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The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/
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The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on.
IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner.
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
- Software Architecture and Middleware
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Context-awareness and Location-awareness
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Software-defined Networking
- Performance Evaluation and Modeling
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- IoT Services and Applications
- Network Design and Architecture
- Smart Environment
- Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing
- Energy Efficiency
- Virtualization
- Clouds at the Edges
- Industry Track
- General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing
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/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:
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
Program Co-Chairs:
Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair:
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop Coordinator:
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
Journal Special Issues Coordinator:
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chair:
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Track Chairs:
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China
Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India
Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Fano Ramparany, Orange, France
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:: iWAPT 2017 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
http://www.iwapt.org/2017/ <http://www.iwapt.org/2017/>
June 2, 2017 at Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA
The iWAPT 2017 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2017.
http://www.ipdps.org/ <http://www.ipdps.org/>
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# Important dates
Submission closes: Monday, Jan 23, 2017 (AOE) **Extended**
Author notification: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017
Camera-ready: Friday, March 10, 2017
Workshop: Friday, June 2, 2017
Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>
(If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.)
# About iWAPT
iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing.
We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the
following areas (the list is not exhaustive):
* Machine-adaptive algorithms and software
* Program generation
* Performance analysis and modeling
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Numerical algorithms and libraries
* Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures
* Compilation, e.g., iterative and empirical compilers
* Programming models
* Runtime systems
* Empirical search heuristics
* Power- and/or energy-aware computing
# Paper Submission guidelines
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.
See style templates for details:
LaTex Package (ZIP):
http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>
Word Template (ZIP):
http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>
Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>). Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper.
Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPS proceedings.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE’s online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper.
# Program Committee
PC Chair: Toshiyuki Imamura, Riken AICS, Japan
PC Vice Chair: Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA
Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK
Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan
Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA
Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan
Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA
Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University, USA
Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan
Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
# Organizing Committee
* (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA
* (General Vice-Chair) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* (SC liaison) Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* (Finance Chair) Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
* (Web Chair) Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan
* (Publicity Chair) Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan
* (PC Chair) Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN AICS, Japan
# Contact
iwapt2017(a)iwapt.org <mailto:iwapt2017@iwapt.org>
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iWAPT2017 Program Committee Chair
Dr. Toshiyuki Imamura
Advanced Institute for Computational Science, RIKEN
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Boyana Norris
norris(a)cs.uoregon.edu
Dear Colleague,
please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended until
January 31st, 2017.
IEEE COMPSAC 2017
www.compsac.org
Where: Turin, Italy. July 4–8, 2017
Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2017
IEEE COMPSAC offers opportunities for recommending best papers for
inclusions in IEEE publications
(https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities
for more details).
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IEEE COMPSAC 2017
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COMPSAC (www.compsac.org) is the IEEE Computer Society Signature
Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is a major
international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss
research results and advancements, emerging problems, and future trends
in computer and software technologies and applications. The technical
program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case
studies, plenary and specialized panels, fast abstracts, a doctoral
symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on
emerging and important topics. The theme of the 41st COMPSAC is Building
Digital Autonomy for a Sustainable World.
COMPSAC 2017 Symposia are as follows:
CELT: Computer Education & Learning Technologies
CAP: Computer Architecture & Platforms
DSAT: Data Sciences, Analytics, & Technologies
EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications
HCSC: Human Computing & Social Computing
ITiP: IT in Practice
MOWU: Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Computing
NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet, & Web Technologies
SEPT: Security, Privacy, & Trust
SETA: Software Engineering Technology & Applications
Sessions will include topics and issues related to adaptive
learning and teaching, autonomous computing, wearable computing, the
internet-of-things, social networking, cross-domain data fusion,
privacy, security and surveillance, cloud computing, big data,
physiological computing, self-aware and self-expressive systems, and
emerging architectures and network issues that affect all these
developing technology-driven innovations.
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research
work, as well as industrial practice reports. COMPSAC offer publication
opportunities in IEEE journals following the "Conference First / Journal
Second (C1J2)" and "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Schemes
(https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities).
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JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
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COMPSAC is offering opportunities to recommend our best papers for
inclusion in IEEE publications, and to encourage presentation of already
published journal papers during the conference. These schemes, to be
executed at the discretion of individual COMPSAC symposia and workshops
chairs, are as follows:
COMPSAC "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" Scheme:
Chairs may offer the authors of accepted papers opportunity for
publication in an IEEE journal. In this C1J2 Scheme, a chair initiates
the process to offer the paper(s), together with their COMPSAC reviews,
for publication in an IEEE journal to the journal editor-in-chief (EIC).
EICs may or may not use our reviews at their discretion, but may instead
prefer to rely solely on their own reviewer communities. Such papers
accepted by a journal for publication will appear in the COMPSAC
proceeding as only an abstract accompanied by a note that the paper has
been submitted to the journal for consideration for publication in that
journal. If the paper is accepted for publication, a link to it will be
provided in the conference proceedings, thus providing conference
participants access to that paper. The paper will still be registered
for COMPSAC and must as well be presented during the conference. If
such a paper is not accepted by the journal, the paper will be later
included in the conference electronic proceedings.
