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CFP BIOMA'2018 @Paris
by El-ghazali Talbi 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** BIOMA 2018 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications 16-18 May 2018 Paris, France http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** The 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications BIOMA 2018 will be held in Paris (France) on May 16-18, 2018. http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ BIOMA is one of the main events focusing on the progress of the area of bioinspired optimization methods and their applications. As in the seven previous editions, BIOMA 2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. BIOMA 2018 welcomes papers that cover any aspects of bioinspired optimization research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and experimental studies. BIOMA 2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks and special sessions. Important dates - Submission deadline Dec 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Feb 15, 2018 - Final papers Mar 1, 2018 Paper submission : We will accept submissions in two different formats. - S1: Extended abstracts of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Long papers of a maximum of 12 pages Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a conference Springer book or LNCS (Lectures Notes in Computer Science) is considered. Proposals of invited sessions - Deadline Nov 1, 2017. Contact bioma2018(a)sciencesconf.org E-G. Talbi (Conference Chair)

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ACS 2017 -- Submission Deadline 30 June, 2017
by Roger Hallman 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

ACS 2017 : The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security Link: http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ When: Sep 18, 2017 - Sep 22, 2017 Where: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2017 Notification Due: Jul 11, 2017 Final Version Due: Jul 21, 2017 Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security (ACS 2017) Co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- September 18-22, 2017 Cloud computing is used by many organizations to build scalable systems in different domains, such as retail, healthcare, human resources, finance, education, and government. Our society has become more dependent on the services provided by these cloud-based systems. As a result, cyber-attacks on these cloud-based systems can have a dramatic impact on all aspects of our lives. Cloud security is an active area of research, involving many approaches for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and applications hosted in the cloud. However, existing techniques for securing cloud-based systems, including autonomic-based cloud systems, are based on the assumption that people will be involved in managing them. These techniques require end user input to implement effective cybersecurity strategies to defend the systems. The emerging area of Autonomic Cybersecurity can provide solutions that complement existing cybersecurity techniques in the cloud. The goal of Autonomic Cybersecurity is to use Autonomic Computing techniques and approaches to defend computing systems. The Autonomics and Cloud Security workshop aims to investigate approaches to cloud security in general, including cloud-based autonomic systems, as well as autonomic cybersecurity approaches for defending cloud-based systems. The workshop is soliciting papers in two categories, namely, the use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security, and techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in these two categories, which include, but are not limited to, the following major areas: The use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security: -Challenges in autonomics and cloud security and privacy -Emerging issues in autonomic cloud security -Autonomic identity and access management in cloud computing -Autonomic cybersecurity monitoring and incident response in cloud computing -Autonomic auditing and accountability in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to usable security in cloud computing -Autonomic security protocols in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to privacy in the cloud -Autonomic approaches for securing data and communication in the cloud -Secure autonomics-based cloud federation -Self-adaptive security policies -Self-configuration of cloud systems -Scalable cybersecurity in the cloud -Autonomic event recovery in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to moving target defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to cyber defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to intrusion detection and prevention systems in the cloud -Techniques and approaches for building resilient cloud systems -Cybersecurity in fog and edge computing -Application of big data analytics to securing the cloud -Autonomic approaches to trusted computing Techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems: -Cybersecurity in the cloud for supporting IoT applications -Security protocols in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for privacy preservation in cloud-based autonomic systems -Event detection and forensics in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for cloud-based autonomic systems resiliency -Secure computing techniques for the cloud (securing data-in-processing via Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and other secure computing techniques). -Techniques and approaches for anomaly detection in cloud-based autonomic systems -Scalable cybersecurity in cloud-based autonomic systems -Ethical hacking and penetration testing in cloud-based autonomic systems -Case studies in securing cloud-based systems We solicit research papers containing original research results and challenge papers motivating new research directions. