EmergencyComm 2020: The International Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust for Emergency Events |
Website | http://securecomm.org/emergencycomm-2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emergencycomm2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 29, 2020 |
Submission deadline | June 29, 2020 |
The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (also known as COVID-19), that emerged in late December 2019, has put the whole world in a complete shutdown by March 2020. The global economy is on the verge of unprecedented collapse, and the world population is staying at home. While it is crushing the healthcare systems, it has also revealed how unprepared and vulnerable cyberspace is in the face of a pandemic. Organizations around the world are watching their threat surface multiply as employees are operating outside the direct supervision of their specialized IT infrastructure. Account takeovers and data-scraping attacks on e-commerce websites have increased with the surge of the pandemic. Emails are being hit by phishing scams and malware schemes which are promising economic stimulus checks. Social networks are flooded with fake information and stalkers are taking advantage of fake pandemic tracking mobile apps. Sadly, it seems like the privacy debate is finally over as the government needs to deploy large surveillance operations to track people in order to contain the pandemic. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art privacy-preserving methods are not capable of handling such scenarios. Once COVID-19 is over, a paradigm shift in the areas of security, privacy, and trust is highly desirable in order to make cyberspace ready for the next catastrophic emergency event.
Against this backdrop, the goal of EmergencyComm 2020 is to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their ideas and findings in order to adapt state-of-the-art security, privacy, and trust practices to address emergency events.
We, along with EAI and Securecomm, are actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation. If required, the workshop will be postponed (to a later date in 2020) or held in an interactive, live online setting.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. It is required that authors follow the Springer LNCS format. Papers should be in English. The maximum length of a paper should be no more than 12 pages, including references. Paper submissions must include titles, abstracts, keywords, authors, and affiliations with email addresses. Paper reviews will be single-blind. The listing of authors CANNOT be changed in the camera-ready version of the paper. The paper formatting instructions and templates can be found from the conference website (http://securecomm.org/call-for-papers/#authorskit).
The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings with Securecomm 2020 conference papers this year.
List of Topics
- Emergency security, privacy, and trust in Social and e-health networks
- Emergency safety, security, and privacy for smart city applications
- Protecting e-health data from Ransomware
- Emergency monitoring of e-health
- On the fly and robust validation of emergency requests
- Ethics and legal considerations in location tracking and social media disinformation
- Distributed trust and reputation establishment in decentralized environments
- Blockchain technologies to establish information transparency and traceability in social and health networks
- Fast and trusted Interoperable blockchains for e-health care and IT systems
- Privacy-preserving data mining and machine learning for emergency events
- Security, privacy, and trust in Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled emergency response
- Emergency event fraudulent app detection
The workshop is also interested in prototype demonstrations of novel solutions in the scope of emergency events.
Committees
Workshop Chairs
- Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Charles Kamhoua, US Army Research Laboratory
- Laurent Njilla, US Air Force Research Laboratory
Steering Committee
- Abdur Shahid, Concord University, USA (co-chair)
- Shahriar Badsha, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (co-chair)
- Georges Kamhoua, Old Dominion University, USA
- Tauhidul Alam, Louisiana State University Shreveport, USA
Publication Chair
- ASM Kayes, La Trobe University, Australia
Publicity Chair
- Shafkat Islam, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Farhan Sadique, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Technical Program Committee
- Alex Ng, La Trobe University, Australia
- Samia Tasnim, Florida A&M University, USA
- Gregory Reis, Florida International University, USA
- Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Sajedul Talukder, Edinboro University, USA
- Mustakimur Khandaker, Florida State University, USA
- Iman Vakilinia, University of North Florida
- Mohammad Saidur Rahman, RMIT University, Australia
- Concepcion Sanchez Aleman, Florida International University, USA
- Hussein Zangoti, Florida International University, USA
- Raj Shukla, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Amar Patra, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Ahmed Imteaj, Florida International University, USA
Important Dates
Workshop Papers Due: June 29, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2020
Camera Ready: August 16, 2020 (hard deadline for publication)
Vanue
The workshop is co-located with 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020) which will be held in Washington D.C., United States.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to emergencycomm2020@gmail.com