Systems Safety and Security—Challenges and Trends

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will present high-quality papers on system safety and security—two topics of growing importance in the global political, military and economic context. We invite all the researchers to submit their contribution on increasing the security and safety of the systems that are key components of critical infrastructures, such as energy production and distribution, water and wastewater management, defense, healthcare providers, transportation systems and communications.

This Special Issue will comprise mainly extended versions of selected papers that were presented at the International Workshop on Systems Safety and Security—IWSSS (https://iwsss.org), but other valuable and relevant contributions in this field could also be submitted.

The International Workshop on Systems Safety and Security was initiated in 2013 by an enthusiastic research team. Each year, the workshop has been a venue for presenting high-quality scientific contributions and has attracted an increasing network of international authors. The previous editions of our workshop have brought together renowned professors and researchers, practitioners, and implementers from industry, young scientists and specialists from all over the world, making IWSSS a real bridge between academia and industry. The presented contributions were published in the ECAI—Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence International Conference Proceedings and were indexed by Clarivate Analytics—Web of Science CPCI. Selected contributions from IWSSS 2019 and IWSSS 2020 were published in the “Advanced Topics in Systems Safety and Security” Special Issue of Information (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/IWSSS_2019).

We warmly invite researchers to submit their contributions to this Special Issue. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• System security and safety;
• Industrial control system resilience;
• Formal methods for security;
• Data security and privacy in critical systems;
• Physical and logical access control;
• Biometric identification of persons;
• Malware detection, modeling, and analysis methods;
• Security assessment, pen testing, vulnerability evaluation;
• Wireless sensor networks security;
• Artificial intelligence used in the field of safety and security;
• Industrial control system security;
• Asset tracking, monitoring, and surveillance solutions;
• Advanced encryption techniques.

Authors of invited papers should be aware that the final submitted manuscript must provide a minimum of 50% new content.

Dr. Emil Pricop
Dr. Grigore Stamatescu
Dr. Jaouhar Fattahi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.