A Research Fellow position is immediately available at Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This position is part of a
corporate lab initiative involving NTU and Delta Electronics, a leading
electronics manufacturing company. The successful candidate will conduct
research to improve the resilience of industrial IoT networks against
dynamic environment conditions and cyber-attacks. The candidate should
have obtained a Ph.D. degree in computer science or computer engineering
(or relevant disciplines) and demonstrated strong research ability by
publications on prestigious venues in networking. Knowledge and
experiences on software-defined networking (SDN) are strong pluses.
The candidate will work with a research team including multiple NTU
faculty members and Delta engineers. The position will provide an
excellent opportunity to perform both basic and translational research
in close collaboration with industry. Other advantages of the position
include (1) stable multi-year fund subject to satisfactory performance,
(2) various opportunities in Singapore's strategic cyber resilience
research cluster, e.g., Temasek Fellowship
(http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/trf/index_trf.html), and (3) high-quality living
and low tax rates in Singapore.
Interested candidates can send CV with full publication list to Dr. Rui
Tan at tanrui(a)ntu.edu.sg
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Rui Tan
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
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*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
Call for contributions to the JSC Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning
https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar <https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar>
JSC=Journal of Symbolic Computation*
https://www.journals <https://www.journals/>. elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation <http://elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation>
GUEST EDITORS:
Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain
Zoltán Kovács, The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Austria
Tomas Recio, University of Cantabria, Spain
IMPORTANT DATES
submission deadline: February 1, 2018
notification of acceptance / rejection: July 1, 2018
final versions: September 15, 2018
SCOPE:
Since the last half century, automated deduction in elementary
geometry has become one of the most successful achievements in the
field of automated reasoning. Along these decades various methods and
techniques have been studied and developed for automated proving and
discovering of elementary geometry statements. On the other hand,
dynamic geometry software systems have emerged, such as Cabri
Geometry, C.a.R., Cinderella, DrGeo, GeoGebra, The Geometer's
Sketchpad, Geometry Expert, Geometry Expressions or Kig with an
ever-increasing presence in mathematics education. Some of them
possess a large number of users (over thirty million) all around the
world.
The merging of these two tools (automatic proving and dynamic
geometry) is, thus, a very natural, challenging and promising issue,
currently involving logic, symbolic computation, software development,
algebraic geometry and mathematics education experts all from over the
world.
The Special Issue intends to be an opportunity for
- presenting the current state of the art concerning the development
of automatic proving features on dynamic geometry systems,
- discussing the current and potential applications of such features
in different contexts, such as CAGD or mathematics education.
TOPICS (not restricted to):
- Algorithmic aspects: formal, logic and algebraic geometry
approaches, constraint solving, invariant and coordinate-free methods,
real and complex geometry issues, probabilistic, synthetic approaches,
techniques from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics.
- Software aspects: Implementation of automated proving methods in
dynamic geometry programs, design of packages and systems, data
representation. Parallel and distributed computing, considerations
for modern hardware and new devices. User-interface issues, use with
systems for digital libraries, courseware, ...
- Application aspects: applications to mechanics, geometric modeling,
CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education.
Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for
publication elsewhere. All the papers will be refereed according to
the JSC standards. Papers should follow the guidelines for JSC
submissions (see
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171… <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171…>),
and should be submitted through Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018>).
The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following
questions in succinct and informal manner:
- What is the problem?
- Why is the problem important?
- What has been done so far on the problem?
- What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem?
- Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification)
- Why is the contribution non-trivial?
Make the paper complete (since there is no page limit):
- All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed.
- All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed.
- All the theorems must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed).
- All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be
illustrated by well-chosen examples.
* An international journal, the Journal of Symbolic Computation,
founded by Bruno Buchberger in 1985, is directed to mathematicians and
computer scientists who have a particular interest in symbolic
computation. Automated theorem proving is one of the research areas of
interest highlighted in the Journal’s description. The Journal of
Symbolic Computation has a 1.274 Impact Factor, according to the last
Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017).
