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Security in MCPS 2017 : Elsevier Smart Health Journal - Special Issue on Security in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems | |||||||||||||
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Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MCPS) are life-critical, context-aware, and networked systems of medical devices that provide tight integration and coordination between the cyber world of computing and communications and the physical world. Recent advances in mobile and wearable healthcare, communication, and Cloud computing technologies are making MCPS a promising platform for scientific advancement and development of new tools that may improve patients’ health and wellbeing. Coming along with the potential social economic and personal healthcare benefits are significant security, privacy, and trustworthiness challenges in MCPS, due to unreliable embedded software controlling medical devices, weak computing and networking capabilities of medical devices, and adaptive privacy requirements introduced by complicated physiological dynamics of patient bodies. So far, the security, privacy, and trustworthiness initiatives for MCPS are still at an early stage. On one hand, more and more concerns have been raised in the fields and many security, privacy, and trustworthiness-enhancing techniques have been proposed to resolve these concerns. On the other hand, the emerging mobile and wearable technologies revolutionize the entire MCPS as well as its models of security, privacy, and trustworthiness. It is still not clear that these proposed techniques are useful and effective in practice and how quickly or even possibly they are going to be adopted.
This special issue will have a focused topic in theoretical and experimental research for security, privacy and trust solutions in the context of medical cyber physical systems. Topics include but not limit to Mobile Healthcare Security Smartphone Security for Healthcare Wearable Device Security Medical Device Security Security and Privacy on Implantable Medical Sensors Biometrics Wireless Communication Security Security and Privacy for Wireless Body Area Networks Secure RFID technology in MCPS Secure Cloud Health System Big Health Data Security Differential Privacy on Health Data Secure Machine Learning on Health Data Privacy Preserving Big Health Data Analysis Novel Threats and Attack Models Novel Trust Models Security Detection and Evaluation Key Management Cryptography for Health Systems Security Management (administration and training) in Health Systems Security in Virtualized Health Systems Security Risk Assessment Security and Privacy Policies in Health Systems Security in Electronic Health Record Systems Access control for MCPS Important dates: Paper submission due: September 30, 2017 First review completed: October 31, 2017 Revised manuscript due: November 30, 2017 Second review completed: December 31, 2017 Final manuscript due: January 31, 2018 Expected publication date: March 2018 Guest Editors Kewei Sha, University of Houston – Clear Lake (sha@uhcl.edu) Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology (wli20@nyit.edu) Xiaohui Liang, University of Massachusetts Boston (Xiaohui.Liang@umb.edu) |
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