TURC-AIS

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd ACM TURC Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (TURC-AIS 2021, http://www.turcais.com) will be held from July 30 – Aug. 1, 2021 at Hefei, China. As the only workshop of the ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC, ACM中国图灵大会), TURC AIS offers a timely venue for researchers and industry partners to present and discuss their latest results in computer science, artificial intelligence, security and privacy related works.

The organizing committee is excited to invite you to take part in ACM TURC AIS 2021, to discuss issues at the technological frontier of society today as well as interdisciplinary technological trends. The technical program chairs invite the submission of original papers to following symposia for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings (ACM Digital Library). Best paper awards will be selected from accepted papers. Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in SCI-indexed journals.



Meeting schedule

Date(2021-07-31)Location(Meeting Room No.9)
Time Talks Moderator Speaker
14:00 - 14:05 Openning Remarks Xingming Sun,General Chair of TURC-AIS, Chair of SIGWEB China
14:05-14:45 Keynote 1 Automated Machine Learning on Graphs Zhaoxia Yin,  Professor of Anhui University Wenwu Zhu, Professor of Tsinghua University
14:45-15:25 Keynote 2 Blockchain Supervision and Covert Communication Zhili Zhou, Professor of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Liehuang Zhu, Professor of Beijing University of Technology
15:25-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:20 Keynote 3 Deep Convolutional Networks via Theories from Signal Processing Donghui Hu, Professor of Hefei University of Technology Hongkai Xiong, Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University
16:20-17:00 Keynote 4 Emotional Cognitive Computing of Web Text Chunfang Yang, Professor of Henan Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness Yongfeng Huang, Professor of Tsinghua University
17:00-17:30 ACM SIGWEB China Rising Star Forum
Paper Exchange
Baowei Wang, Professor of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology



Keynote: Automated Machine Learning on Graphs

Wenwu Zhu

Professor of Tsinghua University

Abstract: Automated machine learning (AutoML) on graphs, which combines the strength of graph machine learning and AutoML, is gaining attention from the research community. This talk will first overview graph machine learning and AutoML on graphs. Then, recent advances, including efficient neural architecture search for self-attention representation, hyper-parameter optimization on large-scale graphs, and increasing explainability in AutoML on graphs, will be discussed. We will also introduce AutoGL, the first dedicated framework and open-source library for AutoML on graphs, which is expected to facilitate the research and application in the community. Last but not least, our insights on future research directions will be shared with the audience.

BIO: Automated machine learning (AutoML) on graphs, which combines the strength of graph machine learning and AutoML, is gaining attention from the research community. This talk will first overview graph machine learning and AutoML on graphs. Then, recent advances, including efficient neural architecture search for self-attention representation, hyper-parameter optimization on large-scale graphs, and increasing explainability in AutoML on graphs, will be discussed. We will also introduce AutoGL, the first dedicated framework and open-source library for AutoML on graphs, which is expected to facilitate the research and application in the community. Last but not least, our insights on future research directions will be shared with the audience.
He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM) from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019. He has been serving as the chair of the steering committee for IEEE T-MM and Vice EiC for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) since January 1, 2020. He served as co-Chair for ACM MM 2018 and co-TPC-Chair for ACM MM 2014. His current research interests are in the areas of multimodal big data and intelligence, and multimedia networking including edge computing. He received nine Best Paper Awards, including ACM MM 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and SPIE Fellow.

Keynote: Blockchain Supervision and Covert Communication

Liehuang Zhu

Professor of Beijing University of Technology

Abstract: The public blockchain, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EOS, is easy to be used for money laundering, ransom payment, dissemination of illegal content, and other criminal activities due to its decentralization and anonymity, which may cause serious harm to financial order and social stability. Thus, it is urgent to study the corresponding supervision methodologies, by the comprehensive analysis of transactions and data flow, the effective realization of network monitoring and transaction traceability of public blockchain. On the other hand, the characteristics of the public blockchain, such as peer-to-peer communication and anonymous identity, are conducive to covert data transmission. The blockchain transactions can be considered as a natural carrier for the construction of covert channels. Also, the blockchain-based covert communication also faces many technical challenges. This report mainly introduces the technical characteristics of the public blockchain, as well as the supervision methodology for the public blockchain and the corresponding covert communication technology.

