/

*In Conjunction with*

*The Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and
Applications (BCCA 2022)*

5-7 September 2022 (San Antonio, Texas, USA)

http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/index.php

The real world is surrounded by people, buildings, hospitals, factories,
businesses, vehicles, entire cities, and the billions of devices that
provide various services and connect us to each other and to this world.
The Digital Twin provides an advanced solution to replicate this physical
world into a digital clone of it. It is bound to the physical world in
real-time allowing it to run simulations on, and understand system
patterns, and using AI it allows to learn, predict, and act to improve the
provided services (i.e. to save time and money, reduce carbon, to preserve
natural resources, to improve safety, etc.). This wave of innovations
trends to an interconnectedness that enables the metaverse. In other words,
the metaverse provides an exciting immersive experience in a 3d world
providing a flexible manner to interact and collaborate with the real-world
digital clone. Everything modeled in the real-world Metaverse nears the
status of its physical twin including interactions and relations between
everything else. To this end, a huge amount of data has to be collected and
managed to put heavy challenges on the networking and computing systems. On
the other hand, these technologies have strict boundaries related to the
security and the privacy of the collected data. By applying the power of
the blockchain, new ways to secure, store and manipulate the data can be
provided to eliminate boundaries of what can be provided. The potential is
limitless to track, manage data and create patterns, and trends, and detect
anomalies.

The purpose of this workshop is to elaborate on and emphasize the key
aspects to secure the metaverse. The workshop welcomes original research
and innovative solutions on the above subjects as well as the case studies
that explore the potential exploitation of blockchain in the Digital Twin
and the Metaverse. Research may cover and focus on either the fundamental
methodological studies or the use case and application demonstrations.

Topics of interest include, but certainly not limited to:

· Blockchain in the metaverse

· Blockchain in the digital twin

· Edge computing for Internet of Metaverse

· Network security of the metaverse

· Digital twin and Metaverse privacy

· Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse

· Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse

· Cybersecurity in the metaverse

*Organization Committee:*

· Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE

· Müge Erel-Özçevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey

*Important Dates:*

· Workshop Papers Due: * 15 July 2022 25 July 2022*

· Papers Acceptance Notification: *1 August 2022*

· Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: *15 August 2022*

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