June 2017 - computational.science

Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2017
by Dirk Craeynest 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 *** Check out tutorials and workshop! *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Online proceedings available at event *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 22nd Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Vienna Vienna, Austria (6 June 2017) - TU Vienna and Ada-Europe organize from 12 to 16 June 2017 the "22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017" in Vienna, Austria. The event is organized in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). 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. This year's conference offers two days of parallel tutorials, a workshop, three keynotes, a full technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Eight excellent tutorials on Monday and Friday cover a broad range of topics: Introduction to SPARK 2014; Ada on ARM Cortex-M, a Zero-Run-Time Approach; Software Measurement for Dependable Software Systems; Real-Time Parallel Programming with the UpScale SDK; Using Gnoga for Desktop/Mobile GUI and Web development in Ada; Frama-C, a Collaborative Framework for C Code Verification; On beyond ASCII: Characters, Strings, and Ada 2012; Modular Open System Architecture for Critical Systems. In addition, on Friday the conference hosts for the 4th consecutive year the International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (De-CPS 2016), now with a focus on "Transportation of the Future". Three eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program. Giovanni Battista Gallus (Array, Italy), in "The laws of robotics and autonomous vehicles may be much more than three, but don't panic... yet", will talk about the future European legal framework, which is relevant for the development of autonomous vehicles, and especially programming issues. Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria), in "Behavioral Software Metrics", will show how the classical satisfaction relation between programs and requirements can be replaced by quantitative preference metrics that measure the "fit" between programs and requirements. Kay Römer (TU Graz, Austria), in "Dependable Internet of Things", will introduce the Dependable Things research center at TU Graz and present recent results on improving the dependability of wireless communication and localization, embedded computing, and networked control for the Internet of Things. The technical program presents 14 refereed and carefully selected papers on the latest research, new tools, applications and industrial practice and experience, a collection of 9 industrial presentations reflecting current practice and challenges, 4 presentations and a discussion in a special panel session on "The Future of Safety-Minded Languages", and vendor presentations. Springer Verlag publishes all peer-reviewed papers in the proceedings of the conference, as LNCS Vol. 10300. The remainder of the proceedings will be published in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday morning and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, VectorCAST, and Ada-Europe. The social program includes a Welcome Reception plus robotics presentations on Tuesday evening at "TU the Sky"; its terraces at the top of TU Vienna's buildings offer a terrific view on the city. On Wednesday evening there will be a Vienna bus tour, followed by the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at a very famous "Heuriger". Each day, coffee breaks in the exhibition area and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. 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 full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 16-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/AE2017_final_program.pdf> Check out the 8 tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are very reasonable and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017> or go directly to <https://adaeurope.upv.es/index.html>. For those who can't attend the full conference, note that Wednesday 14 June is "Meet Ada-Europe day!", and single day registration is discounted. The proceedings, published by Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10300, are already available online. See <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-60588-3>. A printed copy is included in every full conference registration. Help promote the conference by advertising for it! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/picts/AE2017_poster.png>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2017. For the latest information consult the conference web site <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair *** 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: ACS 2017 The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security
by Roger Hallman 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Link: http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ WikiCFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=64433&copyownerid=… The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security (ACS 2017) Co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- September 18-22, 2017 Cloud computing is used by many organizations to build scalable systems in different domains, such as retail, healthcare, human resources, finance, education, and government. Our society has become more dependent on the services provided by these cloud-based systems. As a result, cyber-attacks on these cloud-based systems can have a dramatic impact on all aspects of our lives. Cloud security is an active area of research, involving many approaches for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and applications hosted in the cloud. However, existing techniques for securing cloud-based systems, including autonomic-based cloud systems, are based on the assumption that people will be involved in managing them. These techniques require end user input to implement effective cybersecurity strategies to defend the systems. The emerging area of Autonomic Cybersecurity can provide solutions that complement existing cybersecurity techniques in the cloud. The goal of Autonomic Cybersecurity is to use Autonomic Computing techniques and approaches to defend computing systems. The