February 2018 - computational.science

Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2017 - Papers due August 28
by Engelmann, Christian 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA’17: 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2017, Denver, CO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2017> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala17>. Full papers will be published with the SC'17 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2017 - Final paper submission (firm): October 9, 2017 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2017 - Papers due May 5
by Christian Engelmann 08 May '19

08 May '19

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> in conjunction with the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28 - September 1, 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2017 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> - Resilience 2017 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops> - Euro-Par 2017 website: <http://europar2017.usc.es> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 5, 2017 - Workshop author notification: June 16, 2017 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2017 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2017 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA - Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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IEEE HPCS Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) - Ext Deadline
by Mario Cannataro 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ======================================================================================== Int. Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017/workshop17-bilis July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy held in conjunction with International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs17.cisedu.info/ ======================================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * EXTENDED Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters ======================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: --------------------------------- April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: --------------------------- April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: --------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 ======================================================================================== SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Incorporating new advancements of Information Technology (IT) in general and High Performance Computing (HPC) in particular in the domain of Life Sciences and Biomedical Research continues to receive tremendous attention of researchers, biomedical institutions and the rest of the biomedical community. Although medical instruments have benefited a great deal from the technological advances of the couple of decades, the impact of integrating IT advancements in addressing critical problems in biomedical research remains limited and the process of penetrating IT tools in the medical profession continues to be a very challenging problem. For example, the use of electronic medical records and Hospital Information Systems in improving health care remains fragmented. Similarly, the use of advanced computational tools seamlessly in the biomedical research cycle continues to be minimal. Due to the computational intensive problems in life sciences, the marriage between the Bioinformatics domain and high performance computing is critical to the advancement of Biosciences. In addition, the problems in this domain tend to be highly parallelizable and deal with large datasets, hence using HPC is a natural fit. The Bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Most methods used for analyzing DNA/Protein sequences are known to be computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computational systems with high throughput characteristics. Moreover, high-throughput wet lab platforms such as next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry, are producing a huge amount of experimental "omics" data. The increasing availability of omics data poses new challenges to bioinformatics applications that need to face in a semi-automatic way an overwhelming availability of raw data. Main challenges regard: 1) the efficient storage, retrieval and integration of experimental data; 2) their efficient and high-throughput preprocessing and analysis; 3) the building of reproducible "in silico" experiments; 4) the integration of analysis results with pre-existing knowledge usually stored into ontologies. As the storage, preprocessing and analysis of raw experimental data is becoming the main bottleneck of the analysis pipeline, parallel computing is playing an important role in all steps of the life sciences research pipeline, from raw data management and processing, to data integration and analysis, and to data exploration and visualization. Moreover, Cloud Computing is becoming the key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall business model of biomedical research and health provision. Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks In such a scenario, large-scale distributed databases and parallel bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine. In the current Information age, further progress of Medical Sciences requires successful integration with Computational and Information Sciences. The workshop attempts to attract innovative ways of how such integration can be achieved via Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics research, particularly in taking advantage of the new advancements in HPC systems. The focus of data analysis and data mining tools in biomedical research highlights the current state of research in the key biomedical research areas such as bioinformatics, medical informatics and biomedical imaging. Addressing performance concerns in managing and accessing medical data, while facilitating the ability to integrate and correlate different biomedical databases remains an outstanding problem in biomedical research. The amount of available biomedical data continues to grow in an exponential rate; however, the impact of utilizing such resources remains minimal. The development of innovative tools in HPC environments to integrate, analyze and mine such data sources is a key step towards achieving large impact levels. The workshop focuses on topics related to the utilization of HPC systems and new models of parallel computing and cloud computing in problems related to Biomedical Informatics and Life Sciences, along with the use of data integration and data mining tools to support biomedical research and Health Care. The BILIS Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: HPC for the Analysis of Biological Data Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications Ontologies in Biology and Medicine Integration and Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Data Parallel Bioinformatics Algorithms Algorithms and Tools for Biomedical Imaging and Medical Signal Processing Energy Aware Scheduling Techniques for Large Scale Biomedical Applications HPC for analyzing Biological Networks Next Generation Sequencing and Advanced Tools for DNA Assembly HPC for Gene, Protein/RNA Analysis and Structure Prediction Identification of Biomarkers Biomedical Visualization Tools Efficient Clustering and Classification Algorithms Correlation Networks in Biomedical Research Data Mining Techniques in Biomedical Applications Heterogeneous Data Integration HPC systems for Ontology and Database Integration Pattern Recognition and Search Tools in Biological and Clinical Databases Ubiquitous Medical Knowledge Discovery and Exchange HPC for Monitoring and Treatment Facilities Drug Design and Modeling Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Procedures Remote Patient Monitoring, Homecare Applications Mobile and Wireless Healthcare and Biomedical Applications Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics, Medicine, and Health Systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to HPC for Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Life Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop organizers via email as attachments to Hesham Ali: hali(a)unomaha.edu, Mario Cannataro: cannataro(a)unicz.it. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------ April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ---------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Prof. Hesham H. Ali Department of Computer Science College of Information Science and Technology University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182 USA Email: hesham(a)unomaha.edu Prof. Mario Cannataro Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro Viale Europa (Località Germaneto) 88100 Catanzaro, Italy Email: cannataro(a)unicz.it

