May 2019 - computational.science

[CFP] 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing - Abstract deadline approaching
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 May '19

10 May '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!!! NEWS: DEADLINES EXTENDED!!! - Abstract registration: May 12 Paper submission May 20 Call for Papers 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing Part of IEEE Rebooting Computing Week 6-8 November 2019 San Mateo, California http://icrc.ieee.org/ http://icrc.ieee.org/cfp/ The 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2019) will be held November 6-8 in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. ICRC is a premier venue for novel computing approaches. ICRC grew out of the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative (RCI), which was founded in 2012 to catalyze rethinking of the computer at all levels of the technology stack. The Rebooting Computing Committee represents thirteen IEEE Societies and Councils, and the membership in the Rebooting Computing Technical Community is approaching three thousand. For more information on the RCI please visit the Rebooting Computing Portal (http://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org) Now in its 4th year, the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing is the premier venue for forward looking computing, including algorithms and languages, system software, system and network architectures, new devices and circuits, and applications of new materials and physics. This is an interdisciplinary conference that has participation from a broad technical community, with emphasis on all aspects of the computing stack. The broad scope of ICRC extends to many areas of interest, including novel device physics and materials for post-Moore, beyond CMOS, and non-von Neumann computing paradigms. ——————————————— Topics of interest ——————————————— *Future computing approaches, including neuromorphic, brain-inspired computing, approximate and probabilistic, analog computing; computing based on novel device physics and materials (e.g., spin-based electronics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos); energy-efficient computing including reversible, adiabatic, and ballistic computing, superconductor and cryogenic computing; quantum computing; optical computing; biological and biochemical computing; Non-von Neumann computer architectures (e.g., in-memory processing, memory-based computing, cellular automata, or cellular neural networks). *Future computing design aspects, including extending Moore’s law and augmenting CMOS; error-tolerant logic and circuits; future of design automation. post-CMOS, 3D, heterogeneous integration and packaging; future impact on performance, power, scalability, reliability, supportability *Future Software and Applications, including beyond von Neumann system software issues (operating systems, compilers, security, and resource management); future computing programming paradigms and languages; applications suitable for and driving next generation computing (e.g., machine learning, deep learning.) *Future computing use cases and prototypes, including ethics in design, implementation, and use; new technologies impacting the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS); cybersecurity in future computing systems. ——————————————— Organizing Committee ——————————————— General co-Chairs: Cullen Bash (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Institute of Technology) Program co-Chairs: Jim Ang (PNNL) and Paolo Faraboschi (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Full committee list: http://icrc.ieee.org/committee ——————————————— Submission information ——————————————— The ICRC 2019 paper website (https://icrc19.labs.hpe.com/icrc19/) is now open and we are accepting submissions. Authors can submit a REGULAR or a SHORT paper. REGULAR paper submissions are EIGHT (8) pages maximum, EXCLUSIVE of bibliography. SHORT paper submissions are FOUR (4) pages maximum, EXCLUSIVE of bibliography. Additional instructions (format, etc.) are available at the submission website. Authors’ guidelines: http://icrc.ieee.org/authors-guidelines Paper submission link: https://icrc19.labs.hpe.com/icrc19/ (NOW OPEN!) ——————————————— Important dates - UPDATED!!!! ——————————————— *Paper abstract submissions due: MAY, 12 2019 (11:00 pm EDT) (EXTENDED!) *Paper submissions due: May 20, 2019 (11:00 pm EDT) (EXTENDED!) *Author notification of acceptance: August 7, 2019 *Final copies of papers due: September 6, 2019

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Call for Participation: 2019 NIH iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop
by Wang, Lei 10 May '19

