October 2019 - computational.science

CfP for Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)"
by Igor Kotenko 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)" on 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2020) Vasteras, Sweden 11-13 March 2020. http://www.pdp2020.com Paper submission deadline: 28th October 2020 Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: October 28, 2019 - Acceptance notification: November 30, 2019 - Camera ready paper due: December 12, 2019 - Registration: *** to be updated - Conference: March 11 - 13, 2020 Program Committee (TBD) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019) The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Session Chair of PDP 2020 Igor Kotenko Head of Laboratory of Computer Security Problems St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences ivkote1[AT]mail[DOT]ru ivkote[AT]comsec[DOT]spb[DOT]ru http://comsec.spb.ru/kotenko/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, applied mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Evaluating or developing new and promising networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due December 6, 2019. Letters of Reference are due December 9, 2019. Details of the application process can be found at https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/2020-luis-j-alvarez-and-admiral-grace-m-hopper-po….

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A tenure-track faculty position in IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR
by Jie Shen 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Michigan - Dearborn invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Applicants in the area of software engineering will be considered for the first position, while applicants in all areas of computer science, with preference given to areas related to emerging systems (including IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR, etc.), will be considered for the second position. The expected starting date is September 1, 2020. Although candidates at the Assistant Professor rank are preferred, exceptional candidates may be considered for the rank of Associate Professor depending upon experience and qualifications. We offer competitive salaries and start-up packages. The CIS Department offers several B.S. and M.S. degrees, and a Ph.D. degree. The current research areas in the department include artificial intelligence, computational game theory, computer graphics, cybersecurity, data privacy, data science/management, energy-efficient systems, game design, graphical models, machine learning, multimedia, natural language processing, networking, service and cloud computing, software engineering, and health informatics. These areas of research are supported by several established labs and many of these areas are currently funded by federal agencies and industries. Qualifications: Qualified candidates must have earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science or a closely related discipline by September 1, 2020. Candidates will be expected to do scholarly and sponsored research, as well as teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applications: Applicants should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of teaching and research interests, evidence of teaching performance (if any), and a list of three references through Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/68333 for the position in software engineering; http://apply.interfolio.com/68336 for the position in emerging systems or any other area of computer science. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until suitable candidates are appointed. The University of Michigan-Dearborn, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Jie Shen, Ph.D.

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Call for BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination (Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14 at Denver, Colorado, USA, prior to SC 19)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination ========================================================== The 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award Recognize a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.Awards: 3,000 US dollar. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- The BenchCouncil achievement award recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. Any member of this community is welcome to nominate an individual who is eligible for this award. Self-nomination is also encouraged. The recommender should write a short summary highlighting the nominee’s contribution. This year, the achievement award will be awarded on BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19, Nov 14-16, 2019 @ Denver, Colorado, USA). The award winner needs to give a 45-minute keynote speech on Bench 19. International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) is a non-profit research institute, which aims to promote the standardization, benchmarking, evaluation, incubation, and promotion of open-source chip, AI, and Big Data techniques. http://www.benchcouncil.org Nomination Submission ------------------------ Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth Nominees need to send an email to the following address for confirmation: zhanjianfeng(a)ict.ac.cn Bench 19 conference --------------------- The Bench 19 conference will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA.The conference provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. The main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 has three special events: BenchCouncil achievement award, which recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing ($3000), the AI benchmarking reports, and AI system and algorithm challenges. Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics. Website: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html Registration: https://eur.cvent.me/0QG1 Bench 19 Hotel Reservation ----------------- The Conference hotel is Courtyard by Marriott Denver Airport. We have negotiated a competitive group rate and we strongly encourage attendees to stay there, when possible. Notice that the banquet will also take place at the hotel. The reservation link: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1568131806319&key=GRP Start Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 End Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019 Last Day to Book: Friday, October 25, 2019 Room rate: $179/night + abound 15.75% taxes (Standard Room)

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[CALL FOR PAPERS] Uncertain Reasoning @ Flairs 33
by Alessandro Antonucci 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 33 - Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 33] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) May 17-20, 2020 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2019 Conference website: http://www.flairs-33.info Track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in turn foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'20 Special Track at the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) is the 25th in the series. As in the past years, UR'20 track seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision processes - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty, non-monotonic reasoning, similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : - Mohand Said Allili (Universit√© du Qu√©bec en Outaouais, Canada) - Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) - Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) - Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiegne, France) - Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Christophe Gonzalez (University of Paris 6, France) - Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) - Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) - Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) - Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) - Lalintha G. Polpitiya (MathWorks, US) - Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) - Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) - Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) - Gunasekaran Seetharaman (Navy Research Laboratory, US) - Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) - Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) - Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) - Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 33 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-33.info. Feel free to contact the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the UR’20 special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (in that they should not have been submitted and in review or in the process of being submitted for another conference/journal). FLAIRS-33 accepts two types of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; and short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. The submission deadline for both types of submissions is November 18, 2019. The 2020 FLAIRS-33 will employ a double-blind review process. Therefore, the author names and affiliations, and other identifying information, must be omitted when submitting papers for review. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the FLAIRS-33 main conference web site. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-33 will be published by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers presented within the track. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-33.

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek S. Abdelrahman 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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Call For Papers: The 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2019 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 9-12, 2019. Workshop webpage: https://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2019/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 15 (extended from Sep 20), 2019: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 5 (extended from Oct 15), 2019: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15 (extended from Nov 10), 2019: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 9-12, 2019: Workshops and conference *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 2. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 3. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware / software architectures for large-scale data 4. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Asif Iqbal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Igor Kotsiuba (Pukhov Institute for modeling in Energy Engineering) Inna Skarga-Bandurova (East Ukrainian National University) Junaid Arshad (University of West London) Mamoun Alazab (Charles Darwin University) Neminath Hubballi (Indian Institute of Technology Indore) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Microsoft) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** The authors are invited to submit: full-length papers (up to 10 pages IEEE 2-column format), short papers (4-6 pages IEEE 2-column format) or abstract papers (up to 4 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system. Page count includes references, figures and tables. Online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/bigdata19/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines: http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2019/files/Conference-LaTeX-template_7… ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Advanced Big Data Analytics for Cyber and Cyber-Physical Crime Investigations", international scientific journal of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), published online by MDPI, which Indexed in Ei Compendex, Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science). Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. More about the Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Advanced_Big_Dat… Moreover, The Best Paper Award is given to the best paper at the workshop. All participants who submitted a paper automatically qualify to enter, and the winner will receive 500 CHF. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Jan William Johnsen, Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar and Asif Iqbal Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

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ICCSA 2020 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

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