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10th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience)
in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids
<http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017>
in conjunction with
the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing (Euro-Par), Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
August 28 - September 1, 2017
<http://europar2017.usc.es>
Overview:
Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC)
systems continue to increase component counts, individual component
reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and
near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases.
Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent
faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the
extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing
infrastructures, and Cloud computing services.
While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its
manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value
or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is
observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A
failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application
abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable
error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip
in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error
detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable
error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in
the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not
detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error
(UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect
application output. There are many other types of hardware and software
faults, errors, and failures in computing systems.
Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and
applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault
detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity,
enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault
tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further
research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges
across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing,
Grid computing, and Cloud computing.
Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF
format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and
BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with
less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher
guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail
address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these
guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed
and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the
conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished
research that is not currently under review for any other conference or
journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without
review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not
appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings
will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At
least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the
workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop
program chairs for more information.
Important websites:
- Resilience 2017 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017>
- Resilience 2017 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops>
- Euro-Par 2017 website: <http://europar2017.usc.es>
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical foundations for resilience:
- Metrics and measurement
- Statistics and optimization
- Simulation and emulation
- Formal methods
- Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification
- Fault detection and prediction:
- Statistical analyses
- Machine learning
- Anomaly detection
- Data and information collection
- Visualization
- Monitoring and control for resilience:
- Platform and application monitoring
- Response and recovery
- RAS theory and performability
- Application and platform knobs
- Tunable fidelity and quality of service
- End-to-end data integrity:
- Fault tolerant design
- Degraded modes
- Forward migration and verification
- Fault injection
- Soft errors
- Silent data corruption
- Enabling infrastructure for resilience:
- RAS systems
- System software and middleware
- Programming models
- Tools
- Next-generation architectures
- Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance:
- Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults
- Resilient algorithms
- Fault tolerant numerical methods
- Robust iterative algorithms
- Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance
Important Dates:
- Workshop papers due: May 5, 2017
- Workshop author notification: June 16, 2017
- Workshop early registration: TBD
- Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2017
- Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2017
General Co-Chairs:
- Stephen L. Scott
Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team
Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
scottsl(a)ornl.gov
- Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun,
SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University, USA
box(a)latech.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
- Patrick G. Bridges
University of New Mexico, USA
bridges(a)cs.unm.edu
- Christian Engelmann
Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA
engelmannc(a)ornl.gov
Program Committee:
- Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA
- Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA
- Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain
- Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA
- Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Saurabh Hukerikar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
- Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA
- Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France
- Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
- Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA
- Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France
- Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France
- Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
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R&D Staff Scientist
Computer Science Research Group
Computer Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA
Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491
e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info
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Int. Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
(BILIS 2017)
http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017/workshop17-bilis
July 17 – July 21, 2017
Genoa, Italy
held in conjunction with
International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017)
http://hpcs17.cisedu.info/
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
EXTENDED Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions: --------------------------------- April 15, 2017 - Extended
Acceptance Notification: --------------------------- April 28, 2017
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------- May 11, 2017
Conference Dates: --------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017
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SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Incorporating new advancements of Information Technology (IT) in general and High Performance Computing (HPC) in particular in the domain of Life Sciences and Biomedical Research continues to receive tremendous attention of researchers, biomedical institutions and the rest of the biomedical community. Although medical instruments have benefited a great deal from the technological advances of the couple of decades, the impact of integrating IT advancements in addressing critical problems in biomedical research remains limited and the process of penetrating IT tools in the medical profession continues to be a very challenging problem. For example, the use of electronic medical records and Hospital Information Systems in improving health care remains fragmented. Similarly, the use of advanced computational tools seamlessly in the biomedical research cycle continues to be minimal.
Due to the computational intensive problems in life sciences, the marriage between the Bioinformatics domain and high performance computing is critical to the advancement of Biosciences. In addition, the problems in this domain tend to be highly parallelizable and deal with large datasets, hence using HPC is a natural fit. The Bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Most methods used for analyzing DNA/Protein sequences are known to be computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computational systems with high throughput characteristics.
Moreover, high-throughput wet lab platforms such as next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry, are producing a huge amount of experimental "omics" data. The increasing availability of omics data poses new challenges to bioinformatics applications that need to face in a semi-automatic way an overwhelming availability of raw data. Main challenges regard: 1) the efficient storage, retrieval and integration of experimental data; 2) their efficient and high-throughput preprocessing and analysis; 3) the building of reproducible "in silico" experiments; 4) the integration of analysis results with pre-existing knowledge usually stored into ontologies.
