Book title:       Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems    

Subtitle:          From Risk Modelling to Threat Counteraction

Editor:            Francesco Flammini, Chairman, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security

Submission Guidelines and Important Dates

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Revised and extended versions of published materials could be acceptable provided that they do not violate the copyright, the necessary credits are given and the required permissions granted.

Chapter submission deadline: July August 30^th 2017

Notification of acceptance: October 30^th 2017

Submission of final chapters: November 30^th 2017

Estimated manuscript publication date: Spring 2018

Electronic submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcps2018

Templates and guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/book-manuscript-guidelines

List of Topics

The list of key topics to be addressed in book chapters includes but it is not limited to:

•        Convergence between Cyber and Physical Security

•        Integrated, holistic and cohesive approaches to resilient CPS design, evaluation and test

•        Physical/Logical Security Information/Event Management systems (PSIM and SIEM)

•        Cyber-security of Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

•        CPS resilience models, metrics, middleware, and real-time indicators

•        Emerging Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) security issues

•        Advanced sensing and detecting technologies for CPS

•        Threat, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for CPS

•        Interdependency analysis of critical infrastructures as cyber-physical systems-of-systems

•        Socio-economic, procedural, privacy-related and human factors in CPS

•        Attack/Penetration testing and other simulation techniques for CPS security evaluation

•        CPS intrusion detection and prevention systems

•        Business continuity planning, incident response and emergency/crisis management

•        Applications, case-studies and industrial experience reports in CPS domains including intelligent transport systems, wireless sensor networks, drones, smart-cities and smart-factories

Publication

The book will be published in series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (http://www.springer.com/series/5540)

by Springer

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to francesco.flammini@ieee.org

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