April 2020 - computational.science

CfP VHPC'20: extension, Zoom Online Event without charge
by Michael Alexander 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Online Zoom Event https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vC5pwmgbQ6ypJEfyQ8nHIg Physical Event: ISC, Frankfurt Paper Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2020 (extended) Springer LNCS 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. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. 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 workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes) - Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC - Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declerative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch - Scheduling, job management - Execution paradigm - workflow - Data management - Deployment paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation 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 12th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline - extended (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, Italy 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 François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan 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. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=26973 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 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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IEEE BigData 2020 Call for Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 20, 2020
by CFP Conference 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

*IEEE Big Data 2020 Call for Workshop Proposals* 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/index.html December 10-13, 2020, Atlanta, GA, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years: The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. 1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. 2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 (http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2014/, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries. 3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 (http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2015/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries. 4. The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. 5. The IEEE Big Data 2017 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2017/, regular paper acceptance rate: 17.8%) was held in Boston, MA, Dec 11-14, 2017 with close to 1000 registered participants from 50 countries. 6. The IEEE Big Data 2018 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2018/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 19.7%) was held in Seattle, WA, Dec 10-13, 2018 with close to 1100 registered participants from 47 countries. 7. The IEEE Big Data 2019 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2019/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Los Angeles, CA, Dec 9-12, 2019 with close to 1200 registered participants from 54 countries. The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Hardware/OS Acceleration for Big Data, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2020 http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/index.html for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* April 20, 2020 Workshop proposal submission due - submit to: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW May 1, 2020: Notification to workshop proposers June 1, 2020: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2020 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, Please do not change the camera-ready date) *Oct 1, 2020:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Nov 1, 2020:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors *Nov 15, 2020:* Camera-ready of accepted papers *Dec 10-13 2020:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Proposal Submission:* https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW *Workshop Co-Chairs* Prof. Eyhab AI-Masri, University of Washington, USA, ealmasriu(a)gmail.com Prof. Zhiyuan Chen, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA, zhchen(a)umbc.edu Prof. Jeff Saltz, Syracuse University, USA, jeffrey.s.saltz(a)gmail.com ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM3NTUxIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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Call for Papers -International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)
by Rohlupuia Pachuau 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)June 20~21, 2020, Dubai, UAEhttps://csita2020.org/mlcl/index.html ScopeInternational Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Cloud computing. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.This conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of machine learning and cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including (but not limited to):Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following* Case Studies and Theories in Cloud Computing* Cloud Application, Infrastructure and Platforms* Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries* Cloud Based, Parallel Processing* Cloud Business* Cloud Computing Architecture* Cloud Storage and File Systems* Consolidation* Data storage and Management in Cloud Computing* Design Tool for Cloud Computing* Energy Management and Programming Environments* Location Based Services, Presence, Availability, and Locality* Machine Learning Applications* Machine Learning in knowledge-intensive systems* Machine Learning Methods and analysis* Machine Learning Problems* Machine Learning Trends* Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing* Mobile Clouds for New Millennium, Mobile Devices* Networks within Cloud systems, the Storage Area, and to the Outside Virtualization in the Context of Cloud Computing* NoSQL Data Stores* Performance, SLA Management and Enforcement* Platforms* Resource Provisioning* Security Techniques for the Cloud* Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing* Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud)* System Integration, Virtual Compute Clusters* The Open Cloud: Cloud Computing and Open Source* Virtualization on Platforms in the CloudPaper SubmissionAuthors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 12, 2020. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed). Important Dates* Submission Deadline : April 12, 2020* Authors Notification : May 20, 2020* Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due :May 28, 2020Contact us : Here's where you can reach us : mlcl(a)csita2020.org (or) mlclconf(a)yahoo.com

