ACM Transactions on Cyber-physical Systems: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
Please consider submitting to the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems. Note the deadline of 9/15. https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tcps/pdf/CfP_TCPS_SI_SPSCPS.pdf
ACM Transactions onCyber-physical Systems
Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
Guest Editors:
- Ning Zhang, Washington University in St.Louis, zhang.ning@wustl.edu
- Bryan Ward, Vanderbilt University, bryan.ward@vanderbilt.edu
- Andrew Clark, Washington University in St. Louis, andrewclark@wustl.edu
- Ziming Zhao, University at Buffalo, zimingzh@buffalo.edu
- Aiping Xiong, Pennsylvania State University, axx29@psu.edu
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly pervasive in modern society due to their growing use in many complex applications of our everyday lives, such as autonomous delivery drones and medical robotics. Such systems are often safety or mission critical and must, therefore, satisfy strict security requirements. These requirements include confidentiality, integrity, availability, reliability, and dependability goals, but also specific constraints, including performance, power, energy, or timing.
The employment of emerging technologies, like AI, also imposes novel security threats, as well as the potential for security solutions. Therefore, designing and developing CPS with safety and security guarantees requires techniques, solutions, algorithms, and tools to tackle these challenges. This special issue welcomes high-quality submissions related to security and privacy aspects in CPS, including theories, methods, analyses, experimental evaluations, tools, and experience reports. Techniques to provide security and privacy while preserving timing and safety are especially welcome.
Topics
The topics of this special issue include but are not limited to:
- System models and theories that explore the interaction between real-time, security, and control properties
- Secure system designs and implementations that jointly consider real-time, security, and control requirements
- Automated vulnerability discovery and mitigation for safety-critical CPS
- Attack detection, recovery, and isolation mechanisms
- Trustworthy computing in safety-critical CPS
- Attack-resilient real-time computing and control in safety-critical CPS
- Real-time systems attacks and defenses
- Real-time models to support security protection
- Privacy-preserving data sharing and analysis for safety-critical CPS
- Human factors and usable security in CPS
- Formal-verification techniques for improving safety and security
- Development-process enhancements targeting safety and security in CPS software
- Adversarial sensor manipulation, detection, and mitigation
- Security and Privacy of AI components in safety-critical CPS
- Case studies, testbeds, and prototypes for safety and security of CPS
Important Dates
- Open for submission: June 1, 2024
- Submission deadline: September 15, 2024
- First-round review decision: November 1, 2024
- Deadline for revision submissions: January 15, 2025
- Notification of final decisions: March1, 2025
- Tentative publication: April 2025
Submission Information
The submitted papers must not be under review or published elsewhere. Duplicate submissions of manuscripts areforbidden. A submission that extendsfrom apreviously published workshop/conferencepaper mustinclude at least 30% new technical/scientific research-based technical contributions and be less than 50% verbatim similarity as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef). The author must inform the journal coordinator at the time of submission, together with a narrative explanation.
Forquestions andfurther information, please contact Ning Zhang/zhang.ning@wustl.edu.
Please consider submitting to the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems. Note the deadline of 9/15. https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tcps/pdf/CfP_TCPS_SI_SPSCPS.pdf
ACM Transactions onCyber-physical Systems
Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
Guest Editors:
- Ning Zhang, Washington University in St.Louis, zhang.ning@wustl.edu
- Bryan Ward, Vanderbilt University, bryan.ward@vanderbilt.edu
- Andrew Clark, Washington University in St. Louis, andrewclark@wustl.edu
- Ziming Zhao, University at Buffalo, zimingzh@buffalo.edu
- Aiping Xiong, Pennsylvania State University, axx29@psu.edu
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly pervasive in modern society due to their growing use in many complex applications of our everyday lives, such as autonomous delivery drones and medical robotics. Such systems are often safety or mission critical and must, therefore, satisfy strict security requirements. These requirements include confidentiality, integrity, availability, reliability, and dependability goals, but also specific constraints, including performance, power, energy, or timing.
The employment of emerging technologies, like AI, also imposes novel security threats, as well as the potential for security solutions. Therefore, designing and developing CPS with safety and security guarantees requires techniques, solutions, algorithms, and tools to tackle these challenges. This special issue welcomes high-quality submissions related to security and privacy aspects in CPS, including theories, methods, analyses, experimental evaluations, tools, and experience reports. Techniques to provide security and privacy while preserving timing and safety are especially welcome.
Topics
The topics of this special issue include but are not limited to:
- System models and theories that explore the interaction between real-time, security, and control properties
- Secure system designs and implementations that jointly consider real-time, security, and control requirements
- Automated vulnerability discovery and mitigation for safety-critical CPS
- Attack detection, recovery, and isolation mechanisms
- Trustworthy computing in safety-critical CPS
- Attack-resilient real-time computing and control in safety-critical CPS
- Real-time systems attacks and defenses
- Real-time models to support security protection
- Privacy-preserving data sharing and analysis for safety-critical CPS
- Human factors and usable security in CPS
- Formal-verification techniques for improving safety and security
- Development-process enhancements targeting safety and security in CPS software
- Adversarial sensor manipulation, detection, and mitigation
- Security and Privacy of AI components in safety-critical CPS
- Case studies, testbeds, and prototypes for safety and security of CPS
Important Dates
- Open for submission: June 1, 2024
- Submission deadline: September 15, 2024
- First-round review decision: November 1, 2024
- Deadline for revision submissions: January 15, 2025
- Notification of final decisions: March1, 2025
- Tentative publication: April 2025
Submission Information
The submitted papers must not be under review or published elsewhere. Duplicate submissions of manuscripts areforbidden. A submission that extendsfrom apreviously published workshop/conferencepaper mustinclude at least 30% new technical/scientific research-based technical contributions and be less than 50% verbatim similarity as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef). The author must inform the journal coordinator at the time of submission, together with a narrative explanation.
Forquestions andfurther information, please contact Ning Zhang/zhang.ning@wustl.edu.