January 2018 - computational.science

CFP: The 4th Int. Conf. on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2018)
by M. Younas 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 13 Jan '18

13 Jan '18

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 - ************************************************************************************ 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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Workshop on Recent Advances in Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Internet of Things - IoTforeHealth 2018 (due on Jan 17, 2018)
by Chang V.I. 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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

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Call For Paper: IEEE COMPSAC 2018: Deadline Extended - January 25, 2018
by Hossain Shahriar 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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IEEE Cyber Security 2018 Glasgow - Deadline 26th of January
by Dr Xavier Bellekens 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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/>

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2018 Vancouver Canada
by Didier Elbaz 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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): ==================================== 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>

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2018 Vancouver Canada
by Didier Elbaz 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

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): ==================================== 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>

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[IEEE DASC'18] Call for Papers, 12-15 August 2018, Athens, Greece
by Anna Kobusińska 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

==============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/ ============================================== --------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- 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 ----------------------- INTRODUCTION ----------------------- 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: ------------------------------- SCOPE AND INTERESTS -------------------------------- - 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 --------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------- Organizing Committees -------------------------------- 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.

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[CFP] The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018)
by Anna Kobusińska 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/ ---------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------- 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

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SEIT-18 (Porto, Portugal, May 8-11 2018): Final Call for Papers - Deadline January 13
by Davidekova Monika 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

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 **************************************************************************** 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: ================= - 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

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