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[CfP] Last days: Workshop on Trusted Computing in Distributed and Hybrid Systems
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP Workshop on Trusted Computing in Distributed and Hybrid Systems Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017) http://www.wnlabs.com/news/ATC_2017_workshop.php The two fundamental components of Trusted Computing, the asymmetric PKI framework and RSA IFC cryptography, are operating beyond their limitations and are no longer sufficient. "In August, 2015, NSA announced that it planned to transition in the not distant future to a new cipher suite that is resistant to quantum attacks." wikipedia Dynamic distributed key and hybrid systems overcome these limitations. THE TOPICS OF THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING · distributed frameworks for trusted computing and trusted cyber · PKI and distributed combined hybrid frameworks and security controls · security, identity and data provenance in distributed and hybrid systems · secure handshakes for distributed trusted computing · secure cryptographic key distribution and scalability for trusted computing and trusted cyber · side channel resistance in trusted computing and trusted cyber · next generation cryptography for trusted computing and trusted cyber · secure cryptographic key distribution and scalability for trusted computing and trusted cyber · trusted computing key creation for restricted resource environments i.e. IoT COMMITTEE · Chair: Andre Brisson - Whitenoise Laboratories Canada Inc. · Co-Chair: Dr. Mihai Sima - University of Victoria, British Columbia ECE Labs · Program Committee Chair: Layton Perrin - Sequor Systems Inc. · Program Committee member: Dr. Issa Traore - University of Victoria, British Columbia ECE Labs · Program Committee member: Laurie Perrin - Sequor Systems Inc. · Program Committee member: Albert Meyburgh - British Columbia Institute of Technology · Program Committee member: Edouard Kujawski - MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs · Program Committee member: Sam Greenblatt, former CTO HP, Dell SUBMISSION Workshop papers are limited to 6 pages following the IEEE proceedings format, and are to be submitted as PDF via the ATC 2017 submission site: ATC 2017 submission Select CyberTrust track after logging in. Deadlines · Paper Submission - Extended to April 25, 2017 · Acceptance Notification - May 10, 2017 · Camera-Ready Submission - June 10, 2017

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22nd Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2017
by Dirk Craeynest 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** PROGRAM SUMMARY *** 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) *** Online registration open *** *** Early registration discount until May 22 *** *** Extensive info available on conference web site *** *** Highly recommended to book your hotel ASAP *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 takes place in Vienna, Austria, from June 12 to 16, 2017. It is an exciting event with an outstanding technical program, keynote talks, exhibition and networking from Tuesday to Thursday, and a rich program of workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday. The conference is hosted by TU Vienna at Palais Eschenbach, which is located near the center of Vienna and can easily be accessed by metro. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is available on the conference web site, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference web site for registration, accommodation and travel information. Quick overview - Mon 12 & Fri 16: tutorials + workshops - Tue 13 - Thu 15: core program Proceedings - published by Springer - volume 10300 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series - will be available at conference Program co-Chairs - Johann Blieberger, TU Vienna, Austria blieb(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at - Tullio Vardanega, Università di Padova, Italy tullio.vardanega(a)math.unipd.it Keynote speakers - Giovanni Battista Gallus, Array, Italy, on "The laws of robotics and autonomous vehicles may be much more than three, but don't panic... yet" - Thomas Henzinger, IST, Austria, on "Behavioral Software Metrics" - Kay Römer, TU Graz, Austria, on "Dependable Internet of Things" Workshops (full day) - 4th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2017), focus on "Transportation of the Future" Tutorials (full day) - "Introduction to SPARK 2014" Peter Chapin, Vermont Technical College, USA Tutorials (half day) - "Ada on ARM Cortex-M, a Zero-Run-Time Approach" Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation and Inspirel, Poland - "Software Measurement for Dependable Software Systems" William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA - "Real-Time Parallel Programming with the UpScale SDK" Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP, Portugal, and Eduardo Quinones, BSC, Spain - "Using Gnoga for Desktop/Mobile GUI and Web development in Ada" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France - "Frama-C, a Collaborative Framework for C Code Verification" Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France - "On beyond ASCII: Characters, Strings, and Ada 2012" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France - "Modular Open System Architecture for Critical Systems" William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA Papers and Presentations - 14 refereed technical papers in sessions on Runtimes, Programming Models, Safety & Security, Timing Verification, Mixed Criticality - 9 industrial presentations and experience reports in sessions on Exploratory Uses of Ada, Verification, Large Industrial Applications - 4 presentations and discussion in special panel session on "The Future of Safety-Minded Languages" - submissions by authors from 24 countries, and accepted contributions from Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC, Rapita Systems, VectorCAST; others expected to confirm soon - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday evening: Ada-Europe General Assembly, followed by Welcome Reception incl. Robotics Presentations at "TU the Sky"; its terraces at the top of TU Vienna's buildings offer a terrific view on the city - Wednesday evening: Vienna bus tour, followed by the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at a very famous "Heuriger" - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration highlights this year - single day registration cost has been reduced - Wednesday is Meet Ada-Europe day! registration is discounted - tutorial fees reduced when taken together with 3-day conference Registration - online registration is open: select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/> - early registration discount up to Monday May 22, 2017 - additional discount for academia, Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, and ACM SIGPLAN members - a limited number of student discounts is available - registration includes copy of printed proceedings at event - includes coffee breaks and lunches - three day conference registration includes all social events - payment possible by credit card, check, or bank transfer - see registration page for info on novel student waiver program! Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2017 - 16-page Advance Program brochure available online at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/AE2017_advance_program.pdf> - support Ada-Europe 2017 with promotional material available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/promotion.html> - soon also available there: call for participation, ready-to-print posters for use in your office, university, etc. Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. Vienna will be very busy in that week. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 *** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017 *** June 12-16, 2017 *** Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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[CFP] 7th Int. Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA2017)
by Fulvio Frati 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

** SIMPDA 2017 ** [Apologies if you recive multiple copies of this cfp] **************************************************************************** *** SIMPDA 2017 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS 6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it **************************************************************************** *** ## About SIMPDA With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Neuchatel. ###Call for Papers The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2017) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume of CEUR workshop series. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for late 2018 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: - Business Process Modeling languages, notations and methods - Lightweight Process Model - Data-aware and data-centric approaches - Process Mining with Big Data - Variability and configuration of process models - Process simulation and static analyses - Process data query languages - Process data mining - Privacy-aware process data mining - Process metadata and semantic reasoning - Process patterns and standards - Foundations of business process models - Resource management in business process execution - Process tracing and monitoring - Process change management and evolution - Business process lifecycle - Case studies and experience reports - Social process discovery - Crowdsourced process definition and discovery ### Workshop Format: In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop: The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students. Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc that they got out of the workshop. ### Call for PhD Research Plans The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. Research plans should be at most of 5 page long and should be organised following the following structure: - Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. - Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. - Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). - Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. - Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. - Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA PhD award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted. Student Scholarships An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP. In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it ### CALL for Demonstrations and Posters Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 10 pages. Posters allow the presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Accepted demonstrations and posters will be presented at the symposium. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings. ### Important Dates - Paper Submission: 4 October 2017 - Submission of PhD Presentations: 4 October 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 14 November 2017 - Submission of Camera Ready Papers: 28 November 2017 - Second International Symposium on Process Data: 6-8 December 2017 - Post-proceeding submissions: 30 March 2018 ## Keynote Speakers TBA ## Organizers ### CHAIRS - Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kilan Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ### ADVISORY BOARD - Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Robert Meersman, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Wilfried Grossmann, University of Vienna, Austria ### Program Committee - Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA - Benoit Depaire, University of Hasselt, Belgium - Chintan Mrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Christophe Debruyne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada - Edgar Weippl, TU Vienna, Austria - Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia - George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK - Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK - Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Josep Carmona, UPC - Barcelona, Spain - Kristof Boehmer, University of Vienna, Austria - Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany - Marcello Leida, TAIGER, Spain - Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria - Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven TU, Netherlands - Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College, UK - Mazak Alexandra, University of Vienna, Austria - Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Robert Singer, FH JOANNEUM, Austria - Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Thomas Vogelgesang, University of Oldenburg, Germany - Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania - Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Santiago de Compostela: 5-th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2017
by LAURA RICCI 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