COMPSAC "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Scheme:
Similar to the above mentioned scheme, but taking place in the reverse
order is the J1C2 scheme – journal publication first, conference
presentation to follow. A published work in an IEEE journal, say within
couple of years, or even accepted but not yet published, may be
submitted to and presented at COMPSAC. If accepted, the conference
proceedings will contain an abridged abstract and a link to the
published version, thus conference participants may have access to that
paper. This scheme benefits authors by presenting their work to a wider
audience in person, discussion, networking with peers, and driving
renewed interest to their work. The process is as follows: the author
offers a paper by proposing it as a full-text manuscript submission to a
symposium or a workshop; the paper is then lightly reviewed for
suitability, scope, technical content and merit by the PC of the
symposium/workshop; finally, the PC Chair(s) proposes a notification
decision. The author then registers the paper and presents it during the
conference at the time identified in the program.
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KEYNOTES
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Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley
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MAIN DEADLINES
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Main Conference Papers Due:
31 January 2017
Main Conference Notification:
27 March 2017
Workshop Papers Due:
10 April 2017
Workshop Paper Notification:
25 April 2017
Camera Ready and Registration Due:
9 May 2017
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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
AlCoB 2017
Aveiro, Portugal
June 5-7, 2017
Organized by:
Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA)
Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA)
University of Aveiro
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/
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AIMS:
AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.
Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo.
The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:
1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,
2) identifying gene structures in the genome,
3) recognizing regulatory motifs,
4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,
5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and
6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
VENUE:
AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be:
Department of Mathematics
University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology
STRUCTURE:
AlCoB 2017 will consist of:
invited lectures
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Biehl (University of Groningen), Prototype-based Models for the Analysis of Biomedical Data
Benedict Paten (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Human Genome Variation Map Project
Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Villeurbanne), Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, TR)
Stephen Altschul (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US)
Yurii Aulchenko (PolyOmica, Groningen, NL)
Timothy L. Bailey (University of Nevada, Reno, US)
Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US)
Philipp Bucher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH)
Ken Chen (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US)
Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX)
Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL)
Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University of Munich, DE)
Terry Furey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US)
Olivier Gascuel (Pasteur Institute, Paris, FR)
Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, Denver, US)
Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, JP)
Osamu Gotoh (Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP)
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, GR)
Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, US)
Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP)
Lukasz Kurgan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US)
Gerton Lunter (University of Oxford, UK)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, ES, chair)
Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK)
William Stafford Noble (University of Washington, Seattle, US)
Cedric Notredame (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES)
Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GR)
Manuel C. Peitsch (Philip Morris International, Bern, CH)
Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Graziano Pesole (University of Bari, IT)
David Posada (University of Vigo, ES)
Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE)
Peter Robinson (The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US)
Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, ES)
David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, CA)
Alejandro Schäffer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US)
Xinghua Shi (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US)
Nicholas D. Socci (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US)
Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, DE)
Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, US)
Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, BE)
Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, AT)
Kai Wang (Columbia University, New York, US)
Haim J. Wolfson (Tel Aviv University, IL)
Ioannis Xenarios (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, CH)
Jinn-Moon Yang (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, TW)
Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, Orlando, US)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US)
Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, US)
Zhongming Zhao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Diana Costa (Aveiro, CIDMA)
Daniel Figueiredo (Aveiro, CIDMA, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Manuel A. Martins (Aveiro, CIDMA)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada)
Armando J. Pinho (Aveiro, IEETA)
Diogo Pratas (Aveiro, IEETA, co-chair)
David Silva (London)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/Registration.php
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
Paper submission: January 29, 2017 – EXTENDED –
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2017
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 9, 2017
Early registration: March 9, 2017
Late registration: May 22, 2017
Submission to the journal special issue: September 7, 2017
COLLOCATED EVENTS:
AlCoB 2017 will be collocated with the Fourth Workshop on Molecular Logic:
http://molecularlogic2017.weebly.com/
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
POSTAL ADDRESS:
AlCoB 2017
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Universidade de Aveiro
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Environmental computing applications - state of the art
ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop
Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland
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
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SBP-BRiMS 2017
2017 International Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior
Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)
July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org
All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first
authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those
receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a
special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Abstract Submission : February 22 (Wed), 2017
Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017
Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017
Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 2017
Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary,
presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation.
All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the
Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival.
Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a
short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online
proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume.
The online proceedings is not considered archival.
Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results,
technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the
military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All
short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for:
presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be
published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the
Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered
archival.
Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017
Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017,
including the following:
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference)
Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night
Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night
Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night
ABOUT SBP-BRiMS:
SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper
track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of
high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The
conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which
were co-located in previous years.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study
social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral
modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is
a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and
scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling
are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex
behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these
approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system
components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”)
and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational
sciences to the social and health sciences.
