From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Jul 21 06:46:33 2025 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (0610648533) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:46:33 +0200 Subject: [Event@CIG] [APPROACHING - Call for Applications - July 31, 2025]: ERCIM STM WG 2025 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management Message-ID: ======================================================================== CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - APPROACHING - ERCIM STM WG 2025 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management ======================================================================== The European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) has a technical WG on Security and Trust Management (STM) for performing a series of activities, as research projects, workshop/conference organization, dissemination of knowledge, for increasing the European research and development capabilities on security, trust, and privacy. One of the main goals of the WG is to promote the scientific growth of young researchers interested in the field of security and trust management. ERCIM STM WG then decided to establish an award for the best Ph.D. thesis in this area to increase the visibility of the young researchers within the ERCIM scientific community as well as in the scientific community in general. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * applied cryptography; * data and application security; * identity management; * networked systems security; * privacy, anonymity, and untraceability; * rigorous semantics and computational models for security and trust; * security, privacy, and trust in emerging computing paradigms; * security and trust management architectures, mechanisms, and policies. Applications for the award in 2025 are open to all Ph.D. holders that defended their thesis during 2024 in any European University. Applications consisting of the Ph.D. Thesis (in PDF format), a short summary of the Thesis (mandatory in English), a curriculum vitae (in PDF format), and letters of support from at least two researchers, one of whom should be from an ERCIM STM WG Institution, should be sent by July 31, 2025 to < alcaraz [at] uma [dot] es > (Cristina Alcaraz). Please use "ERCIM STM PhD Award 2025 -- Application" as subject of the message. Theses will be evaluated by a Committee appointed from the European research community. The theses will be judged on the basis of scientific quality, originality, clarity of presentation, as well as potential impact of the results. The ceremony for the award will be held during the 21st International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2025) on September 25-26, 2025 in Toulouse, France (https://www.nics.uma.es/stm2025/). From alcaraz at lcc.uma.es Mon Jul 21 07:14:25 2025 From: alcaraz at lcc.uma.es (0610648533) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:14:25 +0200 Subject: [Event@CIG] =?utf-8?q?=5BCFP_-_Deadline_Approaching=3A_Sept_1=2C?= =?utf-8?q?_2025=2E=5D_Special_Issue_on_=E2=80=9CAdvanced_Situational_Awar?= =?utf-8?q?eness_and_Resilience_for_Hyperconnected_Industrial_Scenarios?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9D_in_Future_Generation_Computer_Systems_=28FGCS=29=2C_E?= =?utf-8?q?lsevier?= Message-ID: <61341fb90b436fcde030c8cc5f6149d6@uma.es> ====================================================================================== *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** [Apologies for cross-posting] * Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier * * Special Issue on ?Advanced Situational Awareness and Resilience for Hyperconnected Industrial Scenarios? * Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/318785/advanced-situational-awareness-and-resilience-for-hyperconnected-industrial-scenarios ====================================================================================== 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. Important Dates - Submission deadline: September 1, 2025 - Initial notification: November 2, 2025 - Final accepted version: December 31, 2025 Manuscript Submission Instructions: - +Info: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/318785/advanced-situational-awareness-and-resilience-for-hyperconnected-industrial-scenarios Guest Editors: - Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, alcaraz at uma.es; contact person for further information - Fabio Martinelli, Italian National Research Council (CNR), fabio.martinelli at iit.cnr.it - Panagiotis Bountakas, Sphynx, p.bountakas at sphynx.ch