10 May '19

2019 NIH iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop (October 26, 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) Call for Participation The 6th iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop is calling for participation from the academia and the industry to showcase state-of-the-art privacy technologies for protecting real-world biomedical data analysis. In the past 5 years, the iDASH competition has been serving as a bridge between the privacy/security research and the biomedical research, challenging the security community to come up with the best solutions that can offer practical supports for privacy-preserving biomedical computing. It has been widely considered to be a benchmark for evaluating data privacy technologies, particularly when they are applied to biomedical data analysis, and a key source for the biomedical and genomics researchers to seek usable solutions for protecting their data and computing tasks. This year's competition is characterized by 4 tracks as described below. Competition Tasks Track 1: Distributed Gene-Drug Interaction Data Sharing based on Blockchain and Smart Contracts The competitors are asked to develop smart contracts on a blockchain network to share gene-drug interaction data in a distributed way. Track 2: Secure Genotype Imputation using Homomorphic Encryption The competitors are required to develop a homomorphic encryption (HE) based method for performing genotype imputation Track 3: Outsourcing Privacy-preserving Machine Learning as a Service through TEE The competitors are expected to implement a trained deep learning model for disease prediction under the protection of SGX, Intel's trusted execution environment, so the model can work on encrypted genomic data uploaded by the user. Track 4: Privacy-preserving machine learning The competitors are tasked to train a machine learning model on gene expression data for breast tumors, with all the data secretly shared across multiple servers. Time line 1. Competition start (May 13) 2. Solution due (Aug. 16) 3. Winner announcement (Oct. 1) 4. Workshop day (Oct. 26) 5. Publication submission deadline (Nov. 30) 6. Publication notification (TBD) Evaluation The outcomes of the competition will be evaluated by interdisciplinary teams at Indiana University, UC San Diego, and UT Health, based upon the performance of a solution and its privacy guarantee. Organization General Chairs: Haixu Tang and XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana University) Organization Committee: XiaoFeng Wang (IU), Haixu Tang (IU), Xiaoqian Jiang (UT Health), Miran Kim (UT Health), Arif Harmanci (UT Health), Tsung-Ting Kuo (UCSD) and Lucila Ohno-Machado (UCSD) Publication Winning results will be published a special issue of a journal. Contact Track 1 (UCSD): Tsung-Ting Kuo (tskuo(a)ucsd.edu<mailto:tskuo@ucsd.edu>), Lucila Ohno-Machado (lohnomachado(a)ucsd.edu<mailto:lohnomachado@ucsd.edu>) Track 2 (UT Health): Arif Harmanci (Arif.O.Harmanci(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Arif.O.Harmanci@uth.tmc.edu>), Miran Kim (Miran.Kim(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Miran.Kim@uth.tmc.edu>), Xiaoqiang Jiang (Xiaoqian.Jiang(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Xiaoqian.Jiang@uth.tmc.edu>) Track 3 (IU): Haixu Tang (hatang(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hatang@indiana.edu>), XiaoFeng Wang (xw7(a)indiana.edu<mailto:xw7@indiana.edu>) Track 4 (IU): Haixu Tang (hatang(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hatang@indiana.edu>), XiaoFeng Wang (xw7(a)indiana.edu<mailto:xw7@indiana.edu>) Best, 2019 iDASH Privacy & Security Workshop organizers

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI
by Francesco Rizzi 09 May '19

