May 2018 - computational.science

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

04 Nov '20

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

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

08 May '19

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

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

03 Oct '18

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

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Open PostDoc position at LBNL for Machine learning applications and Networks
by Mariam Kiran 30 May '18

30 May '18

Dear All, I am reaching out for help publicizing the post doc position open with our group. We are looking for new members to join our team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!. The position is shared between the Computer Research Division (http://crd.lbl.gov/departments/data-science-and-technology/sdm/) and Energy Sciences Network (http://es.net/) The position is in the area of developing machine learning solutions for wide area networks. The direct link to the posting may be found here: http://m.rfer.us/LBLfQ6cv Can you please help forward to any interested candidates? Questions can be sent to Mariam Kiran <mkiran(a)lbl.gov> Thankyou in advance, Mariam

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CFP: 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (December 17-20, 2018, Zurich, Switzerland)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 29 May '18

29 May '18

Do not miss the opportunity for discussing a full week of cloud and big data advances in central Europe at the end of the year on the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)! The conference would take place December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland (http://ucc-conference.org/) IMPORTANT DATES * 01 August, 2018 is a deadline for: - Main conference paper submissions - Tutorial proposals - Cloud Challenge proposals - Doctoral Research Papers * Poster submissions due: 01 September, 2018 * Notification of acceptance for main papers: 15 September, 2018 * Camera ready papers due: 08 October, 2018 * Early and author registration deadline: 08 October, 2018 * Conference: 17-20 December 2018 CONTEXT AND SCOPE UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 will have a co-located 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org/) an embedded Cloud Challenge and a subsequent Serverless Symposium. WORKSHOPS [http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html] Nine workshops are confirmed to take place in conjunction with the main conference: * 7th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018 * 5th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications - SCCTSA 2018. Submission deadline: July 31, 2018 * 4th International Workshop on Serverless Computing - WoSC 2018 * 3rd International Workshop on Trust in Cloud Computing - IWTCC 2018. Submission deadline: July 30, 2018 * 1st Industry/University Joint International Workshop on Data-center Automation and Software Provisioning - DCASP 2018 * 1st Workshop on Quality Assurance in the Context of Cloud Computing - QA3C 2018. Submission deadline: September 3, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Managed Fog-to-Cloud - mF2C 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience - CNAX 2018. Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Environments - BDASE 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 All the additional information on the workshops is available on the conference website: http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html TOPICS OF INTEREST UCC Conference topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * HPC and the Cloud * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Networking for clouds and data centres * Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers CALL FOR PAPERS [http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html] Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility as well as Big Data computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, IEEE conference style, including figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. We invite you to visit the Call for Papers page for more information: http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html

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JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (Nov. 26-28, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan)
by Kouji Kozaki 28 May '18

28 May '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers: JIST 2018 Regular Technical Papers *** JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference Nov. 26-28, 2018, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp < Paper submission due: 10 August, 2018 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is to bring together researchers in the Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic-related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. There are two tracks in JIST 2018 for Regular Technical Papers. *** Research Track *** JIST 2018 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Ontology and reasoning -Knowledge Graphs -Linked Data -Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration -Data streams and the Internet of Things -Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web -Semantic Web services and processes -Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web -Social Semantic Web -Natural language processing and semantics -Semantic multimedia -Novel applications of semantic technologies *** Special Session Track *** JIST 2018 special session track to discover and implement special topics that researchers in Semantic Technology are particularly interested in. We also intend to facilitate participation of potentially-related researchers in the JIST conference. Topics of special sessions are as follows: - Special Session on Government Open Data http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/government_open_data.html - Special Session on Question Answering and ChatBots http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/qa_chatbots.html - Special Session on Resource-aware Semantic Technologies http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/resource-aware_semantic_tech… - Special Session on Semantic Web for Life Sciences http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/sw_for_life_sciences.html *** Important Dates *** -Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 3 August, 2018 -Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 August, 2018 -Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018 -Camera-ready Deadline: 28 September, 2018 -Conference: 26-28 November, 2018 *** Submission *** Submissions to JIST 2018 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2018 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Submissions to JIST 2018 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee of either research track or special session track. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2018 submissions are not anonymous. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Regular paper submissions must be no longer than 16 pages, and short paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. Accepted papers of both research track and special session track will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2018 * Please select the corresponding track(s) when you submit your paper(s). *** Organizing Committee *** -General Chairs Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan -Program Chairs Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Special Session Track Chairs Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, China Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan -Local Organizing Chair Atsuko Yamaguchi, Database Center for Life Science, Japan -Poster and Demo Chairs Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea Shinichi Nagano, TOSHIBA corp., Japan -Workshop Chairs Marut Buranarach, NECTEC, Thailand Ikki Omukai, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Tutorial Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan -Sponsorship Chair Takanori Ugai, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan -Publicity Chairs Takeshi Morita, Keio University, Japan Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2018 Organize Committee Website: http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/ Twitter: @jist2018 Contact: JIST2018<at>knowledge-graph.jp

