[hpc-announce] [CFP] SPICES 2024 Deadline Extended

[Martin Andreoni]

SPICES 2024: Call for Papers and for Reproducibility Studies

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The 3rd Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems (
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Co-located with EWSN 2024 -- December 10, 2024

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**** Important Dates ****

Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024 *July 15, 2024*

Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2024

Camera-ready: October 10, 2024

Workshop day: December 10, 2024

Embedded systems have become pervasive in modern society, from managing the
power grids that allow you to boil the kettle in the morning to monitoring
your sleep patterns at night. They play a crucial role in facilitating
communication, enabling access to information, and powering the unseen
minutiae of everyday life. Securing these networks and devices is of utmost
importance to ensure the safety and privacy of individuals, businesses, and
governments.

However, despite significant recent progress recognizing the need for
security in such systems, it is often still an afterthought. Furthermore,
emerging communication technologies such as 6G, cloud computing, and the
inexorable rise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning present new
security threats and privacy issues that require innovative solutions.
Moreover, unconventional threats and vulnerabilities can circumvent
established security and privacy dogmas, exposing key weaknesses in
critical systems.

The Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems (SPICES)
aims to address these challenges and foster interdisciplinary collaboration
to explore innovative solutions for securing wireless and embedded systems.
The workshop provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and
industry experts to discuss the latest topics and challenges in wireless
and embedded systems security and privacy –  not only on how existing
systems should be secured but also exploring important security aspects (or
lack of) in current research trends. We welcome submissions with unusual
takes on existing techniques, proposals for novel security and privacy
solutions, exposure of atypical weaknesses, and the application of
unconventional approaches to solving next-generation wireless security
challenges.

We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
submit papers (up to 6 pages, double-column) focusing on topics such as:

- Wireless security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., factory automation).

- AI / Machine Learning assisted security and privacy at the physical, MAC,
or networking layers.

- Generative Adversarial Networks for wireless and embedded security.

- Security protocols for wireless communications and networking.

- RF Jamming attacks and defenses for wireless networks.

- Localization and positioning privacy (GPS, UWB, BLE 5.2, etc.).

- Measurement of embedded computing privacy leakage.

- Privacy-enhancing and anonymization techniques in embedded computing.

- Security and privacy techniques in embedded computing.

- Privacy-enhanced data analytics and storage in embedded computing.

- Privacy-preservation methods on context (e.g., location, energy) changes
in embedded computing.

- Offensive security and side-channel attacks on IoT devices.

- Security and possible weaknesses in 6G cellular networks (3GPP, ETSI,
IEEE, etc.).

- Testbed and experimental platforms for wireless security.

- Vehicular network security (e.g., drones, automotive, avionics,
autonomous driving).

- Security for UAV swarms (i.e., distributed, highly mobile systems).

- Communications security in satellite systems.

- Cryptography primitives and lightweight protocols for embedded IoT
devices.

- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).

- Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs).

- Internet of the Things (IoT) security and privacy.

- Smart Contracts and Blockchain for wireless communication.

- Multi-factor authentication methods for embedded IoT devices.

- Zero-knowledge and zero-trust techniques in embedded computing.



We especially encourage submissions that aim to broaden the discussion
outside of traditional security and privacy challenges and approaches.
Examples could include, but are not limited to:

- Bio-inspired security solutions.

- Visual/movement-based security solutions.

- Environment-adaptive security.

- Underwater communications security.

- Visual Light Communication (VLC)-based security.

- Quantum-based security.

Well-reasoned arguments or preliminary evaluations are sufficient for this
workshop.

**** Submission Instructions ****

Submitted papers must contain at most six pages (US letter, 9pt font size,
double-column format, following the ACM master article template), including
all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in
English and contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact
information. Submissions may be uploaded through the SPICES workshop track
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).

Accepted papers will be published in ACM as part of the EWSN 2024
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work
in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program.

**** Workshop Organizers ****

- Martin Andreoni (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE)

- Pericle Perazzo (University of Pisa, Italy)

- Fikret Basic (TU Graz)
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