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Technical Track on Critical Infrastructures (CI) at the 37th ACM
SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC 2022)
https://sites.google.com/view/sac-ci-2022
April 25-29, 2022
Brno, Czech Republic
Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: October 24th, 2021
Paper notification to authors: December 10th, 2021
Scope
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Critical infrastructures 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 infrastructure. Research
challenges include how to design, build and deploy critical
infrastructures and its 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
experimental 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
- 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 of $80 USD per page).
- Posters are limited to a maximum o 4 pages (3 pages are included
in
the conference registration + up to 1 additional page at extra
charge
of $80 USD per page).
- 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. The
winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition
certificates.
Furthermore, invited authors are eligible to apply for the SIGAPP
Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for support. SRC abstracts are
limited to 4 pages and submitted via SAC 2022 Webpage
(
http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/). 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 2022 website
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/index.html.
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)
Bacem Mbarek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Mouzhi Ge (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany)
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