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The 4th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and
Applications (Innovate-Data 2018)
(IEEE CS-TCI)
06-08 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2018/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of
complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing
capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing
volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web
repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted
in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for
innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data
managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to
carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent
decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and
economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data
conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and
practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to
present their research work and share research and development ideas.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
Big Data Storage, Representation and Processing
Data storage; Data representation and structures; Data management; Data
processing; Data engineering and design; Storages and network requirements
Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust
Data Security; Data Privacy; Data Trust; Data protection and integrity;
Legal and ethical issues; Identity theft; Data loss and leakage
Big Data Models, Infrastructure and Platforms
Data models; NoSQL databases; Data consistency and availability; Fault
tolerance and reliability; Network models and protocols; Performance
evaluation; Resource management; Transaction management; RDBMS and big
data; Memcached systems and techniques
Visualisation of Big Data
Data visualisation, Visual representation; Usability and user
interaction; Graphs models and techniques for big data; Data acquisition
and cleaning
Big Data Analytics and Metrics
Analytics models; Tools and technologies; Data patterns; Business
intelligence and decision making; Optimization of resources and cost;
Customer relations and satisfaction; Data economics; Metrics for big
data; Analysis of online reviews
Big Data Science
Big data science models; Data searching and mining; Methodologies and
use cases; Machine learning and deep learning; Algorithms and formal
models; Mathematical and Statistical models for big data;
Interdisciplinary approaches and methods
Big Data Applications and Innovations
Business applications; Social media and networks; Healthcare
applications; Government and public sector systems; Multimedia and data
streaming; Personal data logging and quantified-self; Context-aware
data; Big data in cloud and IoT; Personalisation of data; Open and
linked data
PUBLICATION:
All papers accepted for this conference are to be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference
Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). The proceedings will be
submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL)
digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing
through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing
services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see
Journal Special Issues section).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 05 March 2018
Authors Notification: 16 May 2018
Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018
Organising Committee
General Chair
Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
Program Co-Chairs
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Local Organising Chair
Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
Publication Chair
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Mourad Ouziri, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Publicity Chair
Georgia M. Kapitsaki University of Cyprus Cyprus
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Track Chairs
Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain
Yohei Saika, National Institute of Technology, Japan
Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Rachid belhamari, Lakehead University, Canada
Sherif Sakr, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences,
Saudi Arabia
Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania, Italy
Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
Information Sciences, Elsevier
Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018
The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge.
Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications.
This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications.
Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power.
The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms
Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications
Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments
Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications
Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining
Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware
Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining
Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms
Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining
Novel distributed data mining algorithms
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins). The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.
A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a….
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018
First round notification: May 1st, 2018
Revised version due: July 1st, 2018
Final notification: August 1st, 2018
Camera-ready due: September 15th, 2018
Publication tentative date: December 2018
Guest editors:
Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it
University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation
Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it
University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation
Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it
University of Salento, Italy
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Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Via per Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy
Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371
Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro
E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it
cafaro(a)ieee.org
cafaro(a)acm.org
CMCC Foundation
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce
massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it
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Dear colleagues,
We have 1 workshop due on Jan 17, 2018, as an extended deadline due on Jan 17. Workshop on Recent Advances in Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Internet of Things - IoTforeHealth 2018. See http://www.iotbd.org/IoTforeHealth.aspx for detail and you can submit there. There are opportunities to submit to high quality journals later. Thanks.
Thanks an regards,
Victor
http://www.iotbd.org/IoTforeHealth.aspx
Chairs
Farshad Firouzi, Katholieke Univ. Leuven and MSG Systems AG Germany
Bahar Farahani, Pirouzan Group, Iran
Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
SCOPE
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Big Data have grown at an exponential pace solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as healthcare, finance, business, transportation, etc. However, these innovations are not without their drawbacks. Many challenges related to computing, network, consistency, safety, reliability, etc. remain. In order to succeed in this technology, multidisciplinary research is needed, in addition to collaboration between academia and industry. This workshop will bring researchers and industrial partners together to examine and report state-of-the-art research on recent advances toward Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things.
