October 2018 - computational.science

EIDWT-2019 Call for Papers
by Zahoor Khan 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2019) 26-29 February 2019 Fujairah, United Arab Emirates Conference Website: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2019/ OVERVIEW The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. EIDWT-2019 will discuss advances in information networking and exploitation of data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids and Clouds. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: November 5, 2018 Authors Notification: December 5, 2018 Author Registration: December 20, 2018 Final Manuscript: December 20, 2018 Conference Dates: February 26-28, 2019 SCOPE The main topic areas of EIDWT 2019 include, but are not limited to: • Internet Protocols, Modelling and Optimization • Network and Data Security, Trust and Reputation • Big Data and Cloud Computing • Mobile and Wireless Networks • P2P and Grid Computing • Distributed and Parallel Systems • Ontologies and Metadata Representation • Knowledge Discovery and Mining • Databases and Data Warehouses • Data Centers and IT Virtualization Technologies • Web Science and Business Intelligence • Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organizations • Data Management and Information Retrieval • Machine Learning on Large Data Sets & Massive Processing • Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools • Nature Inspired Computing • Data Sensing, Integration and Querying Systems and Interfaces • e-Science Data Sets, Repositories, Digital Infrastructures • Energy-aware and Green Computing in Data Centers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies series published by Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in ISI Proceedings, MetaPress, Springer Link and Scopus. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready and copyright form. Please submit the paper in EIDWT 2019 EDAS account using the URL: https://edas.info/N24622 SPECIAL ISSUES Presented papers at EIDWT 2019 will be considered for publication in some Special Issues in International Journals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zahoor Khan, PhD, SMIEEE, MCSc, MSc (CE), MSc (Elect.), BSc, CUTL, CCAI Division Chair Faculty of Computer Information Science (CIS), Applied Media Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah Campus, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971-(2)-206-1363<tel:+971%202%20206%209307> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> Zahoor.Khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@hct.ac.ae> --------------------------------------------------------- Adjunct Professor Department of Engineering Maths and Internetworking Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4R2 Zahoor.Khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@dal.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EIDWT-2019 Call for Papers
by Zahoor Khan 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2019) 26-29 February 2019 Fujairah, United Arab Emirates Conference Website: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2019/ OVERVIEW The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. EIDWT-2019 will discuss advances in information networking and exploitation of data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids and Clouds. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: November 5, 2018 Authors Notification: December 5, 2018 Author Registration: December 20, 2018 Final Manuscript: December 20, 2018 Conference Dates: February 26-28, 2019 SCOPE The main topic areas of EIDWT 2019 include, but are not limited to: • Internet Protocols, Modelling and Optimization • Network and Data Security, Trust and Reputation • Big Data and Cloud Computing • Mobile and Wireless Networks • P2P and Grid Computing • Distributed and Parallel Systems • Ontologies and Metadata Representation • Knowledge Discovery and Mining • Databases and Data Warehouses • Data Centers and IT Virtualization Technologies • Web Science and Business Intelligence • Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organizations • Data Management and Information Retrieval • Machine Learning on Large Data Sets & Massive Processing • Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools • Nature Inspired Computing • Data Sensing, Integration and Querying Systems and Interfaces • e-Science Data Sets, Repositories, Digital Infrastructures • Energy-aware and Green Computing in Data Centers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies series published by Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in ISI Proceedings, MetaPress, Springer Link and Scopus. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready and copyright form. Please submit the paper in EIDWT 2019 EDAS account using the URL: https://edas.info/N24622 SPECIAL ISSUES Presented papers at EIDWT 2019 will be considered for publication in some Special Issues in International Journals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zahoor Khan, PhD, SMIEEE, MCSc, MSc (CE), MSc (Elect.), BSc, CUTL, CCAI Division Chair Faculty of Computer Information Science (CIS), Applied Media Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah Campus, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971-(2)-206-1363<tel:+971%202%20206%209307> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> Zahoor.Khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@hct.ac.ae> --------------------------------------------------------- Adjunct Professor Department of Engineering Maths and Internetworking Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4R2 Zahoor.Khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@dal.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[simu-conf] Symposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation 2019
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

