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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/>
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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,
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Manuel Baltieri, EASy group
Department of Informatics,
University of Sussex, UK
Twitter: @manuelbaltieri
CALL FOR PAPERS
*** Submission deadline extended to April 3, 2018 ***
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15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018)
Porto, Portugal, 26-28 July 2018
http://secrypt.icete.org
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SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in
information and communication security. The 15th International Conference
on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018) will be held in Porto, Portugal
on 26-28 July 2018.
The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and
government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical
aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography.
Papers describing the application of security technology, the
implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged.
The conference topics include, but are not limited to:
Access Control
Applied Cryptography
Biometrics Security and Privacy
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Data Integrity
Data Protection
Database Security and Privacy
Digital Forensics
Digital Rights Management
Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy
Formal Methods for Security
Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques
Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation
Identity Management
Information Hiding
Information Systems Auditing
Insider Threats and Countermeasures
Intellectual Property Protection
Intrusion Detection & Prevention
Management of Computing Security
Network Security
Organizational Security Policies
Peer-to-Peer Security
Personal Data Protection for Information Systems
Privacy
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Reliability and Dependability
Risk Assessment
Secure Software Development Methodologies
Security and privacy in Complex Systems
Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing
Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing
Security and Privacy in Location-based Services
Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems
Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
Security and Privacy in Smart Grids
Security and Privacy in Social Networks
Security and Privacy in the Cloud
Security and Privacy in Web Services
Security and Privacy Policies
Security Area Control
Security Deployment
Security Engineering
Security in Distributed Systems
Security Information Systems Architecture
Security Management
Security Metrics and Measurement
Security Protocols
Security requirements
Security Verification and Validation
Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security
Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security
Software Security
Trust management and Reputation Systems
Ubiquitous Computing Security
Wireless Network Security
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap
with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously
submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions
are to be made to the submission web site at
http://www.insticc.org/primoris/.
Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers.
- REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is
completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted
papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like
their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper.
- POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are
preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position
paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts,
situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research
(theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The
acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categor sy of
"short paper".
Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format,
which is described at
http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx
Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for
position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12
pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral
presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference
will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital
library.
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular and Position Papers
- Paper Submission: April 3, 2018 [extended]
- Authors Notification: May 14, 2018
- Camera Ready and Registration: May 28, 2018
Second call for Position Papers only:
- Paper Submission: April 27, 2018
- Authors Notification: June 5, 2018
- Camera Ready and Registration: June 18, 2018
PROGRAM CHAIR
Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE [to be completed]
Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States
Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Dario Catalano, Università di Catania, Italy
Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Jun Dai, California State University, United States
Sabrina de Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain
William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland
Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Angelo Genovese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Yantian Hou, Boise State University, United States
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan
Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey
Jiguo Li, Hohai University, China
Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, United States
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece
Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Carlos Maziero, UFPR - Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States
Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States
Sushmita Ruj, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal
Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway - University of London, United Kingdom
Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Vicenc Torra, University of Skövde, Sweden
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States
Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Edgar Weippl, SBA & FHSTP, Austria
Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States
Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States
For any questions, please contact the program chair:
pierangela.samarati(a)unimi.it
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International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in
Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018
https://cd-make.net
CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments.
MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction.
CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield).
IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959.
Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome.
1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation),
2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms,
3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics
4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML
5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML
6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis
7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: April, 30, 2018
Author Notification: June, 01, 2018
Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018
Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018
Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018
The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018
2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS.
Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions).
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ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline until March 30, 2018
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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)
August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES!
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2).
Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
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HIGHLIGHTS
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics
- Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, and Korea University, Seoul
Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>.
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chairs 2018
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Program Committee Chairs 2018
Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands
Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: extended to March 30, 2018 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 30, 2018
Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018
Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018
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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work:
-full paper (10 pages)
-short paper (6 pages)
-workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018
More information can be found here:
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States
Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece
Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany
Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria
Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany
Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria
Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany
Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States
Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany
Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy
Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Availability, Dependability, and Resilience
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Business Continuity & Resilience
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Cryptography
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications
Dependability Aspects of e-Government
Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software
Designing Security Requirements
Digital Forensics
E-Commerce Dependability
Identity Management
IPR of Security Technology
Incident Response and Prevention
Information Flow Control
Information Hiding and Steganograhpy
Interoperability Aspects
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy
Mobile Security
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Process based Security Models and Methods
Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures
Resilience of Computing Systems
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things
RFID Security and Privacy
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Safety Critical Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security and Usability
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security in Electronic Payments
Security in Electronic Voting
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Software Security
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trust Models and Trust Management
Wireless Security
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 11th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'18)
December 7-9, 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA
Homepage: http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/
---Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science Research to Real-World Practice---
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Workshop/Special Session/Tutorial Proposals
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018
Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018
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The International Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI)
has established itself as the world’s premier research forum
that brings together researchers and practitioners from
neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science,
artificial intelligence, information communication technologies,
and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the
fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of
Brain Informatics.