Topics of Interest
Operating System, Applications and Protocols Design, and Validation Techniques for Internet of Things
Enabling Technologies for Social Internet of Things
Information and Resource Management Systems for Internet of Things
Fusion for different services and its impacts in the IoT era
Intelligent Algorithms and Standards for Interoperability in Internet of Things
Communications, collaborations, and services in networks of embedded devices
High-Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies
Emerging Services Science for Cloud Computing
Autonomous Cloud
Relational and Non-relational big data stores
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Internet of Things
Cyber Security and Biometrics in the IoT Era
Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems
Intelligent Security and Optimization in Edge/Fog Computing
Innovative Network for Data Intensive Science
Cognitive Internet of Things Assisted by Cloud Computing and Big Data
Intelligent Sensing and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems
Smart Data in Future Internet Technologies and Cloud Computing
Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence Systems
Technological innovations in Digital transformation
Edge of the Cloud
Novel edge computing-inspired approaches and paradigms for mobile IoT applications
High-Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies
Blockchain and Decentralization for Internet of Things
Accountability and Privacy Issues in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Cloud and Fog Computing for Smart Cities Data Analytics and Visualization
Landscapes of the Data Stream Processing in the era of Fog Computing
Big Data for Context-Aware Applications and Intelligent Environment
Computation Intelligence for Energy Internet
Fog and Cloud Computing for Cooperative Information System management
Benchmarking IoT and Big Data Systems
Internet of Things and Machine Learning for Smart Healthcare
Case studies of successful IoT systems (eHealth, Smart City, etc.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: January 17, 2018 (extended)
Authors Notification: January 25, 2018
Camera Ready and Registration: February 2, 2018
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP
Due to many requests, we are extending the deadline for abstracts and papers to January 25, 2018
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COMPSAC 2018: THE 42nd IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON
COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE & APPLICATIONS
<http://www.compsac.org/>
https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2018
TOKYO, JAPAN
JULY 23-27, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers,
Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for
academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and
advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software
technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2018 is Staying
Smarter in a Smartening World.
Computer technologies are producing profound changes in society.
Emerging developments in areas such as Deep Learning, supported by
increasingly powerful and increasingly miniaturized hardware, are
beginning to be deployed in architectures, systems, and applications
that are redefining the relationships between humans and technology. As
this happens, humans are relinquishing their roles as masters of
technology to partnerships wherein autonomous, computer-driven devices
become our assistants.
What are the technologies enabling these changes?
How far can these partnerships go? What will be our future as we deploy
more and more “‘things” on the Internet of Things – to create smart
cities, smart vehicles, smart hospitals, smart homes, smart clothes,
etc.? Will humans simply become IoT devices in these scenarios and if
so, what will be the social, cultural, and economic challenges arising
from these developments? What are the technical challenges to making
this all happen – for example, in terms of technologies such as Big
Data, Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing, mobile computing, and pervasive
computing in general? What will be the role of the ‘user’ as the 21st
Century moves along?
COMPSAC 2018 is organized as a tightly integrated
union of symposia, each of which will focus on technical aspects related
to the ”smart” theme of the conference. The technical program will
include keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies,
fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and workshops and
tutorials on emerging and important topics related to the conference
theme. A highlight of the conference will be plenary and specialized
panels that will address the technical challenges facing technologists
who are developing and deploying these smart systems and applications.
Panels will also address cultural and societal challenges for a society
whose members must continue to learn to live, work, and play in the
environments the technologies produce.
Authors are invited to submit
original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice
reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not
permitted except as highlighted at the COMPSAC Journal Publishing Opportunities
webpage. All submissions must adhere to IEEE Publishing Policies, and
all will be verified through the IEEE CrossCheck Portal.
KEY ORGANIZERS
*Standing Committee Chair: Sorel Reisman, California State University, USA
*Steering Committee Chair: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA
*General Chairs: Shinichi Honiden (NII, Japan)
Roger U. Fujii, Fujii Systems, 2016 IEEE Computer Society President
*Program Chairs in Chief:
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Stelvio Cimato (University of Milan, Italy)
Yasuo Okabe (Kyoto University, Japan)
Sahra Sedighsarvestani (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA)
*Workshop Chairs: Kenichi Yoshida (University of Tskuba, Japan) Ji-Jiang Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Hong Va Leong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Chung Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada)
Local Chair: Hironori Washizak (Waseda University, Japan)
*IMPORTANT DATES
Main Conference papers
Due date: 25 January 2018 Notification: 31 March 2018
Workshop papers
Due date: 10 April 2018 Notification: 1 May 2018
Camera Ready and Registration Due date: May 15, 2018
Call For Papers
Cyber Security 2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018>
https://www.c-mric.org/conferences <https://www.c-mric.org/conferences>
IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security 2018)
(Glasgow 2018)
The aim of the Cyber Security 2018 is to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, and including government departments and agencies. The purpose is to build bridges between academia and industry, and to encourage interplay of different cultures. Social Media 2018 invites researchers and industry practitioners to submit papers that encompass principles, analysis, design, methods and applications. All submitted papers are independently peer-reviewed. Cyber Security 2018 is part of four collocated conferences IEEE Social Media 2018, IEEE Cyber Situation Awareness 2018, and IEEE Cyber Incident 2018.
