Security, Trust and Privacy in Cyber (STPCyber): Future Trends and Challenges

Guest Editors:

Priyadarsi Nanda
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Xiangjian He
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Laurence T. Yang
St. Francis Xavier University

“Future Generation Computer Systems”, a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed, high-quality original papers in the computer systems sciences, focusing specifically advances and challenges in Cybersecurity involving complex computer systems and communication networks having security, trust and privacy being major issues. This is seeking original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in Cyber (STPCyber): Future trends and Challenges scheduled to appear in the second half of 2018.

With rapid advancements in Cyber security involving increased complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for Trust, Security and Privacy are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments which are key domains of Cyber Security. As a result, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving Security, Trust and Privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention.

The special issue will provide a forum for presenting research works showing advances on Security, Trust and Privacy for cyber infrastructures, including new platforms, system software enhancements, security algorithm design and optimization and technologies in complex computer systems and communication networks to defend against known and unknown behaviour of bad guys. The special issue will also be open to any author, but it will also invite extended versions of the selected papers of Trustcom 2017 conference whose topics fit in the scope of this special issue. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers to ensure a very high quality of papers selected for the Special Issue.

AREAS OF INTEREST

This special issue of Future Generation Computing Systems will feature articles that discuss the following areas of interest:

• Network and Cyber Security
• Security policy, model and architecture
• Security in social networks
• Security in parallel and distributed systems
• Security in mobile and wireless communications
• Security in cloud/pervasive computing
• Trusted computing platform
• Trusted network computing
• Trusted operating systems
• Trusted software and applications
• Trust in social networks
• Trust in mobile and wireless communications
• Privacy in Web-based applications and services
• Privacy in database systems
• Privacy in parallel and distributed systems
• Privacy in cloud/pervasive computing
• Privacy in mobile and wireless communications
• Privacy in e-commerce and e-government
• Privacy in network deployment and management
• Cyber Analytics
• Big data forensics
• Cloud forensics
• Computational forensics
• Cyber-physical system forensics

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submitted papers must be written in English and must describe original research that has not been   published, and are not currently under review by other journals or conferences. Papers selected from Trustcom 2017 should include at least 40% of new content. The author instructions for preparation of manuscripts can be found at the journal web page Author Guidelines web page. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the FGCS Manuscript Submission System. The authors must select Special Issue on “STPCyber” upon uploading their paper. Manuscripts should be no longer than 20 one-column pages.

IMPORTANT  DATES

Submission deadline: September 29, 2017
Acceptance/Rejection notification: January 29, 2017
Final version of the paper: April 1, 2018