April 2019 - computational.science

EUSPN 2019: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Muhammad ADNAN 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

------- Call for Workshops Proposals ------------ The 10th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) November 4-7, 2019 Coimbra, Portugal Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-19/ **************************************************** *Important Dates* =========== - Workshop Proposal Due: May 30, 2019 The EUSPN-2019 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-2019 and its related areas. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2019 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2019 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) Dr. Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA (Email: malikh(a)marshall.edu) Regards -- Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Navorser - Senior Researcher Instituut voor Mobiliteit (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be\imob Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Kantoor WETP5-0.10

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3-year PhD on Computat. Visual Neurosci.
by Jesus Malo Lopez 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

A 3-year PhD contract in the intersection between visual neuroscience and artificial neural networks is available to work with Prof. Jesus Malo at the Image and Signal Processing Group (http://isp.uv.es) at the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). Salary is 22000 euros/year (gross salary including health care). Candidates should: (1) hold a degree in Computer Science, Physics, Maths, quantitative Neuroscience / Psychology or similar. Call requires that this degree has to be posterior to january 2015 and be from a non-spanish university. (2) have strong analytical and computational skills [e.g. statistics / machine learning / matlab / python]. (3) have genuine interest in biological vision and in participating in psychophysical/physiological experiments to build models applicable in computer vision or image processing, and (4) be able to communicate in english. Candidates may hold a master degree (some postgraduate experience). Master is preferable but not a mandatory condition. We offer a multidisciplinary atmosphere (regular meetings on machine learning and visual perception with other PhD students) and international contacts with possibility of frequent travels for cooperation with other experimental/theoretical labs. The succesful candidate will have the possibility of obtaining a PhD with several high-impact publications. Work will start by september 2019 (i.e. eventual visa issues should be solved before hand!). How to apply: Candidates should [a] write a 1 page statement connecting their previous work (or studies) with our previous work ( see general context in http://isp.uv.es/exchatedra.html or, more specifically, a recent publication from our lab such as https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201326 ); and [b] send complete CV and the 1 page statement to jesus.malo(a)uv.es

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Special session on Water-based optimization at IEEE SMC'19: Deadline extension
by FERNANDO RUBIO DIEZ 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Dear colleagues, The deadline of the water-based session of IEEE SMC has been extended until April 19th. More details about the session can be found at http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~fernando/SMC19/ Best wishes, Fernando Rubio El lun., 11 mar. 2019 a las 10:16, FERNANDO RUBIO DIEZ (<fernando(a)sip.ucm.es>) escribió: > CALL FOR PAPERS > http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~fernando/SMC19/ > > The last decade has witnessed the emergence of several optimization > metaheuristics based on water mechanics. These general purpose methods deal > with both continuous optimization (e.g. Water Cycle Algorithm, Water Wave > Optimization) and combinatorial optimization (e.g. River Formation > Dynamics, Intelligent Water Drops). Although water-based metaheuristics > are relatively new, they have attracted much attention due to their good > results when applied to a wide variety of optimization problems. In > addition, other problem-specific optimization algorithms where the water > plays a key role have also been proposed in domains such as flood control > or river flow management. > > The goal of this session is to introduce new research on water-based > optimization, emphasizing two main synergies: first, between researchers > developing water-based metaheuristics and researchers facing specific > water-domain optimization problems; and second, between researchers working > on the design of water-based methods and researchers dealing with specific > industrial optimization problems. > > The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > · Definition and evaluation of water-based metaheuristics. > > · Hybridization of water-based metaheuristics with other methods > (e.g. other swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms, neural > networks, fuzzy logic, etc.). > > · Application of water-based metaheuristcs to new domains. > > · Comparison of water-based algorithms. > > · River flow management. > > · > > Industrial application of water-based methods. > > > *DEADLINES* > > March 31, 2019: deadline for paper submission > > June 7, 2019: notification of acceptance/rejection > > July 7, 2019: deadline for final camera-ready papers. > > > > >

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CFP - The 2019 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019)
by Peter Mueller 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Call for Papers and Participation The 2019 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019) July 15-19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/home In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP (Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 08 April 2019 - Final Extension) (Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions have their own deadlines - please check the track of interest) HPCS Proceedings are planned to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed by all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest. We also welcome colleagues interested in organizing tracks, including those without current organizers. Symposia: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia Workshops: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops Special Sessions: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions Tutorials: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu… DDC: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-do… Demos: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de… Panels: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-pa… Posters: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… Sponsorships: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp… Exhibits: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-ex… SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. FOLLOW US ON Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference ================================================================= Important Dates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: 08 April 2019 - Final Extension Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2019 Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts: 25 April 2019 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 10 May 2019 Conference Dates: 15-19 July 2019 ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/home or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Dublin in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2019 Organizers

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CfP VHPC19: HPC Virtualization-Containers: Paper due May 1, 2019 (extended)
by Michael Alexander 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2019 (extended) Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates May 1, 2019 - Abstract/Paper extended submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 20, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA François Diakhaté, CEA, France Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Bob Killen, University of Michigan, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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02 Apr '19