Supported by:
Topics:
Computer Network Security
Application Security
Web Services Security
Mobile Security
Protective Security
Software Security Wireless & Sensor
Network Security
Software Coding Security
Security in Middleware
Interface and Interaction
Security Services in Authentication
Authorisation
Accountability
Automation
Availability
Integrity and Nonrepudiation
Security Management
Security Operations
Digital Trust and Reputation
Geographical Location (IP Geolocation)
Policy, Legal, Legislation & Compliance
Security Standardisation
Law, Legal and Ethics
and Related Topics
Keynote Speakers:
- Prof Karen Renaud (Abertay University)
- Prof Frank Wang (Kent University)
- Dr Cyril Onwubiko (C-Mric)
- Stu Hirst (Capital One)
- Prof Jens Pedersen (Aalborg University)
- Detective Inspector Eamonn Keane (Police Scotland)
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018
Short Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018
Paper Notification: 24th of March 2018
Authors of the best 20%-25% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for a publication in one of the special issue peer reviewed journal.
Collocated Conferences:
IEEE Situational Awareness 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/csa2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/csa2018>
IEEE Social Media 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/sm2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/sm2018>
IEEE Cyber Incident 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/ci2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/ci2018>
Workshops:
IEEE CIRC (International Workshop on Cyber Insurance and Risk Controls) https://www.c-mric.com/CIRC <https://www.c-mric.com/CIRC>
Paper Submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018>
Associated Partners and Sponsors
Civic Reception organised by Glasgow City Council
Call for Sponsors:
http://www.c-mric.com/sponsorship <http://www.c-mric.com/sponsorship>
Conference venue:
Dr Xavier Bellekens
Conference Chair
Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRiC.ORG <http://c-mric.org/>)
Address: 1 Meadway, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 7RF, UK
Web: http://www.c-mric.org <http://www.c-mric.org/>
Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.
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The 8th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018)
https://pdco2018.sciencesconf.org/
held in conjunction with
the 32nd IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2018)
May 21-25, 2017
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.ipdps.org
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New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018
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Scope:
======
The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization
aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers
and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed
computing for difficult optimization problems,
ranging from theoretical to applied problems.
The latter include 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting
stock problems, large scale linear programming
problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and
scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for
solving these difficult problems, like cooperative methods for integer
programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and
hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing
(CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit
submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and
related topics (including graph algorithms); and
related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel
systems. The use of new approaches in parallel and
distributed computing like GPU, MIC, cloud computing, volunteer
computing will be considered. Applications combining
traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization
techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence,
complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include
(but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning,
logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational
biology.
Topics:
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* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;
* Scheduling;
* Global optimization, polynomial optimization;
* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods;
* Cooperative methods, hybrid methods;
* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization;
* Parallel / distributed metaheuristics;
* Distributed optimization algorithms;
* Nature inspired distributed computing;
* Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing;
* Peer to peer computing and optimization problems;
* Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing,
finance, telecommunications, computational biology,
combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing.
Steering Committee:
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Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
General Chairs:
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Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France
Program Chairs:
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Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Publicity Chairs:
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Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Program Committee (to be completed):
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A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
B. Ucar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Submission :
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Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE
Xplore Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO
2018 submission system: i.e. EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2018
Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 26, 2018. Authors
should preferably follow the manuscript specifications
of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10
single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on
8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and
references. Style templates are available at the
IPDPS web site.
Important Dates:
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- New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018
- Author notification: February 23, 2018
- Camera ready version: March 15, 2018
- Workshop: May 21, 2018
Contact:
========
For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference
organizers at pdco2018(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2018@sciencesconf.org>
Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.
**********************************************************************
The 8th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018)
https://pdco2018.sciencesconf.org/
held in conjunction with
the 32nd IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2018)
May 21-25, 2017
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.ipdps.org
**********************************************************************
**************************************************
New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018
**************************************************
Scope:
======
The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization
aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers
and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed
computing for difficult optimization problems,
ranging from theoretical to applied problems.