*COMSNETS 2018, 3 - 7 January 2018, Bangalore, India*
* www.comsnets.org <http://www.comsnets.org/>*
Technical Co-Sponsors: *IEEE, IEEE COMSOC*
In Co-operation With: *ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE*, *Ministry of
Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India*
Conference Patrons: *CISCO, Qualcomm, TCS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Research,
Bosch, **Singapore Management University, InnAccel, Adobe, VMware,
Phimetrics, LG, ICANN*
The Tenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS
(COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 3-7, 2018.
COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in
Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for
a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry,
practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing
cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and
technology.
The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting
of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely
topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in
progress.
Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to
allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government
leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement
the technical program.
The conference will recognize one or more papers, demos, posters, and
Graduate Student forum presentations with awards.
*Conference Highlights*
The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held
from *January
4-6 2018*.
The workshops will be held on the first and the last day of the
conference *- January
3 and January 7* *2018.*
ASSET will be held on *January 8 and January 9* *2018.*
- Keynote Talks
- Invited Talks
- Paper Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- Mentoring Sessions
- Panel Discussions
- Graduate Student Forum
- Demo & Exhibits
- Mobile India 2018
- *Co-located COMSNETS Workshops*
- *WACI*
- *Intelligent Transportation Systems*
- *Social Networking*
- *NetHealth*
- ASSET
*2018 Banquet Speaker*
- VC Gopalratnam, Cisco, India (https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in
/about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html
<https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in/about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html>
)
*2018 Keynote Speakers*
- Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/)
- Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany (
https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/
<https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/>)
- Dhananjay Gore, Qualcomm R&D, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/d
hananjay-gore-b2b19b1/?ppe=1)
*2018 Invited Speakers*
- Kirill Kogan, IMDEA Labs, Spain (http://people.networks.imdea.
org/~kirill_kogan/)
- Binbin Chen, ADSC, Singapore (https://adsc.illinois.edu/peo
ple/binbin-chen)
- Venu Veeravalli, UIUC, USA (http://vvv.ece.illinois.edu/)
- Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Norhteastern University, USA (
http://krc.coe.neu.edu/)
- Mahesh K Marina, University of Edinburgh, USA (
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/
<http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/>)
- Biplab Sikdar, NUS, Singapore (https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/st
aff/bio/biplab.html)
- Prasenjit Dey, IBM, IRL (https://www.linkedin.com/in/p
rasenjit-dey-4082763/?ppe=1)
- Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (https://www.net.in.tum.de/mem
bers/carle/)
- Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA (https://blogs.cisco.com/autho
r/raghunathnambiar)
- Lipika Dey, TCS Innovation Labs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/l
ipika-dey-3381713/?ppe=1)
- Josef Noll, Univ. of Oslo., Norway (https://www.mn.uio.no/its/eng
lish/people/aca/jnoll/)
- Ajit Rao, Qualcomm, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajitvrao/)
*COMSNETS 2018 General Co-Chairs*
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA
Archan Misra, SMU, Singapore
Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research, India
*COMSNETS 2018 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs*
Subir Biswas, MSU, USA
Mun Choon Chan, NUS, Singapore
Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India
*COMSNETS 2018 Publicity Co-Chairs*
Aswhin Rao, University of Helsinki
Ashutosh Nayyar, USC, USA
Arash Asadi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Vinayak Naik, IIIT Delhi, India
[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
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CyberSciTech 2018 Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals
http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html
CyberSciTech 2018 invites Workshops and Special Sessions (SS) to enrich and
broaden the research focus of the main conference (
http://cyber-science.org/2018/). The purpose is to provide a comprehensive
forum on topics that will not be fully explored during the main event as
well as to encourage in-depth discussion of technical and application
issues related to Cyber Science and Technology. This is a unique
opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to shape the future
research directions and share their original research results and practical
development experiences on specific topics related to cyber science and
technology.
The proposals should contain the following information:
• The title of the Workshop/SS, including both full name and abbreviation.
• The scope and objectives (up to 1 page).
• Short bios of the key organizers.
• Brief plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise the Workshop/SS or
possible submissions to special issues of journals), procedures for
selecting papers (including the expected number of accepted papers), and
the expected number of participants.
• A tentative website/URL of the proposed Workshop/SS (optional).
• If the proposed Workshop/SS has been previously organized, please also
briefly describe its history (e.g., number of submissions and accepted
papers, attendance, etc.)