The BI'18 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals
and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings, and strategies
in brain informatics research and brain-inspired concepts and
technologies. It welcomes emerging technologies for addressing
fundamental neurobiological questions about healthy brain function,
laying the groundwork for advancing treatments for brain disorders
or injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" artificial
intelligence and computing technologies to meet future societal needs.
It will educate and expand the brain informatics workforce and create
new career opportunities for brain research and related innovations.
The BI'18 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract
submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be
included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI
(http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319707716).
Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and
Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of
Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal
based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book
publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book
series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
*** Topics and Areas ***
Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science
Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems
Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management
Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health
Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing
IMPORTANT DATES:
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May 1, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session/Tutorial proposals
May 31, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session proposal acceptance
June 15, 2018: Submission deadline for full papers
July 30, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session papers
August 15, 2018: Notification of full paper acceptance
August 30, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session paper acceptance
August 1, 2018: Submission deadline for abstracts
August 30, 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance
December 7, 2018: Tutorials, workshops and special sessions
December 8-9, 2018: Main conference
PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
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TYPE-I (Full Paper Submissions):
Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
All full length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers)
will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.
TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions):
Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is
particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included
in the conference program, and will be published as a single,
collective proceedings volume.
Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a
subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is
capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or
italicize your full title.
Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the
abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author
slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as
conflict of interest information for each author listed.
Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable
graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author,
support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the
submission form.
Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation
formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred"
or "no preference". The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you
would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if
necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to
be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no
preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the
best format for the program.
Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone
who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee
can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers.
Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and
abstracts.
*** Post-Conference Journal Publications ***
The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with the Open Access
Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708).
Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Open Access
Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. No article-processing fee will
be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference.
*** Awards ***
Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student paper.
ORGANIZERS
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General Chairs
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Leon Iasemidis (Louisiana Tech, University, USA)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Program Committee Chairs
Jianzhong Su (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Vicky Yamamoto (University of South California, USA)
Yu-Ping Wang (Tulane University, USA)
Organizing Chairs
Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Erick Jones (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Fenghua Tian (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Workshop/Special-Session Chairs
Chou, Chun-An (Northwestern University, USA)
Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Felicia Jefferson (Fort Valley State University, USA)
Jing Qin (Montana State University, USA)
Panel/Tutorial Chairs
Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan/Beijing Advanced
Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, China)
Vassiliy Tsytsarev (University of Maryland, USA)
Publicity Chairs
Paul Wen (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Huiguang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Mufti Mahmud (University of Padova, Italy)
Steering Committee Chairs
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)
*** Contact Information ***
Shouyi Wang
Email: shouyiw(a)uta.edu
Vicky Yamamoto
Email: Vicky.Yamamoto(a)med.usc.edu
Yang Yang
Email: yang(a)maebashi-it.org
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The 4th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and
Applications (Innovate-Data 2018)
(IEEE CS-TCI)
06-08 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2018/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of
complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing
capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing
volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web
repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted
in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for
innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data
managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to
carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent
decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and
economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data
conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and
practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to
present their research work and share research and development ideas.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
Track: Big Data Storage, Representation and Processing
Topics: Data storage; Data representation and structures; Data
management; Data processing; Data engineering and design; Storages and
network requirements
Track: Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust
Topics: Data Security; Data Privacy; Data Trust; Data protection and
integrity; Legal and ethical issues; Identity theft; Data loss and leakage
Track: Big Data Models, Infrastructure and Platforms
Topics: 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
Track: Visualisation of Big Data
Topics: Data visualisation, Visual representation; Usability and user
interaction; Graphs models and techniques for big data; Data acquisition
and cleaning
Track: Big Data Analytics and Metrics
Topics: 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
Track: Big Data Science
Topics: 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
Track: Big Data Applications and Innovations
Topics: 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 (Extended): 27 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
Javier D. Fernández, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
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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The 15th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent
Information Systems (MobiWis 2018)
(Springer, LNCS)
6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.mobiwis.org/2018/
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The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have
been following a continuous and steady development over a number of
years through the innovative research and practices of researchers,
developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and
scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and
Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between
these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest
research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web
and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and
services.
The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus
on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent
information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web
Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and
Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer
Interaction.
