Call for papers

The 2021 International Symposium on Privacy, Security and Smart Cities (Privacy2021)
16-18 Dec 2021, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

https://aiconferences.github.io/Privacy2021/

****** IMPORTANT DATES (Updated) ******
Abstract submission: 30th Nov 2021
Paper submission: 30th Nov 2021
Notification: 10th Dec 2021
Main Conference(Slides): 16-18 Dec 2021
Camera-ready: 21st Dec 2021

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REMOTE PARTICIPATION: Due to global COVID, we have decided that virtual participation will be possible 
even if the conference will (also) be held physically.

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****** ABOUT Privacy 2021 ******

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers for The 2021 International Symposium on Privacy, Security 
and Smart Cities (Privacy2021), which will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on 26 - 28 Aug, 2021.

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****** OBJECTIVES and SCOPE ******

Recently digital cities have been emerging as a technology reality that will come to dominate the usual 
life of people, in either developed or developing countries. Particularly, with big data issues from 
smart cities, privacy and security has been a widely concerned matter due to its relevance and sensitivity 
extensively present in cybersecurity, healthcare, medical service, e-commercial, e-governance, mobile banking, 
e-finance, and so on. 
These new topics rises up with the era of smart cities and mostly associate with public sectors, which are 
vital to the modern life of people. This conference will highlight recent research advances in these emerging 
challenges, and aims to capture recent developments in Smart Cities technologies, particularly, with a focus 
on new technologies such as biometrics, block chains, data encryption, data mining, machine learning, deep 
learning, cloud security, mobile security, etc. The goal of this symposium is to summarize the recent advances 
in addressing the challenges on Big Data Privacy and Security in Smart Cities.


The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Privacy, Security and Smart Cities:

e-Infrastructure for Smart Cities:
- Managing Big Data (including Edge and cloud computing)
- Security of Big Data (cybersecurity, encryption, digital watermarking)
- Privacy and security
- AI applications (and AIoT)
- Edges and Clouds
- Data Hiding and Watermarking
- Data Encryption and Hashing

e-Services in Smart Cities:
- e-Health (health and well-being data analysis, service delivery)
- e-Medical Services
- Transport (driverless vehicles, intelligent vehicles and VANET)

e-City Management (or e-City Governance):
- e-government (including state-citizen interaction)
- e-democracy
- e-Finance, e-Banking, bitcoins, e-Commerce
- Environment (Resources and recycling, climate change monitoring and planning)
- Energy Optimization

Other Topics related to Smart Cities:
- New 5G/6G Appications
- Quantum Computing
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- City Surveillance
- Forensic Applications
- Smart Home
- Smart Homecare Services
- etc.


****** SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ******
We solicit the following types of papers:

Regular papers, with original research contributions;
Short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges;
Survey papers, on summarzing the state of the art research and advances.

Each paper is expected to present a novel research study, a comparative study, or a survey of the literature. 

All submissions should be done via EasyChair: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=privacy2021 

Original artwork and a signed copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers.

For author instructions, please visit:

https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/your-publication-journey/manuscript-preparation#c3324

Please feel free to contact us via email (privacy2021@easychair.org) regarding your papers.

****** Organization ******

Conference Chairs:
Prof Chang-tsun Li (Deakin University, UK)
Prof Ahmed Bouridane (Northumbria University, UK)

Programme Chair:
Dr Richard Jiang (Lancaster University, UK)

Advisory Committee:
Prof Eran Edirisinghe (Loughborough University, UK)
Prof Al-maadeed Somaya (Qatar University, Qatar)
Prof Feng Hao (Warwick University, UK)
Prof Danny Crookes (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Prof Said Boussakta (Newcastle University, UK)