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[UbiSec 2021] - Now Taking Place Part-Virtually
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the UbiSec 2021 conference will be a combination of online and offline event. For authors who consider to present their papers online, please pay a half of author registration fees for each paper and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form; For attendees who will join the conference online, please pay a half of attendee registration fees and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form. For questions, contact [UbiSec2021 AT googlegroups DOT com].

Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2021)
Guangzhou, China, December 28 - 31, 2021

Organizer:

Guangzhou University, China

http://ubisecurity.org/2021/

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Keynote Speeches Section

You are welcome to attend 5+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon.

(1) Keynote 1: Dr. Ravi Sandhu, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and AAAS Fellow, Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Title: Access Control Convergence: Challenges and Opportunities
https://profsandhu.com/

(2) Keynote 2: Dr. Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist, Professor at The University of Milan, Italy
Title: Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Biometrics
http://www.di.unimi.it/piuri

(3) Keynote 3: Dr. Yang Xiao, IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow, Professor at The University of Alabama, United States
Title: Electricity Theft Detection via Modeling Attackers' Behaviors
http://yangxiao.cs.ua.edu/

(4) Keynote 4: Dr. My T. Thai, IEEE Fellow, Professor at the University of Florida, USA
Title: Provable Guarantees on Privacy in the Age of Adversarial Learning
https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~mythai/

(5) Keynote 5: Dr. Wanlei Zhou, Vice Rector (AcademicAffairs), Dean of Institute of Data Science, Professor at City University of Macau, Macau
Title: Dealing with Malicious Agents in Intelligent Multi-Agent Applications
https://cityu.edu.mo/

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Invited Talks Section

You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon.

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Panel Discussions Section

You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon.

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Special Issues Section

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 27+ SCI & EI indexed special issues.

Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *:

(1) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 9.112)
Special Issue on Trustworthiness of AI-ML-DL Approaches in Industrial Internet of Things and Applications
http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2021/Trustworthiness_of_AI-ML-DL_Approaches_in_Industrial_Internet_of_Things_and_Applications_2021-7-1.pdf
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2021.

(2) IEEE Network (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 8.808)
Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy of 6G
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/trust-security-and-privacy-6g
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2021.

(3) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 9.936)
Special Issue on AI and Blockchain powered IoT sustainable computing
https://ieee-iotj.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AI-and-Blockchain-powered-IoT_CFP.pdf
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2021 (with possible extension later).

(4) ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.469)
Special Issue on Resiliency for AI-enabled Smart Critical Infrastructures for 5G and Beyond
https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tosn/pdf/ACM%20TOSN-Special-Issue-on-Resiliency-for-AI-enabled-Smart-Critical-Infrastructures-for-5G-and-Beyond-1623953225457.pdf
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2021 (with possible extension later).

(5) IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.456)
Special Issue on IoT Dependability in Future Sustainable Computing
Deadline for manuscript submissions: (To be announced soon).
(The submission link for this special issue will be available soon.)

(6) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576)
Special Issue on Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks – Current Trends and Future Challenges
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/TargetLocalizationWSM
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2022.

(7) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397)
Special Issue on Recent Advanced Control, Applications, and Optimization for WSN and the IoT
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Control_WSN_IoT
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.

(8) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397)
Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for 5G Communication Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/AIoT_electronics
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 Feburary 2022.

(9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576)
Special Issue on Smart Sensor Technologies: Transforming Physical Security into the Digital World
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Transforming_Physical_Security
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

(10) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576)
Special Issue on Smart Sensors, Big Data Analytics and Modelling in Healthcare and Personalized Medical Applications
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Smart_Sensors_Healthcare_Medical_Applications
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

(11) Machines (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.428)
Special Issue on Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Factories in Industry 4.0
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/special_issues/cybersecurity_machines
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

(12) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397)
Special Issue on New Advances and Challenges in Communication Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/new_ad_cha_communication_networks
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 January 2022.

(13) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576)
Special Issue on AI and Big Data Analytics in Sensors and Applications
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/ABDASA
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

(14) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397)
Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/WSN_Intel_Transport
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

(15) CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.593)
Special Issue on Advanced Mathematical Tool-Based Internet of Things (IoT)
https://www.techscience.com/CMES/special_detail/mathematical-tool
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

(16) Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.536)
Special Issue on Secure Smart World
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15320634/Secure%20Smart%20World%20(S2World2020)%20v2.pdf
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021 (with possible extension later).

(17) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397)
Special Issue on Intelligent Systems and Control Application in Autonomous Vehicle
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Intelligent_System_Autonomous_Vehicle
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2021.

(18) Security and Communication Networks (SCN) (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.791)
Special Issue on Digital Forensics Approaches and Challenges of Ubiquitous and Emerging Devices
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/984762/
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 December 2021.

(19) Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.36)
Special Issue on Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-applied-remote-sensing/call-for-papers
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2021.