The latter include 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting
stock problems, large scale linear programming
problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and
scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for
solving these difficult problems, like cooperative methods for integer
programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and
hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing
(CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit
submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and
related topics (including graph algorithms); and
related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel
systems. The use of new approaches in parallel and
distributed computing like GPU, MIC, cloud computing, volunteer
computing will be considered. Applications combining
traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization
techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence,
complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include
(but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning,
logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational
biology.
Topics:
=======
* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;
* Scheduling;
* Global optimization, polynomial optimization;
* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods;
* Cooperative methods, hybrid methods;
* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization;
* Parallel / distributed metaheuristics;
* Distributed optimization algorithms;
* Nature inspired distributed computing;
* Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing;
* Peer to peer computing and optimization problems;
* Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing,
finance, telecommunications, computational biology,
combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing.
Steering Committee:
===================
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
General Chairs:
===============
Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France
Program Chairs:
===============
Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Publicity Chairs:
=================
Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Program Committee (to be completed):
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A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
B. Ucar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Submission :
============
Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE
Xplore Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO
2018 submission system: i.e. EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2018
Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 26, 2018. Authors
should preferably follow the manuscript specifications
of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10
single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on
8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and
references. Style templates are available at the
IPDPS web site.
Important Dates:
================
- New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018
- Author notification: February 23, 2018
- Camera ready version: March 15, 2018
- Workshop: May 21, 2018
Contact:
========
For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference
organizers at pdco2018(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2018@sciencesconf.org>
==============CALL FOR PAPERS=================
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and
Secure Computing (DASC 2018)
12-15 August 2018, Athens, Greece
http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018
Paper Submission Due: Mar. 30, 2018
Demo/Poster/WiP Submission Due:April 30, 2018
Author Notification: May 20, 2018
Camera-ready Paper Due:June 15, 2018
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INTRODUCTION
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IEEE DASC 2018 will be held in August 12-15, 2018 in Athens, Greece,
co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, IEEE DataCom 2018 and IEEE PiCom
2018 (the event location is very close to the Parliament of Greece).
IEEE DASC 2018 aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial
engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and
theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case
studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability,
security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. Topics of particular
interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:
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SCOPE AND INTERESTS
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- Dependable, Autonomic, Secure Computing Systems, Architectures and
Communications
- Cloud Computing and Fog/edge Computing with Autonomic and Trusted
Environment
- Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems
- Dependable Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems
- Dependable Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems
- Self-improvement in Dependable Systems
- Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems
- Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing
- Software Engineering for Dependable Systems
- Safety-critical Systems in Transportation and Power System
- Security Models and Quantifications
- Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, and PaaS
- Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security
- DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection
- Context-aware Access Control
- Virus Detections and Anti-Virus Techniques/Software
- Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War
- Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems
- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing
- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Cyber-Physical System
- Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Big Data, SDN, and
IoT Systems
- QoS in Communications and Services and Service Oriented Architectures
- Information and System Security
- Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing
- Wireless Emergency and Security Systems
- Information Technology in Biomedicine
- Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design and Performance
Evaluation
- Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems
- Software Engineering for Emerging Networks, Systems, and Mobile Systems
- Evaluation Platforms for Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing
Systems
- Trustworthy Data, Secured Data Collection System, Model, and
Architectures
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SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION
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Authors are invited to submit their original research work using IEEE CS
Proceedings format via DASC 2018 website:
http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/sub/.
Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem
and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results.
Work-in Progress (WiP) Papers (5~6 pages) and Demo/Poster papers (2~4
pages) must describe working systems within the scope of DASC. Workshop
& Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to corresponding
workshops & special sessions.
* Accepted papers will be included into the proceedings published by
IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed).
* At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to
register and present the paper at the conference.
* Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast-track
publication in some prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed).
* Best Paper Awards will be given for the best papers in DASC 2018.
