Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security


Call for Papers

The AI-CyberSec workshop organising committee would like to invite submissions of novel theoretical and applied research in all areas where AI and cybersecurity intersect. These include the effective use of AI technologies in defensive/offensive security applications, the malicious use of AI technologies, and the improvement of the security and resilience of AI technologies. Example submission areas include (but are not limited to):

Topics

  • AI for cybersecurity:

    • AI and ML for intrusion detection/prevention and cyber attack mitigation

    • AI for cyber investigation and threat intelligence

    • AI and ML for biometric and continuous authentication

    • Integration of AI and Blockchain for security critical infrastructures

    • Applications of AI and ML for security orchestration, automation, and response

    • AI-based cybersecurity techniques for smart interconnected devices, IoT, smart cities

    • Advanced AI techniques to secure future Internet architectures/protocols

    • Explainability and interpretability of AI cybersecurity systems

    • Ethical aspects of AI cybersecurity systems

  • Malicious use of AI:

    • AI attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results

    • AI in attacks targeting cyber-physical systems, IoT, smart cities

    • Automation of tasks in cyber-offense

    • Automation of social engineering attacks

    • Automation of vulnerability discovery

    • Exploiting AI/ML used in cybersecurity systems

  • Cybersecurity for AI:

    • Cybersecurity of connected and autonomous devices

    • AI and risk management in AI supply chains and similar applications

    • Robustness of AI models

    • Privacy management, privacy-preserving ML and data leak prevention

    • Adversarial attacks on AI and defensive strategies

Submission & Format

Submissions can be made as:

  1. Long papers (10-14 pages + 2 page references, single column): Long papers should present original research work and be no longer than sixteen pages in total: fourteen pages for the main text of the paper (including all figures but excluding references), and two additional pages for references.

  2. Short papers (7-9 pages + 1 page reference, single column): Short papers may report on works in progress, descriptions of available datasets, as well as data collection efforts. Short paper submissions should be no longer than nine pages in total: eight pages for the main text of the paper (including all figures but excluding references), and one additional page for references.

Both long and short papers must be formatted according to ceurart styles/SGAI guidelines and submitted electronically through EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicybersec2021. The ceurart styles can be found from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

The papers accepted for AI-CyberSec 2021 shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Authors will also be invited to submit the extended version of their papers to the special issue: "Selected Papers from the AI-CyberSec 2021 Workshop in the 41st SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence" of the electronics journal (impact factor 2.4). More information can be found here https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/AI_CyberSec_2021_Workshop The publication costs for authors in the special issue (open access) shall be funded by the IDUN programme and we encourage female authors and co-authors to submit papers to the workshop.