BIO: Liehuang Zhu, doctor, professor and doctoral supervisor, was selected into the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents. Currently, he is the director of Institute of Advanced Network and Data Security, School of Cyberspace Science and Techonoly, Beijing Institute of Technology. He also serves as secretary-general of the Blockchain Special Committee of the Chinese Computer Society, member of the Cyberspace Security Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and chairman of the Intelligent Information Network Professional Committee of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society. He also serves as the editorial board member of IEEE IoT-J, IEEE TVT, IEEE Network and other international journals. In recent years, he has presided over more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial level projects such as key R & D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and key projects of National Defense Basic Scientific Research, published more than 150 high-level academic papers, and won 3 provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards.

Keynote: Deep Convolutional Networks via Theories from Signal Processing

Hongkai Xiong

Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University

Abstract: This talk presents a global trajectory of signal processing for analysis and representation emerging within decades. It begins with time-frequency decompositions, wavelet orthogonal bases, multiscale geometric analysis, approximations and sparsity from orthonormal bases to redundant dictionaries of waveforms, compressive sensing and dictionary learning as well. The striking efforts in deep learning would also be addressed for a comprehensive perspective. Our recent works exploring structured sparsity and deep convolutional networks for scalable and compact representation of high-dimensional signals will be described as some examples. By rethinking the cutting-edge signal processing techniques in alignment with interdisciplinary inspirations, it is appealing to make the scientific community move forward and avoid dying by starvation in a progressively narrower and specialized domain. If possible, we might present the trajectory from graph signal processing towards graph neural networks. Specifically, we overview existing graph network methodology and elaborate the underlying theoretical foundation. Furthermore, our relevant theoretical and technical efforts have been provided to inspire possible expectations.

BIO: Hong-Kai XIONG is a Distinguished Professor in both Dept. Electronic Engineering and Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). His research interests mainly focus on multimedia signal processing, image and video coding, multimedia communication and networking, computer vision, biomedical informatics, machine learning. He published over 280 refereed journal and conference papers. Currently, he is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT).
Since he received his Ph.D. degree from SJTU in 2003, he has been with Department of Electronic Engineering in SJTU. During 2007-2008, he was a research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). From 2011 to 2012, he was a scientist with the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was the recipient of the Science and Technology Innovative Leader Talent in Ten Thousand Talents Program in 2017, Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor Award from Ministry of Education, China in 2016, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar Award from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2014, Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Distinguished Achievement Award in 2018, Shanghai Academic Research Leader Talent Award in 2017, Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Talent Award in 2014, Shanghai Shu Guang Scholar Award in 2013, 2017 Baosteel Excellent Faculty Award, New Century Excellent Talent Award from Ministry of Education of China in 2009, SJTU SMC-A Excellent Young Faculty Awards in 2013 and 2010. He has been granted 2017 and 2011 First Prizes of the Shanghai Technology Innovation Award for research achievements on Network-oriented Video Processing and Dissemination.

Keynote:Emotional Cognitive Computing of Web Text

Yongfeng Huang

Professor of Tsinghua University

Abstract: Online social media contains rich emotional information of online users, which has become the best resource for countries and enterprises to understand the emotions and opinions of netizens. Web text sentiment analysis technology has become a research hotspot in many disciplines. At the same time, emotional cognitive computing is also the highest form and frontier subject of artificial intelligence technology. The report will first give the definition of sentiment computing, and then some confusions and thoughts that he has encountered over the years will be discussed. The speaker will focus on analyzing the development trends and challenges in the field of online text sentiment computing, and then propose a binary computing model for fine-grained sentiment analysis-oriented online text sentiment cognition, and introduce the method of fine-grained sentiment analysis based on knowledge guidance. Finally, the speaker will show the application prospects of the binary emotion computing model.

