October 2022 - computational.science

[CFP] AMPM 2022: 2nd Workshop in Agent-based Modeling & Policy-Making
by Giovanni Sileno 25 Oct '22

25 Oct '22

================================================================= AMPM 2022: 2nd Workshop in Agent-based Modeling & Policy-Making ================================================================= in conjunction with JURIX 2022, the 35th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Workshop date: December 14th, 2022, Saarbrücken, Germany (the workshop will be conducted as a hybrid event). Deadline for submission: November 4th, 2022. Motivation ----------------- Global financial and economic crises, critical technological dependencies, pandemics, and climate change have cast serious doubts on the adequacy of conventional policy-making and law-making to consider mechanisms underlying social and economic phenomena. From their original application in engineering and science, computational models are increasingly being used to guide decisions by studying their potential consequences prior to making them. They are proposed as a tool for evidence-based policy-making in a diverse set of contexts: public health, ecology, labour markets, urban planning, social security, crime mitigation, economic development, platform economy and techno-regulation. Motivated by such widespread deployment, work on using computational models beyond executive policies and towards law-making — i.e. beyond operational guidance and towards regulation circumscribing the space in which policies can operate — is gaining momentum. Existing computational approaches to policy and normative design are known to face persisting complementary challenges: formal validity; effectiveness; efficiency; sustainability, etc. Several disciplines have focused on distinct aspects of these dimensions (e.g. computational legal theory, game theory, control systems design, dynamic systems, and system dynamics), offering alternative methodological standpoints and computational tools. Unfortunately, these specialized domains rarely interoperate and frequently contain troublesome assumptions such as overly simplistic fully observable static environments, static pay-off tables, static semantics, homogeneous agents that are perfectly rational and/or controllable. The resulting reduced views fail to take into account possible phenomena occurring at the boundaries between areas of concern. A crucial integrating role can be played by agent-based modelling (ABM). Based on an interactionist metaphor, agent-based models are an effective tool for understanding and reproducing the functioning and generation/emergence of complex macro-dynamics and constructs (shared knowledge, practices, protocols of interaction) at an aggregate level. Applied in social contexts, and particularly within the frame of computational social science (CSS), ABM lends itself to regulators and policymakers but also more widely to judges, attorneys, and legislators. Topics ----------------- AMPM is envisioned to be complementary to the traditional scope of computational social science, complex system research, and agent-based modeling, focusing on three main tracks: - models/theories going beyond policies, targeting normative and cognitive phenomena; - empirical methods, associated with the practice of ABM in policy and norm-making contexts; - better, dedicated tooling, such as computational methods, languages, and interfaces. In perspective, the workshop creates space for the ABM call for a “computation-enhanced regulatory empiricism”, exploiting computation to investigate factual underpinnings of the legal phenomenon, like the intricate networks of cognitive, social, technological, and legal mechanisms through which law emerges, is applied, and exerts its effects. Scope ----------------- The workshop aims to attract participants from various disciplines, and to be of interest to anyone working with the domain of governance of large-scale self-adaptive systems (human, computational, or natural): policy-making and normative design, governance, (computational) social science, (computational) legal theory, (computational) economics, autonomic computing, techno-regulation, distributed systems, agent-based modelling, and complexity science. Participation and Submission --------------------------------------------------- People interested in participating are requested to submit short (max 6 pages) or long papers (max 10 pages) before the November 4th 2022 via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ampm2022. Please use the CEURART 1-col style to prepare your submission. The typical submission for AMPM would be a reduced but self-complete and convincing version of a study (model, method, tool, theory, ..) — ongoing work to be later submitted to larger venues as AAMAS or similar —, or an innovative/provocative position paper, or a sound research stub with respect to the challenges expressed above. Authors of the accepted papers will present at the workshop. Presented papers can then be accepted or conditionally accepted for publication in the open-access CEUR workshop post-proceedings. A second round of reviews will be conducted on the camera-ready version to support that feedback and discussions are adequately integrated. Organizers ----------- Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Christoph Becker, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium Nicola Lettieri, INAPP (National Institute for Public Policy Analysis) and University of Sannio, Italy Program Committee ------------------ Christopher Frantz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Charlotte Gerritsen, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam Marina De Vos, University of Bath Davide Marocco, University of Naples "Federico II" Nieves Montes, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona Fernando Pascoal Dos Santos, University of Amsterdam Gary Polhill, James Hutton Institute Davide Dell'Anna, Delft University of Technology Margherita Vestoso, University of Sannio Veronika Fikfak, University of Copenhagen Vitor V. Vasconcelos, University of Amsterdam Nadia Giuffrida, Polytechnic University of Bari Parantapa Bhattacharya, Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative, University of Virginia Isaak Mengesha, University of Amsterdam Michael Carl Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley Alessandro Pluchino, University of Catania Wander Jager, University of Groningen Mostafa Mohajeri Parizi, University of Amsterdam Dominique Blouin, Télécom Paris Sebastian Benthall, New York University School of Law Important Dates --------------------------------- Submission deadline: 4 November 2022 until 23:59, Notification of acceptance: 18 November 2022 Workshop: 14 December 2022 (hybrid) Further information on: https://ampmresearch.github.io/