09 May '19

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2019: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X Held in conjunction with SC 19, Denver, CO <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary Supercomputers are becoming increasingly complex due to the prevalence of hierarchy and heterogeneity in emerging node and system architectures. As a result of these trends, users of conventional programming models for scalable high-performance applications increasingly find themselves writing applications using a mix of distinct programming models—such as Fortran90, C, C++, MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA—which are also often becoming more complex and detail-oriented themselves. These trends negatively impact the costs of developing, porting, and maintaining HPC applications. Meanwhile, new programming models and languages are being developed that strive to improve upon the status quo. This is accomplished by unifying the expression of parallelism and locality across the system, raising the level of abstraction, making use of modern language design features, and/or leveraging the respective strengths of programmers, compilers, runtimes, and operating systems. These alternatives may take the form of parallel programming languages (e.g., Chapel, Fortran 2018, Julia, UPC), frameworks for large-scale data processing and analytics (e.g., Spark, Tensorflow, Dask), or libraries and embedded DSLs that extend existing languages (e.g., Legion, COMPSs, SHMEM, HPX, Charm++, UPC++, Coarray C++, Global Arrays). The PAW-ATM workshop is designed to explore the expression of applications in scalable parallel programming models that serve as an alternative to the status quo. It is designed to bring together applications experts and proponents of high-level programming models to present concrete and practical examples of using such alternative models and to illustrate the benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming. Scope and Aims The PAW-ATM workshop is designed as a forum for exhibiting studies of parallel applications developed using high-level parallel programming models serving as alternatives to MPI+X-based programming. We encourage the submission of papers and talks that describe practical distributed-memory applications written using alternatives to MPI+X, and include characterizations of scalability and performance, expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in such models. Our hope is to create a forum in which architects, language designers, and users can present, learn about, and discuss the state of the art in alternative scalable programming models while also wrestling with how to increase their effectiveness and adoption. Beyond well-established HPC scientific simulations, we also encourage submissions exploring artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging application areas. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using high-level parallel programming languages and frameworks. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from artificial intelligence, data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using alternatives to MPI+X and comparisons to standard programming models. * Novel algorithms enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: 1) Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submitted papers must describe original work that has not appeared in, nor is under consideration for, another conference or journal. Papers shall be eight (8) pages minimum and not exceed ten (10) including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative dependencies, namely the Artifact Description (AD) and Artifact Evaluation (AE), are not included in the page count. 2) Extended abstracts summarizing preliminary/published results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended to propose timely communications of novel work that will be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that would be of interest to the PAW-ATM audience in terms of topic and timeliness. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. When deciding between submissions with similar merit, ties will be broken by giving weight to full-length paper submissions over extended abstracts. In addition, submissions whose focus relates more directly to the key themes of the workshop (application studies, computing at scale, high-level alternatives to MPI+X) will be given priority over those that don't. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submissions must use 10pt font in the IEEE format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC19. For more information, please refer to: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/ http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Olivier Aumage - Inria * Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Vicenç Beltran - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * John Biddiscombe - CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Marta G. Gasulla - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Magne Haveraaen - University of Bergen * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Swaroop S. Pophale - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Jason Riedy - Georgia Institute of Technology * Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2019 * Author Notification: September 1, 2019 * Camera Ready: October 1, 2019 * Workshop Date: November 17|18|22, 2019

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24th Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 09 May '19

09 May '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** PROGRAM SUMMARY *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Online registration open *** *** Early registration discount until May 20 *** *** Extensive info available on conference web site *** *** Highly recommended to book your hotel ASAP *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 visits Poland, for the first time, and is hosted in Warsaw from the 11th to the 14th of June. The conference is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of Ada and Reliable Software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is on the conference web site, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The 12-page Advance Program brochure is available there as well. The 2019 edition of the conference features a number of important innovations: - lower registration fee for conference, unified for all participants; - further reduced fee for all authors; - lower registration fee for all tutorials; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - an educational tutorial offered especially for those new to Ada; - more compact program with two core days (Wed & Thu); tutorials on Tuesday, then exhibition opening mid-afternoon, followed by welcome aperitif for all participants; - full-day DeCPS workshop on Friday (complementary with conference registration). Quick overview - Tue 11: tutorials, opening exhibition + AE GA, welcome reception - Wed 12 & Thu 13: core program - Fri 14: workshop Proceedings - peer-reviewed papers in open-access journal - industrial presentation and tutorial abstracts in Ada User Journal Conference & Program Chair - Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Keynote speakers - Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA, "A 2020 View of Ada" - other keynote to be confirmed (see conference web site) Workshop (full day) - 6th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019) Tutorials (full day) - "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol" Philip Munts, Sweden - "An Introduction to Ada" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Papers and Presentations - sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, Real-Time Systems - 9 refereed technical papers - 8 industrial presentations and experience reports - a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada" Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector; some exhibition slots still available - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday afternoon: opening of exhibition & Ada-Europe General Assembly, Welcome Aperitif on terrace overlooking Warsaw Airport - Wednesday evening: transportation to restaurant in town where Chopin was born, banquet with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration - online registration is open at <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html> - early registration discount until Monday May 20, 2019 - special low fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - extra discount for students - registration includes coffee breaks and lunches - full conference registration includes all social events - tutorial fees substantially reduced - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - see registration page for all details Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019 - 12-page Advance Program brochure online at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019%20AP.pdf> - support Ada-Europe 2019 with promotional poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in June 2019! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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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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LOD 2019: Submit Your Paper and Meet prominent speakers in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Optimization in Siena!
by Ludovico Montalcini 08 May '19