The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from
academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense
researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research
results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and
showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural
behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.
Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and
tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available
through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and
http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ .
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications.
Topics of interests include the following:
Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes
* Group interaction and collaboration
* Group formation and evolution
* Group representation and profiling
* Collective action and governance
* Cultural patterns & representation
* Social conventions, social contexts and processes
* Influence process and recognition
* Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
* Information diffusion
* Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Behavior Modeling
* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
* Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
* Models of reasoning and decision making
* Model validation & comparison
* Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior
* Physical models of human movement
* Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking
* Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* Knowledge acquisition/engineering
* Human behavior issues in model federations
Methodological Challenges
* Mathematical foundations
* Verification and validation
* Sensitivity analysis
* Matching technique or method to research questions
* Metrics and evaluation
* Methodological innovation
* Model federation and integration
* Evolutionary computing
* Optimization
Information, Systems, & Network Science
* Data mining on social media platforms
* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
* Inference of network topologies and changes over time
* Analysis of link formations and link types
* Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
* Analysis of high-dimensional networks
* Analytics for social and human dynamics
Military & Intelligence Applications
* Evaluation, modeling and simulation
* Group formation and evolution in the political context
* Technology and flash crowds
* Networks and political influence
* Group representation and profiling
* Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Applications for Health and Well-being
* Social network analysis to understand health behavior
* Modeling of health policy and decision making
* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other Applications
* Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
* Viral marketing
* Reasoning about development aid through social modeling
* Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:
The conference solicits three categories of papers:
Regular papers (max. 10 pages)
All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome
Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation.
Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages)
All topics and authors welcome.
Published online. Typically a poster presentation.
Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages)
Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation.
Paper Formatting Guideline
The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files
are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-
793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page.
All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a
maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for
posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking
results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using
the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted
on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website.
A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their
papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal
“Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high-
profile journal.
The submission website will be available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a
paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and
submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be
able to update your submission.
PUBLICATION
For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the
program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com.
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:
Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full
conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two
distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds
in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other
mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be
designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with
medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited
formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an
understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed
by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling
approaches.
Tutorial proposal submission:
Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information:
* Title of the tutorial.
* Description of the tutorial topic and structure.
* Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the
attendees).
* Short bio and contact information of the organizers.
More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including
instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to
the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information
becomes available. For further information, please contact
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
CHALLENGE:
The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in
previous years.
Additional details will be posted on the conference website.
FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:
Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization
Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross-
fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted
with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider
partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The
Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to
interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies.
Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives
from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA,
etc.
BEST PAPER AWARDS:
SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with
student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
HOTEL AND LOGISTICS:
Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference
website as it becomes available.
TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:
It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available
on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP-
BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.
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FINAL Call for Papers
22nd International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017
12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017
Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe,
in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN
and the Ada Resource Association (ARA)
The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software
Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 will take place in Vienna,
Austria. Following its traditional style, the conference will
span a full week, including a three-day technical program and
vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel
tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition
features a focused Special Session on Reliable and Safe Robotics.
*** DEADLINE Sunday 22 JANUARY 2017 ***
Regular & Special Session Papers + Industrial Presentations: submit via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017
Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair
Ben Brosgol <brosgol at adacore.com>
For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017
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Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
Please circulate widely.
Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair
Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be
Dear colleague,
Apologies for multiple postings.
Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is
one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This
conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security
technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security
research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case
studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges.
All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process.
Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore.
As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you
the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city,
its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean
gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will
include a display of flamenco dancing.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017
Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017
Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017
Early Registration: August 15, 2017
Best Regards,
ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee
ICCST-2017 Executive Committee
http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
Dear colleague,
Apologies for multiple postings.
In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced
and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017), we will organize some workshops.
The workshop proposals should be submitted to ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com
Further information are provided in the ATC Call for Workshop page:
http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartworld/2017/atc/cfw.php
All accepted papers will be included in the ATC 2017 proceedings
published by IEEE.
Workshop/Special Session proposals should contain following information:
• The title of the workshop/special session, including both full name
and abbreviation (for workshop)
• The objectives, scope, and contributions to the main conference (up
to 1 page)
• The short bios of the key organizers and their related experience
• The procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (e.g.,
how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected
number of participants
• A tentative list of program committee members
• The (tentative) website/URL of the proposed workshop/special session
Important Schedule for ATC Workshops and Special Sessions:
• Proposal Due: Jan. 30, 2017
• Proposal Notification: Feb. 05, 2017
• Paper Submission, Notification: TBD by individual workshops
• Final Camera-ready Paper Due: June 10, 2017
Best regards,
Riccardo Lazzeretti
riccardo.lazzeretti(a)math.unipd.it
Workshop Chair
IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017)