Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently driving transformations in many fields, and cybersecurity is no exception. With recent advances in AI, security practitioners have applied AI to improve the security posture of networks, systems, and devices with significant success. However, along with the benefits of AI, new concerns are emerging; including safety & ethics, privacy & data protection, and data quality and adversarial attacks that exploit the vulnerabilities of AI systems. In addition, AI can be used to create more sophisticated attacks triggering an AI arms race between defenders and attackers. In order to effectively use AI for cybersecurity and to address these challenges, novel ideas and effective approaches must be explored. The aim of this workshop is therefore to offer researchers from industry and academia a unique forum for the exchange and discussion of novel scientific contributions, open challenges and recent achievements in this research area.

The Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security (AI-CyberSec) workshop will be co-located with the 41st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2021).

As the workshop is virtual this year, there will be no registration fee for the workshop presenters or attendees.

Submission Guidelines (Submission deadline extended till) 22nd October 2021

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Long papers (10-14 pages + 2-page references, single column): Long papers should present original research work and be no longer than sixteen pages in total: fourteen pages for the main text of the paper (including all figures but excluding references), and two additional pages for references.
• Short papers (7-9 pages + 1-page reference, single column): Short papers may report on works in progress, descriptions of available datasets, as well as data collection efforts. Short paper submissions should be no longer than nine pages in total: eight pages for the main text of the paper (including all figures but excluding references), and one additional page for references.

Both long and short papers must be formatted according to ceurart styles/SGAI guidelines and submitted electronically through EasyChair. The ceurart styles can be found from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

The papers accepted for AI-CyberSec 2021 shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. This proceedings volume will be published electronically and indexed by Google Scholar and DBLP. Authors will also be invited to submit the extended version of their contribution to the special issue "Selected Papers from the AI-CyberSec 2021 Workshop in the 41st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence" of the electronics journal (impact factor 2.4). Special issue details can be found here https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/AI_CyberSec_2021_Workshop The publication costs for authors in the special issue (open access) shall be funded by the IDUN programme and we encourage female authors and co-authors to submit papers to the workshop. 

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2021 22 October 2021 (extended)

• Notification of Acceptance: 31 October 2021 5 November 2021 (extended)

• Camera-Ready Deadline: 14 November 2021

• Workshop: 14 December 2021

As the workshop is virtual this year, there will be no registration fee for the workshop presenters or attendees.

List of Topics

The workshop focuses on three research areas that intersect with AI and Security:

• AI for cybersecurity - studies that cover effective use of AI techniques to improve the security of systems and networks
• Malicious use of AI - studies that cover how advances in AI lead to new types of threats, expanding the existing threat landscape
• Cybersecurity for AI - studies that cover vulnerabilities of AI-enabled systems and how to protect AI-enabled systems from potential threats

Keynote Speaker

• Prof. David Aspinall, Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Committees

Program Chairs

• Applications chair: Sadiq Sani, British Telecom Applied Research (UK)
• Technical chair: Harsha Kalutarage, Robert Gordon University (UK)

Program Committee

• Paul Miller, Reader & Deputy Director,  Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Jingyue Li, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  Research, Norway
• Siraj Shaikh, Director of Research and Professor of Systems Security, Institute for Future Transport and Cities, Coventry University, UK
• Ivan Palomares Carrascosa, Senior Research Scientist, DaSCI Institute of Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain and Distinguished Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Jorge Blasco Alis, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
• Toktam Mahmoodi, Reader in Wireless Networks, King's College London, UK
• Martin Gilje JAATUN, Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Stavanger and a Senior Scientist at SINTEF Digital in Trondheim, Norway.
• Alex Healing, Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Research, British Telecom.
• Max Smith-Creasey, Research Specialist, Cybersecurity Research, British Telecom
• Ali Niknejad, Senior Engineer at Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States

Organizing committee

• Nektaria Kaloudi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
• Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University (UK)
• Jin Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
• Chamath Palihawadana, Robert Gordon University (UK)

Publication

AI-CyberSec 2021 proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Invited extended versions of the contributions will be published in the special issue "Selected Papers from the AI-CyberSec 2021 Workshop in the 41st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence" of the electronics journal (impact factor 2.4). Special issue details can be found https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/AI_CyberSec_2021_Workshop The publication costs for authors in the special issue (open access) shall be funded by the IDUN programme and we encourage female authors and co-authors to submit papers to the workshop. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizing committee