Call for Papers

Virtual Conference. Due to the COVID-pandemic, the organisation committee decided that Privacy 2021 will be held virtually only. Accepted papers will be published as chapters in a Springer-Verlag Book as planned, and will be presented at the virtual conference.

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 16 - 18th Dec, 2021.

Dates

Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.

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:

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Privacy, Security and Smart Cities

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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.



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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. The length of the paper is expected to be in 12-25 pages.

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

Templates:

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