SINCONF 2022

Call for papers

Papers, special sessions, tutorials, and workshops addressing all aspects of security in information and networks are being sought. Researchers and industrial practitioners working on the following and related subjects are especially encouraged. Doctoral students are encouraged to propose papers on ongoing research.

Broad areas of interest in security theory, technology and applications will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Secure information systems

• Security, privacy, and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
• Consensus mechanisms, especially distributed control and processing applications
• Secure smart contracts

Security in networks

• Network security and protocols
• Computer network defence
• Next generation network architecture
• Autonomous and adaptive security

Development and realization of fundamental technologies

• Cryptographic techniques and key management
• Post Quantum Cryptography
• Security schemes
• New algorithms
• IoT Security and Trust
• Malware analysis
• Access control and intrusion detection
• Computational intelligence techniques in security
• Trust and privacy

Application Areas

• Detection and prevention of cybercrimes such as fraud and phishing
• Industrial applications of security
• Industrial experiences and challenges of security systems
• Security of cyber-physical systems
• Security tools and development platforms
• Security-aware software engineering
• Security challenges in Mobile/Embedded Systems
• Cloud security
• Security Awareness and Education

Security Assurance

• Critical analysis of existing approaches
• Interoperability, service levels and quality issues in security systems
• Information assurance, security, and public policy
• Security ontology, models, protocols & policies
• Standards, guidelines and certification
• Information assurance

Types of submissions

The following two paper categories are welcome. Any submission needs to be explicitly marked as “full paper” or “short paper”.

• Full papers – scientific research papers, surveying works and industrial experiences describing significant advances. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages, including references.
• Short papers – early results or work in progress with initial findings. Papers should be maximum 4 pages long, including references.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All paper submissions must contain a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. All submissions will be subjected to a thorough double‐blind review by at least three reviewers. Submitted papers shall be anonymised and all author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and obvious traceable references should be eliminated to be eligible for the review process.

Authors are also encouraged to propose position papers on practical studies and experiments, critique of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Enterprises and research centres developing, implementing, or using security tools and frameworks are encouraged to propose application / tool demo.

• Proposals for special sessions, tutorials, and workshops should provide sufficient detail to evaluate them.

Organisers

Honorary Chair

• Adel BOUHOULA , Arabian Gulf University and Tunisian Society for Digital Security

Conference Chair

• Omar Cheikhrouhou, ISIMA,Tunisia.

Conference Co-Chairs

• Mohamed Abid, CES-Lab, Tunisia.
• Atilla Elçi, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey
• Naghmeh Moradpoor, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
• Berna Ors Yalcin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Oleg Makarevich, Ludmila Babenko, Southern Federal University, Russia
• Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, Wales
• Manoj S. Gaur, MNIT, India
• Rajveer S. Shekhawat, MUJ, India
• Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
• Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Chair

• Habib Youssef, ISITCom, Tunisia

Program Co-Chairs

• Kais Loukil, ESC, Tunisia
• Olfa Gaddour, CES Lab, Tunisia
• Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
• Alexander Chefranov, Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC
• Maxim Anikeev, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany
• Philipp Reinecke, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
• Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA
• Vijay Laxmi, MNIT, India
• Behnam Rahnama, Medis Inc., Iran
• Josef Pieprzyk,CSIRO, Australia, and Polish Academy of Sceiences, Poland

Promotion Chair

• Wassim Jmal, IEEE Tunisia CRFID Chapter.

Promotion Co-Chairs

• Habib M. Kammoun, IEEE Tunisia Section.
• Oussema Fitouri, IEEE Tunisia Computer Chapter.
• Xavier Bellekens, Strathclyde University, Scotland
• Şerif Bahtiyar, Istanbul Technical University
• Tahir Sandıkkaya, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Rajan Shankaran, Macquarie University, Australia
• Manoj Kumar Bohra, Manipal University Jaipur, India
• Benjamin NGUYEN, INSA/LIFO CVL, France.
• Chekib GHORBEL, ENICarthage, Tunisia.

Publication Chair

• Mouna Baklouti, ENIS, Tunisia.

Local Arrangement Chair

• Walid Hassairi, ISIMA, Tunisia.

