<div style="color:#0000FF;;"><div><div><font color="#000000">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Special issue on : Enabling Cognitive Smart Cities: Security and Privacy in IoT applications</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">A smart city is a label given to a city that incorporates information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and performance of urban services such as energy, transportation and utilities in order to reduce resource consumption, wastage and overall costs. The main objective of a smart city is to enhance the quality of living for its citizens through smart technologies like the Internet, telecommunications network, broadcast network, wireless broadband network and other sensors networks where high-performance computing, computing intelligence, cloud computing as well as IoT is at its core. With the explosive growth of smart city, IoT and high-performance computing based services receive increasing attention. It creates many scientific and engineering challenges that call for ingenious research efforts for the development of efficient, scalable, and reliable communication and network technologies.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">In particular, internet of things (IoT) with cloud computing plays an vital role to connect everything and to the Internet through specific protocols for information exchange and communications, achieving intelligent recognition, location, tracking, monitoring and management. IoT with cloud-based smart cities can provide various kinds of services for both the citizens and the administrators. For example, smart homes, smart parking lots, weather systems, vehicular traffic, environmental pollution, surveillance systems, smart energy, and smart grids.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">One of the biggest concerns, while using any of the IoT based applications is the safety and privacy of individual users. Any breach in the security leads to confidential data loss, which further leads to financial loss. Any such security breach leads to compromise of an individual’s privacy. As many devices are connected, the security risk gets increase a lot in IoT based smart city applications. </font></div><div><font color="#000000">Future cities are to be not only an intelligent and green living environment but also providing human-centric public services at a lower cost. The IoT, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computational intelligence, and high-performance computing are four pillars for smart cities enablement and define the transition from smart to cognitive. Cognitive smart city refers to the convergence of emerging IoT and smart city technologies, their generated big data, and artificial intelligence techniques to predictive, proactive real-time adaptations over suggestion management</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Smart city implementation may include implementation of - Smart energy grid, Intelligent buildings, smart water management, connected healthcare and patient monitoring, environment/climate monitoring, connected cars, and smart transportation, intruder detection using home Wi-Fi router, vehicular network for traffic control, and video surveillance with intelligent recognition, location tracking, monitoring and management. A consistent citizen enagagement, uniquitous data collection, and sophisticated analytics can lead to the shift to produce the best kind of cognitive city.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">The motivation of the special issue is to invite research scholars, academic researchers and industry professionals to submit their research ideas and implementations related to artificial intelligence and deep learning for the security and privacy in computer, IoT and communication networks. </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Topics are as below but are not limited to:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Security issues in smart city </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Deep Learning for IoT</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>IoT architectures, protocols, and algorithms for applications</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Smart education and health services</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Event alert and prediction in smart cities</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Intelligent data processing</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Machine Learning techniques for smart cities</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>AI based data generation and management </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>High-performance computing for smart cities</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Privacy in communication network</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>AI-based solutions for smart city</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cyber-physical systems and society</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reliability, security, privacy and trust</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Submission Guidelines:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, the significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers (the papers will be reviewed following standard peer-review procedures of the Journal). Each paper will be reviewed rigorously and possibly in two rounds. Prospective authors should follow the formatting and Instructions of Computer Communications Journal website at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/, and invited to submit their papers directly via the online submission system to choose SI: CSCIoT . Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Schedule:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Deadline for submissions: 30th November 2019</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Notification of First Round: 15th January 2020</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Submission of Revision: 20th March 2020</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Acceptance: 15th May 2020</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Tentative Publication Date: July- 2020</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Guest Editors:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Prof. Prabhat K. Mahanti</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Professor</font></div><div><font color="#000000">University of New Brunswick</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Canada.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: pmahanti@unbsj.ca</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: http://www2.unb.ca/~pmahanti/</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Prof. Chuan-Ming Liu Professor</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering</font></div><div><font color="#000000">National Taipei University of Technology</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Taiwan </font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: cmliu@csie.ntut.edu.tw</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: https://myweb.ntut.edu.tw/~cmliu/</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Prof. Mahmoud Shafik</font></div><div><font color="#000000">College of Engineering and Technology</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Department of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics</font></div><div><font color="#000000">University of Derby</font></div><div><font color="#000000">United Kingdom(UK)</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: m.shafik@derby.ac.uk</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: https://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/mahmoud-shafik/</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Prof. Vincenzo Puri</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Professor</font></div><div><font color="#000000">University of Milan</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Italy</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: vincenzo.piuri@unimi.it</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: http://homes.di.unimi.it/piuri/</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Prof. Amir H. Gandomi</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Department of Analytics and Information Systems</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Steven Institute of Technology</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: a.h.gandomi@stevens.edu</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: http://gandomi.beacon-center.org/</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Dr. Deepak Kumar Jain</font></div><div><font color="#000000">State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Institute of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Chongqing, China</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Email: deepak@cqupt.edu.cn</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Webpage: Http: //faculty.cqupt.edu.cn/DeepakKumarJain/zh_CN/index.htm</font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><sign signid="0"><font color="#000000"><div style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 12px;"><br><br><br><br>------------------</div></font><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;"><font color="#000000"></font><div><font color="#000000"><b><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Dr. Deepak Kumar Jain</font></font></font></font></b></font></div><div><b><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Institute of Automation,</font></font></font></font></b></div><div><b><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,</font></font></font></font></b></div><div><b><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Chongqing, PR China</font></font></font></font></b></div><div><b><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Email: deepak@cqupt.edu.cn, dkj@ieee.org</font></font></font></font></b></div>
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