Call for Papers

The 21st International Symposium on Collaborative Computing and Trustworthy Computing

(ColTrust 2023)

http://ubisecurity.org/ColTrust/2023/

 


Venue & Dates:
Exeter, UK, November 1-3, 2023

Introduction

The 21st International Symposium on Collaborative Computing and Trustworthy Computing (ColTrust 2023) stems from two symposium/workshop series:
(1) The C4W workshop series: ColTrust follows the C4W vision on "Collaborative Computing". The collaborative computing with cloud and client is one of the most rapidly developing mainstream research in the fields of network computing. Compared with traditional cloud solutions, hybrid solutions with cloud side and client side assisted by edge servers can reduce latency, improve scalability, enhance access to information, and make business intelligence more agile. Therefore, we should focus on solving core technical difficulties, conducting research and development of key product solutions, mastering key software and hardware technologies, and realizing the industrialization of collaborative computing platforms with cloud and client.

(2) The IWTC workshop series : ColTrust follows the IWTC theme on "Trustworthy Computing". With the rapid development of information technology, a large amount of data in various industries and fields is increasing explosively. Massive data has brought severe challenges to Cyberspace Security. Network security and informatization are major strategic issues related to national security, national development, and work and life of broad masses of all the people. In the network computing mode, if a cloud server is damaged, it will affect user services on a large scale. Malicious attacks and monitoring activities from the cloud server itself will also cause security and privacy risks in the processes of user services. In addition, lacking the capability of controlling over the computing environment directly will make it difficult for users to trust the services provided in the network computing environment. At present, trusted computing technology can ensure the security and credibility of computing resources at startup to a certain extent, but the security of network computing environment at runtime is difficult to be guaranteed. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of network computing and effectively reduce the security risk of the system, it is necessary to study new network computing models and key security technologies.

The ColTrust 2023 Symposium ("The Symposium" for short) is devoted to collaborative computing and trustworthy computing in networks. The Symposium covers many dimensions including collaborative computing and trustworthy computing algorithms and architectures, regulations and techniques, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for networking systems. The Symposium will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields.

Following the traditions of previous successful C4W/IWTC symposium/workshop series, held in Guangzhou, China (C4W'22, C4W'21, C4W'20, C4W'19, C4W'18, C4W'17, NOPE'19); New York, USA (NOPE'18); Sydney, Australia (NOPE'17); Tianjin, China (NOPE'16); Helsinki, Finland (NOPE'15); Beijing, China (NOPE'14); Zhangjiajie, China (NOPE'13); and Guangzhou China (IWTC'22, IWTC'21, IWTC'18, IWTC'17); and Changsha China (IWTC'16, IWTC'15, IWTC'14), the Symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computing computing and trustworthy computing aspects of computer systems and networks. The Symposium will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for computing computing and trustworthy computing.

          

Scope and Interests

 

Topics of particular interest include, but not limited to:

 

Track 1: Collaborative Computing Track

  • Collaborative Computing Track
  • Collaborative computing and storage
  • Collaborative networks and communications
  • Collaborative artificial intelligence
  • Collaborative big data
  • Collaborative clouds
  • Collaborative clouds, edges and clients
  • Collaborative Internet of Things
  • Collaborative resource sharing
  • Collaborative service sharing
  • Collaborative learning
  • Federated learning

 

Track 2: Trustworthy Computing Track

  • Trusted execution environments
  • Novel remote attestation techniques
  • Virtual roots of trust
  • Trustworthy data collection based on edge computing
  • Trustworthy computing based on distributed intelligence
  • Trustworthy computing software and hardware to secure networks and systems
  • Trust and privacy in social networking
  • Trust and privacy in edge computing
  • Trust and privacy in new network computing
  • Trust evaluation mechanisms
  • Secure and privacy computing based distributed learning
  • Analysis of network and security protocols
  • Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
  • Automated security analysis of source code and binaries
  • Automated security analysis of hardware design and implementation
  • New cryptographic protocols with real-world applications
  • Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
  • Intrusion detection based on distributed learning
  • Privacy and anonymity in networks and distributed systems
  • Privacy computing in distributed environments

 

 

Submission and Publication Information

All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 12 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give one or two "Best Paper Awards" for the Symposium. By submitting a paper to the Symposium, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.



Important Dates

Submission Deadline:

August 31, 2023 (Firm Deadline)

Author Notification:

September 30, 2023

Final Manuscript Due:

October 31, 2023

Registration Due:

October 31, 2023

Conference Date:

November 1-3, 2023

 

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning ColTrust 2023 to:

 

ColTrust2023 AT googlegroups DOT com (ColTrust2023@googlegroups.com)

 

 

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