Security and Safety (S&S)
Security and Safety is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on the intersection of cyber security and functional safety published by EDP Sciences.
Security and Safety
Security and Safety is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on the intersection of cyber security and functional safety. S&S aims to quickly publish high quality innovative and applicable research results in all fields that involve the intersection of cyber security and functional safety, as well as views and comments on the frontier and development direction to guide and promote the integration and progress of cyber security and functional safety in multiple fields in the intelligent era.
Aims and scope
Security and Safety (S&S) aims to quickly publish high quality innovative and applicable research results in the information networks, integrated circuits, software engineering, industrial control, intelligent transportation, medical health, digital finance, social governance and other fields that involve the intersection of cyber security and functional safety, as well as views and comments on the frontier and development direction to guide and promote the integration and progress of cyber security and functional safety in multiple fields in the intelligent era.
The scope of Security and Safety includes, but is not limited to:
- Information Network,
- Integrated Circuits,
- Software Engineering,
- Industrial Control,
- Intelligent Transportation,
- Medical and Healthcare,
- Digital Finance,
- Social Governance,
and other fields that involve the intersection of cyber security and functional safety.
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Jiangxing WU Academician
National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center, Zhengzhou, China
Prof. Jiangxing Wu is an academician of China’s Academy of Engineering and the director of China National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center. He is a famous scientist in the communication and information system as well as in the computer and network technologies. He created the mimic computing and mimic security theory. He successfully developed the first mimic computer in the world. Now, he serves as the Director of China National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center.
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Hongfeng CHAI Academician
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Section: Digital Finance
Research Interests: Financial transaction mechanism design, financial system informatization project research and construction, and corresponding project management
Jie CHEN Academician
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Section: Industry Control
Research Interests: Multi-index optimization and control of complex systems in a dynamic environment and multi-agent coordination
Steven X. DING
University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Section: Safety
Research Interests: Analysis and synthesis of complex control systems, model-based and data-driven process monitoring and diagnosis, fault tolerant systems and fault-tolerant control, digital twin, applications to automotive systems, industrial processes, renewable energy systems, smart-builds and grids
Dengguo FENG Academician
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sections: Information Network & Software Engineering
Research Interests: Network security
Xinsheng JI
National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center, Zhengzhou, China
Section: Information Network
Research Interests: Next-generation mobile communication and cyber space security
Changjun JIANG Academician
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Section: Social Governance
Research Interests: Concurrence theory, Petri nets, formal verification of software, cluster, grid technology, intelligent transportation systems, and service-oriented computing
Xuemin SHEN Academician
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Section: Intelligent Transportation
Research Interests: Radio resource and mobility management, medium access control, wireless network security and privacy preservations, network performance; WLAN/Cellular Interworking, Vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks, Mobile social networks, Smart grid, Wireless body area networks
Jiangzhou WANG Academician
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Section: Information Network
Research Interests: Wireless mobile communications
Shaojun WEI
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Section: Integrated Circuits
Research Interests: VLSI design methodology, communication specific IC development, mobile computing and reconfigurable computing
Hairong ZHENG Academician
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
Section: Medical and Healthcare
Research Interests: Medical imaging technology and systems, image and signal processing
Associate Editors
Abderrahim BENSLIMANE
University of Avignon, Avignon, France
Research Interests: Modelling, describing and implementing secure communication protocols and multimedia applications by taking into account the architecture of heterogeneous networks
Mohammed CHADLI
The University Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
Research Interests: Filtering and control problems (FDI, FTC) and applications to vehicle systems, intelligence systems, network systems and cyber-physical systems
Kai CHEN
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Information security
Xiaofeng CHEN
Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Research Interests: Public key cryptography, cloud computing security, data security
Zhong CHEN
Peking University, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Software engineering，information security
Peng CHENG
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Research Interests: Industrial control system security and safety, cyber physical systems
Haixin DUAN
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Network protocol security, intrusion detection, DNS security, and big data security
Zhong FAN
Keele University, Keele, UK
Research Interests: IoT, cyber security, smart energy, smart city, wireless networks, and data analytics
Dagan FENG Academician
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Research Interests: The areas of biomedical and multimedia information technology seeks to address the major challenges in ""big data science"" and provide innovative solutions for stochastic data acquisition, compression, storage, management, modeling, fusion, visualization and communication
Xiaoming FU
University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Research Interests: Architecture and applications of internet-based systems
Yue GAO
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Smart antennas, sparse signal processing and cognitive networks for mobile and satellite systems
Xinping GUAN
Shanghai Jiao Tong University，Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Industrial cyber-physical systems, wireless networking and applications in smart city and smart factory, and underwater sensor networks
Qinglong HAN Academician
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: Networked control systems, cyber physical systems, time-delay systems, multi-agent systems, smart grids, offshore structure, unmanned surface vehicles, cyber security, and neural networks
