Advanced Deep Learning and Mathematical Modeling for Reliability, Security and Privacy Problems in Engineering: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, new embedded technologies and interconnected networking advances in multiple domains based on new paradigms and heterogeneous technologies inevitably induce functional complexities in underlying engineering systems and, certainly, diverse vulnerabilities and risks may significantly grow according to new adaptations. Such trends have generated a need to further research the reliability, security and privacy of certain problems, calling for novel exploitations and guarantees for secure, resilient and dependable cohesion between theoretical algorithms and real-world engineering systems. For this reason, we are drawing special attention to the competitive advantages that recent prospering deep learning technologies and mathematical modeling approaches have to demonstrate, which can bring about original solution paths and advances related to the aforementioned challenges.

In this Special Issue, we are expecting a wide spectrum of research papers that cover relevant reliability, security and privacy issues in engineering, such as intrusion detection, cyber-attacks, critical data protection, situational awareness, incident responsiveness and system resilience. We welcome high-quality papers from both theory and application perspectives and embrace methodologies ranging from advanced deep learning technologies to efficient mathematical modeling in order to promote academic exchange between a wide array of scholars. As such, I am inviting you to submit an article to this Special Issue named “Advanced Deep Learning and Mathematical Modeling for Reliability, Security and Privacy Problems in Engineering: 2nd Edition” in Mathematics, a peer-reviewed journal. This Special Issue will focus on (but is not limited to) the following topics:

• Mathematical modeling for reliability, security and privacy problems;
• Innovative applications (healthcare, education, media, insurance, Internet of Things, smart city, industry, etc.) about risk management and reliability issues;
• Data quality and sparse learning;
• Mathematical solutions for representation learning;
• Mathematical optimization techniques and its application for quality management;
• Reliability, security and privacy analysis and requirements in engineering;
• Vulnerabilities and risk assessment in networked systems;
• Advanced threat models, cyber-crime or cyber-espionage;
• Reliable, secure and private architectures by design;
• Secure interoperability, mobility and coexistence between systems, including users;
• Prevention, awareness and resilience models for advanced threats;
• Data preservation and privacy models;
• Trust management and trusted computing models;
• Privacy issues and mitigation techniques;
• Malware and intrusion detection techniques;
• Mathematical and deep learning solutions for reliability problems in IoT and Industry 4.0.

Prof. Dr. Zibin Zheng
Dr. Ruoxi Jia
Dr. Dan Li
Dr. Yuxun Zhou
Prof. Dr. Liang Xu
Guest Editors

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