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CFP, Special session - Hybrid Life: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems, ALife 2018
by Manuel Baltieri 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] ********** Call for Papers ********** Special session - Hybrid Life: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/ <https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/> 2018 Artificial Life conference (ALife) Tokyo, JAPAN, 23-27 July 2018 - http://2018.alife.org/ <http://2018.alife.org/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: The main focus of ALife research is the study of natural systems with the goal of understanding what life is. More concretely, ALife defines ways to investigate processes that contribute to the formation and proliferation of living organisms. In this session we focus on three common approaches to tackle this investigation, proposing ways to integrate, extend and possibly improve them. More specifically we refer to: 1) the formalisation of the necessary properties for the definition of life, 2) the implementation of artificial agents, and 3) the study of the relation between life and cognition. For this special session we propose to start from these well-established Alife methodologies, and extend them through: a unified formal language for the description and modelling of living, as well as artificial and cognitive systems, e.g. control theory, Bayesian inference, dynamical systems theory, etc., the exploration of biological creatures enhanced by artificial systems (or artificial systems augmented with organic parts) in order to investigate the boundaries between living and nonliving organisms, and the evaluation of coupled biological-artificial systems that could shed light on the importance of interactions among systems for the study of living and cognitive organisms. This special sessions aims to invite contributions from the fields of psychology, computational neuroscience, HCI, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive science to discuss current research on the formalisation, combination and interaction of artificial/living/cognitive systems from theoretical, modelling and implementational perspectives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Formalisation of life and cognition (e.g. dynamical systems theory, stochastic optimal control, Bayesian inference, etc.) Cognitive robotics Autopoiesis Life-mind continuity thesis Systems biology Origins-of-life theories with relationships to artificial and cognitive systems Animal-robot interaction Bio-inspired robotics Bio-integrated robotics Human-machine interaction Augmented cognition Sensory substitution Interactive evolutionary computation Artificial perception Important Dates 19th March 2018 – Paper submission deadline 23rd April 2018 – Paper acceptance notification 21st May 2018 – Camera-ready version 23-27th July 2018 – Artificial Life conference (ALife), Tokyo, Japan Paper Submission Papers and abstracts submitted to this special sessions will be reviewed by a selected group of experts from the a-life community as well as from other areas key to our proposal, specifically chosen for this review process. If you are submitting to a special session you will be given the opportunity to select it during the submission process. Submissions to special sessions follow the same format, instructions and deadlines of regular ALife papers. Organizers Manuel Baltieri, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. m.baltieri(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:m.baltieri@sussex.ac.uk> Keisuke Suzuki, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. k.suzuki(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:filippo.m.bianchi@uit.no> Hiryuki IIzuka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan hiroyukiiizuka(a)gmail.com <mailto:hiroyukiiizuka@gmail.com> Contacts For questions, enquiries and more information please check our website https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/ <https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/> or get in touch with m.baltieri(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:m.baltieri@sussex.ac.uk>. All the best, -- Manuel Baltieri, EASy group Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Twitter: @manuelbaltieri