Autonomics and Cloud Security workshop aims to investigate approaches to cloud security in general, including cloud-based autonomic systems, as well as autonomic cybersecurity approaches for defending cloud-based systems. The workshop is soliciting papers in two categories, namely, the use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security, and techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in these two categories, which include, but are not limited to, the following major areas: The use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security: -Challenges in autonomics and cloud security and privacy -Emerging issues in autonomic cloud security -Autonomic identity and access management in cloud computing -Autonomic cybersecurity monitoring and incident response in cloud computing -Autonomic auditing and accountability in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to usable security in cloud computing -Autonomic security protocols in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to privacy in the cloud -Autonomic approaches for securing data and communication in the cloud -Secure autonomics-based cloud federation -Self-adaptive security policies -Self-configuration of cloud systems -Scalable cybersecurity in the cloud -Autonomic event recovery in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to moving target defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to cyber defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to intrusion detection and prevention systems in the cloud -Techniques and approaches for building resilient cloud systems -Cybersecurity in fog and edge computing -Application of big data analytics to securing the cloud -Autonomic approaches to trusted computing Techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems: -Cybersecurity in the cloud for supporting IoT applications -Security protocols in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for privacy preservation in cloud-based autonomic systems -Event detection and forensics in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for cloud-based autonomic systems resiliency -Secure computing techniques for the cloud (securing data-in-processing via Homomorphic --Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and other secure computing techniques). -Techniques and approaches for anomaly detection in cloud-based autonomic systems -Scalable cybersecurity in cloud-based autonomic systems -Ethical hacking and penetration testing in cloud-based autonomic systems -Case studies in securing cloud-based systems We solicit research papers containing original research results and challenge papers motivating new research directions. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. Submissions may be made via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acs17 . UPDATE: A special issue on Cluster Computing (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) will include an extension of the best papers of all the workshops that will be held in conjunction with ICCAC 2017. Organization: General Chair Mamadou H. Diallo -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Program Co-Chairs Michael August -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Sherif Abdelwahed -- Mississippi State University, USA Technical Program Committee Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo -- The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tiago Cruz -- University of Coimbra, Portugal Song Fu -- University of North Texas, USA Roger Hallman -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nuno Neves -- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Jason R.C. Nurse -- University of Oxford, United Kingdom Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Muthu Ramachandran -- Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, United Arab Emirates Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA Vijay Varadharajan -- University of Newcastle, Australia MORE TO COME Publicity and Web Chair Christopher Graves -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Scott M. Slayback -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Contact: General Chair mamadou.h.diallo(a)navy.mil Publicity and Web Chair christopher.t.graves(a)navy.mil

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CFP SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop): 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing
by roman 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** ============================================================================== C a l l F o r P a p e r s SPIFEC 2017: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing (In conjunction with ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway, September 14, 2017 Website: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec ============================================================================== Overview The main goal of Fog Computing and other related Edge paradigms, such as Multi-Access Edge Computing, is to decentralize the Cloud and bring some of its services closer to the edge of the network, where data are generated and decisions are made. Cloud-enabled edge platforms will be able to cooperate not only with each other but with the cloud, effectively creating a collaborative and federated environment. This paradigm shift will fulfill the needs of novel services, such as augmented reality, that have particularly stringent requirements like extremely low latency. It will also help improve the vision of the Internet of Things by improving its scalability and overall functionality, among other benefits. To enable this vision, a number of platforms and technologies need to securely coexist, including sensors and actuators, edge-deployed systems, software-defined networks, hardware virtualization, data mining mechanisms, etc. However, this paradigm shift calls for new security challenges and opportunities to leverage services for new scenarios and applications. The field of edge computing security is almost unexplored, and demands further attention from the research community and industry in order to unleash the full potential of this paradigm. Topics This workshop expects original research papers on, but not limited to, the topics described below: • Edge devices security • Attacks and Countermeasures to Edge