CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Networks "Towards a Science of Cyber Security"
Cyber systems are ubiquitous in modern society. Examples of such systems include communication systems, critical infrastructure control and management systems, defense and homeland security command, control and intelligence systems. The integrity of cyber systems is critical for maintaining a functioning society. However, in spite of substantial investment of human and financial capital for design of robust and secure cyber systems over the years, the current systems are still vulnerable on many fronts. Ensuring cyber-security is a complex task, as it has to deal with strategies developed by ingenious agents determined to penetrate and disrupt systems by exploiting vulnerabilities at multiple layers of the protocol stack. Most current approaches to cyber-security are reactive and attempt to solve the security issues in an ad-hoc manner. Clearly, ad-hoc approaches can only provide ad-hoc fixes, without shedding any deep insight on the nature of the security problem. In order to identify foundational principles of cyber security, a strategic research approach is absolutely essential. Tools and techniques from related disciplines of network science, graph theory, game theory, control theory, coding theory, algorithms and complexity theory, machine learning, statistical mechanics, data mining, dynamical systems, computational sociology and others have the potential to help develop a comprehensive science of cyber security. We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that explore and develop novel methods to fight cyber attacks that go beyond traditional single-point signature based anomaly detection schemes. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Online Social Network Analysis Methods * Internet-scale measurement and analysis of online communities * Multi-protocol interaction graphs * Diffusion/Percolation theoretic analysis of attack propagation * Statistical properties of temporal interaction graphs * Cyber-physical systems used for command and control * Formal methods motivated by advances in game theory, social and behavioral sciences * Novel tools and modeling environments If you are interested in submitting an article, please see more details at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/computer-networks-on-towards-a-science-of-cyber-security/ Paper submission: June 8, 2012 Acceptance notification: August 31, 2012 Final papers: October 18, 2012 Guest Editors Stephan Eidenbenz ([email protected]) Madhav Marathe ([email protected]) Arun Sen ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