08 May '19

Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 5thInternational Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science LOD - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders, this September 10-13 in Siena. https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz LOD 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: · Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK · Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy · Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK · Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK · Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland · Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt · Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA · Richard E. Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Submit your Paper by May 10 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 LOD 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology and applications in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Optimization. Sessions · LOD 2019 Big-Data Challenge: Our sponsor, Neodata Lab, will offer a prize of €2000 to the applicant who develops the most accurate algorithm to process an “approximate SQL-like query answering system” on a real dataset. · Multi-Task Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning · Generative Adversarial Networks · Deep Neuroevolution · Networks with Memory · Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models · Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn · Chatbots and Conversational Agents · Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud · Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modelling of Complex Systems · Data-centric Engineering · Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR · Economic Data Science https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz

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8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2019)
by Panangadan, Anand 08 May '19

08 May '19

8th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2019) https://parlearning.github.io/ August 5, 2019 Anchorage, Alaska, USA In conjunction with the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019) Scaling up machine-learning (ML), data mining (DM) and reasoning algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) for massive datasets is a major technical challenge in the time of "Big Data". The past ten years have seen the rise of multi-core and GPU based computing. In parallel and distributed computing, several frameworks such as OpenMP, OpenCL, and Spark continue to facilitate scaling up ML/DM/AI algorithms using higher levels of abstraction. We invite novel works that advance the trio-fields of ML/DM/AI through development of scalable algorithms or computing frameworks. Ideal submissions should describe methods for scaling up X using Y on Z, where potential choices for X, Y and Z are provided below. Scaling up - Recommender systems - Optimization algorithms (gradient descent, Newton methods) - Deep learning - Distributed algorithms and AI for Blockchain - Sampling/sketching techniques - Clustering (agglomerative techniques, graph clustering, clustering heterogeneous data) - Probabilistic inference (Bayesian networks) - Graph algorithms, graph mining and knowledge graphs - Graph neural networks - Autoencoders and variational autoencoders - Generative adversarial networks - Generative models - Deep reinforcement learning Using - Parallel architectures/frameworks (OpenMP, CUDA etc.) - Distributed systems/frameworks (MPI, Spark, etc.) - Machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.) On - Various infrastructures, such as cloud, commodity clusters, GPUs, and emerging AI chips. Important Dates - Paper submission: May 12, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth) - Author notification: June 1, 2019 - Camera-ready version: Jun 8, 2019 Organization - General Chairs: Arindam Pal (TCS Research and Innovation, Kolkata, India) and Henri Bal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Program Chairs: Azalia Mirhoseini (Google AI, Mountain View, CA, USA) and Thomas Parnell (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)

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SSBSS 2019: Submit Your abstract and Meet prominent speakers in the fields of synthetic and systems biology in Pisa!
by Ludovico Montalcini 07 May '19

