April 2018 - computational.science

EUSPN-2018: 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, Leuven, Belgium (Submission Date: Jun 13, 2018)
by Davidekova Monika 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

********************************************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2018) Date: November 5-8, 2018 Location: Leuven, Belgium Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/ ********************************************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas. Important Dates: -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: May 28, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: Jun 13, 2018 - Author Notification: August 8, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: September 8, 2018 Publication ------------- All EUSPN 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) EUSPN 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-18/) Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/call-for-papers.html EUSPN 2018 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven city. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber). Conference Tracks ============ - Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks - Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Big Data and Big Data Science - Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy, and Trust Committees ======== General Chair Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy, Italy Advisory Committee Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Workshops Chair Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Hasibur Rahman, Stockholm University, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida, USA Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Kechar Bouabdellah, University Of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy StÃ©phane Galland, UniversitÃ© de Technologie de Belfort-MontbÃ©liard, France Abid Khan, CIIT, Pakistan Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Evangelos Pournaras, ETH, Switzerland Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Toronto, Canada Wei Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/organizing-commitee.html Your contributions and support are appreciated.

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MobiSPC 2018 CfPs: The 15th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, Gran Canaria, Spain FINAL CALL
by Davidekova Monika 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

CallforPapers The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC'18), August 13-15, 2018, Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…> IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 About Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2018 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Publication All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsevie…> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.science…>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthomsonreut…>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enginee…>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ei.org%…>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdblp.uni-tr…>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springe…>) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cai.sk%…>) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.…>) MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with The 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'18). http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…> Venue MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Committees General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chairs Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, Universite de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…>

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[MobiSPC-2018] FINAL submission deadline: April 20. Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing. Gran Canaria, Spain (July 13-15, 2018)
by Wim Ectors 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 13-15, 2018 Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2018 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 10, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/) . MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chair StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale SupŽrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, UniversitŽ de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Kšrner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees

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Deadline in a few days - 32nd IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2018
by DBSec 2018 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline in a few days (April 13, 2018 - 11:59 PM American Samoa time) *** 32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2018) Bergamo, Italy -- July 16-18, 2018 DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2018) will be held in Bergamo, Italy. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2018. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of April 13, 2018 (11:59 PM American Samoa time). At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full rate and must guarantee that the paper will be presented. Note that for authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for one paper only. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The final version of the accepted papers must be in the format required of publications in the LNCS series (a Latex source file will be required). A paper submitted to DBSec 2018 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2018. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2018, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2018, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: April 13, 2018 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time Notification to authors: May 21, 2018 Final papers due: May 31, 2018 GENERAL CHAIR Sara Foresti Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Florian Kerschbaum University of Waterloo, Canada Stefano Paraboschi Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIRS Enrico Bacis, Marco Rosa Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederik Armknecht, University of Mannheim, Germany Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Vencore Labs, USA Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Alex X. Liu, Michigan State University, USA Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University Giovanni Livraga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University, USA Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University, USA Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, USA Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Wendy H. Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Attila Yavuz, Oregon State University, USA Ting Yu, QCRI, Qatar Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven Technical University IFIP WG11.3 CHAIR Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://dbsec18.unibg.it

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Fwd: Call for Workshop Proposals- EUSPN 2018, 5-8 November, Leuven, Belgium
by Muhammad ADNAN 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

*Call for Workshop Proposals – EUSPN 2018* The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) November 5-8, 2018 Leuven, Belgium Conference Website:http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/ <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/> ****************************** ******************** ** *Important Dates* =========== - *Workshop Proposal Due:**May 28, 2018 * The EUSPN-2018 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of EUSPN-2018 and its related areas as mentioned below. • Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks • Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing & Applications • Big Data and Big Data Science • Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing • Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies • Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems • Internet of Things • Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications • Security, Privacy, and Trust • Semantic Web Technologies For more details on the topics visit the EUSPN-2018 website: http://cs- <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18>conferences. <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18>acadiau.ca/euspn-18 <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18> <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18> Call for Workshop can be accessed from http://cs-confer ences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/call-for-workshop-proposals.html All papers accepted for workshops will be included in theEUSPN-2018 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2018 Website. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. *Pre-proposal Submission Inquiries* ====================== If you are interested to organize a workshop and you wish to discuss ideas for a workshop proposal, please feel free to contact the Workshops Chair. Proposal Format =========== - Title of the workshop - Workshop website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Draft call for papers of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members Workshops Chair ============== *Dr. Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium (Email: muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be <muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be> )* EUSPN Conference Organisers: ============== Dr. Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada (E-mail: elhadi.shakshuki(a)acadiau.ca ) Dr. Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium (Email: Ansar.yasar@uhasselt <ansar.yasar(a)uhasselt.be>Be <ansar.yasar(a)uhasselt.be>) <ansar.yasar(a)uhasselt.be> <ansar.yasar(a)uhasselt.be> <ansar.yasar(a)uhasselt.be> - Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Researcher - Senior Researcher Institute for Mobility (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be \ imob Hasselt University - Campus Diepenbeek Science Park 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Office WETP5-0.10 - Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Researcher - Senior Researcher Institute for Mobility (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be \ imob Hasselt University - Campus Diepenbeek Science Park 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Office WETP5-0.10 - Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Researcher - Senior Researcher Institute for Mobility (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be \ imob Hasselt University - Campus Diepenbeek Science Park 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Office WETP5-0.10 - Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Researcher - Senior Researcher Institute for Mobility (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be \ imob Hasselt University - Campus Diepenbeek Science Park 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Office WETP5-0.10