[Apologies for multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers: Fifth Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2017, <http://pages.di.unipi.it/ricci/LSDVE17/LSDVE17.html> in conjunction of EUROPAR 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es/> August 2017, Santiago de Compostela, (Spain) Proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of the accepted papers will be published in a special issue (pending). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 5 May 2017 Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2017 Workshop Date: August 2017 Submission of Camera Ready papers: 3 October 2017 Objectives of the Workshop: The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use of information technology to support distributed networked cooperative applications. Several novel applications have emerged in this area: social networks, distributed payment systems, connected devices, collaboration systems, and many other ones. These applications may greatly benefit from the support of different kinds of platforms, both cloud and peer to peer. An interesting technology recently adopted to handle cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin) is the block-chain technology, that has now taken the more general role to handle several distributed applications. Furthermore, the analysis and validation of the huge amount of content generated by these applications asks for big data analysis and processing techniques. This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of large scale networked collaborative applications and of the platforms supporting them. The definition of these applications requires to afford several challenges, like the design of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures. The track's aim is to investigate open challenges for such applications, related to both the applications design and to the definition of proper supports. Some important challenges are, for instance, adaptation of the classical block-chain technology to support collaborative applications, protocols design, distributed consensus algorithms, privacy and security issues. The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce further directions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Distributed Large Scale Collaborative Environments (LSCE) and applications - Online Social Networks - Distributed financial transactions systems - Connected devices tracking in distributed systems - Distributed Virtual Environments - Platforms for collaborative applications - Block-chain technology to support LSCE - Distributed Consensus - General purpose distributed auditing through block-chains - Cloud platforms for LSCE - P2P platforms - Distributed cloud storage systems - Big Data processing for LSCE - Security and Privacy in LSCE Program Commettee (to be completed) Michele Amoretti, University of Parma, Italy Emanuele Carlini, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy Giuseppe Di Battista, University of Roma 3, Italy Kalman Graffi, Univerity of Dusseldorf, Germany Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Holland Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, Federal University of Cearà, Brasil Andrea Marino, University of Pisa, Italy Fabrizio Marozzo, University of Calabria, Italy Pietro Michiardi, EURECOM, France Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy We invite original papers previously unpublished. Full papers should not exceed 12 pages and follow the Springer LNCS Style. Workshop Organizers - Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa - Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands - Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria Full papers should not exceed 12 pages and follow Springer LNCS Style. Submission of the paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must register and present the paper at the workshop. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshop proceedings that will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2017 Workshop, after the conference. Contact information - Laura Ricci: laura.ricci(a)unipi.it

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CFP: Euro-Par 2017 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (Euro-EDUPAR)
by Rizos Sakellariou 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

[Apologies for crossposting - please kindly disseminate] ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28/29, 2017. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos/euroedupar/index.html Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In this context, the 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and/or research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2017 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers between 10 and 12 pages presented at the workshop will be included. IMPORTANT DATES May 5, 2017: Paper submission deadline June 16, 2017: Author notification July 21, 2017: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings October 3, 2017: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Program Chair: Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Steering Committee: Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert (Chair), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, Poland and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster, Germany Thilo Kielmann, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, UCD, Ireland Tomas Margalef, UAB, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Milan Mihajlovic, University of Manchester, UK Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Gudula Ruenger, TU Chemnitz, Germany Jesper Larsson Traff, TU Wien, Austria Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia David Walker, Cardiff University, UK

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CFP -- ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks @ SIGIR 2017
by Stefano Mizzaro 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Call For Papers (with apologies for multiple copies) ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks Co-located with ACM SIGIR 2017 August 11, 2017. Tokyo, Japan Workshop Website: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html Motivation The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in applying axiomatic analysis to all kinds of IR and IR-related problems, including particularly both those interested in developing retrieval models and those interested in developing evaluation measures, and to enable them to share their findings (both positive or negative), to present their latest research results, and to discuss future directions. Theme As the title of the workshop suggested, the general theme of the workshop will be about all aspects of applications of axiomatic thinking to solve IR and IR-related problems. The basis of this general theme is the recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics, which we expect to continue. The existing work has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. However, much more research is still needed in multiple directions. Opportunities of applying axiomatic thinking also go beyond analyzing the basic retrieval functions; in fact, understanding constraints is also beneficial to many IR tasks that use machine learning techniques. Instead of having a designer carefully choose a set of assumptions to make when designing a formal model, these approaches use machine learning to weight items in a pool of features derived from many retrieval heuristics. However, this potentially results in a bloated backend which computes many features irrelevant to the task or collection. Having knowledge about relevant features would help slim down backends and speed learning and ranking. An important strength of the axiomatic methodology is that evaluation data sets become resources used to check motivated hypotheses instead of optimization mechanisms, which are at risk of overfitting. There are even more opportunities for new research on applying axiomatic thinking to evaluation as has already been happening where researchers have done axiomatic analysis of metrics for tasks such as text categorization, clustering, and ranking. In general, an understanding of how to apply axiomatic thinking to IR problems may become increasingly important as information retrieval continues to broaden into new areas. New tasks often require new constraints, and an understanding of these constraints can provide guidance on how to adapt existing methods or how to develop new methods for the new tasks. For example, domain-specific IR tasks such as medical record search might require new retrieval constraints that can capture the domain knowledge. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from a broader community to exchange research ideas and results and to foster collaborations across subcommunities. Some of the specific topics we envision to be covered by the workshop theme include, but not limited to: - What constraints are effective to improve retrieval performance independent of the underlying model? - What constraints were expected to be useful but have not been effective in practice? Why not? - In the case of evaluation metrics, why some metric constraints do not affect the system comparison or the user satisfaction? - How can we potentially unify the axiomatic analysis of IR models and evaluation metrics given that both lines of work aim at formally modeling relevance? - Have new languages, media, or domains suggested new constraints for established domains? - To what extent is a valid constraint in one domain also valid in other domains? More generally, which constraints for retrieval methods or evaluation metrics are core ones, and which constraints are highly scenario dependent? - How can axiomatic thinking be combined with machine learning techniques to learn more effective retrieval functions? Planned Activities - Keynote talk - Panel - Presentations of papers Paper Submission We solicit papers describing research work related to the above theme. In addition to the innovative methods with promising results, we also welcome papers reporting negative results. Papers need to be: - 4 or 10 pages - In ACM format - Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atir2017 Formal proofs can be added as additional material. The submissions are not anonymous. Important Dates - Submission deadlines: May 27 (for long paper) and June 3 (for short papers) - Review due: June 20 - Notification: June 30 Workshop Organizers - Enrique Amigo - Hui Fang - Stefano Mizzaro - ChengXiang Zhai -- Prof. Stefano Mizzaro, PhD Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Udine Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy mizzaro(a)uniud.it - http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/ Ph.: +39 0432 558456 - Fax: +39 0432 558499

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[simu-conf] UPCOMING DEADLINE - WinterSim 2017
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

DEADLINE IN 10 DAYS - Contributed Papers Deadline is April 28, 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: - Agent-Based Simulation - Analysis Methodology - Architecture and Construction - Aviation Modeling and Analysis - Cyber-Physical Systems - Environment and Sustainability Applications - Future of Simulation - Gaming - Healthcare Applications - History of Simulation - Hybrid Simulation - Manufacturing Applications - Logistics, SCM, Transportation - Military Applications and Homeland Security - Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) - Modeling Methodology - Project Management - Simulation Education - Simulation Optimization - Social and Behavioral Simulation - Introductory Tutorials - Advanced Tutorials Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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The Fifth China Computer Federation Conference on Big Data(CCF Big Data 2017) Call for Papers
by Calls＠DataSciences.org 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Apologize if this circulation interrupts you. ===================================================== The Fifth China Computer Federation Conference on Big Data(CCF Big Data 2017) Call for Papers The China Computer Federation (CCF) Conference on Big Data (CCF Big Data) is a leading conference in the emerging area of big data in China. CCF Big Data provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results, and application experiences from big data. Four conferences of CCF Big Data have been successfully organized in Beijing, Hefei and Lanzhou since 2013. The fifth CCF conference on big data will be held on October 14-16, 2017 in Shenzhen, China. The conference will be jointly organized by CCF Task Force on Big Data (CCF TFBD) and Shenzhen University. Special features of the 2017 edition will be on multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on big data and internationalization. International leading experts, scholars, researchers and academicians in the field of big data will be invited to give keynote and invited talks. The conference will also hold parallel sessions for oral presentations of research papers and forums for academic exchanges, such as forums on special big data topics, and a forum for young scientists. The conference will set up a number of awards for the best academic paper, the best application paper and the best student paper. Important dates Paper submission due: June 30, 2017 Notification to authors: August 15, 2017 Camera-ready due: September 15, 2017 Conference: October 13-15, 2017 Topics and Scope The topics of relevance for the conference papers include but not limited to the following areas: Fundamental theories and methods of data science Future trends of data science and big data Big data system architecture and infrastructure Big data acquisition and pre-processing technology Big data storage and management models, technology and systems Big data parallel computing models, frameworks and systems Main stream open source big data system optimization and applications Big data analysis, mining, intelligent computing methods and systems High performance big data learning frameworks, algorithms and systems Big data visual analysis and computing Big data sharing and open data technology, methods and standards Big data privacy protection and security Big data system solutions, tools and platforms Big data industrial and government applications Organizing Committee Conference support organizations： Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, Nanshan District government of Shenzhen Conference organizer： China Computer Federation (CCF) Conference hosting organizers： CCF Task Force on Big Data and Shenzhen University Conference co-organizers： Southern University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University Conference steering committee Guojie Li Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences Philip Yu University of Illinois at Chicago Benjamin Wah The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Mei Beijing Institute of Technology Jianzhong Li Harbin Institute of Technology Xueqi Cheng Institute of Computing Chinese Academy of Sciences Enhong Chen University of Science and Technology China Bin Hu Lanzhou University Jianmin Wang Tsinghua University Yihua Huang Nanjing University Conference Committee Honorary Chairs: Guojie Li Insititute of Computing Technology, CAS Guoliang Chen Shenzhen University Conference Chairs： Hong Mei Beijing Institute of Technology Qingquan Li Shenzhen University Program chairs： Joshua Zhexue Huang Shenzhen Univeristy Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney Depei Qian Sun Yat-sen University Kai Lu National University of Defense Technology Program vice-chairs: Zhihong Xia Southern University of Science and Technology Qingshang Liu Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Li Yao Beijing Normal University Ming Yang Nanjing Normal University Rui Mao Shenzhen Univeristy Organization committee chairs：Laizhong Cui Shenzhen University Yunquan Zhang Institute of Computing, CAS Award Chairs： Xiaoyang Wang Fudan University International contact Chairs: Qing Li City University of Hong Kong Hui Xiong Rutgers University Publicity Chairs： Zhixin Ma Lanzhou University Zexuan Zhu Shenzhen University Qi Liu University of Science and Technology China Jing Yang Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publication Chairs： Yang Gao Nanjing University Li Wang Taiyuan University of Technology Dongqing Wei Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shaoliang Peng National University of Defense Technology Forum Chair: Enhong Chen University of Science and Technology China Industry Forum Chair: Liangjie Zhang Kingdee International Software Group Jianzong Wang Ping An Technology Excellent Youth Forum Chairs: Huawei Shen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Liang Wang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences YuHua Qian Shanxi University Guansong Pang University of Technology Sydney Finance Chairs: Wenjing Lin Shenzhen University Juan Chen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Manuscript submission and format Conference official website： http://csse.szu.edu.cn/ccfbigdata2017/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccfbigdata2017 Submission requirements： 1.Chinese paper submission requirements: A4 size, Word or PDF format; The manuscript should be written according to the requirements of Chinese Journal of Computers, Journal of Computer Research and Development. 2.English paper submission requirements: A4 size, Work or PDF format; The manuscript should be written according to the requirements of IEEE Transactions on Big Data or other similar journals. Paper publication 1. The authors can submit papers in Chinese or English. 2. Accepted Chinese papers will be recommended to Chinese Journal of Computers, Journal of Computer Research and Development, Chinese Journal of Electronics, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, Journal of Tsinghua University, Jounral of Nanjing University, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, Journal of LanZhou University, Computer Science, Journal of Computer Applications, Computer Engineering and Science, Big Data Research.的 3. Accepted English papers will be recommended to IEEE Transactions on Big Data, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Science (SCI), International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (EI), International Journal of Embedded Systems (EI) and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (EI) for their consideration. Contact information Enquiries for paper submission： Guansong Pang Email：ccfbigdata2017(a)gmail.com Enquiries for conference organization： Laizhong Cui Email：ccfbigdata2017(a)szu.edu.cn Tel：0755-26906581-804

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CfP: MATES 2017 - Extended deadline: May 7, 2017
by Berndt, Jan Ole, Dr.-Ing. 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### == CALL FOR PAPERS == == == SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Sun, May 7, 2017 == == == MATES 2017 == 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies == Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017 == Leipzig, Germany == == http://mates2017.uni-trier.de == == MATES is the second best CORE ranked agent technology conference worldwide. == == == Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on == Web Intelligence (WI 2017) == http://webintelligence2017.com/ == == *** CONFIRMED COMMON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** == Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: == Computational Social Science == Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three == intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing == Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid == Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI == Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications == Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for == Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges ==================================================================== == Extended submission deadline regular papers: Sun, May 7, 2017 == at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 ==================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems (MAS). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award. The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. Topics of Interest ================== MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multiagent platforms and tools - Agent communication languages - Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies - Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of MAS - Standards for agents and MAS - MAS: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation - Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations - Adaptive agents and multiagent learning - Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications - Agent-based modeling and social simulation - Mobile agents - Autonomous robots and robot teams - Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids) - Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling - Recommender agents - Agent-based planning and scheduling - Agent-based information retrieval - Agent-based distributed data mining - Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation - Agents for the semantic Web - Agents for the social Web - Agents for the Internet of Services - Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing - Agents for cloud computing - Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment - Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy). MATES PhD mentoring track ========================= The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the MATES homepage. The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are - to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers. - to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems. - to get advice for their (academic) career. - to provide networking opportunities. PhD-Paper Submission: ---------------------- Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work: - Motivation - State of the Art - Methodical approach - Preliminary results/findings (optional - Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee. The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to Alexander Pokahr: pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Rene Schumann: rene.schumann(a)hevs.ch Presentation and Publication: ----------------------------- All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the MATES proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ Together with Web Intelligence 2017 MATES 2017 provides keynotes from renowned experts on up-to-date topics: * Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science * Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing * Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI * Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications * Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges Regular Paper Submission and Publication ================================ The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages (full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal. Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register for the conference. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 7, 2017 (Regular Papers, EXTENDED) Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 14, 2017 (PhD-Track Papers) Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers: Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference: Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 Conference Organisation ======================= General Chairs: Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Honorary Chairs: Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rene´ Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) Program Committee: Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy) Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France) Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain) Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy) Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK) Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden) Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy) Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland) Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany) John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal) Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland) Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK) Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy) Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel) David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece) Georg Weichhart (PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria) Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) MATES Steering Committee ======================== Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jörg P. Müller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) For more information on the MATES conference series,please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series =========================================================================

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New Book Release: Understanding Smart Cities (Springer)
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- Dear Colleague, The new book that I authored has been released and attempts to provide with a clear and full understanding the smart city: Understanding Smart Cities - A tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick? Public Administration and Information Technology, Vol. 22, Springer Science+Business Media New York, ISBN: 978-3-319-57014-3 (Print) 978-3-319-57015-0 (Online) (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57015-0) It contains the historical evolution and the cutting edge information for smart city, research and empirical evidence from 13 smart city cases (Trikala, Tampere, Geneva, Seoul, New Songdo, Vienna, London, Washington DC, New York City, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Dubai and Kyoto) and findings with regard to smart city and smart government. Is a valuable material, which was missing from the literature. After reading this book, the reader will succeed in gaining answers for the following questions: . What is a smart city? Does it concern urban innovation or something more complicated? . What is the smart city in practice? What technological artefacts are synthesized and in which manner they collaborate in order to succeed in the owner's mission? . How is the smart city market structured and does it concern an industrial trick that leads government towards its development? . How the smart city -and its development- are governed and what is the role of government in a smart city? . What is the smart government and how is it related with the smart city? This book contains five (5) chapters beyond the introduction. Chapter 2 explores the smart city theory (terminology and context), it defines several city coalitions and organizations, it classifies cities according to their approach and presents an architecture framework with several alternative views to support smart city understanding. Then, chapter 3 explores the smart city practice in terms of applied technology, services, standards and exemplars. Chapter 4 analyzes the business terms of a smart city, via the presentation of the alternative types of business that structure the smart city market, while it determines the underlying smart city value and it compares corresponding business models. Finally, it questions the potential "smart city hoax" and differentiates city branding from marketing. Then, chapter 5 utilizes the project and the innovation management perspectives to demonstrate how a smart city can be developed from scratch. It shows how to measure the existing potential of a city that can be compared with the available technological and smart service choices and define the development roadmap for the smart city owner. Finally, chapter 6 differentiates smart city from smart government. It provides the term with definition and a unified conceptual framework, which clarifies the context and the potential of smart government, together with its interrelation with the smart city. In brief: Smart