FFS/SCC Symposium Technical Program

Call for Papers

Symposium Dates: October 22-23

The financial services industry (banking, insurance and financial markets) face mounting pressure to reduce costs, improve customer experience, compete with emerging players and comply with new regulations. At the same time, the industry is seeking and investing in innovations with the potential to transform financial services using technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, quantum computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), cybersecurity, and cloud. These advances are surfacing new capabilities in risk modeling, fraud detection, regulatory compliance, distributed and decentralized trust models, digital customer journeys and data privacy. Financial institutions will be required to embrace these advanced technologies now in order to set a viable course for future growth.

The IEEE Symposium on the Future of Financial Services (FFS)/SCC Symposium aims to bring academia and industry domain experts together to identify innovation opportunities inspired by data-driven and socio-technical topics that are essential to successfully lead the digital future of financial services. It also focuses on facilitating exchange of the great minds to better understand existing challenges in the industry and potential R&D advances that can bring transformative changes to the financial industry in coming years, such as:

• Exponential technologies in Finance such as AI, Blockchain, 5G/6G, Hybrid Cloud, and Quantum Computing
• Growth of Digital Finance catalyzed by Digital Currencies and the rise of FinTech & RegTech
• Financial Crimes Cyber Defense, integrating cybersecurity, fraud and AML, using data-driven learning, secure multi-party computation, and privacy-enhancing technologies
• Innovations in Financial Services to support the future of climate (e.g., climate change related risks), the future of work (e.g., remote workforce and human augmentation with AI), and the future of health (e.g., global pandemics that have a planetary impact on supply chains and economies)

Submissions

Submitted papers must be solely the work of the author(s), must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary work and sharing of research tools and reproducible data as supplementary materials.

We note that normal 8-page research papers on future of financial services should be submitted to the parent conference IEEE SCC 2020.

Main presentation tracks of the 2nd IEEE FSS will be organized per the following types of submissions:

• Work-In-Progress (3-4 pages): We welcome short research and/or comparative study papers, which are intended to report WIP and early stage projects without complete validation and evaluation.
• Experience Track (3-4 pages): Finance professionals are invited to submit their insightful experiences in exploiting leading-edge technologies or optimizing operations performance of geo-dependent financial services. This submission follows the format of Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions.
• Panel Track (1-2 pages): Position or point-of-view papers on the theme of a specific FFS panel.

All contributions will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process, with an emphasis on originality, practicality and overall quality. Every paper will be reviewed by at least three committee members.

In addition to the three tracks, we will also organize the following sessions:

• Posters and Demos (1 page proposal): FFS will accept submission of Poster or Demo proposals, describing research results or ongoing research projects. Posters and Demos will be displayed/showcased in a dedicated area at the conference, and presented in the Posters/Demos session.
• Tutorials (1 page proposal): FFS will host half-day or full-day sessions toward the financial services research literacy. We welcome financial service specialists and/or technologists, who are eager to share their expertise/know-hows with participants from other disciplines and/or students, to submit tutorial proposals.
• Panels (1 page proposal): FFS will provide multiple opportunities for exchanging and discussing ideas with renowned experts from the digital health academia and practice. We call for proposals for panels on topics related to future of financial services.

General manuscript guidelines and submission information is available at: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/cfp/callforpapers.html

In Easy Chair for IEEE SCC 2020, we have created a track for the FFS Symposium with name "Symposium on Future of Financial Services". Your paper submission process for the Symposium starts with visiting the submission link below, followed by selecting "enter as an author", followed by selecting "Symposium on Future of Financial Services".

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeescc2020

UPDATED: Important Dates

FFS papers and proposals
Submission due: June 30, 2020 (5:00am, UTC)
Final notification to authors: July 20, 2020
Camera ready manuscripts due: August 7, 2020

Congress dates: October 18-23, 2020
Symposium dates: October 22-23, 2020
Industry day: October 22, 2020

Proceedings

FFS 2020 proceedings will be published as in a separate volume (entitled SERVICES) for the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Services, which will also publish proceedings as separate volumes for the other five co-located conferences including IEEE CLOUD, IEEE EDGE, IEEE ICWS, IEEE SCC and IEEE SMDS. For the contents of FFS 2019 published by IEEE, please refer to the SERVICES 2019 Volume at: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/proceedings/

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