July 2017 - computational.science

Deadline Approaching - CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS)
by Ilia Pietri 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) ***************************************** Important Dates Papers Due: 30 July 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: 9 September 2017 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2017 Final Papers Due: 1 October 2017 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. WORKS papers will be published in collaboration with SIGHPC and will be available from both ACM and IEEE digital repositories. ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK – General Chairs Johan Montagnat, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC, USA Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Program Committee Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Université Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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CfP, deadline extension (21st July) - Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact - Enviroinfo 2017
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Enviroinfo 2017 workshop: "Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact" September 13/14/15, 2017 Neimënster Abbey, 28 Rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg Submission deadline (abstracts): 21st July 2017 http://www.envcomp.eu/enviroinfo17/ or http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/ (“programme” -> “workshops & special sessions”) The proposed workshop brings together experts in green IT, IT cost assessment, environmental modelling, disaster risk assessment and global supply chain optimisation to lay the groundwork for an economic and ecologic cost-benefit analysis framework that can be used to estimate optimal investments in operational environmental modelling services. The workshop will include a mix of invited presentations and peer-reviewed papers submitted through a normal peer-review process. The themes and focus areas of the workshop bring together and support cross-pollination between several themes of the EnviroInfo 2017 conference: • Cross-border collaboration and issues and environmental informatics • Environmental Modelling and Simulation • Applications of Geographical Information Systems • Risk Assessment and Resilience • Software Tools and Environmental Databases • Design, Sustainability and Green Software Engineering Paper submission Contributions should be submitted as 1-4 page extended abstracts via the conference tool (https://www.conftool.net/enviroinfo2017/) please refer to the conference author guidelines ( http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/en/call-for-papers/authors-guidelines/) for different submissions options. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in a journal after the workshop. Discussions pending with FGCS. Important dates Abstract submissions due: 21st July 2017 Notification: 29th July 2017 Camera ready: 7th August 2017 Conference dates: 13th to 15th September 2017 Structure of the workshop Full day workshop split into four 1.5 hour sessions. Organisation Dieter Kranzlmüller (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) Volker Wolgemuth (HTW Berlin) Matti Heikkurinen (LMU München) Full list of environmental computing events: http://www.envcomp.eu/events/ -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: Special Issue on 'Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization' in Scalable Computing and Communications (Springer)
by Javid Taheri 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing and Communications ~Special Issue Call for Papers~ Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: 15 Dec 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2018 - Final Version: 31 May 2018 INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION With maturity of virtualization techniques, more and more services are to be run inside virtualized Data Centers vDCs) to further reduce Operational (OPEX) and Capital Expenditures (CAPEX). Aligned with the general trend of migrating traditional IT architectures to clouds (public or private), next generation of telecommunication networks such as 5G are also envisaged to be run on virtualized environments where network functions are deployed on virtual machines and/or containers instead of current proprietary equipment. Several proof-of-concept and initial industrial deployments proved that Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are two promising technologies to enable such technological shift. Nevertheless, how to optimize and guarantee the performance of such virtualized systems is still challenging, because they require accurate modelling and efficient optimization to satisfy ever increasing demand of future networks. To address several major issues raised by migrating network applications to virtualized infrastructures, this special issue aims to highlight challenges, state-of-the-art, and solutions to a set of currently unresolved key questions including, but not limited to: performance, modelling, optimizations, reliability, security, and techno-economic aspects of virtualized networks. By addressing these concerns, technology might be one step closer to understanding, and consequently, closing the gap between the performance of the next generation SDN/NFV-based networks and their current counterparts in proprietary boxes. In this special issue, we welcome contributions that can shed light onto any of the following questions: 1. How virtualized networks should be designed to guarantee the performance required by network operations? 2. How virtualized services can be benchmarked and/or compared? 3. How virtualized services should be designed and/or operated to take advantage of cloud infrastructures and further provide flexibilities (such as load migration) that current proprietary equipment cannot provide? 4. How network functions should be placed and/or network capacities should be sliced to optimize network critical metrics such as throughput, delay, jitter, etc.? 5. How virtualized services should/can be efficiently orchestrated, monitored, and managed? PAPER SUBMISSION: - Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. - All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal. - Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/41122 - Submit manuscripts to: http://SCAC.edmgr.com. Topics to be covered in this Special Issue are including, but not limited to: 1. Model, benchmark, and/or optimize operation of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 2. Resource and/or content allocation for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 3. Reliability and resiliency of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 4. Dynamic/flexible construction and deployment of Service Function Chains using SDN/NFV technologies. 5. Fault detection and/or correction for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 6. Architectures, applications, and use cases of SDN/NFV to provide networking services. 7. Monitoring techniques for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 8. Deployment, management, and orchestration of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 9. Business/economic aspects of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 10. Security concerns of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 11. Mobile and/or Wireless Networks enabled by SDN/NFV-based networks and services.

