eGovernment 2017 - 7th International Conference on eDemocracy Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent eGovernment Services

The 7th International Conference on eDemocracy Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent eGovernment Services
Date: December 14-15, 2017
Location: Athens, Greece
Paper submission ends: June 16, 2017!
Papers must be received by the deadline of 16 June 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) . The authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to extend their work for further publication in special issues of well known Scientific Journals.
We look forward to your submissions!
Website: http://www.edemocracy2017.eu/
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Important Dates
Full paper submission deadline: 16 June 2017
Notification of decision: 3 September 2017
Camera-ready deadline: 17 September 2017
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The Hellenic Scientific Council for Information Society (HSCIS) with the active participation of the Greek Data Protection Authority (GDPA) and nearly all the Greek and a substantial number of European Universities take the bold step in opening up the term of e-democracy to its full potential and the new challenges. That is why, the 7th International e-Democracy 2017 Conference is focusing on “Privacy- Preserving, Secure, Intelligent e-Government Services”.
The working language of the 7th International Conference on “e-Democracy 2017: Privacy-Preserving, Secure, Intelligent e-Government Services” is English. It is possible though, that Greek Law cases on e-Democracy issues can be presented in Greek.
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Topics of interest
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
e-Democracy and e-Participation
e-Campaigning, e-Politics
Tools for supporting freedom of expression, opinion, assembly and association
e-Justice
e-Voting
Supporting children’s rights online
Information and Consultation Platforms
Collaborative working environments for e-Democracy
Social computing and e-Democracy
Citizen-sourcing and Policy Informatics
Value Co-creation
Citizen centered applications
Smart Cities
e-Government
Open and Big Data for e-Government
Cloud computing for e-Government
Intelligent Systems in e-Government Services
Artificial Intelligence Applications in e-Government
Blockchain Technologies for e-Government
Machine Learning Techniques in e-Government Systems
Robots in e-Government Systems
m-Government
e-Government services and administrative burdens
Business process modeling for e-Government systems
Tools and models for e-Government development
Human rights enhancing technologies
Case studies and European projects
Security, Privacy and Trust
Security, Privacy and Trust in e-Business services
Security, Privacy and Trust in e-Government services
Security, Privacy and Trust in Online Social Network Services
Cloud Computing Security and Privacy
CyberPhysical Systems Security
Identity Management, Identity Theft and Trust Management
Information Audit and Trust
Intelligent Systems for Data Protection or/and Security
Artificial Intelligence for Security or/and Data Protection
Machine Learning Techniques in Security or/and Data Protection
Trust and Reputation in Digital Environments
Cyber attacks and Advances on Network Security
Cryptographic Technologies
Anonymisation Methodologies and Best Practices
Privacy by Design and Default Methodologies
Tracking Technologies and Do-Not-Track Systems
Privacy Impact Assessment Methodologies
Privacy Enhancing Location and Mobility Management
Security and Privacy Audit, Risk and Governance
Security and Data Protection Education
Tradeoffs between security and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost
Biometrics and privacy
e-Crime, e-Fraud and Digital Forensics
Cyber Crime Detection and Prevention
Internet Fraud, Cyber War
Computer Forensics and Anti-forensics
Social, legal and ethical issues
Transparency and Accountability in Data Protection
Ethics in Digital Societies
Surveillance Technologies and Legal Implications
Freedom of Expression and Privacy
Freedom of Information and Privacy
Social factors of collaborative creativity
Right to anonymity vs accountability
The following workshops and sessions will also be conducted among others that will be announced shortly: Workshop I: Economic Crisis and ICT in the Public and Private Sector, Workshop II: Scouting European Union Online: In pursuit for E-Participation and E-Governance at the Grassroots
Special Session: Forced migration in the 21st century, an opportunity for Digital Services to Enhance Lives
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Submission Guidelines
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Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that have been simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages long, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/c...). Submissions are to be made to the submission web site athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edemocracy.... Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.Papers must be received by the deadline of 16 June 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) .
The authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to extend their work for further publication in special issues of well known Scientific Journals.
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Conference Honorary Chair
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Alexander B. Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (as-AT-aua.gr)
Conference Steering Committee:
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Chairs
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Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece (ska-AT-unipi.grr)
Vasilis Zorkadis, President of SCIS, Greece (zorkadis-AT-dpa.gr)
Secretary: Philippos Mitletton, Secretary General of SCIS, Greece (filipos-AT-dpa.gr)
Τreasurer : George Loukeris, Τreasurer of SCIS, Greece (loukeris-AT-otenet.gr)
Members
Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Constantine Yialouris, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Elias Pimenidis, University of the West of England, UK
Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece (eloukis-AT-aegean.gr)
Zoi Kardasiadou, European Data Protection Supervisor, (zoi.kardasiadou-AT-edps.europa.eu)
Irene Vassilaki, Lawyer, Greece
Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Spyros Voulgaris, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Charalampos Patrikakis, Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece
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Program Committee:
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Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Applied Science (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
Maria Bottis, Ionian University, Greece Athena Bourka, ENISA, Greece
Elias Carayannis, George Washington University, USA
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK
Tina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE
Sabrina De, Capitani di Vimercati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Prokopios Drogkaris, ENISA, Greece
Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain
Sara Foresti, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
Jürgen Fuß, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
Dimitris Geneiatakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Mp Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Ioanna Kantzavelou, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Zoe Kardasiadou, European Data Protection Supervisor, Belgium
Sotiris Karetsos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Maria Karyda, University of the Aegean, Greece
Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Nicholas Kolokotronis, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Stewart Kowalski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Western Macedonia, Greece
Kostas Limniotis, Data Protection Authority, Greece
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Nikos Lorentzos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Emmanouil Magkos, Ionian University, Greece
Vojtech Merunka, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic
Lilian Mitrou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Martin Molhanec, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
Maria Ntaliani, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece
Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Peter Parycek, Danube-University Krems, Austria
Andreas Pashalidis, BSI, Germany
Charalampos Patrikakis, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (T.E.I. of Piraeus), Greece
Alois Paulin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Elias Pimenidis, University of the West of England, UK
Vassilis Prevelakis, Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany
Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy
Alexander Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Miguel Soriano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Antonis Stasis, Hellenic Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction, Greece
Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
Vasileios Vlachos, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Constantine Yialouris, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Thomas Zacharias, University of Edinburgh, UK
Zaheer Khan,University of the West of England, UK
Theo Spyridopoulos, University of the West of England, UK
Panagiotis Andriotis, University of the West of England, UK
Nikolaos Polatidis, University of Brighton, UK
Jianying Zhou, Institute for infocomm research, Singapore
Vangelis Grigoroudis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Vasilis Zorkadis, Data Protection Authority, Greece
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Invitation of Conference Honorary Chair:Alexander B. Sideridis
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INVITATION
In December 2017, the Hellenic Scientific Council for Information Society (HSCIS) with the active participation of the Greek Data Protection Authority (GDPA) and nearly all the Greek and a substantial number of European Universities take the bold step in opening up the term of e-democracy to its full potential and the new challenges. That is why, the 7th International e-Democracy 2017 Conference is focusing on “Privacy- Preserving, Secure, Intelligent e-Government Services”.
Based on the focus and contribution of your organisation in the protection of personal data and privacy, as well as your role in educating and influencing, resolving problems and enforcing related policies and measures for e-democracy, we would like to address an invitation for participating and sponsoring our event. We feel that your contribution will be decisive in creating awareness and providing information on the technological, ethical, legal, and political challenges of the future as regards the technological developments and the new computing paradigms.
On behalf of the organizing committee of the conference,
Prof. Alexander Sideridis
Honorary Conference Chair