(20) Journal of Advanced Transportation (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.419)
Special Issue on Computational Intelligence System for vehicular Adhoc Networks
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/si/484209/
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2021.

(21) Security and Communication Networks (SCN) (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.791)
Special issue on Security and Privacy Preservation in Blockchain-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/316780/
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 05 November 2021 (with possible extension later).

(22) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.474)
Special Issue on Deep Learning for Signal Processing Applications
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Signal_Processing_Applications_Signal_Processing_Applications
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2021 (with possible extension later).

(23) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972)
https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20
Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version.

(24) Computers (ESCI Indexed, JCR: 0.45, CiteScore: 3.3)
Special Issue on The Internet of Things – Current Trends, Applications and Future Challenges
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/Iot_2022
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022.

(25) Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (EI Indexed)
Call for Papers: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications based on Internet of Health Things (IoHT)
https://www.springer.com/journal/13721/updates/19242586
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

(26) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse
Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version.

(27) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) (EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijes
Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version.

* More special issues will be available soon.

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Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 28 - 31, 2021! Guangzhou, a city in spring forever, is the capital city of Guangdong Province. Guangzhou is also the third largest city in China, located in the north of the Pearl River Delta, close to Hong Kong and Macau. With evergreen plants and flowers blooming all year round, the city has an alias of "City of Flowers". Guangzhou is one of the first batch of 24 historical and cultural cities released by the State Council, with more than 2200 years of history and profound cultural heritage, and also a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road. Guangzhou is one of the most famous tourist resorts in China, with a lot of tourist sites, such as Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou Tower, and Yuexiu Park.

The 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2021) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series:

(1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS (http://www.spaccs2020.com/): UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity.

(2) The UbiSafe symposium series (http://www.spaccs.org/UbiSafe2020/): UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe". UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec".

(3) The IWCSS workshop series (http://ieee-trustcom.org/IWCSS2020/): UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"!

The UbiSec 2021 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the 17th event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields.

UbiSec 2021 topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Track 1: Cyberspace Security

--Security Model and Architecture
--Software and System Security
--Trustworthy Computing
--Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
--Machine Learning and AI Security
--Network Security
--Attacks and Defenses
--Intrusion Detection and Prevention
--Security in Web Services
--Security in Mobile Social Networks
--Security in Internet of Things
--Fraud and Cyber Crime
--Accounting and Auditing
--Applied Cryptography
--Database Security
--Authentication
--Forensics and Diagnostics for Security
--Information Hiding
--Security in Big Data and its Applications
--Blockchain and Distributed System Security
--Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems
--Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages


Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy

--Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy
--Privacy Modeling and Analysis
--Privacy-Preserving Computing
--Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
--Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity
--Privacy for the Internet of Things
--Privacy in Big Data and its Applications
--Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain
--Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks
--Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing
--Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning


Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity

--Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing
--Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships
--Anonymous Video Analytics Technology
--Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations
--Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity
--Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems
--Anonymous Communication Protocols
--Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks
--Anonymous Communication and Internet
--Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks
--Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity
--Anonymous Information Storage and Management
--Private and Anonymous Data Storage
--Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management
--Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios
--Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases
--Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems
--Anonymity in Edge Computing


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: First Batch: September 15, 2021 (Closed); Second Batch: November 15, 2021 (Firm Deadline, No further extension will be granted)
Author Notification: First Batch: October 20, 2021; Second Batch: November 30, 2021
Author Registration Due: December 15, 2021
Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2021
Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2021

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION
All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.

Springer LNCS format (Latex/Word templates):
https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Paper submission link through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ubisec2021

Local Organizing Chair
Hanpin Wang, Guangzhou University, China

General Chairs
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Program Chairs
Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia
Yang Xu, Hunan University, China
Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy

Program Vice Chairs/Track Chairs
(1) Cyberspace Security Track
Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
Simon Parkinson, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Shajulin Benedict, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam (IIIT-Kottayam), Germany
Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA
Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA

(2) Cyberspace Privacy Track
Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China
Radu Prodan, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Anish Shrestha, Sejong University, Korea
Quazi Mamun, Charles Sturt University, Australia

(3) Cyberspace Anonymity Track
Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University & UIC, China
Sergio Duarte Correia, Instituto Politecnico de Portalegre, Portugal
Dragan Perakovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Avinash Srinivasan, TDI Technologies, USA
A. S. M. Kayes, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Chairs
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China

Publication Chairs
Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China
Fang Qi, Central South University, China

Registration Chairs
Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China
Pin Liu, Central South University, China

Conference Secretariat
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China

Web Chairs
Jiemin Huang, Foshan University, China
Yuming Xia, Foshan University, China

Steering Committee
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair)
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania
Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, India
Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
Yang Xu, Hunan University, China
Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Program Committee
Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail:
http://ubisecurity.org/2021/

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2021 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2021@googlegroups.com.

Prof. Guojun Wang, General Chair of UbiSec 2021
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/