Please email your proposals in PDF format as early as possible and not
later than February 10, 2018 to the Workshop Chairs at
cyberscitechcongress(a)gmail.com. Please use “CyberSciTech 2018 Workshop/SS
Proposal” as the email subject. Once we receive a proposal, a decision will
be made in a week. Accepted proposals should follow strictly the important
dates, particularly paper notification and camera-ready dates listed below.
Important Dates for CyberSciTech 2018 Workshops/SS
Proposal Submission Due Feb. 10, 2018
Proposal Decision Due Feb. 17, 2018
Paper Submission Due Apr. 30, 2018
Author Notification Due May 20, 2018
Camera-ready Papers Due June 15, 2018
For accepted proposals, organizers are responsible for composing the
corresponding Workshop/SS program committees, advertising call for papers,
reviewing submissions and planning the final program. CyberSciTech 2018
Workshop/SS Chairs will assist the organization and ensure their quality
and success. The CyberSciTech 2018 organizer will provide facilities
including the paper submission systems, working notes printing, meeting
rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, proceedings preparation, etc.
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Xiaokang Zhou (周 暁康), Ph.D.
Faculty of Data Science
The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University
1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan
Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp
Phone: +81-749-27-1290
[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
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The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018)
http://cyber-science.org/2018/
Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018
Cyber Science for Cyber-enabled New Worlds
INTRODUCTION
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The modern digitized world has led to the emergence of a new paradigm on
global information networks and infrastructures known as Cyberspace, which
bring seamless integration of physical, social and mental spaces.
Cyberspace is becoming an integral part of our daily life from learning and
entertainment to business and cultural activities.
To address these emerging challenges, there is a need to establish new
science and research portfolios that incorporate cyber-physical,
cyber-social and cyber-mental technologies together in a coherent manner to
deliver the vision of Cyberspace. This is the aim of the IEEE Cyber Science
and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), which was successfully held first
in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2016 and then in Orlando (USA) in 2017.
IEEE CyberSciTech 2018 is to continually offer a common platform for
scientists, researchers and engineers to share their latest ideas and to
exchange the latest developments and outcomes in their research and
technologies, with a broad scope of cyber-related science, technology and
application topics to understand and shape cyber-enabled new worlds.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018
Regular Paper Submission Due: Mar. 30, 2018
Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: Apr. 30, 2018
Authors Notification: May 20, 2018
Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2018
SCOPE AND TRACKS
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Regular Tracks
Track 1: Cyberspace & Cyber Security
Track 2: Cyber Physical Computing & Systems
Track 3: Cyber Social Computing & Networks
Track 4: Cyber Intelligence, Life & Mind
Work-in-Progress Track
Report on early or ongoing research activities within the scope of
CyberSciTech
Poster/Demo Track
Describe a vision, technique or working system within the scope of
CyberSciTech
Workshop and Special Sessions
http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html
Tutorial
http://cyber-science.org/2018/tutorial.html
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously
been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress
(WiP), workshop/special session, poster papers all need to be in IEEE CS
format and submitted following the same instruction on the CyberSciTech
2018 congress website (http://cyber-science.org/2018). A regular paper is
between 6-8 pages. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be
between 4-6 pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages.
--
Xiaokang Zhou (周 暁康), Ph.D.
Faculty of Data Science
The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University
1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan
Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp
Phone: +81-749-27-1290
[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]
*CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2018*
Third IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys)
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing
(SMARTCOMP 2018)
Sicily, June 18th/20th, 2018
http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/2018/ <http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys18/>
Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either
directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and
human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and
designing the system apriori with potential value-added services help spur
the discoveries of new tools, methodologies, and innovative services. Smart
service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising
of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense,
actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of
the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and
fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously
increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of
the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and
cognitive learning help create multi-facet value-added services and
catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems,
understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and
interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components
of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative
smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the
quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and
quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors.
Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and
trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and
operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social
and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering
etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for
discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and
principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in
sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of
human-centric cyber-physical-social systems.
Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human
services and systems, including:
• Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems;
example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart
manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine
and agriculture, national security etc.
• Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart
phones, smart watch, and human
• Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems
• Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better
services such as food, transportation and places to live
• Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things
• Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems
• Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and
innovating new types of sustainable services
• Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity,
behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of
longitudinal smart service systems
• Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive
computing, control theory, information and communications technologies
• Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises
and cyber-physical-social-systems
• Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare,
smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial
markets etc.
• Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous
systems and innovative applications
*Important Dates*
Paper submission: 28 February 2018
Notification: 30 March 2018
Camera Ready: 21 April 2018
Workshop Date: June 18th or June 20th 2018
*Organizing Committees*
*Workshop Co-Organizers*
Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University
Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology
*Technical Program Co-Chairs:*
Jason Hallstrom, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy
*Publicity Co-chairs*
Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Arena Antonio, University of Pisa, Italy
*Technical Program Committee*
TBD
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The 15th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent
Information Systems (MobiWis 2018)
(Springer, LNCS)
6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.mobiwis.org/2018/
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The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have
been following a continuous and steady development over a number of
years through the innovative research and practices of researchers,
developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and
scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and
Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between
these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest
research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web
and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and
services.
The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus
on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent
information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web
Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and
Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer
Interaction.
Conference Tracks:
- Smart and Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Software Systems
- Adaptive Approaches for Mobile Computing
- Middleware/SOA for Mobile Systems
- Context- and Location-aware Services
- Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications
- Data management in the Mobile Web
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Mobile Web of Things
- Mobile Web Security, Trust and Privacy
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Mobile Commerce and Business Services
- Socially Influencing Systems
- HCI in Mobile Applications
- Industry and Demos
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 05 March 2018
Authors Notification: 16 May 2018
Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018
Submission Instructions:
Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short
papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in
Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference
website.
Publication:
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for
the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be
invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special
issues in international journals (see conference website).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in
ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec
databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See
LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0)
Organizing Committee:
General Chair
George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
Program Chair
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Publicity Chair
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Journals Special Issues Chair
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
---- Call for Papers ----
International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in
Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018
https://cd-make.net
CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments.
MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction.
CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield).
IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959.
Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome.
1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation),
2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms,
3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics
4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML
5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML
6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis
7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018
Author Notification: May, 27, 2018
Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018
Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018
Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018
The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018
2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS.
Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions).
---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----
ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)
August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany
http://www.ares-conference.eu
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.
Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2)
l papers only).
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chairs 2018
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Program Committee Chairs 2018
Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands
Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 30, 2018
Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018
Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018
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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work:
-full paper (10 pages)
-short paper (6 pages)
-workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)
Formating Instructions / template:
Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/).
Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template!
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.
Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.
Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference.
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States
Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece
Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany
Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria
Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany
Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria
Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany
Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States
Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany
Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy
Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Availability, Dependability, and Resilience
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Business Continuity & Resilience
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Cryptography
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications
Dependability Aspects of e-Government
Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software
Designing Security Requirements
Digital Forensics
E-Commerce Dependability
Identity Management
IPR of Security Technology
Incident Response and Prevention
Information Flow Control
Information Hiding and Steganograhpy
Interoperability Aspects
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy
Mobile Security
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Process based Security Models and Methods
Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures
Resilience of Computing Systems
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things
RFID Security and Privacy
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Safety Critical Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security and Usability
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security in Electronic Payments
Security in Electronic Voting
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Software Security
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trust Models and Trust Management
Wireless Security
(Apologies for cross-posts)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
AW4city 2018, 4th International ACM Smart City Workshop: Enhancing
Citizen Centricity with Web Applications
In conjunction with WWW'18: 27th World Wide Web International Conference
Lyon, France, April 23, 2018
http://aw4city2018.wordpress.com
Important Dates
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Submissions due: Jan. 20th, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 14, 2018.
Workshop authors' registration and camera-ready papers: March 10, 2018
Workshop day: April 23, 2018
Workshop Objective
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Following up the success of the past events at WWW2015, WWW2016 and
WWW2017, the 4th AW4City 2018 aims to keep on attracting a significant
international attention with regard to web applications for smart
cities.
