March 2018 - computational.science

ESORICS 2018 - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ESORICS 2018 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Barcelona, Spain -- September 6-7, 2018 ESORICS Website: https://esorics2018.upc.edu/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2018. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: March 23, 2018 * Notification of decision: April 02, 2018 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org) The following application form should be used. (Also available in Word format at https://esorics2018.upc.edu/esorics2018-cfw) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2018 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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Call for Papers - 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018)
by Giovanni Livraga 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

======================================================================== *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s ESORICS 2018 : Twenty-third European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Barcelona, Spain -- September 3-7, 2018 WWW: https://esorics2018.upc.edu ======================================================================== Overview ------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates --------------------- * Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2018 * Notification to authors: June 15, 2018 * Camera ready due: June 25, 2018 Topics of Interest ----------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * blockchain and finance security * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * deep learning for attack and defense * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------- Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2018 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee -------------------------------- General Chair: * Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain Organization Chair: * Josep Pegueroles, UPC, Spain Workshop Chair: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom-Sud Paris, France Program Committee Chairs: * Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain * Jianying Zhou, SUTD, Singapore Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Carlo Blundo, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Levente Buttyan, BME, Hungary Jan Camenish, IBM, Switzerland Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Josep Lluis Ferrer, UIB, Spain Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & University of Connecticut, USA Alejandro Hevia, University of Chile, Chile Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway Kwangjo Kim, KAIST, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Mark Manulis, University of Surrey, UK Kostas Markantonakis, RHUL, UK Olivier Markowitch, UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Gunther Pernul, UniversitÃ¤t Regensburg, Germany Christina Popper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Ozgur Sinanoglu, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland Luca Vigano', King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Publicity Chairs: * Giovanni Livraga - Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy * Rodrigo Roman - University of Malaga, Spain

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HPBench 2018 Special Session - IEEE HPCS 2018 (The 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation)
by Laurent Lefevre 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2018) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018) http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large number of combinations of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core to cluster configuration to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive the modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolution, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. **** IMPORTANT DATES ****  Papers Due: March 12, 2018 Author Notification: April 11, 2018 Camera-Ready Submission: May 03, 2018 **** TOPICS ****  The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Open Platforms for parallel and distributed application benchmarking and optimization; - Benchmarking on the Cloud; - Benchmarking of clusters and large-scale systems; - Benchmarking of I/O; - Benchmarking of energy and energy efficiency; - Benchmarking of Web Services; - Virtualization for distributed benchmarking; - Data distribution for benchmarking; - Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms; - Scalability aspects of benchmarking; - Benchmarking of parallel business applications; - Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages. - Tools and frameworks for performance modelling systems and applications; - Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring; - Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike); -Mathematical foundations of benchmarking, metrics and heuristics **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. 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://hpcs2018.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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HPBench2018. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. **** HPBench 2018 GENERAL CHAIRS **** Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Courtenay Vaughan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, ENS Lyon, France Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France For more information see http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018/sessio… ****TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE**** Cosimo Anglano, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas W. Doerfler, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Gowtham, Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany Sylvain Jubertie, University of Orleans, France Bok Jik Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara (UVT), Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Gudula Rünger, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate if you could forward this email to interested colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '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 23, 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 23, 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 Abstracts (DEADLINE: March 5) - Stream on Hyper-heuristics @ EURO 2018
by Mustafa MISIR 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Stream on Hyper-heuristics at the 29th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2018), Valencia/Spain, July 8 - 11, 2018 Abstract submission deadline: March 5, 2018Submission: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro29/ Call for Abstracts (Max. 1500 characters): ----------------------------------- - Session: Selection Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 665d9460) - Session: Generation Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 2480ffb0) Hyper-heuristics are problem-independent generic solvers which have been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial search problems both from academia and real-world, such as timetabling, scheduling, routing, rostering, cutting and packing. The studies on this field is mainly considered under two categories, namely Selection and Generation Hyper-heuristics. Selection Hyper-heuristics operate by automatically choosing (low-level) heuristics from an existing heuristic set while the latter type focuses on generating heuristics from scratch based on predefined components. This stream is expecting studies focusing on either of these hyper-heuristic types -offering different learning approaches, utilizing distinct (meta-) heuristic techniques while dealing with various problems. This stream will be organized in connection with the Task Force on Hyper-heuristics within the Technical Committee of Intelligent Systems and Applications at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Organizers: ---------- - Prof. Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven, Belgium - Dr. Mustafa Misir, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China - Dr. Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK- Dr. Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK Important Dates: -------------- Abstract Submissions: March 5, 2018 Notification to Authors: March 21, 2018 Early Registration: April 6, 2018 Registration: April 20, 2018 For more details: https://mustafamisir.github.io/ss-hh.html Best regards, Patrick De Causmaecker (KU Leuven) Mustafa Misir (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Ender Ozcan (University of Nottingham)Rong Qu (University of Nottingham) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mustafa MISIR ----------------------------------------------------Machine lEarning and Operations Research (MEmORy) Lab Institute of Machine Learning and Computational IntelligenceCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Office: 230Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics29 Jiangjun Road, Jiangning, 211106 Nanjing/Jiangsu, China Web: http://mustafamisir.github.io | http://memoryrlab.github.io -----------------------------------------------------