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AlCoB 2018: call for posters
by IRDTA 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

AlCoB 2018: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 5th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2018) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2018 will be held in Hong Kong on June 25-26, 2018. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2018/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: May 18, 2018 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 25, 2018 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2018 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2018. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2016 JCR impact factor: 1.955). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by June 11, 2018. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches, coffee breaks). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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Call for Joint Workshop on Deep (or Machine) Learning for Safety-Critical Applications in Engineering
by Mariam Kiran 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Dear All, Apologies for cross postings. *Joint Workshop on Deep (or Machine) Learning for Safety-Critical Applications in Engineering (https://easychair.org/cfp/DISE1 <https://easychair.org/cfp/DISE1>)* This is a Joint Workshop between ICML ( https://icml.cc/Conferences/2018/CallForWorkshops) AAMAS ( http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/aamas18/workshopsList/) and IJCAI ( https://www.ijcai-18.org/workshops/) Modern technological advances in engineering fields such as automotive, aerospace, robotic, even data centers and networks, are exploiting machine learning to improve and maintain mission critical activities. These systems are large, complex and require real-time learning with feedback to ensure they function as desired. Detecting anomalies, analyzing failures and predicting future system state are imperative and are becoming part of engineering integrative approaches. Research in algorithmic methods to make real-time decisions based on fast arriving, high-volume condition data, on-site feedback and data models is needed to train machine learning models quickly and correctly. This workshop aims to bring together diverse researchers from areas such as reinforcement learning, autonomous agents, game theory, controls and operations engineering teams to develop approaches which enable real-time discovery, inference and computational tools. These techniques are aimed to influence engineering operations teams in aerospace, self-driving automotive, robotics, data centers and any engineering operations that automate mission-critical and safety applications. We encourage focus on aspects of deep learning to solve problems into domains where continuous training and fast results are needed without jeopardizing prediction accuracy. However, we also encourage exploration of new innovative machine learning approaches, which can solve these problems with improved latency. We are also seeking contributions in advances of streaming and distributed algorithms, heterogeneous and high-dimensional data sets and real-time decision- making algorithms for operations. Some possible topics of interests but not confined are: - *Adaptation*: How can systems learn and adapt to changes in the environment (especially in dynamic environments) when training data is less and requires quick model assumption. How can principles of autonomous agents working together to build large engineering systems be exploited to react in dynamic situations. - *Noisy and poor data sets*: How can machine learning models be trained to understand noisy data sets for quick learning. Missing data exploration? - *Detecting anomalous behavior:* How can anomalies be detected quickly and partitioned appropriately such that correct actions are applied? - *Improving latency:* How can machine learning algorithms be improved to produce results quickly than previously anticipated? - *Improving software and hardware performance:* Exploring models of GPU, HPC processing and FPGAs to improve the performance of algorithms can greatly influence their use in engineering design. Experimental demonstrations are encouraged to display this. - *Reinforcement learning:* How can machine learn correct behavior? Can training be made quicker with guidance to allow algorithms to produce corrective measure when anomalies are detected? - *Human factors:* how can engineers maintaining the system interact with the self- autonomous system - *Open problems in engineering where machine learning is not proving fruitful*. What are the open problems in operations where practical machine learning is difficult to apply? What are the limitations and how can these be improved? Workshop dates will be between 14th and 15th of July 2018, located as part of Joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML Call for Workshops. Specific dates will be announced soon. Important dates: -------------------------- - Submission deadline: 28th May, 2018, 23:59 (PDT) - Author notification: 15th June, 2018 - Camera-ready (final) paper deadline: 1st July, 2018 - Workshop: 14th or 15th July, 2018 (To be confirmed) Submission Guidelines: -------------------------------- The abstract and paper submission deadline is the 28th of May 2018. Please upload the final PDF as an updated version in your existing submission on EasyChair. All submissions must obey the following formatting requirements. Submit papers of *no more than six (6)* single–spaced pages for long papers (and *four (4) for short papers*), including figures, tables, any appendices, etc., followed by as many pages as necessary for references. Submit papers formatted for printing on Letter-sized (8.5” by 11”) paper. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column, with each column 9.25” by 3.33”, 0.33” space between columns. Each column must use 10-point font or larger, and contain no more than 55 lines of text. It is your responsibility to ensure that your submission satisfies the above requirements. If you are using LaTeX, you can make use of template for ACM conference proceedings. For your posters, we suggest A0 size measuring 841 × 1189 mm (33.1 × 46.8 in). Note that the workshop venue cannot accommodate posters larger than 910 × 1220 mm (36 × 48 in). All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - Full papers describing mature solutions of deep learning in safety critical systems from various engineering domains such as security networks and self-autonomous cars or more. - Short paper on early demonstrations of deep learning in safety critical systems from various engineering domains. - Posters on early works (PhD students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged) Program Committee: ------------------------------- - Mariam Kiran, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - John Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - Samir Khan, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Takehisa Yairi, University of Tokyo, Japan - Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, US Organizing committee: -------------------------------------- Mariam Kiran, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Samir Khan University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Contact: Al questions about submissions should be emailed to <mkiran(a)es.net, khan(a)ailab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.

