The 14th International Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS2021)
andThe 12th Cybersecurity Data Mining
Competition (CDMC2021)
Dec 8, 2021, Bali, Indonesia
co-located with ICONIP 2021

Towards secure, explainable and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Organizing Chairs:
Sye-Loong Keoh, Singapore
Arash Habibi Lashkari, Canada
Geong Sen Poh, Singapore
Organizing Members:
Paul S. Pang, Australia
Iqbal Gondal, Australia
Youki Kadobayashi, Japan
Tao Ban, Japan
Jungsuk Song, South Korea
Fadi Aloul, United Arab Emirates
Zhiyong Liu, China
Daisuke Miyamoto, Japan
Heejun Roh, South Korea
Harith Al-Sahaf, New Zealand
Lei Song, New Zealand
Kitsuchart Pasupa, Thailand
Kaizhu Huang, China
Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Malaysia
Mamatha Balachandra, India
Advisory Committee:
Jun Wang, Hong Kong
Changshui Zhang, China
Derong Liu, China
Irwin King, Hong Kong
Lipo Wang, Singapore
Nik Kasabov, New Zealand
Tingwen Hwang, Qatar
Tom Gedeon, Australia
Yoichi Shinoda, Japan
Jonathan Chan, Thailand
Hossein Sarrafzadeh, USA
Baoliang Lu, China
Important dates for AICS Workshop:
Paper submission: Jun 30, 2021
Notification of acceptance: Aug 31, 2021
Camera-ready submission: Sep 30, 2021
Workshop date: Dec 8, 2021
Important dates for competition:
Competition starts: Jul 1, 2021
Competition closes: Sep 30, 2021
Winner award ceremony: Dec 8, 2021
Co-organizers:
National Institute of Information andCommunications Technology, Japan
Co-sponsors:
Federation University, Australia
Technical Co-sponsors:
International Cyber Security Data-mining
Society (ICSDS)
International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS)

You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 14th International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS 2021) and participate in the 12th
International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2021). The twoevents are associated with the 28th International Conference on NeuralInformation Processing (ICONIP 2021) as a special session. ICONIP will be heldin the beautiful Bali, Indonesia on December 8 – 12, 2021. For more information
on venue, accommodation, and travel, please refer to the conference website athttps://iconip2021.apnns.org/.
AICS 2021 Call for Papers:
The International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS2021) is previously known as the International Data Mining and Cybersecurity
Workshop (DMC) which had been held for ten consecutive years. The AICSworkshop aims to raise the awareness of cybersecurity, promote the use of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) for securing industrial applications and to give young researchers
an exposure to key issues and research works in AI and cybersecurity. AICS 2021
will provide a forum for researchers, security experts, engineers, and students anopportunity to present their latest research, share ideas and to discuss future
directions in the fields of data mining, AI, machine learning and cybersecurity.
Paper Submission and Publication: The workshop solicits novel research andindustry papers relating to Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity. A paper will
normally be 10 – 12 pages long and should be in Springer LNCS format. All papers
should be submitted via the ICONIP 2021 submission website and indicate AICS
2021 in the option list. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in theproceedings of ICONIP 2021.
CDMC2021 Call for Competition Participants:
The 12th International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2021) at
ICONIP 2021 is a challenging, multi-month research and practice competition,
focusing on application of knowledge discovery techniques to solve advanced,
real-world problems. The competition is open to multi-person teams worldwide.
Contestants are invited to participate in solving a set of problems relating tocybersecurity, text mining, image processing, etc. For more information, including
the registration details, the problem description and competition rules, please referto the official competition website at https://www.csmining.org/.
Prizes and Awards: We have set aside cash prizes for the competition. The top
ranked teams of all tasks will be eligible to win a cash prize. Additional prizes
may be available as travel grants for deserving participants to subsidize theirattendance at ICONIP 2021 and AICS 2021. There will be an award ceremony ofthe competition to be held at ICONIP 2021, where the winner of the CDMC 2021
will be presented the prize by the organizers.