December 2016 - computational.science

FNC 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Zahoor Khan 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Call for Workshops Proposals The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications Leuven, Belgium July 24-26, 2017 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ Important Dates: * Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 FNC-2017 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of FNC-2017 and its related areas. Proposal Format * Title of the workshop * Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) * Draft Call for paper of the workshop * Tentative list of TPC members Workshops' Chair Zahoor Khan, PhD Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE (zahoor.khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:zahoor.khan@hct.ac.ae>) (Adjunct Faculty) Dalhousie University, Canada (zahoor.khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:zahoor.khan@dal.ca>)

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Fwd: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM Subject: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017) To: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline is January 7, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Wish you all best wishes for the end of 2016 and a Happy New Year 2017! Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Invitation to visit Tehran for 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry
by Mohades 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry March 1-6, 2017 Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran URL: <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry (WSCG) will be held on March 1-6, 2017 in Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. This is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers in computational geometry and related fields as well as interested researchers and students, from all over the world. The school covers advanced topics in computational geometry and related fields presented by the invited speakers as well as the primary concepts of these fields presented in a 3 day seminar held before this event. This workshop provides a friendly atmosphere to work on computational geometry problems, present and discuss the results, and establish scientific collaborations. An international certificate will be presented by the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry to the participants. The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry will cover concepts in Computational Geometry and Architectural Geometry. General Information: IMPORTANT DATES * Early registration deadline: Feb 4, 2017 * Seminar on primary concepts of Computational Geometry: Feb 26, 2017 * Winter School on Computational Geometry: Mar 1-6, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS * Maike Buchin, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois, U.S * Matias Korman, Tohoku University, Japan More information on the coming 9th WSCG is available on <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir. If you have any question regarding this event please do not hesitate to contact us via <mailto:algocg@aut.ac.ir> algocg(a)aut.ac.ir.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We look forward to seeing you in the school. Ali Mohades, Chair of the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry, Laboratory of Algorithms and Computational Geometry, Amirkabir University of Technology

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