Abstract A vast amount of valuable data is produced and is becoming available for analysis as a result of advancements in smart cyber-physical systems. The data comes from various sources, such as healthcare, smart homes, smart vehicles, and often includes private, potentially sensitive information that needs appropriate sanitization before being released for analysis. The incremental and fast nature of data generation in these systems necessitates scalable privacy-preserving mechanisms with high privacy and utility. However, privacy preservation often comes at the expense of data utility. We propose a new data perturbation algorithm, SEAL (Secure and Efficient data perturbation Algorithm utilizing Local differential privacy), based on Chebyshev interpolation and Laplacian noise, which provides a good balance between privacy and utility with high efficiency and scalability. Empirical comparisons with existing privacy-preserving algorithms show that SEAL excels in execution speed, scalability, accuracy, and attack resistance. SEAL provides flexibility in choosing the best possible privacy parameters, such as the amount of added noise, which can be tailored to the domain and dataset.
Smart cyber-physical systems (SCPS) have become an important part of the IT landscape. Often these systems include IoT devices that allow effective and easy acquisition of data in areas such as healthcare, smart cities, smart vehicles, and smart homes @cite_66 . Data mining and analysis are among the primary goals of collecting data from SCPS. The infrastructural extensions of SCPSs have contributed to the exponential growth in the number of IoT sensors, but security is often overlooked, and the devices become a source of privacy leak. The security and privacy concerns of big data and data streams are not entirely new, but require constant attention due to technological advancements of the environments and the devices used @cite_40 . Confidentiality, authentication, and authorization are just a few of the concerns @cite_44 @cite_83 @cite_32 . Many studies have raised the importance of privacy and security of SCPS due to their heavy use of personally identifiable information (PII) @cite_84 . Controlling access via authentication @cite_67 , attribute-based encryption @cite_74 , temporal and location-based access control @cite_67 and employing constraint-based protocols @cite_61 are some examples of improving privacy of SCPS.
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Industrial systems always prefer to reduce their operational expenses. To support such reductions, they need solutions that are capable of providing stability, fault tolerance, and flexibility. One such solution for industrial systems is cyber physical system (CPS) integration with the Internet of Things (IoT) utilizing cloud computing services. These CPSs can be considered as smart industrial systems, with their most prevalent applications in smart transportation, smart grids, smart medical and eHealthcare systems, and many more. These industrial CPSs mostly utilize supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to control and monitor their critical infrastructure (CI). For example, WebSCADA is an application used for smart medical technologies, making improved patient monitoring and more timely decisions possible. The focus of the study presented in this paper is to highlight the security challenges that the industrial SCADA systems face in an IoT-cloud environment. Classical SCADA systems are already lacking in proper security measures; however, with the integration of complex new architectures for the future Internet based on the concepts of IoT, cloud computing, mobile wireless sensor networks, and so on, there are large issues at stakes in the security and deployment of these classical systems. Therefore, the integration of these future Internet concepts needs more research effort. This paper, along with highlighting the security challenges of these CI’s, also provides the existing best practices and recommendations for improving and maintaining security. Finally, this paper briefly describes future research directions to secure these critical CPSs and help the research community in identifying the research gaps in this regard. Smart Cyber--Physical Systems (sCPS) are modern CPS systems that are engineered to seamlessly integrate a large number of computation and physical components; they need to control entities in their environment in a smart and collective way to achieve a high degree of effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, these systems are supposed to be safe and secure, deal with environment dynamicity and uncertainty, cope with external threats, and optimize their behavior to achieve the best possible outcome. This "smartness" typically stems from highly cooperative behavior, self--awareness, self--adaptation, and selfoptimization. Most of the "smartness" is implemented in software, which makes the software one of the most complex and most critical constituents of sCPS. As the specifics of sCPS render traditional software engineering approaches not directly applicable, new and innovative approaches to software engineering of sCPS need to be sought. This paper reports on the results of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber--Physical Systems (SEsCPS 2016), which specifically focuses on challenges and promising solutions in the area of software engineering for sCPS. This paper promotes the concept of smart and connected communities SCC, which is evolving from the concept of smart cities. SCC are envisioned to address synergistically the needs of remembering the past (preservation and revitalization), the needs of living in the present (livability), and the needs of planning for the future (attainability). Therefore, the vision of SCC is to improve livability, preservation, revitalization, and attainability of a community. The goal of building SCC for a community is to live in the present, plan for the future, and remember the past. We argue that Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to provide a ubiquitous network of connected devices and smart sensors for SCC, and big data analytics has the potential to enable the move from IoT to real-time control desired for SCC. We highlight mobile crowdsensing and cyber-physical cloud computing as two most important IoT technologies in promoting SCC. As a case study, we present TreSight, which integrates IoT and big data analytics for smart tourism and sustainable cultural heritage in the city of Trento, Italy. Abstract In a cyber-physical system, the control component plays an essential role to make the cyber and physical components work harmoniously together. When information collected from the physical space contains private or sensitive data that cannot be passed onto the cyber space, properly controlling the cyber-physical system becomes a very challenging task. For instance, the smart grid systems, a replacement for the traditional power grid systems, have been widely used in the industries. To prevent power shortage, threshold-based power usage control (PUC) in a smart grid considers a situation where the utility company sets a threshold to control the total power usage or supply of a neighborhood. If the total power usage exceeds the threshold, either certain households need to reduce their power consumption or the utility company needs to buy additional power supplies to meet the increasing demand. In these scenarios, the utility company needs to frequently collect power usage data from smart meters. It has been well documented that these power usage data can reveal a person's daily activity and violate personal privacy. To mitigate the privacy concerns, the goal of this paper is to develop efficient and privacy-preserving power usage control protocols that allow a utility company to balance supply and demand in a smart grid without violating personal privacy of its customers. We will provide extensive empirical study to show the practicality of our proposed protocols.