The aim of this workshop is to address web-based application and Apps'
design and development in the smart city and urban context. More
specifically, it focuses on innovative applications smart city component
and more specifically on the design and implementation of web-based
applications and Apps. This component is crucial, since it addresses all
the smart city dimensions:
* Economy, since new types of entrepreneurship and innovative business
models appear in data, creative and climate economies, and develop web
applications and Apps.
* Mobility, with regard to urban transportation (intelligent
transportation), distance working, job offering demonstration etc.
* Environment, since applications enhance resource management,
transportation improvement, environmental monitoring etc.
* Living, since applications enhance local life (i.e., e-learning,
e-banking, e-commerce, e-tourism etc.).
* People, since they concern applications' end users and
* Governance, where open data and e-government applications play crucial
roles in smart city operation.
This year, the workshop will emphasize on the contribution of web
applications and Apps to citizen centricity. In the era of cities,
municipal leaders, service and utility providers are making an important
shift regarding thinking of people as customers and of customer
experience. This shift is not a simple task since it demands a
continuous service monitoring, assessment and improvement, which
normally is based on accurate data analysis and appears as a thinking
that makes government and providers more personal and responsive. In
this respect, this workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications and
Apps can enhance local service delivery and continuous monitoring and
improvement.
Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from
leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big
picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this
workshop.
This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of smart
cities and web application development to think about the obstacles that
hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of smart city
trends with regard web application development that interconnect
citizens, businesses and government in a smart city.
AW4City 2018 is timely, since an increasing criticism is being generated
that smart city represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported
by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors.
In this respect, articles can deliver a clearer view of smart city
reality, while innovative applications can strengthen the existence of
opportunities for new entrants in the smart city market. Moreover, most
standardization bodies evolve competitive standards for smart city
components and to this end, this workshop is expected to highlight
existing development and trends with regard to application development
(web-based, apps and end-to-end).
We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in
this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant
developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications
and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim
at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the
potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from
end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers
to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify
important directions for the research communities. Standards for web
applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several
areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security,
and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit
the following topics (but not limited to):
* Enhancing citizen/customer experience with Web Applications and Apps;
* Apps that support citizen engagement;
* Smart City management systems;
* Practices of Web applications and Apps in smart cities;
* Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards;
* Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart
City with a focus on application development (Internet Economics and
Monetization);
* Pervasive Web and Mobility for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user
behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.)
* The role of government for smart city applications development and
standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data);
* Web Infrastructure standardization;
* The role of standards on smart city data mining;
* Smart city e-services for evaluation and benchmarking;
* Smart city information quality and evolution in social content;
* Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities: the role of web
applications and Apps.
Submission
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We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion
papers. Full papers should be up to 6 pages long (max 5000 words),
including the abstract and appendices. Discussion papers may be short
(up to 4 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more
issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and
quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to
support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop.
Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered
and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar
or related issues.
Submission Guidelines
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The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of
WWW2018's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the
ACM Digital Library.
All submitted papers must be:
- written in English;
- contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
- be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size
no smaller than 9pt;
- be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and
formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other
format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to
the workshop's chairs.
- occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and
appendices
It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere
strictly to the required format.
Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected
without review.
All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system. Each
submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one
external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2018 conference can be
found on https://www2018.thewebconf.org/
Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and
included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal
of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), International
Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) or some other relative
journals (i.e., Journal of Knowledge Economy (JKEC) and Journal of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JoI) published by Springer).
Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an
author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2018
organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in
either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of
submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate
the already registered person for that publication. We strongly
encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the
early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its
presentation.
Please submit your papers via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites) of WWW2018
or via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo(a)teilar.gr with
the subject: "AW4city 2018 proposal"
Details of the programme will be made available online.
For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs:
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Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Associate Professor, University of Applied Science
(TEI) of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo(a)teilar.gr
Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen(a)tudelft.nl
Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom,
v.weerakkody(a)bradford.ac.uk
Program Committee Members (tentative)
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* Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
* Sofia Toufic Shwayri, University of California at Berkeley
* Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe
* Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform
* Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A.
* Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
* Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A.
* Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
* Mag. Michael Sachs, Zentrum fur E-Governance, Donau-Universitat Krems.
* Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA
* Nikolaos Mavridis, NCFSR Demokritos, Greece
* Alois Paulin, TUWien, Vienna, Austria.