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2023
by Bahman Javadi 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID 2023)https://ccgrid2023.iisc.ac.in May 1 - 4, 2023, Bangalore, India The International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID) invites proposals for workshops to be co-located with CCGRID 2023. Workshops provide a forum for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the CCGRID community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of works in progress, peer-reviewed short/full papers, or a combination of the above. Workshops are typically held on the first day of the conference (May 1, 2023) in parallel tracks, and are recommended to be scheduled for half a day (3 hours of technical program), but could be proposed for a full day (6 hours) depending on the interest and space constraints. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20 to 40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. Peer-reviewed papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the CCGRIDW 2023 companion proceedings to be published online in the IEEE Explore digital library. Each paper must have at least two reviews to be eligible to appear in the proceedings. All authors and presented at the workshop should register for the CCGRID conference at the regular registration rates. One complimentary registration will be provided to a keynote speaker for each workshop. Submission Requirements Workshop proposals must be submitted in PDF format and should include: 1. The name and acronym of the workshop. 2. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, and how it is aligned with/complements the topics of CCGRID. 3. The names, affiliation, emails, and short bio (up to 10 lines) of the workshop organizers and program committee chairs, and their prior experience with organizing workshops/conferences. 4. a list of potential program committee members. 5. A description of the structure of the workshops (papers, invited talks, panel discussions, and so on) and its draft schedule for a half or full day event. 6. Estimated number of papers to be solicited and accepted, invited talks, potential number of attendees expected. 7. Data about previous editions of the workshop (if any), including whether it was co-located with CCGRID, the attendance, the number of papers or presentations submitted and accepted, and the links to the corresponding websites. 8. A publicity plan for attracting submissions and attendees. 9. A draft call for papers with deadlines (see recommended dates below). Worksop Proposal Submission and Review A PDF version of the workshop proposal should be submitted by email to both workshop chairs (email addresses given below). The workshop proposal will be reviewed by the CCGRID workshop chairs and a review panel, and notified of the decision, including suggestions for improvement. Important Dates for Workshop Proposal Deadline for workshop proposals: October 21, 2022. Workshop acceptance notification: November 15, 2022. Important Dates for Workshop Organization The acceptance notification and camera ready submission deadline should match the dates below. The paper submission deadline may be adjusted based on the workshop organizer preferences. Workshop paper submission deadline: January 6, 2023. Workshop paper acceptance notification: February 10, 2023. Camera ready paper submission: March 17, 2023. Workshop Chairs For further enquiries or information, please contact: Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (amini(a)louisiana.edu) Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India (nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in)

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2023 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2023 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the 2023 Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years (i.e., no earlier than January 1, 2020 and no later than September 30, 2023) are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include but are not limited to: developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale and energy-efficient computing; developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems; designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications; researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science; advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning; developing next-generation machine learning and AI approaches for science; advancing quantum computing technologies, software, algorithms and applications; evaluating or developing new and promising HPC systems and networking technologies researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks; developing large-scale visualization and analytics technologies; and managing scientific data in distributed environments. Application Process: For consideration applications are due October 24, 2022. Letters of Reference are due October 31, 2022. Details of the application process can be found by search for job 96569 at https://jobs.lbl.gov/.

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement)
by Arne Wilston 08 Oct '22

08 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Technical Achievement) is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015, Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) in 2016, Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) in 2017, Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 2018, Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) in 2019, Jinjun Chen (Swinburne, Australia) in 2020, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) in 2021. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements in scalable computing as well as significance and impact. (Max 2-page length) 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC. (Max 2-page length) 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service contributions to the TCSC. The endorsement letters should be included in the nomination package. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: 31 October 2022 Result Notification: 15 November 2022 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Award Committee. Award Selection Committee: Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada ( ltyang(a)ieee.org) Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan ( bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp) Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ( jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com) Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada (jamal(a)mcmaster.ca) Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy (beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it)

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (ECR)
by Arne Wilston 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Award for Excellence (Early Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing. Typically the candidates are within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community.An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible); 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended; 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. 4. CV of the nominee; 5. Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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Call for Nominations (CFN) - 2022 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (MCR)
by Arne Wilston 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Call for Nominations (CFN) - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) - 2022 The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is a technical committee within IEEE Computer Society, aimed at fostering research and education in scalable computing with applications. The committee solicits nominations of Middle Career Researcher (MCR) Award. The award includes an award plaque that will be presented at the annual IEEE HPCC conference, along with a public citation for the award on the IEEE TCSC website. IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researchers) recognizes individuals who have made distinguished, influential, and on-going yet towards long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing with applications. Typically the candidates are within 5 to 15 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nomination Materials: A candidate must be nominated by members of the community. Nominations must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) must consist of the following materials: (1) Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible) (2) Name/email of the nominee (3) A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award both on excellence and in relation to IEEE TCSC. (4) CV of the nominee (5) Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator - these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Members of selection committee cannot be nominators or referees. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: October 31, 2022 Results Notification: November 15, 2022 Award Selection Committee: Jinjun Chen (Chair), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan, bob(a)is.kyusan-u.ac.jp Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang(a)stfx.ca Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France, elbaz(a)laas.fr Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards for 2022 will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.

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