Cyber Science 2024: Cyber Science 2024 Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 27-28, 2024

Conference website	https://c-mric.org
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cyberscience2024

Cyber Science 2024 is the flagship conference of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRiC) focusing on pioneering research and innovation in Cyber Situational Awareness, Social Media, Cyber Security and Cyber Incident Response. It will be published by Springer in Springer Proceedings in Complexity.

Cyber Science aims to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, including government departments and agencies. 

Further details about the conference can be found here https://c-mric.org 

Submission Guidelines

The deadline for all paper submissions, that is, both short and long papers now extended to 31st March 2024.

We accept 4 different types of submission to encourage authors to publish their origianl materials in the conference proceedings:

Long Papers:

• Long papers should be (25 pages max.) or  roughly about (25,000 words).

Short Papers:

• Short papers should be (14 pages max.) or roughly about (14,000 words).

Extended Abstracts:

• Extended abstracts should be about 4-5 pages long including references.

Concept Notes:

• Concept Notes are new ideas or ideas still in the very early stages, usually research results have not been conducted just yet.
• Concept notes should be about 2-3 pages long including references.

Presentation Only / Posters: 

• Presentation only (poster) submission may not require paper submission, and will only be presented at the conference as a poster, but not included in the proceedings

Interested participants, please submit your paper using the online submission system hosted by Easychair Conference Portal.

All paper submissions should be written in English and be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference portal.

Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word using the Springer Paper Templates

List of Topics

Cyber Situational Awareness

• Situational Awareness Assessments
• Social Media Analysis, Collaborative Defense Approach
• Cyber Situational Awareness Tools & Techniques
• Network Situational Awareness
• Human Factor Cognitive
• National and Critical Infrastructure Security Issues
• Situation Awareness in Military Operations
• Cyber Situational Analytics
• Cyber Situational Awareness Frameworks
• Fusion Centres
• Situational Awareness Applications
• Cyber Situational Awareness Designs
• Solutions and Services
• Situational Awareness Training Cyber Attack Scenarios
• Situation-Aware and Context-Aware Network Applications
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Machine Learning & Deep Learning,
• Ethics, Transparency and Trustworthy AI.

Human Factor Cognition

• Workload
• Perception
• Stress
• Knowledge
• Training and Expertise
• Risk Assessment and Decision Making,
• Forecasting and Prediction Operator SA & Team SA
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)

Cyber Incident Response

• Cyber Incident Analysis
• Cyber Incident Correlation and Assessment,
• Coordination, Containment
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Cyber Incident Management
• Emergence Services
• Preparedness & Readiness
• Human in the Loop
• Training, Processes and Procedures
• Policy and Standards,
• Emergency Services
• Forensic Readiness and Investigations
• Cyber Incident Notification and Announcements
• Cyber Incident Management Tool, Framework and Methodology
• Expertise, Skills, Knowledge and Resource
• Maturity Model and Goal Setting
• Certification and Accreditation
• Cyber Incident Responders
• Incident Response Organisation
• Investigation Techniques – Rule-Based Systems & Expert Systems
• Adaptive Learning Systems & Predictive Systems
• The use of Biometrics to aid Forensic Investigations
• Speak, audio and voice Recognition for forensics
• Correlation and cross-correlation for Incident Analysis
• Cross-Domain Analysis, Training, Processes and Procedures, Policy and Standards, Emergency Services
• Chain of Custody, Forensic Readiness and Investigations
• Cyber Incident Notification and Announcements
• Cyber Incident Management Tool, Standardisation, Framework and Methodology
• Expertise, Skills, Knowledge and Resource
• Maturity Model and Goal Setting
• Certification and Accreditation
• Memberships to Cyber Incident Responders
• Incident Response Organisation.

