The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security (CINS) will be held fully virtually on June 14, 2021 in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS.
Videos of Presentations
Call for Papers
The modern critical infrastructure networks are characterized by increasing complexity and pervasiveness. Realistic mathematical models of such networks should take into account their multilayered, interdependent, heterogeneous, and dynamic nature. Modeling the security aspects of critical infrastructure requires understanding of risks and uncertainties associated with potential natural disasters and adversarial attacks involving multiple interacting agents. On top of this, the impact and dependence of human-made infrastructure on ecosystems, biodiversity, and socio-economic interactions are becoming increasingly important and cannot be overlooked. Therefore, motivated by recent crises related to pandemics, cascading blackouts, and forest fires, this workshop aims to focus on issues related to the interdependence of infrastructure and ecological, biological, and social networks, in addition to more traditional topics concerning security, robustness, and vulnerability of infrastructure networks. More specifically, the workshop participants will discuss recent progress and will seek to identify promising future research directions on the following topics, among others:
- Mathematical models describing structures that characterize the network's robustness and vulnerability to a cyber/physical attack or a natural disaster.
- Probability-based risk measures characterizing a network’s vulnerability to edge/node failures.
- Exact, approximate, and heuristic algorithms for designing minimum cost robust network topologies and for detecting robust structures of interest in networks.
- Mathematical models and algorithms for identification of critical network components.
- Optimization and machine learning techniques to predict, restrict and control the damages and losses associated with various risk factors that affect the operations of interdependent networked systems.
- Case studies concerning ecosystems, as well as large-scale real-life supply chain, communication, social, and energy networks.
We invite submissions of short abstracts (up to one page) of proposed talks.
Important Dates
May 17, 2021: Abstract submission
May 31, 2021: Author notification
June 10, 2021: Early registration deadline
June 14, 2021: Workshop
Organizers
Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University)
Pavlo Krokhmal (University of Arizona)
Program Committee
Baski Balasundaram (Oklahoma State University)
Vladimir Boginski (University of Central Florida)
Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University)
Illya Hicks (Rice University)
Dmytro Matsypura (University of Sydney)
Oleg Prokopyev (University of Pittsburgh)
Arun Sen (Arizona State University)
My Thai (University of Florida)
Keynote Speakers
Schedule
Download Schedule and Abstracts in PDF
Times are given for the Eastern Standard Time (EST) zone.
09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10-10:00 Keynote: Game Theory and Variational Inequalities: From Transportation and Supply Chains to Financial Networks and the Internet
Anna Nagurney
10:00-10:30 Failure Mitigation and Restoration in Interdependent Networks via Mixed-integer Optimization
Cheng-Lung Chen
10:30-10:50 Virtual Coffee Break
10:50-11:40 Keynote: A Market Mechanism for Trading Flexibility Between Interconnected Electricity Markets
Alfredo Garcia
11:40-12:10 Robust Minimum-Cost Flow Problems Under Multiple Ripple Effect Disruptions
Juan Borrero
12:10-01:30 Virtual Lunch Break
01:30-02:00 Assessing Systemic Risk under Uncertain Liabilities
Jiming Peng
02:00-02:30 The Optimal Design of Low-latency Virtual Backbones
Hamidreza Validi
02:30-03:00 Why Is Maximum Clique Often Easy in Practice?
Jose L. Walteros
03:00-03:20 Virtual Coffee Break
03:20-04:10 Keynote: Optimization and System Security
David Morton
04:10-05:00 Keynote: Resilience of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems: An Optimization Approach
Pascal Van Hentenryck
CINS.pdf