First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Federated and Distributed Architectures – FEDAS25

https://gsya.esi.uclm.es/FEDAS25

In conjunction with the

12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2025)

Nantes, France, 1 - 5 December 2025

https://bdcat2025.gitlabpages.inria.fr/web/

Important Dates

Regular Research and Experience Paper Submission: October 12, 2025

Authors Notification: November 13, 2025

Camera-ready and author registration: Mid-November 2025 (in line with BDCAT2025 deadlines)

Workshop Date: 1 - 5 December 2025 (Exact date to be determined)

Workshop Description

This workshop focuses on the critical challenges and advancements in information system security, emphasizing decentralized and distributed systems and data spaces. With the rapid adoption of blockchain, machine learning, edge computing, and data-sharing ecosystems, ensuring robust security in these environments is paramount. Topics include secure communication protocols, trust management, data integrity, and privacy-preserving mechanisms in distributed architectures, specially IoT environments. The workshop also explores emerging threats, innovative countermeasures, and compliance with global data security standards. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders, the event aims to foster collaboration and drive innovative solutions to secure next-generation decentralized systems and data spaces. Participants will gain insights into cutting-edge research and practical approaches to address the evolving security landscape.

This workshop is of interest to researchers, cybersecurity professionals, system architects, and policy makers involved in the design, implementation, and regulation of secure information systems. The workshop provides a focused forum to explore cutting-edge approaches for ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and trust in data sharing and distributed infrastructures, specially IoT environments. It is particularly relevant for those working on blockchain technologies, federated learning, secure data spaces, and the protection of complex, interconnected systems.

Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to)

• Analysis and management of risks
• Security requirements and specification of security and privacy requirements and policies
• Threats, vulnerability, and trust modeling
• Testing for security, security metrics and measurement
• Security management and assessment
• Security culture, IT governance and IT service continuity
• Security in decentralized systems: Blockchain, distributed ledgers, and peer-to-peer networks
• Data privacy in distributed architectures: Privacy-preserving mechanisms and differential privacy
• Trust and authentication: Trust management, identity verification, and decentralized identity
• Secure communication protocols
• Data integrity and availability in DDS
• Threat detection and response
• Security in data spaces: Secure data sharing, access control, and data sovereignty
• Compliance and governance
• Adversarial machine learning and ransomware in DDS
• Resilient architectures in DDS
• Use cases and applications

Submission guidelines

The FEDAS25 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed six (6) pages in length, following the main conference format (i.e., ACM double-column, all items included). 

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=fedas25

All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by IEEE.

• At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in person.
• At least one author of each accepted submission must register at full (i.e., non-student) rate.
• All workshop participants must register under the UCC/BDCAT 2025 conference fee.
• Accepted papers will be considered in the conference proceedings published by the ACM and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Libraries.

For further submission guideline: see IEEE/ACM UCC 2025 webpage at https://ucc2025.gitlabpages.inria.fr/web/

Workshop organization

Programme Chairs:

• Dr. Antonio Santos-Olmo Parra, University of Castilla- La Mancha (UCLM), Spain
• Dr. Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), UK

Program committee members (TBC):

• Dr. Carlos Blanco, University of Cantabria, Spain
• Dr. Haluk Eren, FIRAT University, Turkey
• Dr. Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, United States
• Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Medina, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Dr. M. Tuncay Gençoglu, FIRAT University, Turkey
• Dr. Najmul Islam, LUT University, Finland
• Dr. Prabhat Kumar, LUT University, Finland
• Dr. Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK
• Dr. Kandajaj Piamrat, University of Nantes, France
• Dr. Luis Enrique Sánchez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain