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The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications
(Innovate-Data 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex
and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of
conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of
the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social
media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth
of big data.
Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and
applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and
various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern
and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can
help societies and economies and speed up innovations.
The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the
art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in
an effort to present their research work and share research and development
ideas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovations in big data
- Data models and architectures
- Applications of big data
- Big data engineering and design
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Data protection and integrity
- Identity theft, data loss and leakage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Data analytics and metrics
- Data representation and structures
- Data management and processing
- Data capturing and acquisition
- Tools and technologies
- QoS of big data
- Social networks analysis
- Data searching and mining
- Visualisation of data
- Personal data logging and quantified-self
- Context-aware data
- Personalisation of data
- Data economics
- Applications of open and big data
- Open and linked data
- Methodologies and use cases
- Usability issues
- Storages and network requirements
- Network models and protocols
- Big data in cloud and IoT
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results
and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short
papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.
See instructions on the conference website
(http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service
(CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of
their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair
Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia
International Liaison Chair
Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain
Publicity Chair
Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Call for Papers
Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017)
(website: http://sns2017.eu/)
in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017)
July 3-7, 2017 Bologna, Italy
Scope
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies are radically
changing telecommunication networks. NFV virtualizes network services to reduce the dependency on
underlying hardware which aids resource management, provides faster service enablement and lowers OPEX
and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the
control and data planes thereby offering improved programmability, ease of deployment, management,
reduced costs, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic. But how does this
widespread adoption of NVF-SDN impact on network security, especially with an increased attack surface
implied by virtualization? In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN
security and related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to
analyse the security risks, requirements and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide methods and
approaches to assure security and mitigate threats in NFV and SDN.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
* Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies
* Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
* Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks
* Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV
* Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems
* Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions
* 5G security architecture, trust and confidence
* Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN
* Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network
* Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT
* Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing
* Risk and compliance issues in SDN
* Security architectures for SDN
* Security standards for SDN
* Security of SDN data plane
* Security of SDN control plane
* Security of SDN application plane
* Security of routing in SDN
* Security as a service for SDN
Important Dates
* Paper Submission: March 10, 2017
* Notification of Acceptance: April 18, 2017
* Camera Ready: May 3, 2017
Paper Submission Guideline
The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference
Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short
papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via JEMS at
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2763. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. To be
published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of
an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to
exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is
not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized
material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These
matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who
engages in either practice.
Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dr. Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, UK
* Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France
* Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
* Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, UK
* Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece
Technical Program Committee
* Michail-Alexandros Kourtis - NCSR Demokritos, Greece
* Gergely Biczók - Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
* Roberto Bifulco - NEC Labs Europe, Germany
* Carolina Canales - Ericsson, Spain
* Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna
* Augusto Ciuffoletti - University of Pisa, Italy
* Miguel Angel Garcia - Ericsson, Spain
* Ludovic Jacquin - Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
* Harilaos Koumaras - NCSR Demokritos, Greece
* Jianxin Li-Beihang University, China
* Antonios Litke - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece
* Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
* Alan Miller - University of St Andrews, UK
* Nikolaos Papadakis - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece
* Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany
* Sandra Scott-Hayward - Queen's University Belfast, UK
* Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui - i2CAT, Spain
* George Xilouris - NCSR Demokritos, Greece
* Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany
Contact
Shao Ying Zhu <s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC
'17)
held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High
Performance,
June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany.
(Springer LNCS Proceedings)
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Date: June 22, 2017
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS)
Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179
Call for Papers
Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible
resource management
in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud
providers need to
manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly
dynamic and
heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy.
Similarly, HPC
environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable
flexible management of
vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning
cost, which is
unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.
Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in
different ways: machine
virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple
underutilized servers with
heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to
live-migrate a
fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables
novel and dynamic
ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e.,
containerization), with its
capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for
their coexistence within
the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine
virtualization
with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization
allows physical
NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network
virtualization, with its
capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the
underlying physical
topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which
evolved
network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity
and flexibility; the
increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
promises to extend
this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume.
Topics of Interest
The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions
related to
virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the
intersection of HPC
and the cloud.
Major Topics
- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the
cloud and grids
- OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity,
Shifter, i.a.)
- Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
- Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors,
FPGAs, etc.)
- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies
- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors
- Software defined networks and network virtualization
- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration
(Kubernetes i.a.),
- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability
- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud
workloads
- Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC
convergence
- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks,
RDMA, etc.)
- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
- I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems
- GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization
- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized
environments
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments
- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs
- Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government
- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
- Container security
- Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine,
Puppet, i.a.)
- Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors
The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC)
aims to
bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the
challenges
posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration,
mutual exchange
of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel
solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.
The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper
presentations, each
followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are
limited to 5 minutes.
Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.
Important Dates
February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline
April 25, 2017 - Paper submission deadline
May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification
June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day
June 25, 2017 - Camera-ready version due
Chair
Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece
Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational
Science, Japan
Program committee
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK
Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA
Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA
Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA
Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA
Maria Girone, CERN, Europe
Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA
Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland
Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA
Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway
Josh Simons, VMWare, USA
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA
Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan
Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Paper Submission-Publication
Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables
and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a
Springer LNCS volume. .
The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial
submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.
Format Guidelines:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract, Paper Submission Link:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly
limited to 5 minutes.
They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for
demonstrations, to present
research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of
interest to the community.
Submit abstract via the main submission link.
General Information
The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the
International
Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22,
Frankfurt,
Germany.
Environmental computing applications - state of the art
ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop
Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland
Submission deadline: 10th February
http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/
There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology
or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to
analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general
approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data
sources is needed.
The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers,
environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in
Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or
present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but
not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata
approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of
environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation.
The topics of interest include:
* Case studies
* Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them)
* Multi-model systems
* Civil protection (and related engineering challenges)
* Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications
* Risk assessment and management
* Interdisciplinary collaboration
* Dynamic model coupling approaches
* Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks
* Visualisation
Submission
Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental
Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more
information about the submission process (including the “abstract only”
option), please consult the conference website (
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/).
Organisation and contact
Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany
Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich
http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/
info(a)envcomp.eu
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Matti Heikkurinen - LMU
heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31
The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA)
- In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017
- São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017
- http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/
- [ CALL FOR PAPER ] :
Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the
overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things"
in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple
sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations,
heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be
service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve
producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of
services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT
offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but
also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation,
automated service selection or distributed planning.
On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a
strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent
nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents”
(IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network
centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of
view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as
the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that
represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or
sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the
impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent
systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast
social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to
collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive
foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome
well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in
order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of
agent-technology for the development of IoT-software.
- [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] :
The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning:
- Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA,
- Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA,
- Providing a novel approach to IoA, or
- Mapping an existing approach to IoA.
This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or
by presenting existing (real-world) applications.
The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical
issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a
(multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not
limited to:
- Agents-based interactive environments
- Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions
- Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
- Automated service discovery or selection
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition
- Computational models of distributed technologies
- IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS
- Globalized networks and grid alliances
- Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations
- IoA security including self-healing and self-protection
- IoA monitoring and control including
self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization
Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors
should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open
to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in
English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed
16 pages.
- [ IMPORTANT DATES ] :
Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017
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==CALL FOR PAPERS
==MATES 2017
==15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies
==Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017
==Leipzig, Germany
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==http://mates2017.uni-trier.de
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== Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
==Web Intelligence (WI 2017)
==http://webintelligence2017.com/
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==Submission deadline: Sun, April 23, 2017
==at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017
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Aims and Scope
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The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the
cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents
and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for
researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss
latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded
systems in various application domains.
MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD
mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a
Best Paper Award.
The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in
Computer Science) series.
Topics of Interest
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MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system
technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multiagent platforms and tools
- Agent communication languages
- Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies
- Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of multiagent
systems
- Standards for agents and multiagent systems
- Multiagent systems: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation
- Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent
teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations
- Adaptive agents and multiagent learning
- Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications
- Agent-based modeling and social simulation
- Mobile agents
- Autonomous robots and robot teams
- Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids)
- Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling
- Recommender agents
- Agent-based planning and scheduling
- Agent-based information retrieval
- Agent-based distributed data mining
- Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation
- Agents for the semantic Web
- Agents for the social Web
- Agents for the Internet of Services
- Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing
- Agents for cloud computing
- Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment
- Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains
(e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart
grids, renewable energy).
MATES PhD mentoring track
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The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD
students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform
to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss
their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides
an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as
with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable
feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In
particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral
consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant
field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of
the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the
MATES homepage.
The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are
- to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion
on their work from experienced researchers and their peers.
- to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the
field of multi-agent systems.
- to get advice for their (academic) career.
- to provide networking opportunities.
Paper Submission:
Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should
provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work:
- Motivation
- State of the Art
- Methodical approach
- Preliminary results/findings (optional
- Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor
PhD short papers are up to 6 pages long, written in English and
formatted with Springer LNCS style. The selection process takes into
account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be
peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee.
The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to
pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Presentation and Publication:
All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral
presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session.In addition, a
selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished
work mature enough for publication will be included in theMATES
proceedings. If you would like to participate actively in this event
please contact both chairs by Email:
Invited Speakers
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In keeping with its tradition, MATES 2017 offers invited keynotes which
are delivered by highly renowned experts on relevant topics of the broad
area of intelligent agent technology.
Important Dates
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Deadline for Submission: Sun, April 23, 2017
Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers:Sun, June 18, 2017
Conference:Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017
Paper Submission and Publication
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The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI
(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series.
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages
(full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length
submissions will be rejected without review.
Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a
substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular,
submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other
conference or journal.
Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link
and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017
For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one
of the authors will be required to register for the conference.
Conference Organisation
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General Chairs:
Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany)
Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Honorary Chairs:
Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Rene´ Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland)
Program Committee:
Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy)
Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France)
Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy)
Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK)
Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy)
Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden)
Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada)
Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany)
Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)
Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany)
Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan)
Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia)
Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany)
John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany)
Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland)
Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK)
Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany)
Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany)
Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
MATES Steering Committee
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Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Jörg P. Müller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria)
Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
For more information on the MATES conference series,
please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series
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“Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the
mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!”
“Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler
sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.”
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and
Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de
WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/
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ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.
Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS).
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chair
Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Program Committee Chairs
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 22, 2017
Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017
Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017
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SUBMISSION
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The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals.
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work:
-full paper (10 pages)
-short paper (6 pages)
-workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.
Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
David, Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK
Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Christian, Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
Hannes Federrath University of Hamburg, Germany
Christophe, Feltus Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany
Lorena, Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria
Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US
Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK
Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US
Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria
Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany
Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands
Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria
Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany
Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria
Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Jon A. Solworth University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US
Oliver Theel Carl von Ossietzky, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden
Emmanouil, Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
Corrado Aaron, Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy
Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria
Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University ,US
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Availability, Dependability, and Resilience
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Business Continuity & Resilience
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Cryptography
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications
Dependability Aspects of e-Government
Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software
Designing Security Requirements
Digital Forensics
E-Commerce Dependability
Identity Management
IPR of Security Technology
Incident Response and Prevention
Information Flow Control
Information Hiding and Steganograhpy
Interoperability Aspects
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy
Mobile Security
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Process based Security Models and Methods
Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures
Resilience of Computing Systems
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things
RFID Security and Privacy
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Safety Critical Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security and Usability
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security in Electronic Payments
Security in Electronic Voting
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Software Security
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trust Models and Trust Management
Wireless Security
(Apologies for cross-posts)
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The dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track aims to outline and discuss
challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance,
which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities.
The BB-Track invites contributions that discuss pending technological
challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological
ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on BB thought
and knowledge.
Some corresponding thoughts have been outlined by scholars in BB Volume
(http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319541419) that has been released
recently. Moreover, after Vienna, Krems, and Shanghai, BB is comming to the
dg.o 2017 in New York! More information regarding dg.o 2017 (18th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research) is available on
conference's official website (http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/).
We're welcoming research papers, works in progress and tutorials that deal
with innovation and ideas, which bypass BB and look forward with regard to
ICT and governance. All submissions have to be forwarded with the subject
"dg'o 17 BB-Track" to both the track chairs:
Dr. Alois Paulin, TU Vienna, Austria (alois(a)apaulin.com
<mailto:alois@apaulin.com> )
Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Thessaly, Greece (lanthopo(a)teilar.gr
<mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> )
BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*
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3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2017
Bari, Italy
February 13-17, 2017
Organized by:
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/
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AIM:
BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.
ADDRESSED TO:
In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be:
Department of Computer Science
University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
via Orabona, 4
70125 Bari, Italy
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications
Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models
Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics
Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification
Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics
David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R
Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics
Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks
Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management
Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics
Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data
Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things
Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis
Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud
V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity
Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning
Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content
John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Annalisa Appice
Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair)
Stefano Franco
Corrado Loglisci
Donato Malerba (co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón
Gianvito Pio
David Silva
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Universitat Rovira i Virgili