Artificial Intelligence, Security and Safety in Information Systems and Networks

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Security and Safety in Information Systems and Networks”.

Applications of information systems and networks are becoming increasingly common across the field of engineered systems, from cars and drones to manufacturing systems and medical devices, addressing prevailing societal changes and, increasingly, consumer demand. While information systems offer enormous economic, societal, and innovation potential, they have opened new avenues for safety, security, and privacy concerns that can adversely affect our lives and the environment. Due to the large number of connected devices and their ability to control critical physical assets, deliberate cyber attacks, and/or random failure events such as the mechanical failure of devices, communication failure, and unforeseen bad interactions between connected information systems, all these factors can cause these systems to enter unsafe and dangerous physical states. The volume of attacks on information systems and networks is constantly increasing, and attack space is evolving frequently. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop innovative techniques and methods to address safety, security, and privacy concerns in the new generation of information systems, thus assuring that they do not pose an unacceptable level of risk.

This Special Issue aims to publish work on multidisciplinary research for novel approaches, visionary ideas, experiences in tools and technologies, and case studies to address the challenges of security and safety in information systems and networks. Both review articles and novel research papers are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Safety assurance of information systems and networks;
• Security, privacy, and communication issues in information systems and networks;
• Cyber–physical threats and vulnerability analysis;
• Artificial intelligence for the safety, security, and privacy of information systems;
• Resilience and disaster recovery;
• Threat detection and prevention;
• Threat modelling for information systems;
• Privacy-enhanced technology in information systems;
• Model-based safety analysis, design, and assessment;
• Threat intelligence and information sharing;
• Blockchain for the safety and security of information systems;
• Safety/security co-analysis and risk assessment;
• Reliability analysis of information systems.

Dr. Sohag Kabir
Dr. Ibrahim Ghafir
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• security
• privacy
• safety
• reliability
• information systems
• cyber security
• Internet of Things
• intrusion detection and prevention
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• blockchain