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. Submissions may be made via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acs17 . UPDATE: A special issue on Cluster Computing (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) will include an extension of the best papers of all the workshops that will be held in conjunction with ICCAC 2017. Organization: General Chair Mamadou H. Diallo -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Program Co-Chairs Michael August -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Sherif Abdelwahed -- Mississippi State University, USA Technical Program Committee: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo -- The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tiago Cruz -- University of Coimbra, Portugal Song Fu -- University of North Texas, USA Roger Hallman -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nuno Neves -- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Jason R.C. Nurse -- University of Oxford, United Kingdom Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Muthu Ramachandran -- Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, United Arab Emirates Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA Vijay Varadharajan -- University of Newcastle, Australia Publicity and Web Chair: Christopher Graves -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Scott M. Slayback -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Contact: General Chair -- mamadou.h.diallo(a)navy.mil Publicity and Web Chair -- christopher.t.graves(a)navy.mil

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CFP: SC17 workshop, Computational Reproducibility at Exascale 2017 (CRE-2017)
by Keyrouz, Walid (Fed) 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Apologies for the potential duplication. -Walid ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== Computational Reproducibility at Exascale Workshop (CRE2017) ------------------------------------------------------------ Where: In cooperation with SC17, Denver, Colorado When: Sunday afternoon, November 12, 2017 Web: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Deadline: Monday, August 28, 2017 Notifications: Monday, September 18, 2017 Full Papers: Monday, October 02, 2017 Organized by: Walid Keyrouz (NIST), Miriam Leeser (NEU), and Michael Mascagni (FSU & NIST) ====================================================================== This workshop will address the problems of reproducibility in HPC in general and those anticipated as we scale to Exascale machines in the next decade. We seek contributions of extended abstracts (two pages) in the areas of computational reproducibility in HPC from academic, government, and industry stakeholders. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Case studies of reproducibility or the lack of thereof - Reproducibility issues in current HPC - System-level solutions - Algorithmic solutions - Software solutions - Uncertainty quantification in computational reproducibility - Fundamental numerical analysis of reproducibility - Future prospects Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed and the top papers will be selected to be presented at the workshop. In addition, a group of papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) devoted to Computational Reproducibility. Please note that papers submitted to the IJHPCA for the CRE2017 special issue must fall within the IJHPCA's editorial scope. This primarily means that all papers for the special issue must have relevance to high-performance computing. Overview and Background ======================= Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. As computing has grown into a powerful tool for scientific inquiry, computational reproducibility has been one of the core assumptions underlying scientific computing. With "traditional" single-core CPUs, documenting a numerical result was relatively straightforward. However, hardware developments over the past several decades have made it almost impossible to ensure computational reproducibility or to even fully document a computation without incurring a severe loss of performance. This loss of reproducibility started when systems combined parallelism (e.g., clusters) with non-determinism (e.g., single-core CPUs with out-of-order execution). It has accelerated with recent architectural trends towards platforms with increasingly large numbers of processing elements, namely multicore CPUs and compute accelerators (GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs). Programmers targeting these platforms rely on tools and libraries to produce codes or execute them efficiently. As a result, codes can run efficiently, but have execution details that can be impossible to predict and are often very difficult to understand after execution. Furthermore, parallel implementations often result in code with varying execution orders between runs, leading to non-reproducible computations. The underlying reasons are that (1) the hardware and system software allocate parallel work in ways that are not always specifiable at compile time and (2) the execution often proceeds in an opportunistic manner with the execution order changing between runs. As such, floating-point computations, which are not commutative and associative, can have different execution orders and execute on different processing elements between runs, leading to runs with varying results as a matter of fact. The predictability of systems is further complicated by two issues that are becoming more critical as systems grow in scale: (1) interconnect systems with latencies that are often outside the control of programmers and (2) reliability as the mean time between failure (MTBF) is now measured in hours on large systems. This situation seriously affects the ability to rely on scientific computations as a metrological substitute for experimentation. This workshop extends the Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale Workshops (conducted in 2015 and 2016 at SC) to address the broader range of issues in reproducibility that arise when computing at Exascale. The first edition, NRE2015 was held at SC15, its webpage can be found here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/numreprod2015.cfm. The second edition, NRE2016, was at SC16 and its webpage can be found here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre/nre-2016.html. Submissions =========== Submissions of two page extended abstracts are sought. The format for the abstracts should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. Templates are available at "IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings" (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) The full papers must be in the format of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelines) The abstracts are to submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Important Dates (all are Mondays) ================================= Aug. 28, 2017: submission deadline for two page abstracts via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Sep. 18, 2017: notification of authors about their submissions based on rejection, acceptance as a paper, acceptance as a paper and presentation Oct. 02, 2017: submission deadline for full papers for refereeing via the IJHPCA site, the papers must be in IJHPCA format Organizers and Co-Editors of the IJHPCA Special Issue ===================================================== - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Michael Mascagni, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Florida State University, USA Steering Committee ================== - Dong H. Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA - David Bailey, UC Davis, USA - Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Torsten Hoefler, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland - Walid Keyrouz (co-organizer), NIST, USA - Miriam Leeser (co-organizer), Northeastern University, USA - Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA - Michael Mascagni (co-organizer), FSU/NIST, USA - Junji Nagano, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan - Nathalie Revol, INRIA/ENS-Lyon, France - Siegfried Rump, University of Hamburg, Germany - Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Contact ======= E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace ".at." by "@") -Walid ------ Walid Keyrouz, PhD Research Scientist NIST | ITL | SSD

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[CFP] 7th Int. Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA2017)
by Fulvio Frati 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

** SIMPDA 2017 ** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp] **************************************************************************** *** SIMPDA 2017 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS 6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it **************************************************************************** *** ## About SIMPDA With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Neuchatel. ###Call for Papers The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2017) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume of CEUR workshop series. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911) scheduled for late 2018 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: - Business Process Modeling languages, notations and methods - Lightweight Process Model - Data-aware and data-centric approaches - Process Mining with Big Data - Variability and configuration of process models - Process simulation and static analyses - Process data query languages - Process data mining - Privacy-aware process data mining - Process metadata and semantic reasoning - Process patterns and standards - Foundations of business process models - Resource management in business process execution - Process tracing and monitoring - Process change management and evolution - Business process lifecycle - Case studies and experience reports - Social process discovery - Crowdsourced process definition and discovery ### Workshop Format: In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop: The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students. Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc that they got out of the workshop. ### Call for PhD Research Plans The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. Research plans should be at most of 5 page long and should be organised following the following structure: - Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. - Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. - Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). - Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. - Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. - Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA PhD award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted. Student Scholarships An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP. In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it ### CALL for Demonstrations and Posters Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 10 pages. Posters allow the presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Accepted demonstrations and posters will be presented at the symposium. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings. ### Important Dates - Paper Submission: 4 October 2017 - Submission of PhD Presentations: 4 October 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 14 November 2017 - Submission of Camera Ready Papers: 28 November 2017 - Second International Symposium on Process Data: 6-8 December 2017 - Post-proceeding submissions: 30 March 2018 ## Keynote Speakers TBA ## Organizers ### CHAIRS - Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kilan Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ### ADVISORY BOARD - Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Robert Meersman, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Wilfried Grossmann, University of Vienna, Austria ### Program Committee - Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA - Benoit Depaire, University of Hasselt, Belgium - Chintan Mrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Christophe Debruyne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada - Edgar Weippl, TU Vienna, Austria - Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia - George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK - Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK - Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Josep