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Organizing Committees
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General Chairs
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
General Executive Chairs
Klimis Ntalianis, Athens U of Applied Sciences, Greece
Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Program Chair
Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Program Co-Chairs
Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Kambourakis Georgios, University of the Aegean, Greece
Tian Wang, Huaqiao University, China
Workshop/ Special Session Chairs
Konsts Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
Demo/Poster/WiP Chairs
Taufiq Asyhari, Cranfield University, UK
Rukhsana Afroz Ruby, SIAT, China
Publicity Chairs
Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA
Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Md. Arafatur Rahman, Univ Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
Shaikh M Arifuzzaman, University of New Orleans, USA
Local Organizing Chair
Nikolaos Mastorakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece
Honorary Chair:
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy
Advisory Committee Chairs
Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang (Chair), SFX University, Canada
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Please visit the DASC 2018 Website
http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/
for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018)
October 8-12, 2018
Guangzhou, China
http://www.smart-world.org/2018/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 8, 2018
Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 8, 2018
Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018
Camera-ready Deadline: Aug. 8, 2018
Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI
indexed) in Conference Proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented
to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige
journal special issues.
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Ubiquitous Intelligence for Smart World
The smart world is set to enhance everyday things with abilities of
sensation, communication, computation and intelligence so that many
tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and productive.
It consists of numerous "smart things" that can be endowed with
different levels/forms of computational intelligence and even capable of
thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering
many areas, essential problems and crucial issues in truly building the
smart world that benefits humanity, and simultaneously safeguards the
natural environment for sustainable development and evolution.
The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress originated from the 2005 Workshop on
Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW, Taipei) and the 2005 Symposium on
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World (UISW, Nagasaki). SmartWorld
2018 in Guangzhou is the continuation after the success of SmartWorld
2017 in San Francisco, SmartWorld 2016 in Toulouse, and SmartWorld 2015
in Beijing. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 aims to provide a high-profile,
leading-edge platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and
explore state-of-art advances and innovations in graceful integrations
of Cyber, Physical and Social Worlds with Ubiquitous Intelligence.
IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Topics
- Smart Industry and Manufacture
- Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture
- Smart Materials and Fabric
- Smart Environment and Ecosystems
- Smart Earth/Space System
- Smart Grid and Energy
- Smart Logistics and Retail
- Smart Building and Structure
- Smart Roads and Transportation
- Smart Vehicles and Networks
- Smart Machines and Robots
- Smart Home and Furniture
- Smart Appliances and Goods
- Smart Wearables and Implants
- Smart Medicine and Healthcare
- Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care
- Smart Foods and Living
- Smart Learning and Education
- Smart Disaster Management
- Smart Internet of Things
- Smart Sensing, System and Service
- Smart Computing & Communication
Six Co-located Conferences
- The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
(UIC 2018)
- The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018)
- The 18th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications
(ScalCom 2018)
- The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and BigData Computing (CBDCom 2018)
- The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2018)
- The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2018)
IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Calls for
- Papers that must be submitted electronically via the 2018 congress
website
- Workshop and Special Session Proposals in smart world related all aspects
- Tutorial Proposals in addressing the emerging smart world areas
- Smart AI City Competition Proposals for AI technological applications
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIRS
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou Univ., China
Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham Univ., USA
Frode Eika Sandnes, HiOA, Norway
Ruixuan Li, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan
Qin Liu, Hunan University, China
TUTORIAL CHAIR
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
SUMMIT CHAIR
Zhong Chen, Peking University, China
COMPETITION CHAIR
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China
HONORARY CHAIRS
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA
Xin Yao, Southern Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
ADVISORY CHAIRS
Vincenzo Piuri, Univ. of Milan, Italy
Hussein Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
STEERING CHAIRS
Jianhua Ma, Hosei Univ., Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS
Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA
Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China
EXHIBITION CHAIR
Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China
INDUSTRY SESSION CHAIR
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIR
Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
COORDINATION CHAIRS
Liming Chen, De Montfort University, UK
Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
REGISTRATION CHAIRS
Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China
Pin Liu, Central South University, China
WEB CHAIR
Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China
The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-18)
Porto, Portugal
May 8-11, 2018
Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18
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Important Dates
- Paper Submission Due: January 13, 2018 (FINAL)
- Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018
- Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018
The goal of the SEIT-18 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology.
All SEIT 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal.
SEIT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.
Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.
SEIT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/).
Conference Main Topics:
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- Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Policy
- Environmental
- Green Sustainability
- Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines
- Power Systems
- Renewable Energies
- Sensing & Monitoring
- Smart Systems
Committees
General Chair
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Program Chairs
Álvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal
Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
Local Chair
Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal
João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal
Workshops Chairs
Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Advisory Committee
Bilal A. Akash, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK
Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada
Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK
Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network
Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria
Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/#programCommittees