Tuesday, 5th March 2024

08:00 – 9:00 Registration (main conference)

09:00 – 09:30 Opening remark (main conference)

09:30 – 10:30 Keynote: Gene Tsudik (main conference)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

AIoTS Workshop (Venue: Room 1 https://wp.nyu.edu/acns2024/venue/ )

11:00 – 12:40 Session 1

11:00 – 11:30 

Keynote Talk 1

Speaker: Dr Hoda Alkhzaim

Title: The Future of IoT Security: AI/ML and Lightweight Cryptography Countering Emerging Threats

11:30 – 11:50

AIOTS101 - Measuring Cyber Resilience of IoT-enabled Critical National Infrastructures (Authors: Adeola Adewumi, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Tooska Dargahi and Olamide Jogunola)

11:50 – 12:10 

AIOTS103 - Evaluation of Lightweight Machine Learning-based NIDS Techniques for Industrial IoT (Authors: Alex Baron, Laurens Le Jeune, Wouter Hellemans, Md Masoom Rabbani and Nele Mentens)

12:10 – 12:30 

AIOTS105 - Power Quality Forecasting of Microgrids using Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (Authors: Mazhar Ali, Ajit Kumar and Bong Jun Choi)

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Session 2

14:00 – 14:30

AIOTS104 - Device Fingerprinting in a Smart Grid CPS (Authors: Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Nandha Kumar Kandasamy, Darren Ng Wei Hong and Jianying Zhou)

Workshop papers should be submitted online via EasyChair at:    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiots2024. 

All accepted papers from this workshop will be invited to submit their extended version to a special issue of the IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications journal. This is an open access journal. Your organisation may be eligible for automatic APC waiver (automatic country waiver or the transitional deal). If not, we will provide TWO quality papers with a full APC waiver to publish their work in this journal.

All accepted papers will also have the opportunity to be considered for the 'ACNS best workshop paper' - a chance to win EUR 500 sponsored by the Springer.

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has received a lot of attention, especially for the success of deep learning in addressing problems that were considered hard before. Big players, such as Google, Amazon, and Baidu, are exploring the application of AI in different markets, including healthcare, FinTech, and autonomous vehicles. Together with AI, technologies like Internet-of-Things (IoT) have boosted the emerging Industry 4.0, where through the adoption of Industrial-IoT (IIoT) into the production chain, companies want smarter manufacturing that can be adapted to their customers’ needs. The accelerating adoption of new technologies brings challenges primarily associated with the cybersecurity of the applications, where confidentiality, integrity, and data availability are crucial. Security incident in IIoT impacts the safety properties since applications interact physically with people or other assets. The intersection of AI and cybersecurity can be seen as a two-fold relationship. On the one hand, AI techniques can be adopted to improve state-of-the-art security solutions. On the other hand, cybersecurity can contribute to improving the security of AI algorithms through the exploration of adversarial machine learning. This workshop aims to open a space where new research ideas from different areas converge into the intersection of AI, IIoT, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and cybersecurity. We encourage researchers and experts in the fields of AI, embedded systems, CPS, and cybersecurity to take the opportunity to use this workshop to share their work and open the discussion of new ideas on this always evolving topic.

AIoTS aims to cover various fields of application in the area of security and privacy within the fields of artificial intelligence and industrial IoT. Thus, suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following points:

• Formal Security and Resilience Analysis on AI and IIoT/CPS

• Risk Management and Governance for AI and IIoT-based Applications

• AI-Assisted Critical Infrastructure Security

• (Federated) Adversarial Machine Learning

• AI for Detection, Prevention, Response, and Recovery against Potential Threats

• AI for Wide-Area Situational Awareness and Traceability

• Applied Cryptography for AI and IIoT

• Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems and/or IIoT

• Applications of Formal Methods to IIoT Security

• Blockchain for Trustworthy IIoT/CPS-based applications

• Embedded Systems Security

• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

• Cyber Threat Intelligence for AI and IIoT/CPS

Submissions must be original and must not duplicate work that any authors have published elsewhere or submitted in parallel to any other venue with formally published proceedings. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement, or obvious references. Each submission must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Likewise, all submissions must follow the original LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page limit of 18 pages (including references) for the main part (reviewers are not required to read beyond this limit) and 30 pages in total. It is strongly encouraged that submissions be processed in LaTeX. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and make a full version available online. Therefore, each accepted paper must be presented by a registered author. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

ACNS'24 offers travel grants for students and provides a significant opportunity for student participants, encouraging student-led papers and presentations, networking opportunities for students, and experiencing the research-driven environment during the conference. You can find more details about these grants on our ACNS'24 Student Travel Grants website (https://wp.nyu.edu/acns2024/student-travel-grants/). 

• Sridhar Adepu, University of Bristol

• Ajit Kumar, Soongsil University

• Daisuke Mashima, Illinois Advanced Research Center, Singapore

• Nikhil Tripathi, IIIT Sri City

• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Newcastle University

• Vishal Sharma, Queen's University Belfast

• Charalambos Konstantinou, KAUST

• Mayank Swarnkar, IIT (BHU), Varanasi 

• Sangram Ray, NIT Sikkim 

• Ali Ismail Awad, UAE University 

• Chaminda Thushara Hewage, Cardiff Metropolitan University 

• Pradeep Kumar, Swansea University 

• Rohit Verma, School of Computing, National College of Ireland  

• Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023

• Workshop Paper Submission Extended Deadline: November 25, 2023, December 10, 2023 (Final Extension) 

•  Workshop Paper Notification: December 22, 2023, January 10, 2024 

•  Submission of Camera-Ready Papers for the Proceedings: January 9, 2024, January 24, 2024

•  Workshop Dates: March 5-8, 2024 (in parallel with the leading conference)

If you have any questions or inquiries regarding the workshop, please feel free to get in touch with Prof. Neetesh Saxena (nsaxena@ieee.org) or Prof Bong Jun Choi (davidchoi@soongsil.ac.kr ).