Gareth HOWELLS
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Research Interests: Security, biometrics and pattern classification techniques, secure device authentication systems with a focus on Internet of Things (IoT)
Aiqun HU
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Research Interests: Wireless network security, physical layer security
Jiankun HU
The University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
Research Interests: Cyber security, biometrics, machine learning
Yan JIA
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Research Interests: Cyberspace security, big data analysis and online social network analysis
Hai JIN
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Research Interests: Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, big data processing, data storage, and system security
Jiwu JING
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Data and digital asset protection, service security and trusted identity management, cryptographic engineering and intelligent system security
Yaguo LEI
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
Research Interests: Machinery health condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance, intelligent fault diagnostics and prognostics, reliability evaluation and remaining useful life prediction. Mechanical signal analysis and processing, Robotic system dynamic modeling
Xiangyang LI
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Research Interests: Wireless networks, mobile computing, privacy and security, cyber physical systems, the social networking, and algorithms
Yan LI
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, USA
Research Interests: Mobile communication system, modulation and coding techniques, synchronization techniques and mobile applications
Jingqiang LIN
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Research Interests: Applied cryptography, network security, system security
Dongxiao LIU
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Research Interests: Data security, communication network security
Leibo LIU
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Software definition chip, hardware security and cryptographic chip, VLSI digital signal processing, etc.
Shiya LIU
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Research Interests: VR/AR, AI, intelligent connected vehicle
Yunhao LIU
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence of Things, Mobile Computing, Internet
Rongxing LU
University of New Brunswic, Fredericton, Canada
Research Interests: Applied cryptography, privacy enhancing technologies, and IoT-Big Data security and privacy
Xiaofeng MA
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Blockchain, fintech
Jianbing NI
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Research Interests: Mobile network security, applied cryptography, machine learning security, cyber-physical system security, blockchain technology
Chen PENG
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Networked contol, security control, intelligent control
Yi QIAN
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, USA
Research Interests: Wireless communications and networks, and information and communication network security, privacy
Yongdun SONG
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Research Interests: Intelligent systems, guidance navigation and control, bio-inspired adaptive and cooperative systems, rail traffic control and safety, and smart grid
Purui SU
Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Software security, system security, network security
Jian SUN
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Networked control system, information physical fusion system security, control theory based on Artificial Intelligence
Limin SUN
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Internet of things security, safety of industrial control system, national infrastructure security
Sumei SUN
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: Next-generation wireless communications, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), integrated security-communications-computing-control design
Qian WANG
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Research Interests: AI security, cloud computing security and privacy, wireless system security, applied cryptography
Xiaoyang WANG
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Database management systems, information security and privacy; Wireless Sensor Networks; Streaming Data Processing Time Series Queries; Data Mining and Data Warehousing; Database Theory
Qiang WEI
National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center, Zhengzhou, China
Research Interests: Network security, industrial internet security, and vulnerability discovery
Huaqing WU
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Research Interests: B5G/6G, space-air-ground integrated networks, Internet of vehicles, mobile/edge computing/ caching, and artificial intelligence (AI) for future networking
Jie WU
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Computer network, network security
Jinglong WU
Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Research Interests: Intelligent mechanical systems
Min YANG
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Network security mainly includes malicious code detection, vulnerability analysis and mining, AI security, blockchain security, web security, and system security mechanisms etc.
Haiyang YU
Beihang University, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Intelligent vehicle-road collaboration, traffic big data, traffic control and simulation
Hao ZHANG
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: Multi-agent system, intelligent system, autonumous system, network security
Ping ZHANG
Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Research Interests: Model and data based fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control, cyber security of cyber physical systems, industrial safety systems, data‐driven control, building automation, application of advanced control and diagnosis methods in the process industry, automobile industry and biological systems
Yang ZHANG
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Software and system security, and cyber-physical system security
Youmin ZHANG
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Research Interests: Condition monitoring, health management, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles with applications to forest fires, pipelines, power lines, wind farms, solar panels arrays, environment, natural resources and natural disasters monitoring, detection, and protection by combining with remote sensing techniques; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and advanced control techniques; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, fault-tolerant and health management of safety-critical and security-critical systems with application to smart grids, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems etc.
Sheng ZHONG
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Research Interests: Security, privacy and economic incentives
Huiyu ZHOU
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Research Interests: Machine learning and applications
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