As the storage, preprocessing and analysis of raw experimental data is becoming the main bottleneck of the analysis pipeline, parallel computing is playing an important role in all steps of the life sciences research pipeline, from raw data management and processing, to data integration and analysis, and to data exploration and visualization. Moreover, Cloud Computing is becoming the key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall business model of biomedical research and health provision.
Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks In such a scenario, large-scale distributed databases and parallel bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine.
In the current Information age, further progress of Medical Sciences requires successful integration with Computational and Information Sciences. The workshop attempts to attract innovative ways of how such integration can be achieved via Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics research, particularly in taking advantage of the new advancements in HPC systems. The focus of data analysis and data mining tools in biomedical research highlights the current state of research in the key biomedical research areas such as bioinformatics, medical informatics and biomedical imaging. Addressing performance concerns in managing and accessing medical data, while facilitating the ability to integrate and correlate different biomedical databases remains an outstanding problem in biomedical research. The amount of available biomedical data continues to grow in an exponential rate; however, the impact of utilizing such resources remains minimal. The development of innovative tools in HPC environments to integrate, analyze and mine such data sources is a key step towards achieving large impact levels.
The workshop focuses on topics related to the utilization of HPC systems and new models of parallel computing and cloud computing in problems related to Biomedical Informatics and Life Sciences, along with the use of data integration and data mining tools to support biomedical research and Health Care.
The BILIS Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
HPC for the Analysis of Biological Data
Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care
Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications
Ontologies in Biology and Medicine
Integration and Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Data
Parallel Bioinformatics Algorithms
Algorithms and Tools for Biomedical Imaging and Medical Signal Processing
Energy Aware Scheduling Techniques for Large Scale Biomedical Applications
HPC for analyzing Biological Networks
Next Generation Sequencing and Advanced Tools for DNA Assembly
HPC for Gene, Protein/RNA Analysis and Structure Prediction
Identification of Biomarkers
Biomedical Visualization Tools
Efficient Clustering and Classification Algorithms
Correlation Networks in Biomedical Research
Data Mining Techniques in Biomedical Applications
Heterogeneous Data Integration
HPC systems for Ontology and Database Integration
Pattern Recognition and Search Tools in Biological and Clinical Databases
Ubiquitous Medical Knowledge Discovery and Exchange
HPC for Monitoring and Treatment Facilities
Drug Design and Modeling
Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Procedures
Remote Patient Monitoring, Homecare Applications
Mobile and Wireless Healthcare and Biomedical Applications
Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics, Medicine, and Health Systems
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to HPC for Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Life Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop organizers via email as attachments to Hesham Ali: hali(a)unomaha.edu, Mario Cannataro: cannataro(a)unicz.it. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.
Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.
SPECIAL ISSUE
Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website.
If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------ April 15, 2017 - Extended
Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ April 28, 2017
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ---------- May 11, 2017
Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ July 17 – 21, 2017
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Prof. Hesham H. Ali
Department of Computer Science
College of Information Science and Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182 USA
Email: hesham(a)unomaha.edu
Prof. Mario Cannataro
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences
University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro
Viale Europa (Località Germaneto)
88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Email: cannataro(a)unicz.it
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Abstract Submission Extension: 12th May 2017
ICCST-2017: 51st International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
The International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology,
technically sponsored by IEEE 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
appear in 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: May 12, 2017
Decision to Authors: June 9, 2017
Final Manuscript: July 20, 2017
Early Registration: August 15, 2017
Technically Sponsored by:
IEEE AESS
Best Regards,
ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee
ICCST-2017 Executive Committee
http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
DeepLearn 2017: early registration May 19*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2017
Bilbao, Spain
July 17-21, 2017
Organized by:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/
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SCOPE:
DeepLearn 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 deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 30 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, doctoral students and postdocs will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior academics and practitioners 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, 3-4 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:
DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:
DeustoTech, School of Engineering
University of Deusto
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao, Spain
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences
Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars
George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors
Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models
Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba
Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale
Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Precision Medicine and Biomedical informatics
Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Wild
Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers
Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks
Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications
Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances
Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences
Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications
Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games
Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines
Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Generative Modeling and Unsupervised Learning
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms
Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding
Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text
OPEN SESSION:
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 July 9, 2017.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A specific session will be devoted to demonstrations of practical uses of deep learning in industrial processes. Companies/people interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration, the duration requested and the logistics necessary. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017.
