CFP – IEEE ICHMS 2025 Special Session on "Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Systems for the Protection and Resilience of Critical Infrastructures"

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Rosario GAETA

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Jan 9, 2025, 8:58:57 AM1/9/25

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a special session named “Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical Systems for the Protection and Resilience of Critical Infrastructures” at the upcoming 5th IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS 2025), to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from May 26-28, 2025.

Abstract:

The health and security of a country always passes through the protection of its critical infrastructures, which are the essential systems, networks, and assets vital for a country both from a services, security and economic point of view. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) play an important role by ensuring the smooth, efficient, and secure operation of critical infrastructures, while Digital Twins (DTs) techniques and technologies also bring new approaches to monitor critical infrastructures, facilitating their preservation with analysis and prediction activities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for anomaly and issues detection, but also LLMs and Chatbots for supporting human Situation Awareness and Decision Making, are crucial and revolutionary for critical infrastructure protection, including but not limited to Cultural Heritage safeguarding.The use of the paradigms of CPSs and DTs, even combined and with the support of AI technologies, bring new possibilities related to the protection of a nation's critical assets through advanced technology, strategic planning, and continuous monitoring. This session will explore the roles of DTs and CPSs in enhancing the resilience, the maintenance and safeguard of critical infrastructures, considering all the aspect of homeland security, for protection against internal and external threats in critical assets related to energy, transportation, healthcare, communication, financial systems, cultural heritage and other sectors in which the disruption or damages of their critical infrastructure can have severe economic, social, and security consequences.

Topics:

We invite researchers, scholars, and industry professionals to contribute original work in topics including, but not limited to:

● Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) and Digital Twins for Critical Infrastructures;

● Decision Support Systems for Cyber-Physical security;

● Human-Machine Systems and Human-AI systems for safety and security;

● Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience;

● Homeland Security;

● Context and Situation Awareness;

● AI (including Gen AI, xAI), LLM and Chatbot for Critical Infrastructure Protection and cybersecurity;

● CPSS and Internet of Things for Monitoring and Maintenance of Critical Systems;

● Cognitive and autonomous systems for monitoring and surveillance;

● Application-specific research in critical domains including cultural heritage, healthcare, transportation, energy, communication, etc;

● Fake news and Information Disorder.

Session Organizers:

· Massimo DE SANTO University of Salerno, Department of Industrial Engineering, Italy, des...@unisa.it;

· Francesco FLAMMINI, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland, francesco...@supsi.ch, University of Florence, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Italy, francesco...@unifi.it;

· Rosario GAETA, University of Salerno, Department of Industrial Engineering, Italy, rga...@unisa.it.

This session is supported by the IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on Homeland Security.

Special Issue Opportunity: Selected papers accepted at ICHMS 2025 will have the privileged opportunity to submit an extended version to a dedicated Special Issue of the esteemed IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS).

Important Dates and Deadlines

Please refer to:

https://ieee-ichms.org/2025/deadlines.html

We look forward to your valuable contributions and to welcoming you to Abu Dhabi in May 2025.