Carmona, UPC - Barcelona, Spain - Kristof Boehmer, University of Vienna, Austria - Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany - Marcello Leida, TAIGER, Spain - Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria - Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven TU, Netherlands - Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College, UK - Mazak Alexandra, University of Vienna, Austria - Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Robert Singer, FH Joanneum, Austria - Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Thomas Vogelgesang, University of Oldenburg, Germany - Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania - Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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[Deadline approaching] CFP: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing, SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop)
by roman 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Dear Colleague, We invite you to submit a contribution to SPIFEC 2017, the 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing. The paper submission deadline is June 30th. This workshop will be held on September 14th, in conjunction with ESORICS 2017. Revised accepted papers will be published as a joint post-proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with other ESORICS Workshops. More information is available at: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec Looking forward to meeting you in Oslo! Best regards, the organizers, Rodrigo Roman, Chunming Rong, Ruben Rios

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CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) ***************************************** Important Dates Papers Due: 30 July 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: 9 September 2017 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2017 Final Papers Due: 1 October 2017 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. WORKS papers will be published in collaboration with SIGHPC and will be available from both ACM and IEEE digital repositories. ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK – General Chairs Johan Montagnat, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC, USA Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Program Committee Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Université Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Embedded and VLSI Design 2018
by Ishan Thakkar 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Call for Papers: International Conference on Embedded and VLSI Design 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 31st International Conference on VLSI Design The 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems January 6-11, 2018, Pune, India http://embeddedandvlsidesignconference.org This joint conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss current topics in VLSI design, electronic design automation, embedded systems, and emerging technologies. Two days of tutorials will be followed by three days of regular paper sessions, special sessions, and embedded tutorials. Industry presentation sessions along with exhibits, panel discussions, Design Contest, and Education Forum round off the program. The conference is followed by the Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT) workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on previously unpublished results in the following categories: ******************************** EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN E1: Embedded Systems Hardware: HW/SW co-design, SoC, multi-core systems, board level hardware, HW security, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, sensors/actuators, displays E2: Embedded Systems Software: Operating systems, firmware, algorithms, middleware, runtimes, parallelization, virtualization, software for low power, security, reliability, real-time support, emerging applications (e.g., automotive, telematics, analytics) E3: FPGA and Reconfigurable Systems: FPGA architecture and FPGA circuit design, CAD for FPGA, FPGA prototyping, FPGA-based accelerators E4: Wireless Systems: Sensor networks, low-power wireless systems, wireless protocols, wireless power delivery E5: Embedded Case Studies: Practical and industrial tools, methodologies, designs in various application areas: wireless, medical, networking, multimedia, automotive, controls, etc. DESIGN TOOLS AND EDA T1: Design Verification: Functional, formal, coverage-driven, hardware-assisted, and assertion-based verification, behavioral, RTL, and gate-level simulation, emulation, equivalence checking T2: Test, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance: DFT, fault modelling and simulation, ATPG, BIST, repair, delay test, fault tolerance, online test, AIMS/RF test, board-level and system-level test, silicon debug, post-silicon validation, memory test, reliability testing T3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD): Logic and behavioral synthesis, logic mapping, simulation and formal verification, layout (partitioning, placement, routing, floor planning, and compaction), post route optimizations DESIGN METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGY M1: System-level Design: Methodologies and architectures, processor and memory design, multi-core, GPU design, networks-on-chip, defect-tolerant architectures, accelerators, distributed systems (e.g., automotive), cyber-physical systems M2: Advances in Digital Design: Logic and physical synthesis, place and route, clock tree design, timing and signal integrity, design for manufacturability and yield, power integrity, variation-tolerant design M3: Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF Design: Design of analog, mixed signal, and RF IP, high-speed wired and wireless interfaces, low-power analog and RF M4: Power-Aware Design: Power analysis and estimation, optimization and low-power design, energy-efficient design, battery-aware design, thermal management, energy harvesting M5: CMOS Technology and Devices: Deep nanoscale CMOS devices, device modelling and simulation, multi-domain simulation, device/circuit-level reliability