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FL - IEEE BigData 2019 : IEEE BigData 2019 - Special Track on Federated Machine Learning
FL - IEEE BigData 2019 : IEEE BigData 2019 - Special Track on Federated Machine Learning

FL - IEEE BigData 2019 : IEEE BigData 2019 - Special Track on Federated Machine Learning

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Event Date: December 09, 2019 - December 12, 2019
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: October 16, 2019
Camera Ready Version Due: November 10, 2019




Call for Papers

Introduction
Privacy and security are becoming a key concern in our digital age. Companies and organizations are collecting a wealth of data on a daily basis. Data owners have to be very cautious while unlocking the values in the data, since the most useful data for machine learning often tend to be confidential. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brings new legislative challenges to the big data and artificial intelligence (AI) community. Many operations in the big data domain, such as merging user data from various sources for building an AI model, will be considered illegal under the new regulatory framework if they are performed without explicit user authorization.

In order to explore how the AI research community can adapt to this new regulatory reality, we organize this special track on Federated Machine Learning (FML). The special track will focus on machine learning and big data analytics techniques with privacy and security. Technical issues include but not limit to data collection, integration, training and modelling, both in the centralized and distributed setting. The special track intends to provide a forum to discuss the open problems and share the most recent and ground-breaking work on the study and application of GDPR compliant machine learning. It will also serve as a venue for networking. Researchers from different communities interested in this problem will have ample time to share thoughts and experience, promoting possible long-term collaborations. Both theoretical and application-based contributions are welcome.

Scope
The special track seeks to explore new ideas with particular focus on addressing the following challenges:
• Security and Regulation Compliance: How to meet the security and compliance requirements? Does the solution ensure data privacy and model security?
• Collaboration and Expansion Solution: Does the solution connect different business partners from various parties and industries? Does the solution exploit and extend the value of data while observing user privacy and data security?
• Promotion and Empowerment: Is the solution sustainable and intelligent? Does it include incentive mechanisms to encourage parties to participate on a continuous basis? Does it promote a stable and win-win business ecosystem?
We welcome submissions on recent advances in privacy-preserving, secure machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. All accepted papers will be presented during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for and attend the conference. Topics include but are not limit to:

Techniques:
1. Adversarial learning, data poisoning, adversarial examples, adversarial robustness, black box attacks
2. Architecture and privacy-preserving learning protocols
3. Federated learning and distributed privacy-preserving algorithms
4. Human-in-the-loop for privacy-aware machine learning
5. Incentive mechanism and game theory
6. Privacy aware knowledge driven federated learning
7. Privacy-preserving techniques (secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, secret sharing techniques, differential privacy) for machine learning
8. Responsible, explainable and interpretability of AI
9. Security for privacy
10. Trade-off between privacy and efficiency

Applications:
1. Approaches to make AI GDPR-compliant
2. Crowd intelligence
3. Data value and economics of data federation
4. Open-source frameworks for distributed learning
5. Safety and security assessment of AI solutions
6. Solutions to data security and small-data challenges in industries
7. Standards of data privacy and security

Submission Instructions
Please submit a full-length paper (up to 10 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system.

Paper Submission Page: http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/bigdata19/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=SP.

Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

Formatting Instructions
8.5" x 11" (DOC, PDF)
LaTex Formatting Macros

Enquires
Please send all enquiries about the Special Track on Federated Machine Learning to one or both of the Special Track Co-Chairs, Yang Liu ([email protected]) and Han Yu ([email protected]).



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[1] FL - IEEE BigData 2019 : IEEE BigData 2019 - Special Track on Federated Machine Learning


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