EMPLOYERS SESSION:
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Pablo García Bringas (co-chair)
José Gaviria
Carlos Martín (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra
Iker Pastor
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
David Silva
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/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 indicating the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Universidad de Deusto
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Call For Papers, Tutorials & Participation
2nd International Workshop on Elastic Networks Design and Optimisation (ELASTICNETS 2017)
June 13-14, 2017
Vilanova, Spain
https://elasticnetworks.org/2nd-workshop <https://elasticnetworks.org/2nd-workshop>
pre-located to IWQoS2017 (http://iwqos2017.ieee-iwqos.org/ <http://iwqos2017.ieee-iwqos.org/>)
SCOPE
The focus of this edition is set on network elasticity and QoS. Two main phenomena are driving the way the network of the future is evolving: the trend towards a network-based elastic form of computing, like Cloud or Fog Computing, where sharing of resources and latency are essential, and the trend towards a mobile Internet for People and Things where network dependability is critical. Immersive VR gaming, autonomous driving or augmented reality systems are examples of applications extremely demanding in terms of latency, resilience and bandwidth which are not viable without a new backhaul network concept. This network evolution from a static to a smart elastic network is expected to affect end systems, hybrid fog-cloud designs, and all the underlying network, spanning radio/optical access, metro and transport segments. The purpose of this workshop is to gather international experts in an informal forum to discuss the latest research advances and trends in smart elastic networking enabling a hyper-connected hyper-computing-based world.
Topics of relevance include but are not limited to:
· QoS issues of Elastic Networking
· Wireless and wired Network Dependability
· Tactile Internet
· IoT, Fog and Cloud Computing Orchestration and Planning
· Qos in Mobile Edge Computing
· Mathematical Techniques for Network Planning and Optimisation Accounting for Latency and Reliability
· Elastic Optical Networks (EON): New Technologies, Scheduling and Planning
· SDN Control Plane SubNet Planning and Optimisation
· Dynamically Reconfigurable Access and Metro Networks
· Fog Networking
· 5G and beyond-5G technologies enabling fog2cloud
· HetNets: Small Cell Planning and Optimisation
· Opportunistic resource sharing
· Network Orchestration and Management
· Energy Efficiency in Network Design
· Complex Fog Networks
· Cybersecurity in hyper-connected networking
Two types of contributions are welcome:
· WORKING PAPERS: Contributions of original unpublished work should be submitted in IEEE format (max. 4 pages in both MS Word and PDF format) to papers(a)elasticnetworks.org <mailto:papers@elasticnetworks.org>. Please write ELASTICNETWORKS in the subject line when submitting your contribution. Accepted papers will be printed and distributed to the audience as notes (no formal publication). Each author will have 20 minutes to present her/his work. There will be no official conference proceedings in order to facilitate the presentation on-going work and foster collaboration on ideas.
· TUTORIALS: Didactic tutorials on mathematical methods and tools for QoS, network planning and optimisation are welcome. The tutorial proposal should be submitted in a presentation style (PDF format) to papers(a)elasticnetworks.org <mailto:papers@elasticnetworks.org>. Please write ELASTICNETWORKS TUTORIAL in the subject line when submitting your contribution. Accepted tutorials will be given 45 minutes of class.
Important Dates:
Authors are cordially encouraged to submit before May 20, 2017.
Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by May 22, 2017.
Participants and authors must register at http://elasticnetworks.org/2nd-workshop <http://elasticnetworks.org/2nd-workshop> before June 5, 2017.
Registration is free (no material or food is supplied).
Program Schedule: June 13, 14:30-19:00: Keynote & Tutorials - June 14: 9:00-15:00: Research Papers
Organisers:
The workshop is organised by the Elastic Network consortium, a thematic network
focused on the technological challenge of enabling a hyperconnected world.
Co-Chairs:
D. Larrabeiti, J.A. Hernandez, U. Carlos III de Madrid
X. Masip, U. Politécnica de Catalunya
Sponsors:
· ELASTIC NEWORKS project (TEC2015-71932-REDT)
· Telefónica
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th Workshop on
Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era
(ROME 2017)
August 28, 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
held in conjunction with
Euro-Par 2017, August 28 - September 1, 2017
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
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Background
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Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase according to Moore's Law, a next step needs to be taken: away from common multicores towards innovative many-core architectures. Such systems, equipped with a significant higher amount of cores per chip than multicores, pose challenges in both hardware and software design. On the hardware side, complex on-chip networks, scratchpads, hybrid memory cubes, non-volatile memory and stacked memory, as well as deep cache-hierarchies and novel cache-coherence strategies will enrich the current research areas in the future.