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CFP: Research Book, Springer publisher. HPC, Scientific Computing, Cloud, cluster, ... (USA); Deadline: April 25
by cs＠american-cse.org 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Dear subscribers of computational.science listserv: We believe that the appended announcement is of interest to the subscribers. Please share with those who would be interested. Thank you. Rob --- CALL FOR PAPERS (Topics: HPC, Scientific Computing, Cloud, ...) Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER NATURE in BOOK SERIES: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence https://www.springer.com/series/11769 Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 25, 2020 All accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in book series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The books will be widely disseminated (to over 1,000 libraries and to 1,000's of individuals). It should be noted that publication of papers in research books would permit each paper to be quite comprehensive (if need be) and so the publication value would be comparable to journal publications; and so would be listed as such in the list of research contribution. Our set of previous published books by Springer received the top 25% downloads in their respective topics with many papers receiving over 100 citations (some received over 700 citations). PDPTA 2020: The 26th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/pdpta20 CSC 2020: The 18th International Conference on Scientific Computing https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/csc20 MSV 2020: The 17th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/msv20 GCC 2020: The 16th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/gcc20 Co-Located: July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA In case of hesitation by some authors/speakers to travel during Year 2020 (due to Coronavirus), the CSCE Steering Committee has developed a policy for Non-Attendance. In summary, for Year 2020, the non-attendance by any registered author would not negatively impact the publication of his/her paper. Having said the above, based on a survey conducted recently, we anticipate that all (or the vast majority) of speakers/authors to physically attend the CSCE 2020 Congress in late July. For more information see: the NON-ATTENDANCE POLICY: https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/non_attendance_policy KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS: There will be between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks; speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured Keynote Speakers in recent years have included: - Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL) - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.) - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT) - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology) - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of Cyber-infrastructure) - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy) - Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program; former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California) - Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering) - Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University) - Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin) - Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA) - Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)) - Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan) - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley) - Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech) - Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence) - Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) - and over 200 other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest international annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos): https://photos.ucmss.com/ https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html INTRODUCTION: In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program committees of PDPTA, CSC, MSV, GCC conferences have their 2020 events held at one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122 technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over 158 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including: Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, Twitter, Uber Technologies, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, ...), US national laboratories (including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside USA; from 69 nations. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: https://american-cse.org/ Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Book Title: Advances in Parallel & Distributed Processing, & Applications Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes: online Springer Link (link.springer.com/) Scopus (www.info.scopus.com) SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org) EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and others. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: https://american-cse.org/ Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format: later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include the followings: - Title of the paper - Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author (identify the name of the Contact Author) - Abstract (between 100 and 120 words) - A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the work described in the paper - Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper", "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper". - The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space permitting). Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site portal at https://american-cse.org/ Type of Submissions/Papers: - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages): Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research contributions. They must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and support for the results and conclusions should also be provided. The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as journal papers. - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages): Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should provide overall research methodologies with some results. The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as regular papers. - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages): Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). IMPORTANT DATES: April 25: 2020: Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/ - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages); - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages); - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages) May 08, 2020: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) May 22, 2020: Final papers + Copyright + Registration July 27-30, 2020: PDPTA 2020: The 26th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications + CSC 2020: The 18th International Conference on Scientific Computing + MSV 2020: The 17th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods + GCC 2020: The 16th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 CONTACT: Questions and inquiries should be sent to: Conference Secretariat: cs(a)american-cse.org

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[Changes to deadline] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2020) - CFP
by Barbara Fila (Kordy) 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

GraMSec 2020: The Seventh International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security http://gramsec.uni.lu June 22, 2020 *Online event* Co-located with CSF 2020 *LNCS post-proceedings confirmed* SCOPE The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security is an established scientific event dedicated to study and exchange of experiences on graphical security and safety modelling. TOPICS This year, we encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 3. Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations 4. Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) 5. Risk analysis and management: models and graphical methodologies for security and privacy risk management in business and organisational architectures 6. Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 10. Visual security: modelling and analytics for security visualisations. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. We welcome a broad range of contributions: from theory to tools and experience reports. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 18 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Short papers (up to 10 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2020 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2020. PUBLICATION As in previous editions, we the post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, published by Springer. Proceedings will be published after the workshop, thus permitting the authors to incorporate feedback. VENUE Due to the current coronavirus outbreak, the IEEE CSF Symposium and its associated workshops, including GraMSec, will be held online this year. Details about registration and participation will be soon made available. IMPORTANT DATES Given the situation and the fact that the workshop will be held online, we will keep only one submission deadline. - Paper submissions due: Friday, April 24, 2020 - Notifications: Friday, May 29, 2020 - Workshop: Monday, June 22, 2020 - Camera ready versions due: Friday, August 7, 2020 PROGRAM CHAIRS Harley Eades III, Augusta University, United States of America Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, United States of America Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christian W. Probst, Unitec, New Zealand Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PUBLICITY CHAIR Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France WEB CHAIR Reynaldo Gil Pons, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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