=============================================================== CFP: Symposium of Theory of Modelling and Simulation Part of the Spring Simulation Conference April 29 - May 2, 2019 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona =============================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE The purpose of this track is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances in M&S foundations, theory, and practice. The main focus is on the modeling and simulation concepts, methodologies, and techniques enabling practices and tools to cope with the challenges that arise from understanding, building, and operating highly complex and ultra large systems, as well as lessons learned in application domains. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Dec. 16, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 8, 2019 Camera-ready Paper Submission: Feb 22, 2019 For additional and latest information please visit http://www.tmsdevs.org [apologies for multiple postings - if you need to unsubscribe reply to this email or contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Academic Vacancies at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Are you looking for an exciting academic career building on a sense of history? Did you know that the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne played the world’s first music on a computer (https://theconversation.com/how-australia-played-the-worlds-first-music-on-… Or that we commissioned Australia’s first computer and managed Australia’s first internet connections? But we don’t just have a great history, we are also currently ranked number 1 in Australia and 14th in the world in the latest 2018 QS World University Rankings. And we have ambitious plans for the future – we are supported by a 10-year strategic $1 Billion investment in people and infrastructure by the University of Melbourne. Do you want to join us? We are hiring academics across a range of areas in Computer Science and Information Systems, including Natural Language Processing, Security and Digital Health. We are also looking for female applicant in any area of Computing and Information Systems. More details are here: http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/departments/school-of-computing-and-inf… We review applications on a rolling basis as they come in. Final application deadline is 11 November 2018. Uwe Aickelin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Uwe Aickelin – Head of School School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia T. +613 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au <mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> W: http://aickelin.com<http://aickelin.com/> [signature_237791722]

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 22, 2018 (extended from Oct 10, 2018): Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 5, 2018 (extended from Nov 1, 2018): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 20, 2018 (extended from Nov 15, 2018): Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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ICCSA 2019: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

-- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it Department Chair's delegate for Job Placement Deputy Director at The Document Foundation (TDF)

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[IEEE ICII] Last Call for Participation (Early registration deadline: 10/20/2018)
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

================================================================== C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N **** IEEE ICII 2018 **** Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A. October 21-23, 2018 http://www.ieee-icii.org ================================================================== Industrial Internet is ushering in a new wave of industrial revolution through the integration of networks, computing, industrial equipment and people. It will impact a broad industrial spectrum including manufacturing, aviation, transportation, power, oil and gas, healthcare, smart cities, and buildings. The 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII), which is the first research conference dedicated to the vibrant area of Industrial Internet, will be held in Bellevue, Washington, in October 2018. * Keynote speakers - Vint Cerf (VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Turing Award Laureate) Title: Musings on the Industrial Internet - Renwei Li (Chief Scientist and VP of Future Networks, Huawei) Title: What if We Reimagine a New Internet? More details of the keynotes can be found at http://www.ieee-icii.org/key.html * ICII program Selective single-track conference program including high-quality regular papers and invited contributions from leading experts. Program can be found at http://www.ieee-icii.org/pgm.html * Co-located events - Demo/poster session - International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems * Registration - Online registration is open (http://www.ieee-icii.org/atd.html) - Early registration deadline: October 20th, 2018 ORGANIZERS General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Program Co-Chairs * Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) * Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University and RISE SICS, Sweden) * Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA) Steering Committee * Vinton G. Cerf (Google, USA) * Mischa Dohler (King's College London, UK) * Mahmoud Daneshmand (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Jae H Kim (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) * Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA) * Dinesh Verma (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Anwar Walid (Nokia Bell Labs, USA) * Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA) Workshop Co-Chairs * Sanjeev Mehrotra (Microsoft Research, USA) * Honggang Wang (UMass-Dartmouth, USA) Panel Co-Chairs * Andreas Mueller (Bosch, Germany) * Ye Ouyang (Verizon Wireless, USA) Poster/Demo Co-Chairs * Soumya Datta (Eurocom, France) * JaeSeung Song (Sejong University, Seoul, Korea) * Shaoen Wu (Ball State University, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs * Fan Bai (General Motors, USA) * Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey, UK) * Madhanmohan Savadamuthu (Boeing India Technology Center, India) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publication Chair * Reza Malekian (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Event Co-Chair * Jiang Li (Howard Services, USA) * Wei Wang (Shenandoah Services, USA) Web Co-Chairs * Yinhao Xiao (The George Washington University, USA) * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) [We apologize if you receive multiple copies.] ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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GCSMES - 2019 - Call For Papers
by GCSMES6 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