Application Container Platform Security

• ACP
• Container Technologies
• Security Concerns Associated with Container Technologies
• Apps, Cultural and Technical Processes for Managing Containers & Apps
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualisation (Network, OS, Container & Apps),
• DevOps
• API
• HostOS
• Container Technology Architecture
• Approaches to Management, Maintenance and Processing of Containers
• Apps and HostOS
• CI/CD
• Risks & Issues
• OWASP
• Open Web Application Security

Cyber Security

• Cyber Security
• App Security
• Mobile Security
• Wireless & Sensor Network Security
• Software Coding Security
• Security Operations Centres
• Digital Trust and Reputation
• Geographical Location (IP Geolocation) and Cyber Travel
• Geospatial Intelligence Networks (Centralised, Distributed & Hybrid)
• Policy, Legal, Legislation & Compliance
• Security Standardisation
• Law, Legal and Ethics
• Digital Services
• Web Services
• Cloud Computing
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Protection of Digital Services
• Security, Trust, Privacy, Security in Online Gaming Systems
• Security in e-Government and Electoral Systems
• Content Security
• Protection of Public Online Content Distribution Systems
• Secure practices, processes and procedures in Public Online Services
• Cryptography
• Digital Forensics and Investigations
• HoneyPots and Honey Nets
• Critical National Infrastructures (CNIs) and Blockchain Technologies

Social Media, Wearable and Web Analytics

• Advances in Social Media
• Trust and privacy in Social Media
• Social Medial Big Data Analysis
• Social Network Analysis
• Social Media Technologies Advances in Wearable
• Wearable in e-Health
• Wearable in Fitness
• Wearable and Security
• Trust and Privacy in Wearable
• Wearable Technologies
• Economic Importance of Wearable
• Web Analytics & Cyber Intelligence
• Advances in Web Analytics Web
• Analytics for Law Enforcement and Security Monitoring
• Legal Issues of Web Analytics
• Law, Legislation and Compliance
• Security, Trust, Privacy
• Web Analytics for Business Intelligence
• Responsible use of Social Media
• Geolocation Content-Aware analytics
• Digital Content
• Customer-centric Analysis
• Social Network Analysis
• Cyber Intelligence

STEM & Cyber Security Education

• Cyber Security in childhood education,
• Code – Teaching Coding for Kids, Teens and Colleges
• Secure by Code
• Secure by Design
• Secure by Default
• Immersive learning for Cyber
• Metaverse and Cybersecurity Education

Blockchain Technologies

• Cryptocurrency
• Regulation of Cryptocurrencies
• Mechanisms to address Environmental
• Social and Governance (ESG) concerns with Blockchain Technologies
• Bitcoin & Bit-everything
• Blockchain in Manufacturing,
• Blockchain in Banking & Financial Systems,
• Blockchain in Aviation
• Blockchain in Pharmaceuticals
• Blockchain in IoT
• Blockchain in Defence
• Blockchain in Cybersecurity Operations
• Blockchain in Publications
• Blockchain in Smart Contracts
• Blockchain in the Energy Sector & Utilities

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

•  Predictive Data Analytics for Situation Awareness
• Machine Learning for Cyber Situation Awareness
• Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Situation Awareness
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
• Autonomous & Self-driving
• Self-Healing, Domestic Assistance
• Autonomous Healthcare and Assistance
• Industrial Manufacturing Robotics
• Search and Rescue Operations

Committees

Organizing committee

• Cyril Onwubiko – Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration, UK
• Arnau Erola - Cyber Security Centre, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Aunshul Rege - Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA
• Hanan Yousry Hindy - Computer Science Department, Faculty of computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University
• Martin Gilje Jaatun - University of Stavanger, Norway
• Pierangelo Rosati - Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
• Xavier Bellekens - Lupovis

Publication

Cyber Science 2024 proceedings will be published by Springer in Springer Proceedings in Complexity. The papers will be submitted for indexing by Scopus, Semantic Scholar and DBLP etc.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to submission@c-mric.org

Website https://c-mric.org