2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber-Physical Resilience and Security Against Digital Breakdowns (CYPRES)

 Call for Papers

Critical infrastructures, including energy, communications, banking, transportation, and public government services, have become indispensable pillars supporting industrialized economies. The seamless functioning of these infrastructures is crucial for citizens, businesses, and governments, as they rely on a complex network of interconnected physical and information systems to meet their needs. Simultaneously, these infrastructures are experiencing a growing level of interdependence, where the failure of one component can lead to cascading effects, resembling a domino effect. Noteworthy instances include the electricity grid failures in Nov. 2006 in Western Europe, where the shutdown of a high-voltage line in Germany resulted in widespread cross-border power outages spanning France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria, even extending to Morocco to affect a total of 10M customers. In parallel, the diverse and extensive causes of these events have prompted the adoption of all-hazard approaches to policy in many countries aiming to encompass both natural disasters and man-made attacks when formulating prevention and remediation measures against the risk of infrastructure failure. Recognizing the need for coordinated action, EU member states are not only encouraging R&D activities but also implementing policies for critical cyber-physical infrastructure protection.

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Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Emergency communication systems for first responders and citizens
› Interdependencies modelling and cascading effects analysis
› Cybersecurity anomaly and intrusion detection and mitigation
› Applications for citizen preparedness
› Use cases, pilot trials, and living labs for crisis and disaster management
› Policy recommendations for enhanced civil protection planning

› Crisis and disaster management across different critical sectors
› Frameworks for threat modelling and vulnerability assessment
› Methodologies for critical asset management during digital breakdowns
› Digital Twins, simulation engines, and scenario creation tools
› Risk estimation and impact assessment
› Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects (ELSA) for resilience

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 14 May 5, 2025 (extended, firm)
Authors’ notification: May 5 May 26, 2025
Camera-ready submission: May 26 June 16, 2025
Registration deadline (authors): May 26 June 16, 2025
Workshop dates: August 4–6, 2025

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 CYPRES 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 2T6 CYPRES is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

csrcypres@gmail.com

Organizing Committee

Georg Aumayr, Johanniter (AT)
Jiri Bouchal, Digital Resilience Institute (CZ)
Steve Gadsdon, First Response Solutions (UK)
Eva Jaho, EXUS.AI Labs (GR)
Kostis Kapasakalis, Resilience Guard (CH)
Christina Michailidou, Catalink Ltd (CY)
Bamba Niang, European Forum for Urban Security (FR)
Nikos Papadakis, Space Hellas (GR)
Martina Surynkova, SITMP (CZ)
Balaji Venkateswaran, University of Cyprus (CY)

Program Chairs

Christos Laoudias, University of Cyprus (CY)
Konstantinos Rantos, Democritus University of Thrace (GR)

Technical Program Committee

Konstantinos Avgerinakis, Catalink Ltd (CY)
Anastasios Drosou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)
Georgios Gardikis, Space Hellas (GR)
Nikos Hatziargyriou, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
Aris Lalos, Athena Research Center (GR)
Lukas Sigrist, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ES)
Goran Strbac, Imperial College London (UK)
Nadine Sturm, Johanniter (AT)
Konstantinos Votis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)

Publicity Chairs

Christiana Koutsoulli, University of Cyprus (CY)
Marios Stavrou, Bank of Cyprus (CY)

Invited Speakers

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Dr. Elena Xoplaki

Justus Liebig University Giessen (DE)
Department of Geography

AI for natural hazard resilience: Standards, early warning systems, and risk reduction in a changing climate

The use of artificial intelligence in disaster risk reduction is growing rapidly, particularly in support of early warning systems and efforts to protect at-risk populations. As climate change continue to intensify the frequency and severity of natural hazards, AI is being applied to improve hazard monitoring, impact forecasting, and communication during emergencies. The Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions (https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/extcoop/ai4resilience/) builds on the earlier work of the ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management and promotes international collaboration in standard-setting, implementation, and operational capacity building.

One example is the Horizon Europe MedEWSa project (https://www.medewsa.eu/), which demonstrates how AI methods can be used in multi-hazard platforms that integrate Earth observation data with decision-support tools. These systems are increasingly being used throughout the disaster management cycle, for real-time flood and wildfire prediction, risk assessments, and post-event damage mapping. Multi-sectoral applications within emergency response systems illustrate the potential of these tools to improve situational awareness and support resilience planning.

However, the effectiveness of such technologies depends heavily on the availability of high-quality and interoperable data. Many vulnerable regions still face substantial data gaps, along with issues such as inconsistent metadata and the absence of standardised formats. Limited model transparency can also undermine user confidence. Addressing these challenges requires clear standards, inclusive development processes, and engagement with end users to ensure that tools are practical, interpretable, and suited to real-world use, aligned to the United Nations’ Early Warnings for All initiative.

Biography

Elena Xoplaki is Akademische Raetin at the Department of Geography of the Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany. She is an expert in Mediterranean climate change. She has conducted analysis on weather extremes (heat waves, floods, droughts, compound events and concurrent extremes), paleoclimatology, climate reconstructions / model comparison, influence of circulation on European and Mediterranean climate. She is co-chair of the ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management, which recently transitioned into the ITU/UNEP/UNFCCC/UPU/WMO Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions. She has participated in and coordinated several European, Swiss, German and US research projects and she is PI of the ERC Synergy project EUROpest. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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