[agents] [CFP - FGCS: September 1, 2025] Special Issue on “Advanced Situational Awareness and Resilience for Hyperconnected Industrial Scenarios” in Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier

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* Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier *
* Special Issue on “Advanced Situational Awareness and Resilience for 
Hyperconnected Industrial Scenarios” *

Link: 
hhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/318785/advanced-situational-awareness-and-resilience-for-hyperconnected-industrial-scenarios

New technological trends and their adaptation to different strategic 
sectors, especially those aimed at the industrial sector and their 
interconnected infrastructures, entail multiple types of risks, 
including those related to security, privacy, and safety. This makes 
situational awareness and related areas, such as advanced prediction and 
detection, a priority requirement when it comes to protecting the most 
critical resources relevant to the business model or between models. 
However, the effectiveness of situational awareness is only assured if 
defensive measures are accompanied with advanced preparedness, response, 
and recovery strategies, thus providing guarantees of resilience.

Significant research progresses, in line to situational awareness, have 
already shown the way to: (i) combat some of the mentioned problems, 
some of them against counterfeiting and advanced persistent threats, 
(ii) promote predictive maintenance and resilience, and (iii) implement 
Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and Generative AI (GenAI) 
methods to address not only cyberattacks on critical infrastructures, 
but also to mitigate adversarial AI attacks. But, overall, all these 
advances are still insufficient considering the heterogenous, 
hyper-interconnected and complex nature of many today’s critical 
infrastructures. The assumption of the new industrial paradigms 
(Industry 4.0/5.0) and the multiple factors that come into play in the 
protection of critical systems, in which it is necessary to safeguard 
operational performance, proactivity and coordination according to the 
NIS2 directive, become undoubtedly relevant when it comes to managing 
critical situations.

All the above leads to the innate need to consider and apply 
cutting-edge technologies to promote trustworthy industrial security, 
where the inclusion of disruptive techniques, methods and technologies 
become relevant factors to address the expected level of situational 
awareness and resilience. Therefore, this Special Issue (SI) aims to 
bring together cutting-edge results that address the specific challenges 
of all these topics and their implication in specific industrial 
environments. The aim is to promote research and progress in line with 
new technologies, as well as to learn about the most recent issues and 
advances in this application area with special attention to novelty and 
originality within the subject matter.

In particular, the topics of interest for this Special Issues includes 
but not limited to:

- Governance, plans, and automated security controls
- Dynamic risk management and automatic feedback
- Adversarial offense, modeling, and demonstrations
- Advanced attack prediction for advanced awareness and proactivity
- AI-enhanced attack detection and stealthy movements
- Mitigation of adversarial AI attacks on industrial & critical 
infrastructures
- Smart threat interpretation and projection for attack traceability
- Advanced attack response, playbooks, and mitigation
- Green prediction, detection, and response approaches for lightweight 
situational awareness
- Advanced recovery and feedback to the situational awareness
- Cyber threat intelligence and coordination
- Sharing data and trust management
- Auditing and accountability for situational awareness
- Intelligent and accurate feedback to situational awareness
- Privacy and anonymization techniques for situational awareness
- Lightweight protection to the situational awareness and implied 
technologies
- Dynamic preparation and coordination through simulations
- Automated training for (re-)skilling and knowledge in situational 
awareness
- Industrial use cases with practical demonstrations for situational 
awareness and resilience: energy, health, transportation, manufacturing, 
etc.

Important Dates

- Submission deadline: September 1, 2025
- Initial notification: November 2, 2025
- Final accepted version: December 31, 2025

Manuscript Submission Instructions:

- +Info: 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/318785/advanced-situational-awareness-and-resilience-for-hyperconnected-industrial-scenarios

Guest Editors:

- Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, alcaraz at uma.es; contact person 
for further information
- Fabio Martinelli, Italian National Research Council (CNR), 
fabio.martinelli at iit.cnr.it
- Panagiotis Bountakas, Sphynx, p.bountakas at sphynx.ch