CfP: First International Conference on Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defence Agents (AICA 2021) 
CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Conference on Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defence Agents (AICA 2021)
March 15-16 2021 | Ecole Militaire, Paris, France | www.aica2021.org
Email: info@aica2021.org
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for Papers Submissions: 30 November 2020
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2021
Camera-ready: 15 February 2021
Conference: March 15-16 2021
Faced with future hugely complex networks, systems and infrastructures on one hand, and with the anticipated huge growth of safety-critical autonomous systems on the other hand, human operators will not be in a position to monitor the cybersecurity of these assets and will not be able anymore to respond to cyber-attacks at the speed, scale and level of complexity needed. For instance, on the battleground, when Intelligent Things fight Intelligent Things in the future, Autonomous Intelligent Malware (AIM) will seek to disable our defence platforms, networks and command and control systems. Our complex networks and systems and/or autonomous military systems and infrastructures will not work without embedding trustworthy autonomous cyber-defence technology that will fight autonomous intelligent malware and other forms of cyber-attacks at speed and scale. Autonomous intelligent cyber-defence Agents - AICA agents - will be a key enabler of our future military networks, devices and combat doctrines. And the AICA technology will be dual also as it will defend also civil networks and systems (IoT, SDN, 5G, Autonomous vehicles, ...). AICA 2021 will be the first AICA conference. It will present the state of the art in Autonomous Cyber Defence. It will allow to discuss issues, gaps and challenges. Its conclusions will feed future research and contribute to creating a wider AICA research & technology community.
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit research papers describing novel research advances related to all aspects of AICAs written in English, of up to 10 pages, following the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site. Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be posted electronically on the conference web site. The organisers plan to publish an edited book devoted to the topic of Autonomous Intelligent cyber-defence Agents after the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to extend and submit their paper for inclusion in the edited volume. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the AICA 2021 conference (http://www.easychar.org/cfp/AICA2021). At least one author of each published paper must register for the conference and present the paper. Please note that only nationals of NATO countries will be admitted at the venue.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Colonel Christian Soules, Air Force IT/Coms/Cyber General, France
V.S. Subrahmanian, Dartmouth College, USA
Dr. Paul Theron, Thales, Cyb'Air Research Chair, France
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Alexander Kott, USARL, USA
Paul Theron, Thales, Cyb'Air Research Chair, France
V.S. Subrahmanian, Dartmouth College, USA
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Alessandro Guarino, StAG, Italy
S. Jay Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Nicolai Stoianov, Bulgarian Defence Institute, Bulgaria
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Carly Beckerman, Durham University, UK
Noam Ben-Asher, Boston Fusion Corp., USA
Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova, Italy
Juergen Dix, Tech University of Clausthal, Germany
Martin Drasar, Masaryk University, Czechia
Nathaniel Evans, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jean-Paul Jamont, LCIS, Valence, France
Paul Miller, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Benoit LeBlanc, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Cognitique, Bordeaux, France
Kristiaan Pelckmans, Uppsala University, Sweden
Pierangela Samarati, Universita di Milano, Italy
George Sharkov, ESI CEE, Bulgaria
David Skillicorn, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada