CFP: Secure Knowledge Management 2023

International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management (SKM) 2023

https://www.secure-km.org/

Tempe, AZ USA

September 22-23, 2023



========Important Dates========



*+ Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2023*

+ Notification to authors: June 10, 2023

+ Author registration: July 15, 2023

+ Deadline for final papers: July 15, 2023

+ Early registration: July 15, 2023

+ Regular registration: August 15, 2023

+ Conference dates: September 22-23, 2023



+ Note: As a result of *NSF funding*, selected US-based students whose
papers are accepted will be provided support to attend the conference.



========Call For Papers========



Knowledge Management (KM) deals with issues relating to gathering,
organizing, sharing, processing, analyzing and storing knowledge sourced
from the data and human assets of an organization. Recent trends suggest an
ever-evolving vulnerability surface in KM which poses significant
challenges with securing the entire KM lifecycle: first, there is the
increased availability and diversity of high performance devices producing
and processing large amounts data; second, advancements in AI/ML techniques
is driving increased adoption of AI/ML in a wide range of domains raising
different challenges in different contexts; emerging platforms and
environments such as Blockchains, Web3, Metaverse, etc., are contributing
additional complexities to the SKM challenge. Consequently, the issue of
how to ensure the security of the entire KM cycle is a growing and
important concern. Knowledge Management (KM) deals with issues relating to
gathering, organizing, sharing, processing, analyzing and storing knowledge
sourced from the data and human assets of an organization. Recent trends
suggest an ever-evolving vulnerability surface in KM which poses
significant challenges with securing the entire KM lifecycle: first, there
is the increased availability and diversity of high performance devices
producing and processing large amounts data; second, advancements in AI/ML
techniques is driving increased adoption of AI/ML in a wide range of
domains raising different challenges in different contexts; emerging
platforms and environments such as Blockchains, Web3, Metaverse, etc., are
contributing additional complexities to the SKM challenge. Consequently,
the issue of how to ensure the security of the entire KM cycle is a growing
and important concern.



SKM is a biannual conference that brings together researchers &
practitioners from academia, industry, and government on a global scale to
focus on relevant issues at the intersection of security and knowledge
management. The aim of the SKM-2023 conference is to present, discuss and
disseminate the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and solutions to
practical challenges relevant to the mitigation and detection of threats
across the multiple software layers that support AI and KM.



SKM-2021 was originally scheduled to be held in San Antonio, TX was
eventually held virtually due to the COVID pandemic. SKM 2019 was held in
BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, Goa, India and past iterations of SKM were held at
SUNY at Buffalo, SUNY Albany, NYU, SUNY Stony Brook, UT Dallas, Rutgers
University, BITS Dubai, University of South Florida, University of Texas,
San Antonio. Following the biennial tradition of the Secure Knowledge
Management Workshop that began in 2004, SKM-2023 will be held on September
22-23, 2023, at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA.



Papers offering novel research contributions in all aspects of SKM are
solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:



+ Advanced Software Techniques for SKM

- Security, Quality & Confidentiality of ML Labeling and Training

- Privacy Preserving AI/ML

- Security in Distributed Trust and Decentralized Applications

- Explainability and Traceability of AI/ML

- Security Testing and Risk Assessment of AI/ML

- Online Social Networks

- Security in Blockchains and Smart Contracts

- Bias in AI



+ Secure Knowledge Management Computing Frameworks

- Security in Cyber Physical Systems

- Security in Collaborative Environments

- Security in Middleware Environments

- Security in Cloud and Edge Computing

- Security in Virtual Environments

- Security in Specialized Computing Platforms e.g. Blockchains



+ Advanced Techniques for Domain-specific SKM

- Healthcare

- Social Networks and Media

- Fake News, Conversation, Voice, Video, Deep Fakes

- Online Advertising

- Industry 4.0

- Finance

- Internet of Things

- Current & Future Web, including Web3 & Metaverse

- Smart Manufacturing

- Insider Threat



========Submission Guidelines========



Only original papers should be submitted. Submissions should not
substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or
simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with
proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected
without a review.



Paper Format

All submissions must be in English and should adhere to the LNCS/CCIS
format guidelines. All papers will be published in Springer CCIS (as full
papers and short papers).



Guidelines for proceedings authors (pdf):
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings_CS.pdf

LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip):
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip

CCIS Consent form for the publication:
https://www.secure-km.org/files/Consent_Form.pdf



Including references and appendices, full paper should be 10-20 pages in
the LNCS / CCIS one-column page format. To facilitate the double-blind
paper evaluation, authors are kindly requested to submit the paper WITHOUT
any self-reference to any of the authors anywhere in the paper, including
the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may
disclose the authors’ identity. Papers should be uploaded to Microsoft CMT (
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SKM2023/Submission/Index) in PDF format
only. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors
will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. Each paper should clearly
indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution and the
problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. It is planned
to publish the peer-reviewed and selected papers of conference as
proceedings with Springer in their prestigious Communications in Computer
and Information Science series (Scopus and DBLP indexed). Some selected
papers presented at the conference will be invited for extension and
further review for a fast-tracked special issue of Information Systems
Frontiers (SCIE, Scopus and DBLP indexed) a Springer journal. Authors of
registered papers (including posters) must guarantee that their papers will
be presented at the conference. At least one FULL registration is mandatory
for each accepted paper. Papers which are not presented will be excluded
from the conference proceedings.

-- 
Kemafor Anyanwu (Ogan), Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rm 2270, EBII
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695

http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/coul/