[cid:image002.png@01D454E9.69F53DE0] The 6TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON SME, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SERVICE INNOVATION (GCSMES-6) 2019 المؤتمر الدولي السادس للمشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة، وريادة الأعمال والابتكار في مجال الخدمات 2019 (GCSMES-6) March 11-13, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN Conference Theme “SME, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SERVICE INNOVATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM” Conference Website, please visit: http://gcsmes6.uob.edu.bh OR: contact us on: gcsmes6(a)uob.edu.bh<mailto:gcsmes6@uob.edu.bh> IMPORTANT DATES • Full Paper or Extended Abstract Submission* December 31, 2018 • Early Bird Registration October 31, 2018 • Final Registration and Final Submission (Proceedings Ready) March 1, 2019 • Doctoral Colloquium and Industry Workshop March 11, 2019 • Presentations (Parallel Sessions) March 12 & 13, 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT ALL SUBMISSIONS TO BE MADE BY E-MAIL ATTACHMENT TO gcsmes6(a)uob.edu.bh<mailto:gcsmes6@uob.edu.bh> (with cc to admin(a)gcsmes.org<mailto:admin@gcsmes.org> ). Manuscripts must adhere to the following format: - Times New Roman - Maximum 10 Pages Single Spacing (for Full Paper) - APA Referencing Style PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings with ISBN. Selected high quality papers will be further processed for publication consideration in a research book or a special issue of top quality journals ________________________________ Uob Disclaimer Policy This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy it, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents, but should return it to the sender immediately stating that you received the email in error, and then please delete the email from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely the personal views of the sender. The contents in this email message shall not commit or bind the University of Bahrain in any way.University of Bahrain cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended, please contact the sender.University of Bahrain shall not be liable for any loss or damage which results from opening this message and attachments thereto.

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Call for Workshop Proposals - IEEE EuroS&P 2019
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Stockholm, Sweden -- June 17-19, 2019 https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2019/ Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), which is organized every year in a European city. The 4th EuroS&P edition will be held on June 17-19, 2019 in Stockholm, at the KTH main campus. Pre conference workshops will take place on Sunday, June 16, 2019, and post conference workshops on Thursday, June 20, 2019. A workshop associated with IEEE EuroS&P can be a full or half day in length. Each workshop should provide a forum to address a specific topic at the forefront of security and privacy research. Submissions of workshop proposals must reach the workshop chairs by November 11, 2018. If proceedings are planned, the default option offered is publication through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2019 proceedings. Workshop registration will be done together with the main conference, allowing workshop-only registrations as well. Support for accepted workshops include: rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, and at least two free registrations for the full EuroS&P 2019 program. Other expenses must be covered by the individual workshops. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION A workshop proposal should contain at least the following (please fill in the template available on the conference web site): * Workshop title; * Aim and scope; * Proposed format; * Duration (half or full day); * Planned activities (e.g., invited speakers, panels); * Expected number of submissions, paper length (in IEEE conference proceedings format), and number of attendees * Program chair(s), and if available, tentative program and organisation committee; * Biographical sketch for each main organizer, describing relevant qualifications in research and conference/workshop organizing experience; * Past history of the workshop, if any, including number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and number of registered attendees for the most recent incarnation of the workshop, and past year websites; * Draft CFP articulating the scope and topics covered by the workshop; * Plan for the review process and the publication of proceedings PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA Each workshop proposal will be evaluated based on the following criteria: * Quality of proposal; * Timeliness and suitability for the EuroS&P community; * Novelty with respect to other workshops and forums; * Interest, impact, relevance of the topic; * Anticipated attendance level; * Organisers experience WORKSHOP CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yongdae Kim KAIST, Republic of Korea IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATES Workshop proposal submission: November 11, 2018 Notification of decision: December 3, 2018 CFP and Website for each workshop: December 17, 2018 Workshop papers submission: last week of February/first week of March 2019 Workshop notification date: no later than April 10, 2019 Workshop final papers (firm): April 22, 2019 Please send your workshop proposal to the Workshop Chairs (Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Yongdae Kim at sabrina.decapitani@unimi.it,yongdaek@kaist.ac.kr) by November 11, 2018

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018
by Andrii Shalaginov 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 10, 2018: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 1, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2018: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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