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CALL For PAPERS & OTHER CALLS
IEEE DSAA'2017: 2017 International Conference on
Data Science and Advanced Analytics
Tokyo, Japan
October 19-21, 2017
http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/
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HIGHLIGHTS OF DSAA
* A very competitive acceptance rate (about 10%) for regular papers
* Jointly supported by IEEE, ACM and American Statistical Association
* Strong inter-disciplinary and cross-domain culture
* Strong engagement of analytics, statistics and industry/government
* Double blind, and 10 pages in IEEE 2-column format
* More about DSAA conferences: www.dsaa.co
The Program Committee of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on
Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA'2017) invites the submission
of technical papers for two main tracks: Research and Applications, and
a series of Special Sessions of the conference which will be held in
Tokyo, Japan, from October 19th to 21th, 2017. DSAA solicits both
theoretical and practical works on data science and advanced analytics.
All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the
basis of technical quality, relevance to conference topics of interest,
originality, significance, and clarity. All accepted papers, including
in main tracks and special sessions, will be published by IEEE and will be
submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference
proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.
Top quality papers accepted and presented at the conference will be
selected for extension and invited to the special issues of International
Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA, Springer).
IEEE DSAA INTRODUCTION
Data science encompasses the areas of data analytics, machine learning,
statistics, optimization and managing big data, and has become essential
to glean understanding from large data sets and convert data into
actionable intelligence, be it data available to enterprises, society,
Government or on the Web. DSAA takes a strong interdisciplinary approach,
features by its strong engagement with statistics and business, in addition
to core areas including analytics, learning, computing and informatics.
DSAA fosters its unique Trends and Controversies session, Invited Industry
Talks session, Panel discussion, and four keynote speeches from statistics,
business, and data science. DSAA main tracks maintain a very competitive
acceptance rate (about 10%) for regular papers. Following the preceding
three editions DSAA'2016 (Montreal), DSAA'2015 (Paris), and DSAA'2014
(Shanghai), DSAA'2017 aims to provide a premier forum that brings together
researchers, industry practitioners, as well as potential users of big data,
for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments
in Data Science as well as on the best practices for a wide range of
applications.
RESEARCH TRACK
The Research Track is aimed at collecting original (unpublished nor under
consideration at any other venue) and significant contributions related to
foundations of Data Science and Analytics.
Topics: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfpapers/#topics_research
APPLICATIONS TRACK
The Applications Track is aimed at collecting original papers describing
better and reproducible practices with substantial contributions to Data
Science and Analytics in real life scenarios.
Topics: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfpapers/#topics_applications
SPECIAL SESSIONS
DSAA special sessions substantially upgrade traditional workshops to
encourage emerging topics in data science while maintain rigorous selection
criteria. Proposals to organize special sessions and submissions to
respective special sessions are highly encouraged.
CONFERENCE VENUE
The DSAA’2017 conference will be held at Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo,
Japan. It is just two minutes walk from Shinagawa Station, which is the
first stop on the Tokaido Shinkansen from Tokyo Station and is about
20 minutes from Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2017
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2017
Final Camera-ready papers due: August 15, 2017
Early Registration dealine: August 31, 2017
Conference dates: October 19-21, 2017
For further details, please visit the conference website:
http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/
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Special Session Proposals
Proposal submission: February 25, 2017
Acceptance notification: TBA by Special Session Organizers
Special session dates: October 19 – 21, 2017
For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfspecsessions/
Tutorial Proposals
Proposal submission: May 30, 2017, 11:59pm PST
Notification: June 30, 2017
Tutorial slides/other materials due: September 20, 2017, 11:59pm PST
Tutorials dates: October 19-21, 2017
For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cftutorials/
Sponsorships
IEEE DSAA'2017 will be held between 19-21 October 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Sponsorship
and opportunities to collaborate with DSAA'2017 should be directed to the DSAA'2017
Sponsorship Co-chairs at dsaa2017[at]dsaa.co.