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Call for papers: International workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE 2018)
by Martin Gilje Jaatun 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Call for Papers International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE 2018) http://secse.org Porto, Portugal, May 25, 2018 In conjunction with XP 2018 - 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, 21-25 May 2018 https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2018/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contribute by either submitting a paper, experience report, or an ignite talk proposal (see details below). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Software security is about protecting information and ensuring that systems continue to function correctly even when under malicious attack. The traditional approach of securing a system has been to create defensive walls such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls around it, but there are always cracks in these walls, and thus such measures are no longer sufficient by themselves. We need to be able to build better, more robust and more "inherently secure" systems, and we should strive to achieve these qualities in all software systems, not just in the ones that "obviously" need special protection. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned for engineering secure and dependable software using the DevOps paradigm, as well as other forms of agile development. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Security in DevOps Security aspects of software deployment Security in Continuous Deployment Security Architecture in Agile Development Security testing in DevOps Container security for DevOps Security automation tools Security in agile software development Agile security requirements Risk management in software projects Agile testing for security Quantitative measurement of security properties Static and dynamic analysis for security Verification and assurance techniques for security properties Security and usability Design and deployment of secure services Secure composition and adaptation of services Teaching secure software development Experience reports on successfully attuning developers to secure software engineering Industry experience talks Important Dates =============== March 3rd, 2018 Submission Deadline April 6th, 2018 Author Notification April 15th, 2018 Author Registration April 15th, 2018 Camera-ready versions May 21/25, 2018 Workshops Submission Guidelines ===================== Papers can be up to 8 pages long in the ACM conference template. If you need more space, save it for the journal version! Paper submission is done through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secse2018 Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or if it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the XP conference and present the paper in the workshop. No-show papers will be removed from the digital library after the workshop. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: SecSE requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted paper contains no author names or obvious self-references. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published by ACM conference proceedings. Journal Special Issue ===================== Distinguished papers submitted to SecSE will be invited to submit revised and extended versions for publication in the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (ISSN 1947-3036). Experience reports (NEW!) ========================= Do you have experiences to share? We want to hear from you! Submit proposals of an Experience Report as a Title and Abstract (500 words maximum) by email to sos-agile(at)sintef.no. Ignite talks (NEW!) =================== We will have a session of 5-minute ignite talks (a variant of PechaKucha) as part of the workshop. An ignite talk is perfect for industrial experience reports! Ignite talks are meant to present ideas and generate discussion. Share with us your novel, ground breaking software security related message as an Ignite presentation. Tell us about tools, processes, tips, tricks, war stories, etc. Submit proposals of an Ignite Talk as a Title and Abstract (500 words maximum) by email to sos-agile(at)sintef.no. The contributions are less scientific in their nature but should be argued in a compelling way accompanied by 20 auto-advance slides. Organizers ========== Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF Digital, Norway Daniela S. Cruzes, SINTEF Digital, Norway Program Committee ================= Karin Bernsmed, SINTEF Digital, Norway Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College, USA Achim Brucker, Sheffield University, UK Estibaliz Delgado, Tecnalia, Spain Zeta Dooly, TSSG, Ireland Jörn Eichler, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Germany Shamail Faily, Bournemouth University, UK Christophe Feltus, LIST, Luxembourg Chad Heizenrater, DoD, USA Sami Hyrynsalmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Ronald Jabangwe, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU Software Engineering, University of Southern Denmark Andrea Lanzi, Universita degli studi di Milano, Italy Ville Leppänen, University of Turku, Finland Jingyue Li, NTNU, Norway Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Anh Nguyen Duc, University College of Southeast Norway Tosin Oyetoyan, SINTEF, Norway Andreas Poller, Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt, Germany Riccardo Scandariato, Chalmers, Sweden Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA Emin Tatli, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hasan Yasar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Yee, Carleton University, Canada