computing platforms • Authentication and Access control in Edge computing • Accountability and Accounting in Edge computing • Identity management systems in Edge computing • Secure federation of Edge computing devices • Secure Orchestration and Management of Edge devices • Secure Software-Defined Networking for Edge computing • Secure Virtualization in Edge Computing • Secure Migration of resources in Edge Computing • Data and Computation integrity in Edge Computing • Trust and Reputation Management in Edge computing • Privacy in Edge Computing • Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems for Edge computing • Digital Forensics in Edge Computing • Risk Analysis in Edge Computing • Incident Management in Edge Computing Important dates: - Submission deadline: 30th June 2017 - Authors’ notification: 30th July 2017 - Camera ready version: 27th August 2017 Paper Submission Guidelines: Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spifec2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or submitted to another conference or journal. Papers must be written in English and they must adhere to the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 18 pages total. Only PDF format is accepted. Revised accepted papers will be published as a joint post-proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with other ESORICS Workshops (confirmed). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11) Organisation Committee PC Chairs - Rodrigo Roman University of Malaga, Spain - Chunming Rong University of Stavanger, Norway General Chair - Ruben Rios University of Málaga, Spain Program Committee - Ketan Bhardwaj Georgia Tech, USA - Egemen K. Çetinkaya Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Xiaofeng Chen Xidian University, China - Nathan Clarke Plymouth University, UK - Mauro Conti University of Padova, Italy - Jose M. De Fuentes University Carlos III Madrid, Spain - Roberto Di Pietro Nokia Bell Labs, France - Martin G. Jaatun SINTEF, Norway - Donghyun Kim Kennesaw State University, USA - Costas Lambrinoudakis University of Piraeus, Greece - Qun Li College of William and Mary, USA - Kaitai Liang Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Flavio Lombardi Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy - Javier López University of Malaga, Spain - Masahiro Mambo Kanazawa University, Japan - Haralambos Mouratidis University of Brighton, UK - Abderrahmen Mtibaa New Mexico State University, USA - Jose A. Onieva University of Malaga, Spain - Fernando M.V. Ramos University of Lisbon, Portugal - Pierangela Samarati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Juan E. Tapiador University Carlos III Madrid, Spain For any inquiries please contact the PC Chairs at: spifec2017(a)nics.uma.es

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CIBB 2017 - Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
by Chiara Damiani 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2017 <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/>, 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 7-9 September 2017, Cagliari, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 4 June 2017 12 june 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks   biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems   flux balance analysis   metabolic engineering   metabolic pathway analysis   model verification and refinement methods   models of neural activity multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems   parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks   software tools for systems biology   spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: 4 June 2017 12 june 2017 Acceptance: 22 June 2017 5 july 2017 Registration due: 17 July 2017 Camera-ready: 22 July 2017 PROCEEDINGS Authors of accepted short papers (4-6 pages) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph, which is planned to be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Best papers will be invited to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/call.php> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Riccardo Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918

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New research positions in Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
by Madden, Michael 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hello; I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of relevant candidates. Up to three new research positions are available in the Data Mining & Machine Learning Research Group, led by Dr Michael Madden in the National University of Ireland Galway, to contribute to a substantial European Union research project called ROCSAFE, which involves an exciting combination of aerial robotics, ground-based robotics, sensing systems, image analysis, and artificial intelligence. There are positions available for a software engineer and for two research scholars (MSc by research with possibility to transition to PhD). The software engineer will receive a salary commensurate with experience. The MSc students will receive a tax-free scholarship of €16,000 per year, with fees also paid. Additional funding is provided for research-related travel. The research and software development work is likely to involve topics such as: (1) development of communications protocols and simulation of a realistic multi-agent system; (2) routing of autonomous vehicles for optimal collection of multi-resolution image and sensor data; (3) context-aware decision support driven by sensor data analytics. This is an excellent opportunity to combine research with software development, working in a flexible and stimulating research environment, while collaborating with academic and industrial partners across Europe. For information on how to apply, please see our website: http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/ Thank you, Michael. -- Dr Michael Madden Head of Data Mining & Machine Learning Group National University of Ireland, Galway +353-91-493797 / +353-86-7952802 http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/

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New PhD in AI/Machine Learning in a life-saving application
