[hpc-announce] Call for Papers - Special Issue Future Generation Computer Systems

[Wisser, Grace]

CALL FOR PAPERS FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Advanced Situational Awareness and Resilience for Hyperconnected Industrial Scenarios
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MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

New technological trends and their adaptation to different strategic sectors, especially those aimed at the industrial sector and their interconnected infrastructures, entail multiple types of risks, including those related to security, privacy, and safety. This makes situational awareness and related areas, such as advanced prediction and detection, a priority requirement when it comes to protecting the most critical resources relevant to the business model or between models. However, the effectiveness of situational awareness is only assured if defensive measures are accompanied with advanced preparedness, response, and recovery strategies, thus providing guarantees of resilience.

Significant research progresses, in line to situational awareness, have already shown the way to: (i) combat some of the mentioned problems, some of them against counterfeiting and advanced persistent threats, (ii) promote predictive maintenance and resilience, and (iii) implement Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and Generative AI (GenAI) methods to address not only cyberattacks on critical infrastructures, but also to mitigate adversarial AI attacks. But, overall, all these advances are still insufficient considering the heterogenous, hyper-interconnected and complex nature of many today’s critical infrastructures. The assumption of the new industrial paradigms (Industry 4.0/5.0) and the multiple factors that come into play in the protection of critical systems, in which it is necessary to safeguard operational performance, proactivity and coordination according to the NIS2 directive, become undoubtedly relevant when it comes to managing critical situations.

All the above leads to the innate need to consider and apply cutting-edge technologies to promote trustworthy industrial security, where the inclusion of disruptive techniques, methods and technologies become relevant factors to address the expected level of situational awareness and resilience. Therefore, this Special Issue (SI) aims to bring together cutting-edge results that address the specific challenges of all these topics and their implication in specific industrial environments. The aim is to promote research and progress in line with new technologies, as well as to learn about the most recent issues and advances in this application area with special attention to novelty and originality within the subject matter.

In particular, the topics of interest for this Special Issues includes but not limited to:

*Governance, plans, and automated security controls
*Dynamic risk management and automatic feedback
*Adversarial offense, modeling, and demonstrations
*Advanced attack prediction for advanced awareness and proactivity
*AI-enhanced attack detection and stealthy movements
*Mitigation of adversarial AI attacks on industrial & critical infrastructures
*Smart threat interpretation and projection for attack traceability
*Advanced attack response, playbooks, and mitigation
*Green prediction, detection, and response approaches for lightweight situational awareness
*Advanced recovery and feedback to the situational awareness
*Cyber threat intelligence and coordination
*Sharing data and trust management
*Auditing and accountability for situational awareness
*Intelligent and accurate feedback to situational awareness
*Privacy and anonymization techniques for situational awareness
*Lightweight protection to the situational awareness and implied technologies
*Dynamic preparation and coordination through simulations
*Automated training for (re-)skilling and knowledge in situational awareness
*Industrial use cases with practical demonstrations for situational awareness and resilience: energy, health, transportation, manufacturing, etc.

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GUEST EDITORS

Cristina Alcaraz
University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
alcaraz at uma.es; contact person for further information

Fabio Martinelli
Italian National Research Council (CNR), Roma, Italy
fabio.martinelli at iit.cnr.it

Panagiotis Bountakas
Sphynx, Zug, Switzerland 
p.bountakas at sphynx.ch

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: September 29, 2025

Latest acceptance deadline for all papers: February 15th, 2026

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The FGCS’s submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from February 01, 2025. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: Situational Awareness.

All submissions deemed suitable by the editors to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production to be published in the special issue. Point of contact for authors for further information: Shiva Raj Pokhrel.

All manuscripts must conform to the Guide for authors - Future Generation Computer Systems - ISSN 0167-739X | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. Papers previously published in a conference must have at least 40% new content. The page limit for this special issue is 18 pages.

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MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

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* Article submitted to FGCS should be strictly double column, single spaced and limited to 18 pages; including all figures, tables, references.
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Sent on behalf of Michela Taufer, Editor-in-Chief


Grace Wisser
Assistant Director, Global Computing Lab
Assistant to Editor in Chief, FGCS Journal


Grace Wisser
Assistant Director, Global Computing Lab
Assistant to Editor in Chief, FGCS Journal