Dear Colleague, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'19) will be held at Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy during July 23-25, 2019 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-19) The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE CS, SMCS and etc. The theme of ICCI*CC’18 is on Cognitive Learning Systems, Brain-Inspired Systems, and Cognitive Robotics, as well as a Cognitive Arts & Science Track jointly sponsored by WAAS, and a Symbiotic Autonomous System Track jointly sponsored by the IEEE SAS Initiative. You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'19 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'19 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the conference will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. Paper submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccicc2019 . Submission deadline will be on March 1 , 2019. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'19. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'19 Co-Chairs HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Bernard Widrow (Stanford Univ.) and Prof. Jerome Feldman (UC Berkeley) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Rodolfo A. Fiorini (PolyU Milan, Italy), Prof. Yingxu Wang (U Calgary, Canada), and Prof. Newton Howard (U Oxford, UK) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Dr. Garry Jacobs (WAAS, USA) and Prof. Paolo Soda (U. of Rome, Italy) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of IEEEicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: IEEEicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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SI Big Data Semantics IJDS
by Paolo Ceravolo 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS SPECIAL ISSUE: BIG DATA SEMANTICS Call for papers The complexity of Big Data applications in conjunction with the lack of standards for representing their components, computations, and processes, have made the design of data-intensive applications a failure prone and resource-intensive activity. One of the reasons behind it can be identified in a lack of sound modeling practices. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g. data analytics and reporting. We believe that a major challenges of Big Data research requires - even more than developing new analytics - devising innovative data management techniques capable to deliver functional and non-functional properties like among others: data quality, data integration, metadata discovery, reconciliation and augmentation, model compliance, or regulatory compliance. Data Semantics research can address such challenges in future research according to the FAIR principles, for implementing design procedures that generate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to this goal. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, for example, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles into Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. representing the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. This special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics aims at sharing research and practical achievements in the field of Big Data integration, storage, and processing. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: • Big Data Management • Metadata Management • Big Data Persistence and Preservation • Big Data Quality and Provenance Control • Big Data Storage and Retrieval • Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques • Data Source Discovery • Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery • Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories • Caching and Materializing Query Results • Quality of Big Data Services • Big Data Service Performance Evaluation • Big Data Service Reliability and Availability • Reproducibility of Big Data Services JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS • Verifiability of Big Data Services • Assurance in Big Data Services • Big Data Visualization • Real Time Visualisation • Visualization Analytics for Big Data • Big Social Media Mining • Big Data Security and Privacy • Big Data System Security and Integrity • Big Data Information Security • Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics • Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data • Performance of Big Data Architectures • Query Optimization • Optimal Selection of Analytics • Physical Structures Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Sylvio Barbon Junior, State University of Londrina, Brazil Editorial Board Antonia Azzini, Consortium for the Technology Transfer (C2T), Italy Clodis Boscarioli, State University of West Paraná - UNIOESTE, Brazil Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lyon 2, France Omar Boussaid, Université Lyon 2, France Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jerome Darmont, Université Lyon 2, France Luke Immes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento, Italy Marcello Leida, StrabioDB, Spain M. Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University of Beirut, Lebanon JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany Darja Solodovnikova, University of Latvia, Latvia Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Fadi Zaraket, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina, Brazil Timetable: 10 Nov 2019 - paper submission 25 Jan 2020 - author notification 15 Mar 2020 - revision submission 25 Apr 2020 - final acceptance notification 10 Jun 2020 - camera-ready submission Submission Guidelines JoDS is looking for high-quality papers on any topic relevant to the journal, including regular papers, survey papers, industry papers, short papers, position papers, and reports. Submissions should contain original material that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. The submission should include an abstract and keywords, authors, and specify which author serves as contact author. All submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal’s guidelines at http://www.springer.com/13740 and have to be uploaded into Springer’s Electronic Management System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods JoDS is abstracted/indexed in: Google Scholar, DBLP, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. Selected sample articles are available at http://www.springer.com/13740 ISSN: 1861-2032 (print version) ISSN: 1861-2040 (electronic version) Any questions should be addressed to the Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it Robert Wrembel, robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl Sylvio Barbon Junior, barbon(a)uel.br

