Cybercrimes cost the global economy several trillions a year, placing it, if were regarded as a country, as the world's third largest economy after the US and China. Cyber-attacks increase everyday not only in number, but also in sophistication and intelligence. The cyberspace has truly become a dangerous world where malicious individuals, groups and organizations can harm people or disrupt systems and services at unprecedented scale. The power of data science and advanced data analytics can be exploited to detect cyberattacks before they succeed, fight undesired phenomena in the cyberspace such as misinformation, cyberbullying, online radicalization, etc., contributing therefore to making the cyberspace safer for its inhabitants.

This special session at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics will focus on the latest research and developments in AI models and data analytics for fighting cybercrimes in its various forms such as cyber-attacks, cyberbullying, or online radicalisation among many other cybersecurity topics. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI and data science for cybersecurity.
• AI and data science for fighting online radicalization, extremism and terrorism.
• AI and data science for fighting the dissemination of fake news.
• AI and data science for intrusion detection/prevention.
• AI for cyber investigation and threat intelligence.
• Data mining and machine learning applied to cybersecurity.
• Robust machine learning.
• Protection of systems against adversarial attacks.
• Identification of adversarial examples.
• Adversarial attacks on AI and defensive strategies
• AI attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
• Advanced AI techniques to secure future Internet architectures.
• Privacy management, privacy-preserving ML and data leak prevention

The best paper from this Special Track will be awarded with the possibility of a fast track publication in Wiley's Expert System journal

Track Co-chairs

• Dr. Mahmoud Barhamgi (Track organiser and Lead co-chair), (Qatar University), mbarhamgi@qu.edu.qa
• Dr. Karim Benouaret (Lyon University), karim.benouaret@univ-lyon1.fr
• Dr. Noora Fetais, (Qatar University), n.almarri@qu.edu.qa
• Dr. David Camacho, (Technical University University of Madrid), david.camacho@upm.es

• Angel Panizo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Javier Huertas-Tato, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Budi Arief, University of Kent, United Kingdom
• Antonio Gonzalez-Pardo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk, UK
• Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, giancarlo.fortino@unical.it, Italy
• Julio-Cesar Hernandez Castro, University of Kent, United Kingdom
• Charith Perera, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
• Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France.
• Saeed Salem, Qatar University, Qatar
• Abdallah Machoul, French-Comte University, France.

Accepted papers - TBD

• Submission deadline: 22 of May
• Notification: 17 of July
• Camera ready : 7 of August

For submission please follow the instructions of the main conference DSAA