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Call for Papers (due June 15) and Workshops announced: 25th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)
by Anand Panangadan 27 May '18

27 May '18

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. In the last couple years, HiPC has added workshops to its technical program and along with a Student Research Symposium and academic Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and the conference makes room for a broad list of topics to be addressed in these tracks: Algorithms Architectures Applications DATA SCIENCE: Big Data Algorithms and Analytics Big Data Systems and Software One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France (High Performance Computing) - Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Data Science) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS - Algorithms: Ananth Kalyanaraman Washington State University - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM Research – India - Architecture: Abdou Guermouche, University of Bordeaux - System Software: Judith Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Big Data Algorithms and Analytics: Jun (Luke) Huan, University of Kansas - Big Data Systems and Software: Lisa Singh, Georgetown University IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 •June 8..................Abstracts Due •June 15................Paper Submission Deadline •August 8-15........Rebuttals •September 7.......Author Notification •October 3...........Camera Ready Submission Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms The papers accepted for presentation in HiPC 2018 workshops will be included in the "workshops volume" of the proceedings of the conference, which will be distributed online in two volumes with a separate ISBN for the workshops (HiPCW 2018). Post conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. Workshops Co-Chairs • Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 ORGANIZATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Chiranjib Sur, Shell India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Nvidia, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA TUTORIAL CHAIR Saumil Merchant, Shell, India STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Thondiyil Venugopalan, India ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2018 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ •IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) •HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with •ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) •ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) •FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems •Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) •National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

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GraMSec 2018 - call for participation - early registration by June 6
by Barbara Kordy 25 May '18

25 May '18

****************************************************************** GraMSec 2018 The Fifth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Oxford, UK - July 8, 2018 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Co-located with CSF 2018 (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/csf2018/) In conjunction with FLoC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/) ****************************************************************** ABOUT GraMSec The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies and tools for their practical usage. PROGRAM of GraMSec 2018 -------------------------- 09:00 Opening by Barbara Kordy 09:10 Invited talk of Mike Fisk, Chief Information Officer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA Intrusion Tolerance in Complex Cyber Systems 10:10 Marlon Dumas, Luciano García-Bañuelos and Peeter Laud Disclosure Analysis of SQL Workflows 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Haozhe Zhang, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Arnau Erola, Sadie Creese and Michael Goldsmith A state machine system for insider threat detection 11:45 Sabarathinam Chockalingam, Wolter Pieters, Andre Teixeira, Nima Khakzad and Pieter van Gelder Combining Bayesian Networks and Fishbone Diagrams to Distinguish between Intentional Attacks and Accidental Technical Failures 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 Ilia Shumailov, Mansoor Ahmed and Ross Anderson Tendrils of Crime: Visualizing the Diffusion of Stolen Bitcoins 14:45 Maxime Audinot, Sophie Pinchinat, François Schwarzentruber and Florence Wacheux Deciding the Emptiness of Attack trees 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Ross Horne, Sjouke Mauw and Alwen Tiu The Attacker Does not Always Hold the Initiative: Attack Trees with External Refinement 16:45 Harley Eades Iii, Jiaming Jiang and Aubrey Bryant On Linear Logic, Functional Programming, and Attack Trees 17:30 Closing by George Cybenko and David J. Pym REGISTRATION Registration to GraMSec 2018 is handled via the website of FLoC https://www.floc2018.org/register/ The early registration deadline is on June 6 If you need a support letter for a visa, please check https://www.floc2018.org/faqs/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, NH, USA David J. Pym, UCL, UK GENERAL CHAIR Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR

