In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has received a lot of attention, especially for the success of deep learning in addressing problems that were considered hard before. Big players, such as Google, Amazon, and Baidu, are exploring the application of AI in different markets, including healthcare, FinTech, and autonomous vehicles. Together with AI, technologies like Internet-of-Things (IoT) have boosted the emerging Industry 4.0, where through the adoption of Industrial-IoT (IIoT) into the production chain, companies want smarter manufacturing that can be adapted to their customers’ needs. The accelerating adoption of new technologies brings challenges primarily associated with the cybersecurity of the applications, where confidentiality, integrity, and data availability are crucial. Security incident in IIoT impacts the safety properties since applications interact physically with people or other assets. The intersection of AI and cybersecurity can be seen as a two-fold relationship. On the one hand, AI techniques can be adopted to improve state-of-the-art security solutions. On the other hand, cybersecurity can contribute to improving the security of AI algorithms through the exploration of adversarial machine learning. This workshop aims to open a space where new research ideas from different areas converge into the intersection of AI, IIoT, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and cybersecurity. We encourage researchers and experts in the fields of AI, embedded systems, CPS, and cybersecurity to take the opportunity to use this workshop to share their work and open the discussion of new ideas on this always evolving topic.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original and must not duplicate work that any authors have published elsewhere or submitted in parallel to any other venue with formally published proceedings. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement, or obvious references. Each submission must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Likewise, all submissions must follow the original LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page limit of 18 pages (including references) for the main part (reviewers are not required to read beyond this limit) and 30 pages in total. It is strongly encouraged that submissions be processed in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and make a full version available online. Therefore, each accepted paper must be presented by a registered author. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

List of Topics

AIoTS aims to cover various fields of application in the area of security and privacy within the fields of artificial intelligence and industrial IoT. Thus, suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following points:

• Formal Security and Resilience Analysis on AI and IIoT/CPS

• Risk Management and Governance for AI and IIoT-based Applications

• AI-Assisted Critical Infrastructure Security

• (Federated) Adversarial Machine Learning

• AI for Detection, Prevention, Response, and Recovery against Potential Threats

• AI for Wide-Area Situational Awareness and Traceability

• Applied Cryptography for AI and IIoT

• Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems and/or IIoT

• Applications of Formal Methods to IIoT Security

• Blockchain for Trustworthy IIoT/CPS-based applications

• Embedded Systems Security

• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

• Cyber Threat Intelligence for AI and IIoT/CPS

Committees

Program Committee

• Sridhar Adepu (University of Bristol)
• Ajit Kumar (Soongsil University)
• Daisuke Mashima (Illinois Advanced Research Center, Singapore)
• Nikhil Tripathi (IIIT Sri City)
• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (Newcastle University)
• Vishal Sharma (Queen's University Belfast)
• Charalambos Konstantinou (KAUST)
• Mayank Swarnkar (IIT BHU)

Organizing committee

• Neetesh Saxena (Cardiff University)
• Bong Jun Choi (Soongsil University)

Contact

If you have any questions or inquiries regarding the workshop, please feel free to get in touch with Prof. Neetesh Saxena (nsaxena@ieee.org) or Prof Bong Jun Choi (davidchoi@soongsil.ac.kr).