07 May '19

Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 6thInternational Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School SSBSS 2019, this July 22-26 in Pisa. https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz SSBSS 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the synthetic biology and systems biology. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: ADAM ARKIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA ANDREA CALIFANO, Columbia University, USA JASON CHIN, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK VIRGINIA CORNISH, Columbia University, USA DOMITILLA DEL VECCHIO, MIT, USA JOHN GLASS, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA RODRIGO LEDESMA-AMARO, Imperial College London, UK PHILIP MAINI, University of Oxford, UK STEVE OLIVER, University of Cambridge, UK KAREN POLIZZI, Imperial College London, UK WILLIAM SHIH, Harvard Medical School, USA JOERG STELLING, ETH Zurich, Switzerland SARAH TEICHMANN, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL-EBI, UK DANIELLE TULLMAN-ERCEK, Northwestern University, USA RON WEISS, MIT, USA Submit your Abstract by May 31 https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ SSBSS 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology and applications in the fields of synthetic and systems biology. Sessions · Computational Synthetic Biology · Genetic Engineering · Metabolic Engineering · Reading and Writing Genomes · Synthetic Genomes · Synthetic Circuits and Cells · Artificial Tissues and Organs · Genomically Recoded Organisms · Genome Design · Pathway Design · Biological Design Automation and Biological CAD · Computational Systems Biology · Genome Engineering · Cellular Systems Biology · Experimental Synthetic Biology · Computational Synthetic Biology · Stochastic Gene Regulation · Gene Signaling · Quantitative Molecular Biology · High-throughput Techniques · Biological Engineering · Industrial Synthetic and Systems Biology https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz

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ISSEA 2019 : Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances
by Robertas Damaševičius 01 May '19

01 May '19

ISSEA 2019 : Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.s…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?e…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/s…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.show…> Link: https://icist.ktu.edu/ When Oct 10, 2019 - Oct 12, 2019 Where Vilnius, Lithuania Submission Deadline May 25, 2019 Notification Due Jun 17, 2019 Final Version Due Jun 28, 2019 *Categories* <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> artificial intelligence <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=artificial%20intelligence> computation intelligence <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=computation%20intelligence> intelligent systems <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=intelligent%20systems> software engineering <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20engineering> Call For Papers The Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances (ISSEA) will be held at the 25th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST) scheduled on October 10-12, 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Scope: In the modern world each day brings more facts and information, and the need for efficient decision support systems is growing to assist in operation, user guiding, modeling, positioning, and solving complex problems. Today science concerns intelligent systems that use software engineering advances based Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Bio-Inspired Methods, etc. making them easily applicable in today’s world challenges. The combinations of these methods are crucial efficient computer technology that now is present in every aspect our lives, from simple machines and electronics to sophisticated computer systems. Continuous development, research and professional discussion devoted to these methods and techniques are important for further improvement.The session aims to cover topics in the latest achievements all aspects of computational intelligence and system engineering. The Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances (ISSEA) aims to cover topics dedicated to the latest achievements in computational intelligence and all IT related aspects of system engineering. The session aims at bringing together computer scientists, system engineers and IT researchers who are interested in the development of intelligent and efficient computer systems. We invite all prospective authors to submit a broad range of contributions related to the session topics. Topics: List of topics for the special session consists of all aspects related to Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances, and include, but are not limited to: - Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications - Modeling and Applied Mathematics in Various Aspects of Computational Intelligence - Computational Intelligence in Graphics, Multimedia and Vision Systems - Computational Intelligence in General Positioning, Civil Engineering, Bathymetric, Routing, Traffic, etc. - Computational Intelligence for Robotics and Automatics - Computational Intelligence for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Models and Applications - Code Quality, Data Management, Testing and Separation of Concerns (SoC) - Intelligent Software, Algorithms and Methods for Large Scale Systems Submission: Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system https://icist.ktu.edu Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the ICIST and ISSEA program committee, judged with respect to their quality, originality, and relevance to session topics. Publications: Proceedings will be published in ICIST volume in Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. Best papers in extended versions will be invited for publication in international journals. Chairs: Marcin Woźniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland Christian Napoli, University of Catania, Italy CONFERENCE CONTACTS E-mail: icist(a)ktu.lt Web site: https://icist.ktu.edu

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Deadline extension (May 13th): EUSIPCO 2019 Satellite Workshop on Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Autonomous Systems
by Nikos Nikolaidis 01 May '19

