2026 IEEE CSR Workshop on Electrical Power and Energy Systems Security, Privacy and Resilience (EPES-SPR)

 Call for Papers

The smart technologies digitize the conventional model of the Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES) into a new architectural paradigm, known as the Smart Grid (SG), thus introducing multiple services, such as two-way communication, pervasive control and self-healing. However, despite the benefits, this progression leads to challenging cybersecurity issues due to the vulnerabilities of the new technologies and the necessary presence of legacy and insecure systems, like Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition / Industrial Control Systems. On the other side, anticipating the critical issues of EPES/SG, both academia and industry have developed appropriate countermeasures, considering the advances in the Artificial Intelligence and the networking domains. AI and especially Machine Learning / Deep Learning allow the implementation of detection mechanisms capable of discriminating malicious behaviors as well as zero-day vulnerabilities. Emerging solutions in this sector include security information and event management systems and intrusion detection and prevention systems. Other emblematic technologies that can mitigate or even prevent cyberattacks are honeypots, software-defined networking, network function virtualization and intentional islanding. The workshop focuses on high-quality applied research and innovation results that are obtained from projects.

The CSR EPES-SPR workshop will accept high-quality research papers presenting strong theoretical contributions, applied research and innovation results obtained from funded cyber-security and resilience projects, and industrial papers that promote contributions on technology development and contemporary implementations.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Agentic AI for cybersecurity in EPES/SG
› AI-powered cybersecurity in EPES/SG
› Quantum-resilient security mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Sophisticated security orchestration in EPES/SG
› SDN/NFV-based architectures for resilient EPES/SG
› Threat intelligence mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Threat correlation, prioritization and mitigation mechanisms in EPES/SG

› Federated intrusion/anomaly detection and mitigation in EPES/SG
› Business continuity in EPES/SG
› EPES/SG honeypots, honeynets and digital twins
› Self-healing mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Risk assessment, threat modelling and vulnerability analysis in EPES/SG
› AR/VR cybersecurity training, evaluation and certification in EPES/SG

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2026 May 13, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 4, 2026 June 4, 2026
Camera-ready submission: May 25, 2026 June 25, 2026
Registration deadline (authors): May 25, 2026 June 25, 2026
Workshop dates: August 3–5, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to EPES-SPR workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T8 EPES-SPR is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

pradoglou@uowm.gr
psarigiannidis@uowm.gr

Organizing Committee

Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Thomas Lagkas, Democritus University of Thrace (GR)
Vasilios Argyriou, Kingston University (UK)
Dimitrios Pliatsios, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Anna Triantafyllou, University of Western Macedonia (GR)

Technical Program Committee

Wissam Mallouli, Montimage (FR)
Erkuden Rios, Tecnalia (ES)
Eider Iturbe, Tecnalia (ES)
Phu Nguyen, SINTEF (NO)
Evangelos Markakis, Athens University of Economics and Business (GR)
George Amponis, K3Y Ltd (BG)
Aristeidis Farao, University of Piraeus (GR)
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus (GR)
Igor Kotsiuba, Durham Univeristy (UK)
Konstantinos Kyranou, SIDROCO Holdings Ltd (CY)

Publicity Chairs

Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)

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