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IEEE ICCCN: Social Media Sensing in Valencia
by Marco Furini 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline - Firm) SOCIAL MEDIA SENSING WORKSHOP July 29 – August 1, 2019 Valencia, Spain in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019) http://www.cs.unibo.it/~mirri/sms19/ http://www.icccn.org/icccn19/index.html SUBMISSION DEADLINE April, 14, 2019 (FIRM) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2019 PUBLICATION IEEE Proceedings SCOPE Billions of users daily interact with social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. The checking of the preferred social media platform is becoming the first thing to do at wake-up time, and the last thing to do before falling asleep. With no doubts, social media revolutionized the content ecosystem and the behavior of millions of people. Within social media, people communicate, collaborate and share information, and within Online Social Media Data (OSMD), it is possible to find contents and metadata about people, brands, products, services, personal preferences, issues, etc. Not surprisingly, OSMD are being used to understand people’s opinions and to measure citizens’ feelings. Indeed, this knowledge represents a critical factor in strategic decision processes, as it may be helpful in identifying problems and strengthening strategies. For instance, politicians may gauge the public mood to improve their political decisions, enterprise managers may increase customers engagement by tracking what people think about products and services, city administrators may analyze citizens’ opinions to enhance the life quality of the city, advertisers can improve the effectiveness of their messages by analyzing what people think of a brand. The use of OSMD to get insights about people and society is not trivial and covers many different disciplines, like computer science, social engineering, psychology, semiotics, and economics. Topics: The workshop is seeking recent advances, novel proposals, best-practices, pitfalls and case studies in Social Media Sensing from different and inter-disciplinary points of view. In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Accessibility of social media contents Advances in Social Media Big Data Analysis for OSMD Business Intelligence using OSMD Chatbots and ChatScript Cloud Computing Data Mining and Machine Learning for OSMD Decision-making models and OSMD Economics and Social effects Emotion recognition and description Event forecasting based on OSMD data Fake news detection Games and Social Media Health care services and applications Image Analysis IoT sensing with human-in-the-loop Lexicon Design Prediction Analysis Privacy and Security in OSMD Recommendation systems for OSMD Reputation and Trust Semantic Web Sentiment Analysis Smart City Society Sensing Social Graph Analysis Social Media Trust Text Analytics Ubiquitous and pervasive crowd-sensing Video Analysis GENERAL CHAIRS: Marco Furini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna, Italy

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CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0"
by Guest Editor 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** ================================================================================ C a l l F o r P a p e r s IEEE TRANSACTION ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS Special Section: Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0 URL: ================================================================================ Industries, governments and scientific communities are increasingly drawing a special attention to competitive advantages that Industry 4.0 can bring about business sustainability and economy of a country. The tendency to couple the Information Technologies (ITs) with the existing Operational Technologies (OTs) adds new opportunities to improve and optimize operational processes, products and services in which multiple stakeholders [4], among them, end-users, can interact with the new industrial ecosystems to speed up and customize processes. In this sense, Industry 4.0 constitutes a relevant investment source composed of a complex technological showcase in which multiple connections and accesses can arise, seriously impacting on the well performance of the different production and distribution chains associated with smart factories and manufacturing, smart grid systems, smart vehicles or smart health environments. This way of connecting entities with the “smart world” and the interconnection of different Industry 4.0 domains based on the new paradigms and heterogeneous technologies such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or edge computing infrastructures (cloud/fog computing systems), certainly, opens the door to coexistence problems and novel exploitations. Diverse vulnerabilities and risks may significantly grow according to the new adaptations and the participation of stakeholders, generating a need to further research protection issues required to safeguard the operational processes and ensure a secure and resilient and dependable cohesion between IT and OT systems, including physical entities. For this reason, industries, governments and scientific communities are increasingly drawing a special attention to competitive advantages that Industry 4.0 can bring about business sustainability and economy of a country. The tendency to couple the ITs with the existing Operational Technologies (OTs) adds new opportunities to improve and optimize operational processes, products and services in which multiple stakeholders [4], among them, end-users, can interact with the new industrial ecosystems to speed up and customize processes. In this sense, Industry 4.0 constitutes a relevant investment source composed of a complex technological showcase in which multiple connections and accesses can arise, seriously impacting on the well performance of the different production and distribution chains associated with smart factories and manufacturing, smart grid systems, smart vehicles or smart health environments. The aim of this special issue is therefore to bring together researchers from diverse interdisciplinary areas of computing and security to cover, from a holistic point of view, the topics related to secure coupling of the new ITs with operational networks, without discarding aspects on privacy. This special section will focus on (but not limited to) the following topics: • Security and privacy analysis and requirements in Industry 4.0 • Secure management and governance of Industry 4.0 operational services and systems • Vulnerabilities and risk assessment in manufacturing and automation systems • Advanced threat models, cyber-crime or cyber-espionage for Industry 4.0 • Dependable and secure Industry 4.0 architectures by design • Lightweight cryptography and key management in Industry 4.0 • Identity management and access control for Industry 4.0 domains • Secure interoperability, mobility and coexistence between systems, including users • Prevention, awareness and resilience models for Industry 4.0 advanced threats • Secure context management and accountability for Industry 4.0 domains • Data preservation and privacy models for Industry 4.0 • Trust management and trusted computing models for Industry 4.0. • Secure cloud/fog-assisted manufacturing and predictive maintenance services ---------------- Important Dates ---------------- * Deadline for manuscript submissions June 30, 2019 * Expected publication date (tentative) November 2019 ---------------------------- Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Follow the guidelines in “Information for Authors” in the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics . Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii . On the submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on Security and Privacy in Industry 4.0 Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. Regular manuscript length is 8 pages. Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at the EIC discretion. -------------- Guest Editors -------------- • Prof. Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain alcaraz(a)lcc.uma.es • Prof. Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway yanzhang(a)ieee.org • Prof. Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas , USA Alvaro.Cardenas(a)utdallas.edu • Prof. Liehuang Zhu, Beijing University of Technology, China liehuangz(a)bit.edu.cn

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