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Visiting Assistant Professor position
by M. H. Samadzadeh 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Applications are invited for one Visiting Assistant Professor position for the 2017-2018 academic year, August 2017 to May 2018. The position is contingent upon availability of funds. The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Computer Science Department is seeking applications from candidates with teaching experience in all areas of Computer Science. An earned Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely-related field from an accredited institution is required at the time of appointment. The position is for the main OSU campus in Stillwater; however, duties may be assigned in either the OSU-Stillwater campus, the OSU satellite campus in Tulsa, or both. The OSU Computer Science Department (http://www.cs.okstate.edu/) is strongly committed to excellence in research, teaching, and outreach. The Department offers the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and has a Graduate Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics. The Department also offers courses to students at remote sites using interactive video and the Internet. There are currently about 240 undergraduate students and about 80 graduate students enrolled in the Department. To apply, visit: http://cs.okstate.edu/VAP_Search-2017-2018 For full consideration, applications should be received by July 21, 2017; however, applications will be considered until the position has been filled. Oklahoma State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/E-verify employer committed to diversity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other protected category. OSU is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and desires priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. OSU will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) OSU-Stillwater is a tobacco-free campus.

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ERCIM STM 2017 PhD Thesis Award - Call for Applications (deadline approaching: July 19, 2017)
by STM 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

================================================== CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ERCIM STM WG 2017 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management ================================================== The European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) has a technical WG on Security and Trust Management (STM) for performing a series of activities, as research projects, workshop/conference organization, dissemination of knowledge, for increasing the European research and development capabilities on security, trust, and privacy. One of the main goals of the WG is to promote the scientific growth of young researchers interested in the field of security and trust management. ERCIM STM WG then decided to establish an award for the best Ph.D. thesis in this area to increase the visibility of the young researchers within the ERCIM scientific community as well as in the scientific community in general. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * applied cryptography; * data and application security; * identity management; * networked systems security; * privacy, anonymity, and untraceability; * rigorous semantics and computational models for security and trust; * security, privacy, and trust in emerging computing paradigms; * security and trust management architectures, mechanisms, and policies. Applications for the award in 2017 are open to all Ph.D. holders that defended their thesis during 2016 in any European University. Applications consisting of the Ph.D. Thesis (in PDF format), a short summary of the Thesis (mandatory in English), a curriculum vitae (in PDF format), and letters of support from at least two researchers, one of whom should be from an ERCIM STM WG Institution, should be sent by July 19, 2017 to stm(a)unimi.it. Please use "ERCIM STM PhD Award 2017 -- Application" as subject of the message. Theses will be evaluated by a Committee appointed from the European research community. The theses will be judged on the basis of scientific quality, originality, clarity of presentation, as well as potential impact of the results. The ceremony for the award will be held during the 13th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2017) on September 14-15 2017, Oslo, Norway. --- STM WG web page: http://www.iit.cnr.it/STM-WG ERCIM web page: http://www.ercim.org

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention
by Andrii Shalaginov 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention. It is co-located with IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 that will take place in Boston, USA, December 11-14, 2017. Workshop webpage: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieeebigdata2017 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Sept 10, 2017: Due date for full workshop papers submission Oct 15, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2017: Camera-ready for accepted papers Dec 11-14, 2017: Workshop *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become inevitable in every aspect of the digital forensics process. Increase in personal devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage mediums) results in an expanding volume of potential evidence found in them. The increase in data is one of the largest challenges facing law enforcements’ timely prosecutions; with the effect, that human analysts can no longer be the lone actor in the loop. There is a need to create innovative and advanced models and analysis methods to help human analysts within law enforcements in order to automatically aid with the discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of evidence in criminal cases. Advanced big data analytics are important for cybercrime investigation and require novel approaches for automation. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithms - Machine learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modeling - Secure platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Secure collaborative platforms 2. Applications - Network forensics readiness - Cyber threats intelligence - Malware analysis and detection - Emails mining - Events correlations - Access logs analysis - Mobile and Internet of Things forensics - Fraud detection - Database forensics 3. Data - Novel datasets - Digital forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - Data storage standards - New formats and taxonomies *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ali Dehghantanha (University of Salford) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Carl Leichter (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Ethan Rudd (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Hamid Ebadi (Chalmers University of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Pavel Gladyshev (Dublin School of Computer Science) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See formatting instructions here: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieee-bigdata-2017-formatting-ins… *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics”. Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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GraMSec 2017 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Barbara Kordy 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