BIO: Huang Yongfeng is a doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor, outstanding teacher of the first national network security, deputy director of the Institute of Information Cognition and Intelligent Systems, and a special lecture professor in Minjiang. He is also an IEEE Senior Member, Vice Chairman of ACM SIGWEB China Branch, Vice Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence and Education Committee of the China High-Tech Association, and a member of the China Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Professional Committee. For many years, he has been engaged in the research and teaching of Internet and its information security theory and technology. He has taken charge of the key projects and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Program on Key Basic.
Research Project of China (973 Program), National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program), and more than forty scientific research projects such as key research and development projects. He has served on the editorial board of many internationally renowned journals, as well as the program committee or chairman of important international conferences.
He has published more than three hundred academic papers in famous domestic and foreign journals such as Science (Eletters), Nature SR, IEEE Tran. ACM Tran., Science in China, and important international conferences such as AAAI and ACL (including more than one hundred papers included in SCI). He has published six monographs, two translations, and two textbooks. He has applied for more than twenty invention patents (eleven of them have been authorized and two technology transfers). He has won two first prizes, three second prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement awards, one first prize of excellent textbooks, and two teaching achievement awards of Tsinghua University.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1.Artificial Intelligence and Security

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Data Mining
Artificial Neural Networks
Affective Computing
Planning
Knowledge Representation
Reasoning
Robotics and Reception
Big Data Applications
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Science, Engineering, Healthcare and Medicine

2.Big Data and Security

Techniques, Models and Algorithms for Big Data
Tools and Systems for Big Data
Big Data Analytics and Social Media
Hardware/Software Infrastructure for Big Data
Mobile Communications and Networks
Security and Privacy for Big Data
Copyright Protection for Big Data
Data Compression
Machine Learning and AI for Big Data
Big Data Persistence and Preservation
Big Data Quality and Provenance Control Big Data Storage and Retrieval

3.Cloud Computing and Security

Cloud Computing Architecture and Systems
Cloud Computing Models, Simulations, Designs, and Paradigms
Cloud Management and Operations
Dynamic Resource Provision and Consuming
Cloud Computing Technologies, Services and Applications
Security Evaluation and Benchmarks Based on Cloud
Authentication, Authorization and Reliability Issues in Cloud
Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

4.Information Hiding

Coverless Information Hiding
Steganography and Steganalysis
Digital Watermarking, Fingerprinting and Forensics
Multimedia Authentication and Encryption
Covert/Subliminal Channels

5.IoT Security

Data Security and Privacy in the IoT
Attacks and Countermeasures on IoT Systems
Trust Model, Data Aggregation and Information Sharing
Secure Hardware and Software for IoT
Application Security for IoT

6.Multimedia Forensics

Active and Passive Forensics
Big Data Forensics
Portable electronic device forensics
Network Forensics
Anti-forensics

7.Encryption and Cybersecurity

Measurements for Cybersecurity
Post Quantum Cybersecurity
Visualization for Security
Applied Cryptography
Language-based Security


Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs:

Yun Q. Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Yunbiao Guo, China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, China
Xingming Sun, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada

Technical Program Chairs:

Yongfeng Huang, Tsinghua University, China
Baowei Wang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Victor S. Sheng, University of Central Arkansas, USA


Paper Submission Guidelines

1. All manuscripts should be submitted in PDF file format by the following system:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TURCAIS2021. (Coming soon…)
Note: In the SUBJECT AREAS section, the invited authors please select "Invited Paper", others please select "Original Paper".

2. All submissions must be in English. This year we are accepting Full paper and Short Paper submissions. Full papers, must be at least 7 pages in length but no more than 10 pages in double-column ACM format (as specified at ACM Proceedings Template), including figures and references. Short papers, must be 4-6 pages in length, including figures and references. Authors should refer to the conference submission format to prepare their papers. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review.

3. The submitted papers must not be previously published anywhere, and must not be submitted to any other conferences before and during the TURC-AIS 2021 review process. Submitting a paper to the conference means that if the paper were accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference.

4. For any difficulties and other issues regarding submission, please contact: turcais@163.com.

Acceptance

Manuscripts should present the current research in the areas identified in the call for papers. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by experts in the fields and will be judged from the aspects of problem significance, contributions, originality, correctness, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees.

Publication

All accepted full papers will be entered into ACM Digital Library and the Engineering Index (EI).
All accepted short papers will be published in other journals.
Outstanding papers will be invited for possible publication in the SCI-indexed journals.


Important Dates

Paper submission: May 20, 2021 22:00 AOE
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2021
Registration due: June 28, 2021
Camera-ready: June 30, 2021
Conference date: July 30 – August 1, 2021


Contact US

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