Conference Tracks:
- Smart and Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Software Systems
- Adaptive Approaches for Mobile Computing
- Middleware/SOA for Mobile Systems
- Context- and Location-aware Services
- Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications
- Data management in the Mobile Web
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Mobile Web of Things
- Mobile Web Security, Trust and Privacy
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Mobile Commerce and Business Services
- Socially Influencing Systems
- HCI in Mobile Applications
- Industry and Demos
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline (Extended): 27 March 2018
Authors Notification: 16 May 2018
Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018
Submission Instructions:
Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short
papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in
Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference
website.
Publication:
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for
the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be
invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special
issues in international journals (see conference website).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in
ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec
databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See
LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0)
Organizing Committee:
General Chair
George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
Program Chair
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Publicity Chair
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Journals Special Issues Chair
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
----------------------Call for Papers -------------------
The IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and
Cloud (FiCloud 2018)
6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.ficloud.org/2018/
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The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global
network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self
configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the
future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in
order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as
physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars,
refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly
integrated into the information network and interaction can be made
through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant
future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and
technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and
nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and
aviation, telecommunication, and so on.
IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited
capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less
reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand
deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms
of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main
complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the
unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly,
cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real
world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner.
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in
scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It
provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners
from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their
research work and share research and development ideas in the area of
IoT and cloud computing.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
- Cloud Models - SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Software Systems, Models and Architectures
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Context-awareness and Location-awareness
- Software-defined Networking
- Performance Evaluation and Modelling
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- IoT Services and Applications
- Smart Environment
- Enterprise and Business Models
- Energy Efficiency
- Federation and Virtualization
- Fog and Edge Computing
- Industry Track
- General Track
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research
results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and
for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE
two-column template. See instructions on the conference website
(http://www.ficloud.org/2018/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference
Publishing Service (CPS). 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 extended versions
of their papers for special issues in international journals (see
conference website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline (Extended): 27 March 2018
Authors Notification: 16 May 2018
Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018
Organising Committee:
General Chairs
Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Program Chair
Jules Pagna Disso, Nettitude Group, UK
Local Organising Chair
Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
Workshop Coordinator
Filipe Portela University of Minho Portugal
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chair
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Track Chairs
David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA
Martine Bellache, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Fang-Fang Chua, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Stefan Bosse, Universität Bremen, Germany
Marwan Hassani, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Daniel Camps, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Anjali Agrawal, Concordia University, Canada
Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Marcin Bajer, ABB Corporate Research, Kraków, Poland
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
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*Call for Papers and Participation*
*The 2018 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference**
**(HPCS 2018)*
*July 16-20, 2018**
**Orléans, France*
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/
In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP
*(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _MARCH 24, 2018_ - Extended)**
**(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please
check the specific track of interest.)**
*
HPCS Proceedings are to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and
indexed by all major indexing services,
including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc.
You are cordially invited to participate in this international
conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop
or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an
exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds
more appropriate and convenient to you.
The conference will include invited presentations by experts from
academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper
presentations describing original work on the current state of research
in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in
modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their
applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special
sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and
exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed.
In addition to the main track, the conference will have the following
refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions:
*_Symposia_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) *
*SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2018)
SYM02: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2018)
SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2018)
SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2018)
SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2018)
*
*_Workshops_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines)*
* W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core Computing (DRMC 2018)**
**W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed
Computing Systems (OPTIM 2018)**
**W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2018)**
**W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects
(HPINI 2018)**
**W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2018)**
**W06: New Algorithms and Programming Models for the Manycore Era (APMM
2018)**
**W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS
2018)**
**W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2018)**
**W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2018)**
**W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2018)**
**W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2018)**
**W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics
and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2018)**
**W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation
(CIPEC 2018)**
**W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2018)**
**W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth
Sciences (HPC-WCES 2018)**
**W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences
(BILIS 2018)**
**W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks
(DRSN 2018)**
**W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2018)**
**W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems
(MSPDS 2018)**
**W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks (PCNN 2018)**
**W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2018)**
**W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing
(LSAUC 2018)**
*
*_Special Sessions_: (all refereed archival papers. Have different
deadlines)*
***SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation
(VIRT 2018)
SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and
Optimization (HPBench 2018)
SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2018)
SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2018)
SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies
(SerCo 2018)
SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection
(TUN-MM 2018)
SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2018)
SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2018)
SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications
(IoT-HPC 2018)
SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2018)
SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2018)
SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering
(FSASE 2018)
*
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*Important Dates:**
Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ——— March 24,
2018 - Extended
Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————— April 15, 2018
Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts ——————--—— April 23, 2018
Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— May 11, 2018
Conference Dates ——————————————————-—— July 16 - 20, 2018
*
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For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site
at URL: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info or contact one of the organizers.
We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Orléans in
July. Thank you very much.
Best Regards.
HPCS 2018 Organizers