However, the ROME workshop focuses on the software side because without complying system software, runtime and operating system support, all these new hardware facilities cannot be exploited. Hence, the new challenges in hardware/software co-design are to step beyond traditional approaches and to wage new programming models and operating system designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance of future hardware as effectively and power-aware as possible.
Topics
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This year, too, authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures. The call for papers especially emphasizes on the challenges and research questions arising from the upcoming generation of heterogeneous and/or massive parallel systems stepping towards a many-core dominated exascale era. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* New approaches for operating systems on novel many-core architectures
* Operating system extensions for addressing many-core related issues
* Many-core aware runtime support for large-scale applications
* Bare-metal programming and system software for many-cores
* Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures
* Virtualization to deal with hardware limitations on many-cores
* Support for interactivity with and between many-core applications
* Message-passing interfaces and middleware for many-core systems
* Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware
* Concepts and methods for exploiting deep memory hierarchies
* Operating system extensions for non-volatile memory support
* Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration on many-cores
* Interfaces for performance and power analysis on many-core systems
* Runtime support for power-aware many-core computing
Paper Submission
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Submissions in PDF format should be between 10–12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip. The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references). On acceptance of the submission, at least one author is required to register for workshop attendance at Euro-Par 2017 and present the paper in the workshop session.
Upload your submission to our submission server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops) in PDF format. It must not be simultaneously submitted to the main conference or any other publication outlet.
For the workshop, we will prepare hand-outs with the accepted papers. The revised versions will be published after the conference in the workshop proceedings of Euro-Par 2017, part of the LNCS series of Springer.
Further Information
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See the ROME'17 website at http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
Important Dates
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* May 12, 2017: Submission deadline
* June 16, 2017: Notification of acceptance
* July 21, 2017: Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings)
* October 3, 2017: Workshop camera-ready papers due
Workshop Organizers
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* Stefan Lankes, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems,
E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany
Program Committee:
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* Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH
* Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center
* Florian Kluge, Universität Augsburg
* Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University
* Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Labs
* Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus
* Lena Oden, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
* Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Laboratory
* Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institute
* Pablo Reble, Intel Corporation
* Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam
* Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland
* Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University
* Josef Weidendorfer, TU München
* Carsten Weinhold, TU Dresden
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Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University
Mathieustraße 10
52074 Aachen, Germany
Phone: +49-241-80-49740
E-Mail: slankes(a)eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
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XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica (JITEL 2017),
27-29 de septiembre de 2017.
http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/jitel2017/index.html
FECHA DE ENVIO DE TRABAJOS: 12 de mayo de 2017 (Extendido)
ENLACE DE ENVIO:
http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/JITEL/JITEL2017/author/submit?require…
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CONVOCATORIA DE PONENCIAS
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Las XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica (JITEL 2017), se celebraran en la ciudad de Valencia durante los dias 27 al 29 de Septiembre de 2017.
Las Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica (JITEL), organizadas por la Asociacion de Telematica (ATEL), constituyen un foro propicio de reunion, debate y divulgacion para los grupos que imparten docencia e investigan en temas relacionados con las redes y los servicios telematicos. Con la organizacion de este evento se pretende fomentar, por un lado el intercambio de experiencias y resultados, ademas de la comunicacion y cooperacion entre los grupos de investigacion que trabajan en temas relacionados con la telematica.
