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C a l l F o r P a p e r s
CRITIS 2014
9th International Conference on
Critical Information Infrastructures Security
October 13-15, 2014
Limassol, Cyprus
http://critis2014.org
Modern society relies on the availability and smooth operation of a
variety of complex engineering systems. These systems are termed
Critical Infrastructure Systems (CIS). Some of the most prominent
examples of critical infrastructure systems are electric power systems,
telecommunication networks, water distribution systems, transportation
systems, wastewater and sanitation systems, financial and banking
systems, food production and distribution, and oil/natural gas
pipelines. Our everyday life and well-being depend heavily on the
reliable operation and efficient management of these critical
infrastructures. The citizens expect that critical infrastructure
systems will always be available and that, at the same time, they will
be managed efficiently (i.e., they will have a low cost). Experience has
shown that this is most often true. Nevertheless, critical
infrastructure systems fail occasionally. Their failure may be due to
natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes and floods), accidental failures
(e.g., equipment failures, software bugs, and human errors), or
malicious attacks (either direct or remote). When critical
infrastructures fail, the consequences are tremendous. These
consequences may be classified into societal, health, and economic.
On behalf of the Steering Committee and the Local Organizing Committee
we invite you to submit papers and attend the CRITIS 2014 conference.
CRITIS 2014 continues a well-established tradition of successful annual
conferences. It aims at bringing together researchers and professionals
from academia, industry and governmental organizations working in the
field of the security of critical infrastructure systems.
Conference web site
http://critis2014.org
Important dates
Deadline for invited session proposals: March 26, 2014
Deadline for submission of papers: April 2, 2014
Notification to authors: June 1, 2014
Camera-ready papers: June 25, 2014
Venue
Limassol, Cyprus
Submission
Further details for submission procedures will be announced in the
updated call for papers in early January 2014.
Topics
• Infrastructure resilience and survivability
• Security and protection of complex cyber-physical systems
• Self-healing, self-protection, and self-management architectures
• Cyber security in critical infrastructure systems
• Critical (information-based) infrastructures exercises and
contingency plans
• Advanced forensic methodologies for critical information
infrastructures
• Economics, investments and incentives of critical infrastructure
protection
• Infrastructure dependencies: modeling, simulation, analysis and
validation
• Critical infrastructure network and organizational vulnerability
analysis
• Critical infrastructure threat and attack modelling
• Public-private partnership for critical infrastructure resilience
• Critical infrastructure protection polices at national and
cross-border levels
• Fault diagnosis for critical infrastructures
• Fault tolerant control for critical infrastructures
• Security and protection of smart buildings
• Detection and management of incidents/attacks on critical
infrastructures
• Preparedness, prevention, mitigation and planning
Call for Special Sessions
Proposals for organizing special sessions during CRITIS 2014 are
cordially invited. Special sessions will comprise 4-6 papers presenting
a unifying theme of interest to the conference attendees from a
diversity of viewpoints. Special Session proposals from active research
projects are particularly welcomed. Proposals for special sessions must
include the title of the session, a paragraph describing the theme of
the session, names and affiliation of the contributing authors, and
tentative titles of the contributions.
The component papers must be submitted separately, by the respective
authors, as per the regular submission procedure. Each paper in a
proposed invited session will be individually reviewed. Any rejected
papers submitted as part of an invited session will be removed and
appropriate contributed papers may be substituted, at the discretion of
the Program Committee. Likewise, selected papers from rejected invited
sessions may be placed into other sessions. Further exchanges may be
made to ensure coherence of the sessions, at the discretion of the
Program Committee.
Organizing Committee
Marios Polycarpou (University of Cyprus, General Co-Chair)
Elias Kyriakides (University of Cyprus, General Co-Chair)
Christos Panayiotou (University of Cyprus, Program Chair)
Vicenç Puig (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Program Co-Chair)
Erich Rome (Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems, Program Co-Chair)
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