=== Covid19 Statement ===

Due to the rapidly changing Covid-19 situation globally, both UCC 2020 and BDCAT 2020 will take place on-line. Accordingly, this workshop will also be conducted online. All papers in CIFS 2020 will be delivered on-line. The registration fees have been adapted to reflect this change. All peer-reviewed accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE.

2nd International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2020 (previous editions: CIFS 2019)
Co-located with the 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing — UCC 2020
University of Leicester, England Online, December 7-10, 2020

Programme

The workshop programme is now available. CIFS workshop takes place on Dec 09, 2020 11 am - 1 pm GMT.
11:00 – 13:00 CIFS Workshop
Title Authors
11:00 – 11:20 Open-source Serverless Architectures: An Evaluation of Apache OpenWhisk Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK), Matthew Parker (University of Leeds, UK) and Daniel Datsev (University of Leeds, UK)
11:20 – 11:25 Q&A and discussions with audience
11:25 – 11:45 Rule-Based Resource Matchmaking for Composite Application Deployments across IoT-Fog-Cloud Continuums Josef Spillner (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Panagiotis Gkikopoulos (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), Alina Buzachis (University of Messina), and Massimo Villari (University of Messina)
11:45 – 11:50 Q&A and discussions with audience
11:50 – 12:10 Self-Supervised Anomaly Detection from Distributed Traces Jasmin Bogatinovski (Technische Universitat Berlin), Sasho Nedelkoski (Technische Universitat Berlin), Jorge Cardoso (Huawei Munich Research Center), and Odej Kao (Technische Universitat Berlin)
12:10 – 12:15 Q&A and discussions with audience
12:15 – 12:35 Blockchain Mobility Solution for Charging Transactions of Electrical Vehicles Ahmed Afif Monrat (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Olov Schelén (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), and Karl Andersson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
12:35 – 12:40 Q&A and discussions with audience
12:40 – 13:00 (Invited talk - Industry) Cloud Native Secrets Management Mircea Cosbuc, Container Solutions

Description

Sensors and actuators are becoming pervasive. From empowering smart agri-tech, to cities, to even our own households, sensors and IoT are revolutionizing all dimensions of computing. With advancements in low energy communication standards, low energy computing - from message encodings, to on-the-fly encryption, etc. we are seeing emergence of new paradigms such as Fog, Serverless and Continuum computing which are empowered by high capacity core networks and large datacenters thrown in the mix. Such a scheme of things creates new opportunities but also are rife with challenges which must be overcome. This workshop aims to discuss recent advances around holistic security, deployment modes, communication mediums, line protocols, data collection, and multi-level processing and application development in such systems.

Topics of Interest

We solicit research papers (up to 6p) and technical industry reports (typically 3-6p) on the following topics:
  • Secure cloud computing concepts (homomorphic encryption, enclaves, hardware security modules, stealth computing among others)
  • Long-term distributed data storage security and proof-of-ownership/provision/retrievability
  • End-to-end security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuums
  • Physical and digital security of IoT deployments, smart meters and other end devices
  • Privacy and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
  • Risks and threats including spoofing, identity manipulation and distortion
  • Audit facilities and compliance mechanisms
  • Cross-border, cross-provider and cross-stack security issues
  • Human factors: simplicity and controllability of security measures
  • Applications in digitalised health care, ecology, agriculture and other fields

Submission Information

Submitted papers should contain results or reports not already published or submitted elsewhere, in IEEE format. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three programme committee members. The evaluation will be based on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop topics, technical strength, quality of results, and clarity of the presentation. The publication of the workshop proceeding with all accepted papers will be by the IEEE and will appear in the same volume as the UCC 2020 and BDCAT 2020 conferences. At least one author of each accepted submission must register in full and attend the workshop to present and all workshop participants must pay the IEEE conference or workshop registration fee.

CIFS 2020 submission @ EasyChair

Important Dates

  • Submission September 1 10, 2020 (hard deadline)
  • Notification September 15 20, 2020
  • Camera-ready & registration October 1, 2020
All deadlines are indicated as AOE - Anywhere On Earth.

Technical Programme Committee

  • Stephen Kirkman - Regis University, Colorado, USA
  • Sachin Tripathi - Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India
  • Richard Newman - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  • Inkwan Yoo - Qauntit, Seoul, South Korea
  • Diego F. Aranha - Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Daniel Macedo Batista - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Alexandre Braga - UNICAMP, Brazil

Workshop Organisers

  • Piyush Harsh, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • Juliana Freitag Borin, Institute of Computing - State University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Farhad Khalilnia, Penta
Note: CIFS 2020 is supported by an Innovation Starting Grant of the Swiss Leading House for South America, with funds of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).