01 May '19

EUSIPCO 2019 SATELLITE WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER VISION AND DEEP LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS A CORUNA, SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 6th 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP SUMMARY During the last years we are witnessing a constantly increasing use and interest for Autonomous Systems (AS) such as UAVs, humanoid robots, cars, marine and underwater vessels, etc. This is due to their numerous applications in transport, surveillance, mapping, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, infrastructure inspection, cinematography etc. Successful deployment of autonomous systems involves tackling a number of interesting and challenging topics such as AS localization, planning, action and mapping, analysis of visual data coming from AS sensors for human centric or environment active perception and cognition, privacy protection technologies in AS data, 3D data (e.g. LIDAR) processing and analysis, communication issues for AS, sensor fusion, multimodal interfaces etc. These tasks can be addressed by using several methodologies from the areas of signal/image/video processing and analysis, computer vision and machine learning (including deep learning) provided that they respect several constraints and limitations inherent to AS, such as real-time operation, limited available computing resources on board the AS, need for robustness in real-life scenarios etc. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers and computer scientists working in the areas of signal/image/video processing and analysis, computer vision, and machine learning for AS to present and discuss recent developments and trends in this exciting area. The workshop will consist of 2-3 invited talks by prominent researchers and oral presentations featuring research papers. The workshop is technically sponsored by the H2020 Project MULTIDRONE (www.multidrone.eu) PAPER TOPICS Papers describing novel work are solicited in the following areas (non-exhaustive list): * Signal/image/video processing and analysis for autonomous systems * Machine learning for autonomous systems * Deep learning for autonomous systems * Computer vision for autonomous systems * Human centric active perception and cognition for autonomous systems (person/face/body part detection/recognition and pose estimation, person/face/body part tracking, human activity recognition, social signal -facial expressions, gestures etc- analysis and recognition, speech and biosignals analysis and recognition) * Environment active perception and cognition for autonomous systems (object detection/recognition and semantic scene segmentation and understanding, 2D/3D object tracking, 3D scene reconstruction, sensor information fusion) * Autonomous systems localization, planning, navigation, action and control * Embedded computing approaches for processing (computer vision, deep learning, etc) on autonomous systems * Intelligent cinematography using drones and other autonomous systems * Signal processing, computer vision and deep learning for autonomous systems safety (obstacle detection and avoidance, drone landing site detection, crowd and pedestrian detection and localization, road sign/lane detection/recognition etc) * Privacy protection and compliance to ethics regulations * Robust and secure mobile communications for autonomous systems * Signal enhancement, compression and transmission for autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Submission: May 13, 2019 (EXTENDED) * Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 31, 2019 * Camera Ready Papers: June 14, 2019 * Workshop: September 6, 2019 ENDORSEMENT This EUSIPCO satellite workshop is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and endorsed by the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI). The workshop is technically sponsored by the H2020 Project MULTIDRONE (www.multidrone.eu) SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCEDURE Prospective authors shall submit their papers using EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24822 ). Papers should adhere to the main conference guidelines to be considered and, eventually, be published in the proceedings. For more details please visit http://eusipco2019.org/paper-submission/ . All papers will go through a peer review process. Workshop proceedings will be handled by EURASIP and will be publicly available through the repository of EURASIP. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Nikos Nikolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, nnik(a)csd.auth.gr * Anastasios Tefas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, tefas(a)csd.auth.gr WORKSHOP TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain * Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * David Bull, University of Bristol, UK * Alberto Messina, RAI, Italy * Joao Costeira, IST, Portugal * Jesus Capitan, University of Seville, Spain * Rita Cunha, IST, Portugal INFORMATION For additional information regarding the workshop please contact one of the workshop organizers Nikos Nikolaidis (nnik(a)csd.auth.gr) and Anastasios Tefas, (tefas(a)csd.auth.gr) -- Nikos Nikolaidis, PhD Associate Professor School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

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