The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and
Computing(IEEE DataCom 2017)
https://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/
Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Big data is a rapidly expanding research area spanning the fields of computer science and information management, and has become a ubiquitous term in understanding and solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications.
The goal of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2017) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Big Data intelligence and computing. IEEE DataCom 2016 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Big Data. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with at least 30% new material) for review and publication in special issues of international journals.
IEEE DataCom 2017 will be held on Nov. 6-10, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value
- Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualization and semantics
- Software and tools for big data management.
- Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data
- Big data economy, QoS and business models
- Scientific discovery and business intelligence
- Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing
- Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis
- Infrastructures and systems for big data analytics and managements
- Middleware and tools for big data analytics and managements
- Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation
- Data quality issues: such as validation, metrics, optimizations and consistency
- Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration
- Data intensive computing theorems and technologies
- Big data for advanced manufacturing and productivity
- Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation
- Green data centers / environmental-friendly perspectives
- Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability
- Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated
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PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
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IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by
- IEEE Xplore
- Scopus
- EI Engineering Index
- ACM Digital Library
- dblp
- Google Scholar
Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals.
- Future Generation Computer Systems
- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
- International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing
- Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
- Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
- International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
- Journal of Supercomputing
- Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing
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IMPORTANT DATES
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*Workshop/Special Session notification: (ongoing as received)*
*Paper Submission: July 10, 2017 Author Notification: August 10, 2017
Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): August 17th, 2017
Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): August 24, 2017
Camera ready / registration deadline: September 1, 2017 *
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SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via the IEEE DataCom 2017 web site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedatacom2017
IEEE formatting information:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers.
- Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results.
- Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas.
- Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to DataCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster Chair.
- Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions.
All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed).
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Organizing Committees
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General Chairs
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA
Hai Jin, HUST, China
Manu Malek, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA
General Executive Chairs
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
Tao Li, NSF/UFL, USA
Program Chairs
Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Workshop Chairs
I-Hsin Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wuu Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Demo/Poster Chair
Che-Rung Lee, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Special Session Chair
Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA
Award Chair
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
International Liaison & Publicity Chair
Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Huang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Bhekisipho Twala, Univ. Johannesburg, South Africa
Hao Wang, Aalesund University College, Norway
Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Publication Chair
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Advisory Committee
Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France
Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italy
Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan
Cho-Li Wang, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jinsong Wu, University de Chile, Chile
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Steering Committee
Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA
Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW)- deadline extended
Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference
October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017
This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and
environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in
Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on
related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to
uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
The topics of interest include:
• Case studies in environmental computing related domains
• Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques
• Novel environmental computing applications
• Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems
• Civil protection and related engineering challenges
• Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications
• Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation
• Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration
• Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches
• Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks
• Urgent computing and probabilistic models
• Data visualisation and interactive analysis
• Uncertainty quantification and visualisation
BACKGROUND
Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology
or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale
approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact.
However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from
different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive
multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making
processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related
societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing
today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of
environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks,
supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains.
PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience
papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or
presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017
by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page (
http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information
about templates and submission types.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: July 14, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2017
Camera-Ready: August 25, 2017
Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand)
ORGANISATION AND CONTACT
Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany
Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand
Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich
http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 - info(a)envcomp.eu
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Matti Heikkurinen - LMU
heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31
Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017
Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa
www.wintersim.org
Posters, Case Studies, PhD Colloquium, Vendor tracks
WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE!
With 360 accepted papers, panels, special tracks, and an amazing venue, this 50th Anniversary Winter Simulation Conference promises to be a very exciting event. This is a reminder that there are other upcoming deadlines:
. Poster Track
http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/poster-sessions/
. PhD Colloquium
http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/phd-colloquium/
. Case Studies
http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#caseStudies
. Vendor Track
http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#vendor
KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS
50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University
WSC 2067: What Are The Chances?
At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using
GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would
still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many
reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to
users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If
our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is
required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without
fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what
SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on
our strength: dealing with uncertainty.
50th Anniversary Titans
Robert G. Sargent
Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years
of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation
Bernard P. Zeigler
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of
Arizona
MASM Keynote
Stephane Dauzere-Peres
Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned
from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration
Military Keynote
Douglas Hodson
Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force
Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future
50th Anniversary Track Keynote
Brian Hollocks
Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management.
History of Simulation in the United Kingdom
Further information about submission and the conference:
http://www.wintersim.org
Twitter: @WSConf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/
[apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues:
vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]
Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP
to your network.
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BIOMA 2018
8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and
their Applications
16-18 May 2018
Paris, France
http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/
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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)
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
Apologies for the potential duplication.
-Walid
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Computational Reproducibility at Exascale Workshop (CRE2017)
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace ".at." by "@")
-Walid
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Walid Keyrouz, PhD
Research Scientist
NIST | ITL | SSD
** SIMPDA 2017 **
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp]
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SIMPDA 2017
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND
ANALYSIS
6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND
http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it
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## 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
[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]
Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017
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3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
co-located with ALGO 2017
September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria
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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)
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