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WHPC at ISC18 Call for participation and posters
by Toni Collis 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 8th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 8th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 28th 2018 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/ <https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/> ================================================================= This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity and also to provide early career women with an opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. Based on popular request topics to be covered this year include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. We will also provide opportunities aimed at promoting and providing women with the skills to thrive in HPC including: - Short talks by women working in HPC on their work. - Pointers on how to handle workplace conflicts and effectively respond to discrimination - Short talks on: best practices from equity frameworks from outside HPC, suggestions and - Challenges for women in HPC related venture capitals, effectively dealing with workplace discrimination, building a successful career, excelling in the workforce, etc. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: April 21st 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. Exclusive to WHPC at ISC18: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their poster in the main ISC18 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/submit/ <https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/submit/> Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Co-Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-Chair: Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK - Poster Chair: Jessica Popp, Data Direct Networks, USA - Poster Co-Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, UK - Mentor Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK - Mentor Co-Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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PhD position in France
by El-ghazali Talbi 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Please distribute in your networks the PhD position below. Title: Robust topology optimization under uncertainty – application to automotive brake systems Location: LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, University de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, 59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9, France. Supervisor staff: El-ghazali Talbi, CRIStAL UMR CNRS 9189 Université de Lille/INRIA Lille Nord Europe ; Thierry Tison, LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Université de Valenciennes; Franck Massa, LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Université de Valenciennes Keywords: Topology optimization; Uncertainty; Surrogate models; Metaheuristic; Evolutionary algorithms; Numerical methods Project description: Optimization under uncertainty aims at accounting for the observed variability of some model parameters in order to tend to robust and reliable designs. The integration of multiple uncertain parameter, for example relative to a topology, a topography or boundary conditions, relies on the use or the coupling of different theories (probability, interval, fuzzy …) for a successful representation of the observed evolutions. In engineering, investigated problems lead to large time consuming mathematical problems associated to the objective and state functions. Generally, they are addressed by considering the finite element method. To solve this kind of problem, numerical strategies based on parallel calculations, surrogate models and metaheuristic algorithms (Evolutionary algorithms) are necessary. Moreover, a multi-objective formulation must be considered to guarantee the robustness of the optimal solutions. Research in optimization is a fundamental field for all the engineering domains to answer the new environmental requirements. The optimization method, proposed in this project, will be applied to investigate brake squeal phenomenon. Indeed, the reduction of environmental acoustic pollution is a major concern for automotive manufacturers. These last years, several research works revealed the interest for uncertain stability analysis used to simulate squeal. Among the already studied parameters, the variability of the topography of contact surfaces seems to be the most sensitive parameter. To tend to a robust design, it is essential to integrate the spatial uncertainty during the design step of the brake components. The objective of this multidisciplinary thesis project is to develop a topology optimization strategy under topographical uncertainty for dynamic stability problems. References of supervisor staff: Talbi E-G. Metaheuristics: from design to implementation, Wiley, 2009. Tison T., Heussaff A., Massa F., Turpin I., Nunes R. Improvement in the predictivity of squeal simulations: uncertainty and robustness. Journal of sound and vibration, 333(15), pp. 3394-3412, 2014. Renault A., Massa F., Lallemand B., Tison T. Experimental investigations for uncertainty quantification in brake squeal analysis. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 367, pp. 37-55, 2016. Talbi E-G. Hybrid metaheuristics, Springer, 2016. Do H., Massa F., Tison T., Lallemand B. A global strategy for the stability analysis of friction induced vibration problem with parameter variations. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 84 part A, pp. 346-364, 2017. Funding: 1768,55 €/month gross salary during 3 years – Best start: October 2018. Applicant profile: Candidates are required to have a degree in applied mathematics, computer science or mechanical engineering. Prior knowledge in optimization, uncertainty modelling and experience in developing scientific codes (Matlab, R, …) will be appreciated. Candidature: Please send a one PDF file composed of: - A CV (including your background and contribution in the topics of interest) - Two last year’s Master or Engineering school transcripts and class ranking - 2 recommendations letters Contacts : El-ghazali.Talbi@univ-lille1.fr;Franck.Massa@univ-valenciennes.fr;Thierry.Tison@univ-valenciennes.fr -- ****************************** META'2018 27-31 Oct 2018, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org ****************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA - CNRS

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CFP - PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop (In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC) + Special Issue in Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, IF: 1.326, Q2)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Special Issue in the Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.326, Quartile Q2, ISSN: 0920-8542) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 JUNE 2018 http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ VENUE: Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2018 We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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