Keynote Talks

Prof. Mohamed Mosbah

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Prof. Mohamed Mosbah

Prof. Mohamed Mosbah is a Professor of in computer science at the Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux. He is currently Vice-President of the institute, and he has been Director of Industrial Partnerships and Innovation in Computer Science and Engineering (from 2012 to 2018). He carries his research at LaBRI, a research Lab. in computer science common with the University of Bordeaux and CNRS, where he was the Deputy Director. His research interests include distributed computing and systems, formal models, security, intelligent transportations systems and ad hoc and sensor networks. He wrote more than 200 articles and developed software tools, and he is involved in various technical program committees and organizations of many international conferences. He is also an expert reviewer of national and European projects. He has directed over 90 Master’s theses and over 25 PhD dissertations. Prof. Mosbah obtained a French-Italian Grant in the PHC Galilee Program (2014) which subject was “Secure Distributed Protocols in Wireless Environments”. He obtained also two grants from the French Ministry of Industry for collaborative projects with Aeronautics Companies: RECORDS and SIMID which deal with safe distributed information processing. He was involved in the European-Indian REACH project (2015 – 2018), where he is the responsible of the French team. He actively participates to the collaboration between Bordeaux INP and MNIT Jaipur and he is involved in the joint CEFIPRA project (2016-2019). He was granted many projects on Intelligent Transportation Systems: a French-Tunisian PHC-utique project (2017 – 2019), the European INDID project (2019 – 2023), and 2 regional projects (2020 – 2024). He is currently leading an industrial chair, involving 10 companies, on new Mobilities and Intelligent Transportation Systems. .

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Prof. Dr. Haider Abbas

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Prof. Dr. Haider Abbas

Haider Abbas is a Tenured Professor, Head of Cyber Security and Director of the National Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation Lab (NCSAEL) at MCS- NUST. He is a Cyber Security professional, academician, researcher and industry consultant who took professional trainings and certifications from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, Stockholm University, Sweden, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Sweden, IBM, USA and Certified Ethical Hacker from EC-Council. He received his MS and PhD from KTH, Sweden. Dr. Abbas has received many awards from National and International organizations. In recognition of his services to the international research community and excellence in professional standing, he has been awarded one of the youngest Fellows of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK; a Fellow of The British Computer Society (BCS), UK and a Fellow of The Institute of Science and Technology, UK. He has been appointed as ACM distinguished speaker by ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, United States and has been elected to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE, USA.

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Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag

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Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag

Overcoming Cybersecurity Threats with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for IoT and IIoT applications

Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag received the Bachelor’s, Master’s, Ph.D., and Habilitation degrees in computer science from Badji Mokhtar—Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria, in June, 2008, June, 2010, June, 2014, and April, 2019, respectively. Since October 2014, he has been a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, Guelma University, Guelma, Algeria. Since July 2019, he has been a Visiting Senior Researcher with the NAU-Lincoln Joint Research Center of Intelligent Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include wireless network security, network coding security, applied cryptography, machine learning, and blockchain. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences in the above areas. He has been conducting several research projects with international collaborations on these topics. He was a recipient of the 2021 IEEE TEM Best Paper Award and the 2022 'Best Editor' Award from Elsevier ICT Express Journal (Impact Factor 4.754). His current H-index is 24, i10-index is 46, and 3700 citations in Google Scholar Citation. Dr. Ferrag is featured in Stanford University’s list of the world’s Top 2% scientists for the years 2019 and 2020. He reviewed more than 1240 papers for top-cited journals, including, Nature, IEEE transactions, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley journals,...etc.

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Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid

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Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid

Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid is a Full Professor at the University of Montreal. He is the founding director of Network Research Lab and Montreal Blockchain Lab. Prof. Hafid published over 250 journal and conference papers; he also holds three US patents. He supervised to graduation over 50 graduate and postgraduate students. Prior to joining U. of Montreal, he spent several years, as senior research scientist, at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), NJ, US working in the context of major research projects on the management of next generation networks. Dr. Hafid consulted for a number of companies and startups in North America; he also has been given several talks/keynotes on Blockchain and its applications. He has been teaching a Blockchain graduate course at the University of Montreal for 3 years. He co-founded Tipot Technologies Inc. (Research & Development Platform for IoT). Prof. Hafid has extensive academic and industrial research experience in the area of the communication networks and distributed systems. His current research interests include Blockchain scalability and security, IoT, Fog/edge computing, and intelligent transport systems.

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Advisory Committee Members

• Imed Romdhani , Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
• Anis Koubaa, Prince Sultan University, KSA.
• Faouzi Zarai, ENET’Com, Tunisia.
• Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Bülent Örencik, Beykent University, Turkey
• Cetin Kaya Koc, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
• Edward Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore, India
• Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Alexander Shelupanov, Tomsk State University for Control Systems and Radio Electronics, Russia

E-presence, Website and Informatics Support

• Sepideh Sadeghpour, Medis Inc., Iran
• Mojtaba Hosseini, Medis Inc., Iran