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CFP SBAC-PAD 2018 @ Lyon - abstract deadline May 25th
by Laurent Lefevre 25 May '18

25 May '18

== 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Lyon, France September 24-27, 2018 http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: May 25, 2018 - Paper deadline: June 1, 2018 - Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018 - Author notification: July 6, 2018 - Camera-ready: July 20, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs - Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil) - Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Program Co-chairs - Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) - Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Publicity Chairs - Alba Cristina de Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pierre Sens (LIP6, Inria Paris Rocquencourt, France) - Vaidy Sunderam (Emory University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Computer Architecture Track Chair: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Celso Mendes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Cristiana Bentes (UERJ, Brazil) - Edson Borin (University of Campinas, Brazil) - Farah Fargo (University of Arizona, USA) - Felipe Maia Galvao Franca (COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil) - Jose Moreira (IBM, USA) - Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Naveen Cherukuri (NVIDIA, USA) - Rathish Jayabharathi (Intel, USA) - Rodolfo Azevedo (University of Campinas, Brazil) Networking and Distributed Systems Track Chair: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Andrey Britto (UFCG, Brazil) - Bruno Schulze (LNCC, Brazil) - Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy) - Dorgival Guedes Neto (UFMG, Brazil) - Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR, Brazil) - Harold Castro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) - Javier Garcia-Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) - Juan Durillo (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - Nicolae Bogdan (Huawei, China) - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Priscila Solis (UnB, Brazil) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown, USA) - Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil) - Sandra Gesing (Notre Dame University, USA) - Zhiyi Huang (University of Otago, New Zealand) Parallel Applications and Algorithms Track Chair: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain) - Emmanuel Agullo (Inria, France) - José Ignacio Aliaga (Computer Science and Engineering Department, University Jaime I, Spain) - Hartwig Anzt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Michael Bader (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) - Alba Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pablo Ezzatti Udelar (Uruguay) - Mathieu Faverge (Bordeaux INP, France) - Domingo Gimenez (University of Murcia, Spain) - Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Hatem Ltaief (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA) - Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) - Olaf Schenk (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) - Leonel Sousa (Lisbon University, Portugal) - Guillermo Taboada (University of A Coruña, Spain) - Pedro Valero-Lara (The University of Manchester, UK) - Jaroslaw Zola (State University of New York, USA) - Jairo Panetta (INPE, Brazil) Performance Evaluation Track Chair: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France) - Laura Carrington (San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, USA) - Cesar De Rose (PUCRS, Brazil) - Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Andreas Knupfer (TU Dresden, Germany) - Swann Perarnau (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Martin Schulz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Frederic Suter (CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France) System Software Track Chair: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, France) - Rafael Asenjo (Dpt. Computer Architecture, Univ. Malaga. Spain) - Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) - Siegfried Benkner (University of Vienna, Austria) - Carlo Bertolli (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States) - Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG, Brazil) - Helene Coullon (Inria, France) - Michael Gerndt (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center -BSC, Spain) - Mauricio Pillon (UDESC, Brazil) - Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) - Mario Südholt (IMT Atlantique, France) - Cedric Tedeschi (Inria, France) - Ayal Zaks (Intel, Israel) ==

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[Last 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 25 May '18

25 May '18

Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) + 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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