IEEE TDSC SPECIAL ISSUE ON AI/ML FOR SECURE COMPUTING

Notification Due

Mar 31, 2020

Final Version Due

Apr 15, 2020

Submission Deadline

Oct 01, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE TDSC SPECIAL ISSUE ON AI/ML FOR SECURE COMPUTING

https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tq/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-ai-ml-for-secure-computing

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Submission Deadline: October 1, 2019

Dear Colleagues:

We cordially invite you to share your latest research results by

submitting your manuscript to the IEEE Transactions on Dependable

and Secure Computing Special Issue on “AI/ML for Secure Computing”.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (including deep

learning) have been widely studied in both academia and industry

to achieve enhanced security and privacy of service computing

(including cloud computing, Internet services, and Internet-of-Things).

For instance, AI and machine learning algorithms can be deployed

to detect sophisticated attacks, e.g., online abuse, which cannot

be easily detected by traditional detection approaches like rule-based

detection. It is important to investigate how they can be implemented

to achieve a good trade-off between detection accuracy and learning

cost. Meanwhile, AI and machine learning themselves are vulnerable

to security and privacy concerns: for example, data used by them may

leak sensitive information, thus compromising users’ privacy.

Thus, in some application scenarios, how to leverage the capability

of AI and machine learning algorithms for enhanced secure service

computing while protecting the user’s privacy remains a challenging

problem. Recent research has demonstrated the negative impact of

other adversarial behavior: adversarial noise injected during the

training phase (“poisoning”) of AI and machine learning algorithms

result in incorrect models; adversaries can construct “adversarial

examples” that cause properly trained models to infer incorrect

results. The security and robustness of AI and machine learning

algorithms also have a strong impact on security and privacy of

service computing.

The scope of this special issue is addressing the challenges of

applying AI and machine learning algorithms to secure computing.

In order to implement them in practice, a big obstacle for research

is to have enhanced security while not impacting users’ privacy.

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ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE

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In this special issue, we are seeking novel approaches and

unpublished work related to AI and machine learning for

enhanced security and privacy protection of service computing.

In particular, we would like to focus on recent trends in

adversarial machine learning, reinforcement learning,

and privacy-preserving machine learning to improve the security.

We solicit experimental, conceptual, and theoretical contributions

on the following topics related to AI and machine learning for

enhanced security and privacy of service computing:

• Attacks on machine learning and defense

• Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) for attacks and defenses

• Deep learning for enhanced security and privacy

• Enhanced security of service computing with reinforcement learning

• Adversarial machine learning for security and privacy of computing

• Adversarial examples: attacks and defenses

• Robust learning for enhanced security and privacy in service computing

• Learning for malware analysis and detection

• Learning for anomaly and intrusion detection

• Learning for critical infrastructure security

• Learning for cryptanalysis

• Learning for spam detection

• Learning for secure online social networks

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must

be original and must not be under consideration for publication in

any other journal or conference. TDSC requires meaningful technical

novelty in submissions that extend previously published conference

papers. Extension beyond the conference version(s) is not simply

a matter of length. Thus, expanded motivation, expanded discussion

of related work, variants of previously reported algorithms,

incremental additional experiments/simulations, may provide additional

length but will fall below the line for proceeding with review.

Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TDSC submission

website at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tdsc-cs.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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• Manuscript Submission Deadline: October 1, 2019

• First Round of Reviews: December 15, 2019

• Revised Papers Due: January 31, 2019

• Final Notification: March 31, 2020

• Final Manuscript Due: April 15, 2020

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GUEST EDITORS

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• N. Asokan, Aalto University, Finland, asokan@acm.org

• Pan Hui, University of Helsinki, Finland & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, panhui@cse.ust.hk

• Qi Li, Tsinghua University, China, qi.li@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn

• Ravi Sandhu, The University of Texas at San Antonio, ravi.sandhu@utsa.edu