cities have emerged radically since their initial appearance in literature in 1997 and they have attracted a significant scientific and industrial attention since then. The primary smart city exemplars were able to visualize local information -like a portal from local sources- or even to simulate the city's landscape -like an online map-. These initial attempts were followed by knowledge bases and networks of people, where common knowledge was shared among the participants and they mainly concerned local issues (e.g., employment for post-industrial areas). All these exemplars were based on the Internet and no extra facility was required, when cities started exploring cutting-edge infrastructure to upgrade local information performance. In this respect, broadband and later ultra-fast networks -wired and wireless- started being deployed in the city and the urban space enhanced its ability to deliver several types of smart services. Moreover, this infrastructure enabled cities to deal with several local issues -e.g., environmental downgrading from human facilities, transportation, aging etc.-, like waste management, intelligent transportation, and tele-care service provision accordingly etc. This urban upgrade with the use of technology started appearing in late 1990s and early 2000s and it was a critical milestone for the industrial engagement, which saw extensive opportunities to grow and develop several products that range from construction (e.g., sustainable buildings); to electronics (e.g., sensors for measuring internal and environmental performance, smart lighting etc.); to engineering (e.g., transportation); to software engineering (e.g., smart service deployment); and even to new entrepreneurship (e.g., in data and green economy). This event was not accidental, since urbanization had started becoming a reality and international reports show a significant rise of cities by 2050, a shift that changes dramatically the role of city and of local government: a city has to host an extensive community (like megacities do today); and the government has to serve this community with a decreasing amount of resources and to deal with significant challenges (e.g., poverty, climate change and city competition etc.). Such a potential demands a close collaboration between local governments and the industry, while the role of the triple helix (government, university and the industry) appears to be important. In this respect, several scholars and practitioners suggest alternatives for such a collaboration and smart city exemplars chose among them (e.g., Vienna has a strong collaboration with local stakeholders; New Songdo was the outcome of a project coalition; Masdar and other smart districts are the product of a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) etc.). However, the same partnership rises criticism with regard to the open innovation character that the smart city used to have, as well as whether the smart city is really a requirement for governments or it is the outcome of marketing that obliges this collaboration. Regardless the justification of this criticism, smart city is a fact and more and more cities either self-claim to be smart or undertake efforts to enter this era, and a significant number of city coalitions and organizations have been formed to handle this interest. Additionally, the size of the smart city industry increases steadily and it is estimated to exceed the amount of U.S. $1trillion by 2025, which justifies the private sector's interest to develop new products and gain a share of this market. On the other hand, almost all standardization bodies struggle to develop standards to normalize and homogenize the developed solutions. This reality comes in contrast to the ambiguous meaning of the terminology that deals with smart city (e.g., the smart city itself, smart government and smart governance etc.) and to the real concept and purpose of smart city (e.g., does it concern a today or a tomorrow city with futuristic features -like flying cars-?). Additionally, the role of government in smart city development is still questioned, since its "marriage" with the private sector might alter the vision or diverge the mission of government to deal with the local challenges and instead to prioritize according to market's willing (technology push). In this regard, this book has multiple objectives. First, the aim of this book is to clarify the smart city context and the role of government in smart city. This book comes from the observation that the terms smart city and smart governance are interconnected and they appear together but it is not clear how and why. Second, this book aims to become a guide for governments, researchers and practitioners to conceptualize and understand what the smart city is -according to both literature and practice-, what are the components that synthesize a smart city and what technological artefacts can be used to serve the smart city mission. Third, it aims to provide the readers with tools that can help them conceptualize, measure the potential, manage the development and evaluate the outcome of a smart city project. Fourth, it aims to serve as a didactic material for students that enter the smart city domain and in this respect, each chapter has specific learning outcomes and a pool of questions to support learning. As such, several outcomes from ongoing studies, an extensive scientific material (articles, books and reports), inputs from experts, personal experiences and city examples are utilized to serve the above quadruple mission. The development of this book focused on the smart city owner perspective (the one who develops and owns the smart city outcome) and it was based on a multi-methods approach, which combines literature reviews and reports' and standards' analysis; narrative walks and tests in cities; interviews with smart city representatives; panels of experts; questionnaires etc. Moreover, several articles were published during the development of this book that are mentioned in acknowledgements, since each chapter generated important research questions that had to be answered. Finally, two research projects contributed partially the development of this book, which are also mentioned in the acknowledgements. -- Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos Associate Professor Business School University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly -------------------------------------------------- TEI of Thessaly, 411 10 Larissa, Greece tel/fax: +30 2410 684570 e-mail:lanthopo@teilar.gr URL:http://de.teilar.gr/story/en-US/108/ANTHOPOULOS_Leonidas_Associate_Profe ssor.html LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/leonidasanthopoulos ---------------------------------------------------- Associate Editor, International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), IGI-GLOBAL

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