and variability M6: Emerging Technologies: Post-CMOS devices, MEMS sensors, biomedical circuits, lab-on-chip, carbon nanotubes, silicon photonics, spintronic, memristors, neuromorphic and quantum computing SAFE AND SECURE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS S1: Design for Safety and Reliability Physically unclonable functions, random number generators, fault tolerance systems and architectures S2: Secure Circuits and Systems System security, side channel attacks and anti-piracy methodologies, Embedded systems security in healthcare, automotive, industrial and IoT applications S3: Safety Assurance of Circuits/ Systems Design for functional safety and certifications in airborne, health care, automotive systems ******************************** EMBEDDED TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS: Proposals in relevant emerging areas should be submitted as two-page abstracts. On acceptance, authors are required to submit full regular papers. HALF-DAY AND FULL-DAY TUTORIALS: Tutorial proposal are invited for topics of interest including VLSI design, EDA, VLSI technology, and embedded systems. The tutorials will be arranged on the first two days of the conference. PANELS: Proposals must be submitted with an abstract, and a list of panelists. SUBMISSIONS: All submissions should be made electronically via the conference website by July 16, 2017. Your manuscript should clearly state the novel ideas, results, and applications of the contribution. Paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review. Papers must be in PDF format and not exceed 6 single-spaced pages including figures and references in two-column IEEE conference paper format. Papers exceeding the page limit or identifying the authors will be rejected without review. EXHIBITS: Please contact the Exhibits Chair to explore opportunities to display your products/services. FELLOWSHIPS: The conference will award fellowships, based on need and merit, to partially cover expenses of attendees from India. Application details will be posted at the conference website. DESIGN CONTEST: Please check the conference website or contact the Design Contest Chair for more details. USER TRACK AND PHD FORUM: Please check the conference website for details on criteria and submission dates. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full paper deadline: July 16, 2017 Acceptance notification: September 17, 2017 Camera ready paper due: October 8, 2017

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Third IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SN-2017)-Berlin, Germany
by Shao Ying Zhu 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Call for Papers The Third International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE NFV-SDN conference, 6-8 November, Berlin, Germany Workshop website: http://www.sn-2017.info/ Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: · Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks · Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security · Secure design of NFV and SDN solutions, security enablers · Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies · Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV · Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems · Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions · 5G security architecture, trust and confidence · Authentication, authorization and Accounting in SDN · Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network · Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT · Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing · Security of SDN API · Risk and compliance issues in SDN · Securing SDN infrastructure · Security architecture for SDN · Security standard of SDN · Security of SDN data plane · Security of SDN control plane · Security of SDN application plane · Security of Routing in SDN · Security of network slicing · Security as a service for SDN The workshop deadlines: · Paper Submission: June 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2017 · Camera Ready Submission: September 15, 2017  Submission Please use EDAS to upload your submission at http://edas.info/N23798. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two‐column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via EDAS<http://edas.info/N23798>. All submitted papers will be peer‐reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Chairs · Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby,UK · George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece · Collin Allison, University of St Andrews,UK · Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee (TPC) · Diego Lopez – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Harilaos Koumaras – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui – i2CAT, Spain · Ludovic Jacquin – Hewlett Packard Labs, UK · Nicolae Paladi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden · Augusto Ciuffoletti – University of Pisa, Italy · Carolina Canales – Ericsson, Spain · Michail-Alexandros Kourtis – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Marco Anisetti – University of Milan, ItalyMarco Anisetti – University of Milan, Italy · Sandra Scott-Hayward – Queen’s University Belfast, UK · Miguel Angel Garcia – Ericsson, Spain · Antonios Litke – Infili, Greece · Nikolaos Papadakis – Infili, Greece · Dimitris Katsianis, Incites, Luxemburg · Antonio Agustin Partor Perales – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany · Abdelkader Outtagarts – Nokia, Bell Labs, France Contacts Eleni Trouva - trouva(a)iit.demokritos.gr<mailto:trouva@iit.demokritos.gr> Dr. Shao Ying Zhu - s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.y.zhu@derby.ac.uk> Dr. George Gardikis - ggar(a)space.gr<mailto:ggar@space.gr> Linas Maknavicius - linas.maknavicius(a)nokia-bell-labs.com<mailto:linas.maknavicius@nokia-bell-labs.com> Dr. Colin Allison - ca(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:ca@st-andrews.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. 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CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications

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