CIFS 2020: 2nd International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems Online Leicester, UK, December 7-10, 2020 |
Conference website | http://cifs.servicelaboratory.ch/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifs2020 |
Submission deadline | September 10, 2020 |
Camera ready version | November 5, 2020 |
Sensors and actuators are becoming pervasive. From empowering smart agri-tech, to cities, to even our own households, sensors and IoT are revolutionizing all dimensions of computing. With advancements in low energy communication standards, low energy computing - from message encodings, to on-the-fly encryption, etc. we are seeing emergence of new paradigms such as Fog, Serverless and Continuum computing which are empowered by high capacity core networks and large datacenters thrown in the mix. Such a scheme of things creates new opportunities but also are rife with challenges which must be overcome. This workshop aims to discuss recent advances around holistic security, deployment modes, communication mediums, line protocols, data collection, and multi-level processing and application development in such systems.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers should contain results or reports not already published or submitted elsewhere, in IEEE format. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three programme committee members. The evaluation will be based on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop topics, technical strength, quality of results, and clarity of the presentation. The publication of the workshop proceeding with all accepted papers will be by the IEEE and will appear in the same volume as the UCC 2020 and BDCAT 2020 conferences. At least one author of each accepted submission must register in full and attend the workshop to present and all workshop participants must pay the IEEE conference or workshop registration fee.
List of Topics
We solicit research papers (up to 6p) and technical industry reports (typically 3-6p) on the following topics:
- Secure cloud computing concepts (homomorphic encryption, enclaves, hardware security modules, stealth computing among others)
- Long-term distributed data storage security and proof-of-ownership/provision/retrievability
- End-to-end security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuum
- Physical and digital security of IoT deployments, smart meters and other end devices
- Privacy and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
- Risks and threats including spoofing, identity manipulation and distortion
- Audit facilities and compliance mechanisms
- Cross-border, cross-provider and cross-stack security issues
- Human factors: simplicity and controllability of security measures
- Applications in digitized health care, ecology, agriculture and other fields
Committees
Program Committee (revised frequently)
- Stephen Kirkman - Regis University, Colorado, USA
- Sachin Tripathi - Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India
- Richard Newman - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
- Inkwan Yoo - Qauntit, Seoul, South Korea
- Diego F. Aranha - Aarhus University, Denmark
- Daniel Macedo Batista - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Alexandre Braga - UNICAMP, Brazil
Organizing committee
- Piyush Harsh, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Juliana Freitag Borin, Institute of Computing - State University of Campinas, Brazil
- Farhad Khalilnia, Penta
Publication
The publication of the workshop proceeding with all accepted papers will be by the IEEE and will appear in the same volume as the UCC 2020 and BDCAT 2020 conferences.
Venue
Due to the rapidly changing Covid-19 situation globally, both UCC 2020 and BDCAT 2020 will take place on-line. Accordingly, this workshop will also be conducted online. All papers in CIFS 2020 will be delivered on-line.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to harh@zhaw.ch.
Workshop Sponsors
CIFS 2020 is supported by an Innovation Starting Grant of the Swiss Leading House for South America, with funds of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).