by Madden, Michael 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hello all; I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of relevant students. A new PhD position is available in the Data Mining & Machine Learning Research Group, led by Dr Michael Madden in the National University of Ireland Galway. The successful candidate will join the Data Mining & Machine Learning Group and contribute to a new research project, ROCSAFE (see below) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. The research is likely to involve one of: (1) advances in temporal Bayesian reasoning for decision support; (2) routing of autonomous vehicles for optimal collection of multi-resolution image and sensor data; (3) context-aware decision support driven by sensor data analytics. The successful candidate will receive a tax-free scholarship of €18,000 per year, with fees also paid and additional funding available for research-related travel. This is an excellent opportunity to combine research with software development, working in a flexible and stimulating research environment, while collaborating with academic and industrial partners across Europe, with occasional travel to meet partners and to attend research conferences. Candidates must have a strong honours bachelor degree (equivalent to H1) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar discipline, and preferably a relevant MSc degree also. Candidates must have excellent mathematical ability, strong software development skills, great communication skills, and a strong interest in research. Preferably, candidates should demonstrate prior experience in data mining and machine learning. Expected Start Date: 1 Oct 2016 or as soon as possible after. This position will remain open until filled, but first consideration will be given to those received by 20 September 2016. Further information and how to apply: http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/index.php/?option=com_content&view=articl… About the project: ROCSAFE (Remotely Operated CBRNe Scene Assessment & Forensic Examination) has recently been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. Led by Dr Michael Madden in NUI Galway, it will make advances in autonomous robotics, probabilistic reasoning, intelligent decision support, and miniaturised sensors, all of which will work together to gather forensic evidence in the event of a chemical, biological, radiation/nuclear or explosive (CBRNe) incident. ROCSAFE’s overall goal is to fundamentally change how CBRNe events are assessed, and ensure the safety of crime scene investigators, by reducing the need for them to enter dangerous scenes to gather evidence. There are 13 partners in total involved in the project across Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany, along with a further group of advisory board members. There is more information at http://www.nuigalway.ie/remoteforensics/. Regards, Michael. -- Dr Michael Madden Head of Data Mining & Machine Learning Group National University of Ireland, Galway +353-91-493797 / +353-86-7952802 http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/

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The 2017 ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017)
by ICT DataScience 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

The 5th ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017) [http://www.bigdatalab.ac.cn/~dsbda/2017/] In conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017) [http://icdm2017.bigke.org/] New Orleans, USA · November 18, 2017 Introduction ================ Due to the rapid development of IT technology including Internet, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, and Internet of Things, as well as the consequent decrease of cost on collecting and storing data, big data has been generated from almost every industry and sector as well as governmental department. The volume of big data often grows exponentially or even in rates that overwhelm the well-known Moore’s Law. Meanwhile, big data has been extended from traditional structured data into semi-structured and completely unstructured data of various types, such as text, image, audio, video, click streams, log files, etc. It is no doubt that big data can offer us unprecedented opportunities. However, it also poses many grand challenges. Due to the massive volume and inherent complexity, it is extremely difficult to store, aggregate, manage, and analyze big data and finally mine valuable information/knowledge from the complex data/information networks. Therefore, in the presence of big data, the theories, models, algorithms and methods of traditional data related fields, such as, data mining, data engineering, machine learning, statistical learning, computer programming, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, uncertainty modeling, and high performance computing etc., become no longer effective and efficient. On the other hand, some data is generated exponentially or super-exponentially in a streaming manner. Therefore, how to delicately analyze and deeply understand big data so as to obtain dynamical and incremental information / knowledge, is a grand challenge. In general, at the era of big data, it is expected to develop new theories, models, algorithms, methods, and paradigms for mining, analyzing, and understanding big data, and even a new inter-discipline, Data Science, for studying the perception, acquisition, transportation, storage, management, analysis, visualization, and applications of big data, and finally implement the transformation from data to knowledge. DSBDA 2017 aims to provide a networking venue that will bring together scientists, researchers, professionals, and practitioners from both industry and academia and from different disciplines (including computer science, social science, network science, etc.) to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, share experiences, promote collaborations, and report state-of-the-art research work on various aspects of data science and big data analytics. Topics ================ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data science and data analytics * Acquisition, representation, indexing, storage, and management of big data * Processing, pre-processing, and post-processing of big data * Models, algorithms, and methods for big data mining and understanding * Knowledge discovery and acquisition from big data * Visualizing analytics and organization for big data * Streaming data processing * Context data mining from big Web data * Social computing over big Web data * Industrial and scientific applications of big data * Tools for big data analytics Submissions ================ The page limit of workshop papers is 8 pages in the standard IEEE 2-column format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) including the bibliography and any possible appendices. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2017 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2017.bigke.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP04&u… . Note that all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2017 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Therefore, papers must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conferences or journals. Important Dates ================ Submissions Due Date: August 7, 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2017 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15, 2017 Workshop Date: November 18, 2017 Steering Committee =================== Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China Prof. Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Chairs ================ Dr. Xiaolong Jin Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: jinxiaolong(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Jiafeng Guo Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: guojiafeng(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Huewei Shen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: shenhuawei(a)ict.ac.cn

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[Brain Informatics 2017] - Call for Abstracts
by Yang 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17) "Investigating the Brain and Mind from Informatics Perspective" November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ --------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 20, 2017 One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B --------------------------------------- *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China) Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US) Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China) Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) *** WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** (Full paper / abstract submission for worshop / special session is still open, please see http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/workshops.htm for more information) # Workshop on Knowledge Representation: Brain and Machine (KRBM 2017) Organizers: Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University, China Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China # Workshop on Affective, Psychological and Physiological Computing (APPC 2017) Organizers: Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China Zhijun Yao, Lanzhou University, China Mi Li, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Big Data and Visualization for Brainsmatics (BDVB 2017) Organizers: Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anan LI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # Workshop on Brain Big Data Based Wisdom Service (BBDBWS 2017) Organizer: Jiajin Huang, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Semantic Technology for eHealth (STeH 2017) Organizers: Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands # Workshop on Big Data Neuroimaging Analytics for Brain and Mental Health (BDNABMH 2017) Organizer: Shouyi Wang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA # Workshop on Novel Methods of the Brain Imaging in the Clinical and Preclinical Neuroscience (NMBICPN 2017) Organizers: Vassiliy Tsytsarev, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA Vicky Yamamoto, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA Yan Li, University of Southern Queensland, Australia # The 1st International Workshop on Deep Learning in Brain MRI and Pathology Images (DLBMPI 2017) Organizers: Yan Xu, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, BUAA Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia # Special Session on Brain Informatics in Neurogenetics (BIN 2017) Organizers: Hong Liang, Harbin Engineering University, China Lei Du, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Li Shen, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA # Special Session on BigNeuron Project (BP 2017) Organizers: Zhi Zhou, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA Min Liu, Hunan University, China ================================================== Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies. BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies, including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a difference in various large-scale brain studies and their applications. BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI. Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing IMPORTANT DATES : =========================== May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers June 20, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance June 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers June 30, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts July 30, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions November 17-18, 2017: Main conference ABSTRACT (TYPE-II) SUBMISSIONS : ================================= (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2017): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. ----------------------------------------------- One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B ----------------------------------------------- *** Post-Conference Journal Publication *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted abstracts from the conference will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA) Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Chairs Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China) Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA) Organizing Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China) Tutorial Chair Wenming Zheng (South East University, China) Publicity Chairs Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn shouyiw(a)uta.edu yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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Call for Papers: 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17)