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[Conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth] First Call for Papers - UCAmI 2018
by UCAmI 2018 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAMI 2018 http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic DECEMBER 4 TO 7TH, 2018 Conference Background & Goals The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments and systems. These solutions aim to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services these solutions provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in AmI environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services, such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others. The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference will be "Ambient Intelligence: Sensing, Processing and Using Environmental Information". Publication All accepted conference papers will be included in SPRINGER LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS). Selected papers will be published in the following journals: * IEEE Access (IF(2016) = 3.244 Q1) (TENTATIVE) * Sensors Journal (IF(2016) = 2.677 Q1) * Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IF(2016) = 1.899 Q2) * Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (IF(2016) = 1.588 Q3) (More journals to be announced shortly on http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 [1]) Important Dates * Abstract submission: * Paper submission: * Notification of acceptance: * Camera-ready version: * Conference dates: * APRIL 15th, 2018 * May 15th, 2018 * July 15th, 2018 * August 15th, 2018 * December 4 to 7th, 2018 TRACKS HEALTH (AMIHEALTH) (Topics) * Health, wellness and disease monitoring * Communication, cloud, fog and network architectures for Health * Education and e-Learning systems in Health domains * Knowledge management for health: context, cognition, behavior and user modeling * Data Science for Health environments * Health ecosystems: frameworks, models and methodologies * Interaction, social and user experience within Health environments * Gamification and Serious Games for Health * Mobile and ubiquitous Health * Smart technologies and algorithms for Health * Health Education AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (IWAAL) (Topics) * Monitoring and management of chronic and non-chronic diseases in AAL. * Solutions for active aging, social integration and self-care * Learning, Training and Coaching systems to promote healthy life in AAL environments * Stress, burden and quality of life of caregivers and other healthcare professionals * Security and privacy in AAL * Behaviour analysis in AAL environments * Experiences and study cases in AAL * Smart homes and sensor networks for AAL * Context-Awareness in AAL environment * Middleware and frameworks for AAL * Standards and interoperability INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) AND SENSORS (Topics) * IoT enabling technologies, techniques and methods * IoT application and services * Current and future trends in IoT * IoT societal impacts * Security, privacy and trust in IoT * IoT interoperability, integration and performance * IoT experimental results and deployment scenarios * Human factors in IoT * Sensor design, integration and combination * Architectures, protocols and algorithms of sensor networks * Energy management, resource allocation, quality of service (QoS) and fault tolerance in Sensor Networks * Applications of hybrid sensor networks * Innovative real-world sensor deployments and applications * Sensor and actuator technologies in ambient assisted living contexts SMART ENVIRONMENTS (Topics) * Adaptive Environments * Ambient Behavioural Analysis * Big data within Intelligent Environments * Design principle and guidelines for Intelligent Environments * Enabling intelligence within environments * Environmental Assistive Agents * Indirect/Inferred Sensing though environmental side channels * Industry 4.0: Environments, facilities and solutions * Intelligent Surveillance and Alerting * Smart Environments and e-learning process * Smart Classes * Smart Labs * Smart Campuses * LPWAN technologies/long range communications * Pervasive Care Solutions * Predictive Maintenance * Retroactively provisioned smart environments * Resilient/Self-Healing Infrastructure technologies * Secure Access Control Solutions * Smart Cities - sensing, realisation and optimisation * Solutions enabling intelligent design, visualisation or simulation of intelligent environments HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Topics) * Natural User Interface * Human-Centric Interfaces for AmI environments * Multimodal Interface * Use of context and location information in user interfaces * Novel input devices * Robot-Human interaction * Human-Ambient Interaction * Mobile Interfaces * Affective Interfaces * User modeling * Personalization and adaptation of user interfaces * Ubiquitous and ambient displays * User experience in Ambient Computing * Interaction with smart objects * Tangible and wearable interfaces * Brain computer interaction * Evaluation of interfaces in Ambient and Ubiquitous environments * Mobile Augmented Reality * New methods and methodologies for Evaluation * Theoretical aspects of HCI * Adaptive interfaces * Case studies for users with special needs * Cultural aspects of design * HCI & e-Learning * Context awareness in learning process 1ST UCAMI CUP - Analyzing human activity recognition dataset In this first UCAmI Cup the competition will be focused on the recognition of 25 types of human activities in a single and interleave way in real time from a smart lab in where 31 binary sensors are deployed. 10 days of activities are provided with three periods of time in each day: morning, afternoon and evening. For more info about the competition and registration, please go to http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/UCAmICup [2] Networking Session [3] Contact * grupo.mami at uclm.es * grupo.mami(a)uclm.es In order to view, change, or cancel your subscription to the CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list, please click here [4]. Links: ------ [1] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 [2] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/UCAmICup [3] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/assets/documents/networking-session.pdf [4] http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_… _______________________________________________ CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH(a)sercontecpma.com http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_…