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

WPDM 2018 The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 8, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. 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. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. 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. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. 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. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - 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 - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2018 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES March 8, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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Call for Tutorials - 2018 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim’18)
by Marco Lützenberger 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Call for Tutorials - 2018 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim’18) As part of the SummerSim 2018 activities, we invite researchers and practitioners in academia, government agencies or industry to submit proposals for tutorials. Tutorials allow engaging conference attendees in extended discussions in the state of the art in modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications. As such, tutorials are great venues for group discussions and hands on activities. If you are interested to give a tutorial, please send your proposal in PDF to the tutorial chair (marco.luetzenberger(a)dai-labor.de<mailto:marco.luetzenberger@dai-labor.de>) by providing what follows: 1. Title 2. Abstract 3. Presenter’s name, title, affiliation, country and email 4. Length of Tutorial 5. Sample References 6. Bio Sketch Tutorials are 90-120 minutes long. However, longer sessions can be allocated (up to four hours with breaks). Deadlines: - Proposals Due: April 23, 2018 - Notification: May 7, 2018 Event Date: July 9, 2018

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[AHPAMA2018] Deadline Extension
by Massimo CAFARO 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 NEW DEADLINE: February 28, 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 28, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 Workshop Organizers Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it Program Committee Clemente Galdi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Francesco Versaci, CRS4, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ 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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PhD Position available
by Patricia González Gómez 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

My apologies for multiple copies. http://gac.udc.es/noticias/PhD_call.pdf <http://gac.udc.es/noticias/PhD_call.pdf> PhD position available One PhD position is available at the Computer Architecture Group (GAC: http://gac.udc.es/ <http://gac.udc.es/>), in the University of A Coruña (Spain), within the fields of bioinformatics and cloud computing. The project in which the applicant will be integrated aims to solve challenging problems on global optimization in computational biology and bioinformatics through the proposal of new parallel metaheuristics and their implementation for cloud environments. OFFER The candidate will be provided with a one-year contract, extendable (based on the progress of the candidate) up to 3 years offering the chance to obtain a PhD qualification. This contract includes full social security coverage and a net salary competitive for living standards in a city as A Coruña (on the range 22000€-25000€). The well-trained HPC scientists emerging from GAC are in great demand in universities, research institutions, as well as in software companies. Through their excellent interdisciplinary training our graduates are in a prime position to take up leadership roles in both academia and industry. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS The required profile is that of a degree in computer engineer or computer science with good academic records, although other profiles with adequate training on the field of the project, such as mathematics or physics, would be also considered. PREFERRED SKILLS We are looking for a candidate with good programming skills, especially (although not limited to) Scala and/or Java. Knowledge of functional programming will be also valued. Previous experience/knowledge of distributed frameworks (such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.) and parallel libraries (such as MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL, etc.), though not required, will be also welcome. A good command of English (written and spoken) is required. POSITION AVAILABLE The selection procedure is open now and will be maintained opened until the position is covered. The starting date is flexible, but preferred ASAP. INFORMATION If you are interested in this position and want to have more details about it, please contact Patricia González (patricia.gonzalez(a)udc.es <mailto:patricia.gonzalez@udc.es>) including the reference PhD_call. For the formal application, the following documents will be required: - CV - Academic transcript of courses followed and grades obtained - Brief letter describing your motivation and previous experience

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Postdoc position @INRIA Lille
by El-ghazali Talbi 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear all, please find enclosed a postdoc position at INRIA Lille on "Hybrid parallel optimization" Contacts: Prof. N. Melab (Nouredine.Melab(a)inria.fr) and Prof. E-G. Talbi (El-Ghazali.Talbi(a)inria.fr) Team: BONUS (Big Optimization and Ultra-Scale Optimization) Location: Inria Lille – Nord Europe Duration: 16 months Salary : 2132.97€ / mois + social advantages Enclosed the details of the position Regards -- ****************************** META'2018 27-31 Oct 2018, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org ****************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA - CNRS

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