The 1^st Special Session on Secure and Cognitive Continuum

(SECON 2024)

In conjunction with MobiSec 2024

Hotel Emisia Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan, December 17-19, 2024

https://www.manuscriptlink.com/society/kiisc/conference/mobisec2024/secon24.htm

This Special Session is supported by EU projects: EMPYREAN, CERTIFY, TITAN and DOSS

OVERVIEW

The conventional way of dealing with (big) data, generated and exchanged by IoT devices, is to continuously push them to centralised cloud computing infrastructures, or utilize jointly on-device and on-premise/micro edge resources, deep and far edge computing nodes, along with the traditional federated cloud resources, thus forming an IoT-edge-cloud continuum. This approach can increase manifold the applications’ performance and the efficiency of the infrastructures overcoming the critical data collection, transmission, and processing bottlenecks present in of the centralized systems. It is clear that more local decisions and a collective logic that leads to system-wide welfare optimality is needed in order to accommodate the explosive growth of IoT.

Additionally, this extensive exchange of data requires that more research need to be done in the way to secure the data on storage, transit and processing. Hence it is important to understand how the security in the IoT and the data sharing is being considered in the context of the IoT-edge-cloud continuum.

This special session aims to facilitate the implementation of novel automated tools and mechanisms for seamless interconnection, efficient data processing of ML-workloads and secure distributed edge storage. Also the special session will focuss on deployment technologies that contribute to the entire application lifecycle and interoperability, for AI-driven value extraction of high volume and dynamic IoT data generated at the edge of the network from multiple sources, and the security and privacy of these new ecosystems.

TOPICS (not limited to)

Submissions should focus on contributing in the following areas:

- Orchestration of resources

- Cognitive Reources Management

- Hyper-distributed computing

- AI-enabled management

- Data and srvices discovery

- Data Spaces and applications on distributed environment

- Cybersecurity of IoT-edge-cloud continuum

- Secure data sharing

- Secure execution environment

- Application areas of the continuum computing

This Special Session is supported by EU projects: EMPYREAN, CERTIFY and TITAN

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings.

An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline and presented at the conference. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the conference proceedings and the program.

- The submission file is in PDF or PS file format produced via

ü the Easychair Latex Class file (US letter size)
[Available at https://easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip]

ü the Easychair Microsoft Word file
[Available at https://easychair.org/publications/easychair.docx]

- Each paper should be at least 5 pages long based on the Easychair style.

- Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted,
at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop.

- During submission, please select “MobiSec 2024 Special Session - Secure and Cognitive Continuum”

The submission of contributions to MobiSec 2024 must occur through the conference submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobisec20240

PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of MobiSec 2024 will be available to the attendees.

- During MobiSec 2024, all the papers will be available in the preliminary online-proceedings (non-official publication).

- According to our tradition, a short list of presented papers at MobiSec 2024 will be first selected and published in the
Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science series book (CCIS, indexed by Scopus) after revision
and expansion (confirmed).

- The rest of papers will be also invited for publication of extended and revised versions in the special issues of JCR Q1 or Q2 journals (confirmed).

Workshop Chairs

Prof. Antonio Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain

Dr. Panagiotis Kokkinos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Stefano Sebastio, Collins, Ireland

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: October 1, 2024 (KST/JST)

- Acceptance Notification: October 30, 2024 (KST/JST)

- Final version deadline: November 8, 2024 (KST/JST)