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CFP 7th IWCES 2018 Workshop - fast track Special Issue, Scopus and Emerging Clarivate Indexed
by Alfredo Milani 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

========================================================= LNCS workskop proceedings and fast track Special Issue “Mathematics” (ISSN 2227-7390) indexed by SCOPUS and Clarivate Emerging Citation Index ========================================================= 7th IWCES 2018 - Call for Papers Seventh International Workshop on COLLECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS Co-located with 17th ICCSA (http://www.iccsa.org) July 2- 5, 2018 Melbourne, Australia, Monash University ========================================================= IMPORTANT DATES -March 15th, 2018: Submission Deadline -April 8, 2018: Notification of acceptance -May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers and Registration -July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference and IWCES workshop, Melbourne, Australia Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)). Selected workshop papers will be invited to fast track of the Special Issue on “Evolutionary Algorithms in Intelligent System” of the MDPI Journal “Mathematics” (ISSN 2227-7390) indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index, accepted special issue papers will be void of open access publication fees. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Mathematics_Evolutio… CHAIRS Alfredo Milani(University of Perugia, Italy) (Special Issue Chair), alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it Clement Leung (United International College, Zhouhai, China), Valentina Franzoni (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Valentina Poggioni (University of Perugia, Italy) (Special Issue Chair) Submission website: ess.iccsa.org (pls signup and select "7th IWCES Workhop") AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The International Workshop on Collective Evolutionary Systems (IWCES 2018) is in its 7th edition of a workshop series co-located with the International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA). The aim of the workshop is to solicit research papers in the area of collective evolutionary systems. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science for, but not limited to, single-objective and multi-objectives optimization, numerical continuous non-linear optimization, combinatorial optimization, graph matching and pattern matching, agents and automata optimization. Evolutionary paradigms to be considered, non-exhaustively, include continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired meta-heuristics. TOPICS Topics include, but are not limited to: -theoretical models and applications of evolutionary algorithms to collective intelligent systems -semantic proximity measures in social networks, weak semantics models -collective knowledge discovery, emergent collective behavior -link prediction, citation networks, bibliometrics in collective environments -sentiment analysis, social network analysis, wisdom of crowds -collaborative social tagging, trust, reputation and recommendation systems -multimodal media search, semantics of social multimedia -massive learning environments, peer assessment, teachers self-evaluation -ubiquitous and mobile collective systems, massive personal sensor networks integration Evolutionary paradigms include, non-exhaustively, continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired meta-heuristics. IWCES also welcomes papers on ongoing projects and PhD showcases, as well as applications, data sets, novel techniques, and multimodal or interdiscipinary approaches. We also consider papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers etc. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please SIGNUP and UPLOAD all the submissions through ICCSA electronic submission systems http://ess.iccsa.org VERY IMPORTANT: when filling the submission form do not forget to select the dropdown menu entry “7th International Workshop on Web-based Collective Evolutionary Systems: models, measures, applications IWCES)” Submissions must be in the one-column LNCS format. Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted through the ICCSA Electronic Submission site as: Full Paper (10-16 pages) or Short Paper (7-9 pages) Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Each paper must be original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors). Detailed instructions for submission can be found in the ICCSA page of Instructions for Authors. Publication is submitted to registration and a person presenting at the conference. Questions on topics of the submission can be sent to the scientific program committee. Please note that the Electronic Submission Site has a separate login access with respect to the registration to the conference. IMPORTANT DATES March 15th, 2018: Sumission Deadline 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 and IWCES workshop, Melbourne, Australia CHAIRS Alfredo Milani(University of Perugia, Italy) (Special issue chair) alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it Clement Leung (United International College, Zhouhai, China), Valentina Franzoni (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Valentina Poggioni (University of Perugia, Italy) (Special issue chair) Submission site: ess.iccsa.org Conference site: www.iccsa.org Authors instructions: www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ==================================================================== -- ========================================== Prof. Alfredo Milani Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli 1, 06100 Perugia, ITALY email : alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it<mailto:alfredo.milani@unipg.it> phone : +39 075 585.5049 mobile : +39 328 4144 916 fax : +39 075 585 5024 ===========================================

