CfP: The 3rd ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS)

The 3rd ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS)

Preliminary Call for Papers

April 15-17, 2014

Berlin, Germany

http://www.hi-cons.org/index.htm

The 3rd ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS) will be held on April 15-17, 2014 as part of Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2014 (CPSWeek 2014) in Berlin, Germany.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline: October 14, 2013
• Conference Dates: April 15-17, 2014

CONFERENCE SCOPE

HiCoNS aims to bring together novel concepts and theories that will help in the development of the science of high confidence networked systems, in particular those considered cyber-physical systems (CPS) and their interactions with human decision makers. The conference will focus on system theoretic approaches to address fundamental challenges to increase the confidence of networked CPS by making them more secure, dependable, and trustworthy. An emphasis will be the control and incentive challenges arising as a result of complex interdependencies between networked systems, in particular those at the intersection of cyber and physical dynamics. In doing so, the conference will advance the development of a principled approach to high-confidence networked CPS.

Topics of interest include:

• Threat assessment of networked systems
• Detectability and diagnosis of faults and attacks
• Intrusion and anomaly detection systems
• Robust and resilient network control
• Security economics
• Game theoretic approaches for security of networked systems
• Mechanism design and incentives for resilience
• Management of interdependent risks
• Security and privacy of networks
• Adversarial machine learning
• Security of sensor-actuator networks
• Design architectures for prevention, detection, and response
• Cyber awareness of human-centric systems
• Response and reconfiguration methods
• Test-beds for security of critical infrastructures
• Model based design for integration of security and control

Approaches that can be applied to particular critical infrastructure systems in Transportation (surface and aviation), Energy (smart grid and building energy management), Water and gas distribution, and Healthcare (medical systems and associated embedded devices) are particularly. Equally welcomed is foundational work that cuts across multiple application areas or advances the scientific understanding of underlying principles for the development of high-confidence (secure, reliable, robust, and trustworthy) networked cyber-physical systems. This includes ways to measure the security properties of a system, science-based principals of security and dependability, and methods to conduct robust and repeatable experimentation.

The conference aims at engaging researchers from multiple disciplines, including control theory, computer security, network security, information economics, game theory, and theory of incentives, and linking work being done in the applied areas with foundational work to advance a science base for high-confidence networked systems in order to provide the means of building such systems in a principled way.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chairs:

• Linda Bushnell, University of Washington, USA
• Larry Rohrbough, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Program Chairs:

• Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA