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Technical Track on Critical Infrastructures (CI) at the 38th
ACM/SIGAPP
Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2023)
https://sites.google.com/view/sac-ci2023
March 27 - April 2, 2023
Tallinn, Estonia
Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: October 1st, 2022 (AoE)
Paper notification to authors: December 6th, 2022 (AoE)
Scope
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Critical infrastructures (CI) are technical systems that are
designed to
distribute energy, information, water, goods and people, and are
essential
for the quality of everyday life. A major disturbance in services
provided
by the critical infrastructures can result in a severe strain on
business,
government and society in general. Furthermore, critical
infrastructures
often constitute a variety of hardware, software and communication
technologies. However, their deployment is a large-scale and
costly effort.
Therefore, methods, techniques, tools and recommendations related
to the
implementation of critical infrastructures based on quality
perspectives
(security, safety, reliability, robustness, privacy, legal topics)
are
essential. Special considerations should be also given to secure
communication, data manipulation (including storing and
processing) and
overseeing the entire infrastructure. Additionally, an ability to
extract
the essence of current critical infrastructures into models, which
will
enable simulation of their behaviour under stress from different
circumstances that can emerge in the future is important. This
would allow
detection of weak and strong spots of these infrastructures before
their
implementation, and effectively also the prevention of the weak
ones.
In this track, we aim to provide a platform for discussing
approaches,
models, results and case studies or experience reports addressing
a broad
range of issues related to critical infrastructures. Research
challenges
include how to design, build and deploy critical infrastructures
and the
impact on performance. Papers can include and discuss various
research
methods and can be based on case studies, quantitative and
quantitative
methods, design science as well as experiments and simulation. In
addition,
practical oriented research and experience reports are encouraged.
Topics of Interest
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The conference covers the development, assessment, operation, and
maintenance of critical infrastructures. Main topics include, but
are not
limited to:
- Model-based dependability analysis, design, and assessment
- Testing, verification, and validation methods and tools for
critical
infrastructures
- Qualification, assurance, and certification methods and tools
- System-of-systems paradigm in critical infrastructure analysis
and design
- Fault detection, tolerance, and recovery mechanisms
- Resilient and fault-tolerant hardware and software architectures
- Distributed and real-time monitoring and control
- Risk assessment in critical infrastructures
- Digital forensics in critical infrastructures
- Big Data analysis techniques to support critical infrastructures
- Experiments and case studies in the context of critical
infrastructures
- Data-driven techniques for engineering dependable systems
- Cyber-physical threats and vulnerability analysis
- Safety and security guidelines, standards, and certification
- Deployment of IoT for critical services
- Identification of system bottlenecks and points of failure
- Legal compliance tools and techniques, cybersecurity and privacy
requirements
Paper Categories
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We welcome original unpublished work in areas related to critical
infrastructures. The submitted manuscripts should present a
substantial
contribution. We welcome research papers as well as reports on
innovative
industrial applications and tools. We allow submission in the
following
categories:
- Full papers are limited to a maximum of 10 pages (8 pages are
included
in the conference registration + up to 2 additional pages at extra
charge).
- Posters are limited to a maximum of 4 pages (3 pages are
included in the
conference registration + up to 1 additional page at extra
charge).
- Student Research Competition(SRC): Graduate students seeking
feedback
from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited
to submit
abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research
work (max
4 pages). Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is
not
allowed. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity
to share
and discuss their research work through poster and oral
presentations and
compete for the three top-winning places as selected by the SRC
committee.
SRC abstracts are limited to 4 pages and submitted via SAC 2023
Webpage (
http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/). Please visit
https://src.acm.org/ for
more information about SRC.
Submission
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For full submission guidelines and the submission website, please
follow
the instructions on the ACM SAC 2023 website carefully:
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/
All submissions will be subjected to a double-blind review.
Therefore, all
submissions must be appropriately anonymized as follows: Author’s
names and
affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper.
Acknowledgments should
be anonymized or removed during the review process. Self-citations
should
be included where necessary but must use the third person.
Track Chairs
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Bruno Rossi (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Stanislav Chren (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Mouzhi Ge (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany)
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