****************************************************************** GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ****************************************************************** GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php If you need a visa support letter, please check http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/visa.html ABOUT GraMSec Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Such models have been subject of academic research and they have also been widely accepted by the industrial sector, as a means to support and facilitate threat analysis and risk assessment processes. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies and tools for their practical usage. INVITED TALK Anoop Singhal, NIST Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems ACCEPTED REGULAR PAPERS * Karin Bernsmed, Christian Frøystad, Per Håkon Meland, Dag Atle Nesheim, and Ørnulf Jan Rødseth Visualizing Cyber Security Risks with Bow-Tie Diagrams * Angèle Bossuat and Barbara Kordy Evil Twins: Handling Repetitions in Attack–Defense Trees - A Survival Guide * Aitor Couce-Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David Ríos-Insua CSIRA: A Method for Analysing the Risk of Cybersecurity Incidents * Peter Gjøl Jensen, Axel Legay, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen Quantitative Evaluation of Attack Defense Trees using Stochastic Timed Automata * Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford, Alexandr Vasenev, and Roel Wieringa Graphical Modeling of Security Arguments: Current State and Future Directions ACCEPTED SHORT PAPERS * Olga Gadyatskaya and Rolando Trujillo-Rasua New Directions in Attack Tree Research: Catching up with Industrial Needs * Ryan Habibi, Jens Weber, and Morgan Price Circle of Health Based Access Control for Personal Health Information Systems * Letitia Li, Florian Lugou, and Ludovic Apvrille Security Modeling for Embedded System Design * Brian Ruttenberg, Dave Blumstein, Jeff Druce, Michael Howard, Fred Reed, Leslie Wilfong, Crystal Lister, Steve Gaskin, Meaghan Foley, and Dan Scofield Probabilistic Modeling of Insider Threat Detection Systems GENERAL CHAIR Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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Third Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) - Due date July 23. 2017
by Peter Mueller 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

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 - Coherent routers, repeaters and converters - 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: 23. July, 2017 (extended) 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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FPS 2017 - Deadline Extension July 23rd, 2017
by Abdessamad Imine 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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Register Now for SSBSS 2017
by SSBSS Organizing Committee 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

Register Now for SSBSS 2017 - July 17-21, University of Cambridge, UK http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ Call for Participation ================ http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form applicants will be notified of acceptance within a few days of application submission. https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54 Call for Abstracts ================ We are still accepting abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. Abstracts can be uploaded to EasyChair and authors will be notified of acceptance within a few days of abstract submission: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017>* Please register and join us at the University of Cambridge for SSBSS 2017! More details about the conference can be found below and at the SSBSS 2017 web site: http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ We hope to see you there! SSBSS 2017 Organizing Committee == INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Antonino Cattaneo, *Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy* Carole Goble, *University of Manchester, UK* Jim Haseloff, *University of Cambridge, UK* Jay Keasling, *University of California, Berkeley, USA* Edda Klipp, *Humboldt University, Germany* Natalio Krasnogor, *Newcastle University, UK* Markus Ralser, *University of Cambridge, UK & The Francis Crick Institute, UK* Uwe Sauer, *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland* Gill Stephens, *The University of Nottingham, UK * Mike Stubbington, *EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK* Eriko Takano, *University of Manchester, UK* Sarah Teichmann, *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL, European Bioinformatics Inst., UK* Talks Talks Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Other speakers will be announced soon. Industrial Panel Jonathan Chesnut, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., USA Other speakers will be announced soon. TOPICS ======================== Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Biological Design Automation Computational/Mathematical Modelling and Design Computer Aided Design Directed Evolution Designing and Writing Genomes DNA Synthesis, Assembly, and Sequencing High Throughput Design Space Exploration Industrial Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Mammalian Synthetic Biology Metabolic Engineering Microbial Synthetic Biology / Microbiome Engineering Molecular Programming Omics Science and Synthetic & Systems Biology Pedagogical/Educational Tools Plant Synthetic Biology Protein Engineering Synthetic & Systems Biology for Cell Culture and Medical Applications Synthetic & Systems Biology of Industrial Microorganisms SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ======================== Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Richard Allmendinger, The University of Manchester, UK Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Paola Branduardi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Italy Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics & Medicine TIGEM & U. of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy Barbara Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group - BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany Simone Furini, University of Siena, Italy Emanuele Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy J. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev Groups, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA Guido Grandi, University Trento, Italy Mario Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Markus Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paolo Magni, University of Pavia, Italy Donato Malerba University of Bari, Italy Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy Nelson Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca and SYSBIO - Center of Systems Biology, Italy Enzo Medico, IRCC - Candiolo and University of Torino, Italy Giuseppe Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA Wieslaw Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland Gennaro Piccialli, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Danilo Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Francesco Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Nicola Segata, University of Trento, Italy Gianna Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy Renato Umeton, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA FURTHER INFORMATION ========================== ssbss.school(a)gmail.com http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2017* ** Biology meets Computer Science & Engineering ** *July 17-21, 2017, University of Cambridge, Robinson College, UK* http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *Contact Email:* ssbss.school(a)gmail.com *SSBSS 2017:* http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *SSBSS 2016: *http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2016/ *FB:* https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ *SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School*: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ *Computational Synthetic Biology Group*: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/

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