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01 Mar '18

Dear Colleague, Re: Paper submission deadline has been extended to March 31 Upon many requests the submission deadline of 17th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'18) at UC Berkeley (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-18) has been extended to March 31. For those intended to submit a paper, you are encouraged to upload an abstract earlier in order to allow the program committee to allocate adequate reviewers. The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer Societies and etc. The theme of ICCI*CC’18 is on Cognitive Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Systems and Cognitive Robotics. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'18 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the conference will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. Paper submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccicc18. Both full paper (5-8pp.) and short paper (4-5pp.) are welcome. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'18. IEEE ICCI*CC'18 is dedicated to Late Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, our most respected past honorary chair. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'18 Co-Chairs HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Bernard Widrow (Stanford Univ.) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Profs. Jerome Feldman (UC Berkeley), Yingxu Wang (U Calgary), Newton Howard (U Oxford), and Phillip Sheu (UC Irvine) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Sam Kwong (HK) and Prof. Y. Wang ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Prof. Du Zhang (USA) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of IEEEicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: IEEEicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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CFP: Springer IJIS, Special Issue on "IoT Security and Privacy"
by Rodrigo Roman 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear All, Please consider submitting to the special issue of International Journal of Information Security on "IoT Security and Privacy". Please find attached for the details, which are also described below. Submission deadline is October 1, 2018. We look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Takeshi Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Rodrigo Roman Castro, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Said Tabet, Dell EMC, USA (Guest Editors of the special issue of International Journal of Information Security on "IoT Security and Privacy") ======================================================================== Call for Papers International Journal of Information Security Special Issue on "IoT Security and Privacy" https://link.springer.com/journal/10207 ======================================================================== The Internet is gradually transforming from a communication platform for conventional IT appliances into the Internet of Things (IoT), increasingly interconnecting many assorted devices and sensors. These devices are generally referred as IoT devices, and many of them are inexpensive and can be constrained in terms of energy, bandwidth and memory. The establishment of IoT ecosystems in various domains is bringing multiple benefits to human users and companies alike. Example of such domains include Smart Homes, Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet and even Intelligent Transportation Systems. However, the IoT as a whole – including related paradigms such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) – is susceptible to a multitude of threats. In fact, many IoT devices currently are insecure and have many security vulnerabilities. For example, many vulnerable IoT devices which have been infected with malware have subsequently become comprised into large botnets, resulting in devastating DDOS attacks. Consequently, ensuring the security of such IoT ecosystems – before, during, and after an attack takes place – is a crucial issue for our society at this moment. This special issue aims to collect contributions by leading-edge researchers from academia and industry, show the latest research results in the field of IoT security and privacy, and provide valuable information to researchers as well as practitioners, standards developers and policymakers. Its aim is to focus on the research challenges and issues in IoT security. Manuscripts regarding novel algorithms, architectures, implementations, and experiences are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to: - Secure protocols for IoT devices - Privacy solutions and privacy helpers for IoT environments - Trust frameworks and secure/private collaboration mechanisms for IoT environments - Secure management and self-healing for IoT environments - Operative systems security for IoT devices - Security diagnosis tools for IoT devices - Threat and vulnerability detection in IoT environments - Anomaly detection and prevention mechanisms in IoT networks - Case studies of malware analysis in IoT environments - IoT forensics and digital evidence - Testbeds and experimental facilities for IoT security analysis and research - Standardization activities for IoT security - Security and privacy solutions tailored to specific IoT domains and ecosystems Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Instructions for Authors" guidelines outlined at the journal website http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/10207. All papers will be peer-reviewed, by following a regular reviewing procedure. Authors are requested to submit their original manuscript via the online submission system. Note that article type 'S.I. : IOT Security and Privacy' must be selected on the system in order to be considered for this special issue. Important Dates --------------- Manuscript Due: October 1, 2018 First Round of Reviews: December 3, 2018 Guest Editors ------------- Takeshi Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Rodrigo Roman Castro, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Said Tabet, Dell EMC, USA For more information, contact: editors-ijis-si-iotsec (at) googlegroups dot com

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