TOPICOS
===============================================
Las contribuciones enviadas a JITEL 2017, asi como a los workshops propuestos, deberan ser originales no previamente publicadas o propuestas para tal fin en otra revista o conferencia con actas. En general, se aceptaran comunicaciones relacionadas con todos los ambitos de la telematica, incluyendo los que se relacionan a continuacion:
-- Arquitectura de redes e Internet de proxima generacion
-- Redes 5G
-- Gestion de redes y servicios
-- Protocolos y servicios en la nube
-- Dise�o multicapa en redes fijas y moviles
-- Eficiencia energetica en las redes de comunicaciones
-- Gestion de recursos en redes moviles
-- Internet de los objetos
-- Redes vehiculares
-- Modelos, analisis y control de trafico
-- Plataformas de experimentacion
-- Algoritmos y protocolos de comunicacion
-- Tarificacion y costes en las redes de comunicaciones
-- Redes y tecnicas cognitivas
-- Redes inalambricas de area local y metropolitana
-- Redes opticas activas y pasivas. Transmision y conmutacion. Redes superpuestas. Servicios soportados
-- Seguridad, criptografia, privacidad y anonimato en las redes de comunicaciones
-- Tecnologias y protocolos en las redes de sensores
-- Software Defined Networking
-- Virtualizacion en la red
-- Web semantica y datos enlazados
-- Big Data
-- Web 2.0 y redes sociales
-- Servicios multimedia interactivos: VoIP, VoD, etc
-- Servicios telematicos para la sociedad de la informacion
-- Tecnicas de cooperacion en la red y en los servicios
En aquellos casos en los que las contribuciones se encuentren dentro de las areas incluidas en alguno de los workshops, se recomienda a los autores que las presenten a dichos workshops. La seleccion de las contribuciones se realizara de forma que aquellas que no puedan ser incluidas en los workshops seran consideradas para las sesiones ordinarias.
INSTRUCCIONES PARA LOS AUTORES
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Se pueden enviar contribuciones en espa�ol o ingles a JITEL 2017, asi como a los workshops propuestos. Estas deberan ser originales no previamente publicadas o propuestas para tal fin en otra revista o conferencia con actas. Las contribuciones que se envien a la conferencia principal pueden tener una longitud de entre 6 y 8 paginas (considerado como FULL PAPER) en el formato indicado, o entre 3 y 4 paginas (considerado como SHORT PAPER), siendo aceptable solo la recepcion de ficheros en formato PDF. Las contribuciones que no cumplan estas recomendaciones podran ser rechazadas independientemente de otras consideraciones. Aquellos grupos de investigacion interesados en participar en las sesiones Fast Track deberan enviar un resumen de 1 pagina, a traves de la plataforma de envio y subirlo a la seccion "Fast Track". Durante el proceso de envio de los articulos, los autores podran indicar la seccion apropiada. Solo las contribuciones enviadas como FULL PAPER, en la conferencia!
principal o en los workshops, sera
n consideradas a la hora de seleccionar los mejores articulos para los numeros especiales que se han organizado
El enlace de envio para Jitel 2017 es el siguiente:
http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/JITEL/JITEL2017/author/submit?require…
Al menos un autor de cada contribucion aceptada debera registrarse en la conferencia y asistir a la misma, asi como realizar la presentacion de su trabajo. Todos los articulos aceptados como FULL PAPER o SHORT PAPER tanto en la conferencia principal como en los workshops, excepto los resumenes de las presentaciones de las sesiones Fast track, se publicaran en las actas del congreso, con ISBN.
INVITACION DE LAS MEJORES CONTRIBUCIONES A NUMEROS ESPECIALES
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Los mejores articulos presentados en las JITEL 2017 podran ser seleccionados para participar en varios numeros especiales de revistas internacionales de reconocido prestigio como:
Sensors
Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Smart_Communication_Prot…
Factor de calidad: Con JCR, situada en Q1
Information
Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information
Factor de calidad: ESCI - Web of Science, Citescore 0.94 SCOPUS
Network Protocols and Algorithms
Link: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/npa
Factor de calidad: Indexada en varias listas con indice de impacto, incluida en DBLP
FECHAS IMPORTANTES
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-- Envio de trabajos: 12 de mayo de 2017 (Extendido)
-- Comunicacion aceptacion: 30 de junio de 2017
-- Envio version final: 16 de julio de 2017
-- Fecha Celebracion de la conferencia: 27-29 de Septiembre de 2017
COMITE EJECUTIVO Y DE ORGANIZACION
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Comite Ejecutivo:
-- Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a (JITEL 2017)
-- Vicente Casares-Giner, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a (JITEL 2017)
-- Magdalena Payeras Capella, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Espa�a (JITEL 2015)
-- Julian Fernandez Navajas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Espa�a (JITEL 2019)
-- Alvaro Suarez Sarmiento, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espa�a (ATEL)
Logistica Local:
-- Oscar Romero Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a
-- Jose Miguel Jimenez Herranz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a
Sitio web:
-- Alejandro Canovas Solbes, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a
Difusion y publicidad de la llamada a ponencias:
-- Sandra Sendra Compte, Universidad de Granada, Espa�a
Redes sociales:
-- Miguel Garcia Pineda, Universidad de Valencia, Espa�a
Soporte envio de articulos:
-- Lorena Parra Boronat, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a
-- Laura Garcia Garcia, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espa�a
Para mas informacion, visite la web de la conferencia:
http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/jitel2017/index.html
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Call for Papers - PBio 2017
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5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings
published by Springer LNCS), ICA3PP Workshop
+
Special Issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (Impact Factor:
1.537, Quartile Q1, ISSN: 1066-5277)
+
Special Issue in the International Journal of Parallel Programming
(Impact Factor: 0.680, Quartile Q3, ISSN: 0885-7458)
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 10, 2017 (EXTENDED)
http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html
We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the
application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In
particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the
following topics:
- Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics.
- Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics.
- Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics.
- Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics.
- Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing).
- Multicore computing in Bioinformatics.
- Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics.
- Cluster computing in Bioinformatics.
- Supercomputing in Bioinformatics.
- Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics.
- Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics.
- Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics.
- Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics.
- Green computing in Bioinformatics.
- Mobile computing in Bioinformatics.
- Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics.
- Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in
Bioinformatics.
- Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in
Bioinformatics.
With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives
exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological
sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal
recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and
phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and
protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory
networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and
analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of
DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc.
All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at:
http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html
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Kind regards.
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Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es>
http://arco.unex.es/mavega
ARCO Research Group
University of Extremadura
Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications
Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n
10003 Caceres. SPAIN
Tel: +34-927-257263
Fax: +34-927-257187
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO 2017)
EXTENDED DEADLINES:
Extended abstract submission: May 8, 2017
Extended paper submission: May 24, 2017
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017
https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/
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Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences
Collocated with:
The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017)
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Aims and Scope
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The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the foundations of engineered systems that self-adapt and self-organize. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment. This has led the software engineering, distributed systems, and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. They form the basis for many other so-called self-* properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, or self-optimization.
SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary meeting, where contributions from participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering of a cross-pollination of ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications can emerge.
The eleventh edition of the SASO conference embraces this inter-disciplinary nature, and welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and application-focused dimensions of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Systems theory: nature-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; inter-operation of
self-* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks and models; control theory;
- System properties: robustness; resilience; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness;
- Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; architectures; methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems;
- Theory and practice of organization: self-governance, change management, electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons, knowledge management, and the general use of rules, policies, etc. in self-* systems
- Theory and practice of adaptation: mechanisms for adaptation, including evolution, logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility
- Socio-technical systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; humans-in-the-loop; ethics and humanities in self-* systems;
- Data-driven approaches: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage behavior of complex systems;
- Self-adaptive and self-organizing hardware: self-* materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware;
- Education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self-* systems education;
Applications and experiences with self-* systems in any of the following domains are of particular interest:
+ Smart systems: smart grids, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, etc.
+ Industrial automation: embedded self-* systems, adaptive industrial plants, Industry 4.0, cyber physical systems
+ Transportation: autonomous vehicles, traffic optimization
+ Autonomous systems: aerial vehicles, undersea vehicles, autonomous robotics
+ Internet of Things: self-* for network management, self-* applied to cyber security
We are looking for contributions that present new fundamental understanding of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems and how they can be engineered and used, including: novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks, tools, and practical experiences in building or deploying systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Likewise, papers describing substantial innovation or insights in the use and communication of self-* systems in the classroom are welcome.
Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions.
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Important Dates
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Abstract submission: May 8, 2017
Paper submission: May 24, 2017
Notification: June 30, 2017
Camera ready copy due: July 12, 2017
Conference: September 18-22, 2017
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Submission Instructions
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Submissions can be up to 10 pages, formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide, and submitted electronically in PDF format.
Please submit your papers using the SASO 2017 conference management system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017.
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Note that a separate Call for Poster and Demo Submissions will also be issued.
As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they must not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and must not currently be under review for another archival conference. We also highlight the IEEE policies regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/ID_Plagiaris…).
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Review Criteria
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Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies, etc. Appropriate references must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, we encourage papers to be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field.
Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers should provide an indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community.
All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality.
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Conference General Chair
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Ada Diaconescu
Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris, FR
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Program Chairs
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Peter Lewis,
Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Sam Malek,
University of California, Irvine, USA
Hella Seebach,
Augsburg University, Augsburg, DE