by Ishan Thakkar 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

DEADLINE IS APPROACHING: THE Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17) ================================================================================================ www.green-conf.org October 23-25 2017, Orlando, Florida IGSC’17 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will consist of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and tutorials on these topics. IGSC’17 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green Computing ----------------- - Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware - Low-power electronics and systems - Power-efficient multi/many-core chip design - Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs - Sensing and monitoring - Power and thermal behavior and control - Data centers optimization - Smart grid and microgrids - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability ----------------------------- - Renewable energy models and prediction - Matching energy supply and demand - Smart transportation and electric vehicles - Smart buildings and urban computing - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture - Computational models for epidemics, infectious diseases, and human well-being - Computational methods for sustainable economy and society Paper submission guidelines ---------------------------------- IGSC’17 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (www.green-conf.org) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Best paper award and journal publication ------------------------------------------ The Technical Committee will select the best contributions to be extended and considered by the Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and special sessions --------------------------------- Proposals are solicited for workshops and special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Special Sessions Chair (iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu) Ph.D. forum ------------ Submissions are solicited for a Ph.D. forum, from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing. Please refer to the IGSC website for specific instructions for extended abstract submission. Important dates ----------------- Deadline for submitting Workshop and Special Session proposals: May 15, 2017 Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: June 16, 2017 Paper submission: June 16, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: Aug 5, 2017 Organization -------------- Steering Committee Chairs: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), shirazi(a)wsu.edu General Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA), weisong(a)wayne.edu Tech. Program Chair: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, USA), sudeep(a)colostate.edu Workshop Chair: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca Publicity Chair: Ishan Thakkar (Colorado State University, USA), ishan9it(a)rams.colostate.edu

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Call for Papers: WS on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17)
by Peter Mueller 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------- Third Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) ----------------------------------------------------------- http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/qcit17-workshop/ At IEEE Globecom’17, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017 http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org The scope of this dedicated workshop is to explore the opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology and its applications. The workshop is the annual main event of ComSoc’s Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (ETC-QCIT). Over the last decade, a wide variety of experimental quantum communications and processing devices has been invented and used for fundamental demonstrations in laboratories. Results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications and information related fields. Recently one can observe upcoming applications in areas like a quantum communications, quantum sensors and random number generators which are partially even commercially available. Companies and governments started to spend significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. However, the step from quantum technology based devices to real systems running a communications or information processing task has not completed yet. Moreover, many problems show opportunities to contribute with knowhow, technologies and engineering out of the communications area. The following topics are crucial to the development of future quantum technology based systems: - Algorithms and applications complexity - Analysis of classical vs quantum software - Coding theory - Communications and information theory - Devices and circuits - Entanglement distillation - Error correction - Experimental results and demonstrations - Interconnection and complexity theory - Metrology for quantum systems - Modeling and simulation - Network coding - Photonic communications technology - Processing and systems architecture - Quantum electro-dynamics - Quantum information theory - Quantum key distribution - Quantum sensors - Quantum algorithms and applications - Remote state preparation - RF based programming and algorithms - RF technology and control - Signal processing for quantum control It is the aim of this workshop to connect people from academia and industry to discuss about theory, technology and applications and exchange ideas to move efficiently forward in research, engineering and development of this exciting area. Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts -------------------------------------------- Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23835 Further information is available in the Globecom 2017 webpages: http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org Important dates --------------- Manuscript submission due date: 1. July, 2017 Notification date: 1. September, 2017 Final manuscript due date: 1. October, 2017 Conference date: 4.-8. December, 2017 Workshop organizers ------------------- Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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