For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfsponsors/
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Fosca Giannotti, Information Science and Technology Institute of the
National Research Council at Pisa, Italy
Tomoyuki Higuchi, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
Program Chairs -- Research Track
Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan
Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
Program Chairs -- Application Track
Ying Li, DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Rajesh Parekh, Facebook, also with KDD2016 and The Hive, USA
Special Session Chairs
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
Albert Bifet, Telecom ParisTech, France
Trends & Controversies Chairs
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Award Chair
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
NGDS (Next Generation Data Scientist) Award Chairs
Kenji Yamanishi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Xin Wang, University of Calgary, Canada
Tutorial Chairs
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Vincent Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Panel Chairs
Geoff Webb, Monash University, Australia
Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Invited Industry Talk Chairs
Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong
Publicity Chairs
Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Japan
Diane J. Cook, Washington State University
Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Local Organizing Chairs
Satoshi Kurihara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Hiromitsu Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Publication Chair
Toshihiro Kamishima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan
Web Chair
Kozo Ohara, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Sponsorship Chairs
Yoji Kiyota, NEXT Co., Ltd, Japan
Kiyoshi Izumi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Tadashi Yanagihara, KDDI Corp., KDDI R\&D Laboratory, Japan
Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Byeong Kang University of Tasmania, Australia
CONTACT INFORMATION
Hiroshi Motoda motoda(a)ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Satoshi Kurihara skurihara(a)uec.ac.jp
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The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications
(Innovate-Data 2017)
(IEEE CS-TCI)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex
and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of
conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of
the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social
media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth
of big data.
Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and
applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and
various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern
and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can
help societies and economies and speed up innovations.
The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the
art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in
an effort to present their research work and share research and development
ideas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovations in big data
- Data models and architectures
- Applications of big data
- Big data engineering and design
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Data protection and integrity
- Identity theft, data loss and leakage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Data analytics and metrics
- Data representation and structures
- Data management and processing
- Data capturing and acquisition
- Tools and technologies
- QoS of big data
- Social networks analysis
- Data searching and mining
- Visualisation of data
- Personal data logging and quantified-self
- Context-aware data
- Personalisation of data
- Data economics
- Applications of open and big data
- Open and linked data
- Methodologies and use cases
- Usability issues
- Storages and network requirements
- Network models and protocols
- Big data in cloud and IoT
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results
and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short
papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.
See instructions on the conference website
(http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service
(CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of
their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm)
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair
Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia
International Liaison Chair
Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain
Publicity Chair
Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management
http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-bdm
(Submissions due: 3 May 2017)
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Cloud and network analytics can harness the immense stream of
operational data from clouds and networks, and can perform analytics
processing to improve reliability, configuration, performance, and
security management. In particular, we see a growing trend towards
using statistical analysis and machine learning to improve operations
and management of IT systems and networks.
Research is therefore needed to understand and improve the potential
and suitability of Big Data analytics in the context of systems and
network management. This will not only provide deeper understanding
and better decision making based on largely collected and available
operational data, but present opportunities for improving data
analysis algorithms and methods on aspects such as accuracy and
scalability. Moreover, there is an opportunity to define novel
platforms that can harness the vast operational data and advanced data
analysis algorithms to drive management decisions in networks, data
centers, and clouds.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a
premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the
management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following
the success of TNSM special issue on Big Data Analytics for Management
(September 2016), this special issue of TNSM will focus on "Advances
in Big Data Analytics for Management," presenting recent, emerging
approaches and technical solutions that can exploit Big Data and
analytics in management solutions. We welcome submissions addressing
the underlying challenges of Big Data Analytics for Management and
presenting novel theoretical or experimentation results. Survey papers
that offer a perspective on related work and identify key challenges
for future research will be considered as well.
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Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited, to the following:
Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Analysis, modelling and visualization
- Operational analytics and intelligence
- Event and log analytics
- Anomaly detection and prediction
- Monitoring and measurements for management
- Harnessing social data for management
- Predictive analytics and real-time analytics
- Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management
Application Domains and Management Paradigms
- Cloud and network analytics
- Data centric management of virtualized infrastructure, clouds and data
centers
- Data centric management of storage resources and software defined
networks
- Data centric management of Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
- Platforms for analyzing and storing logs and operational data for
management tasks
- Applications of Big data analytics to traffic classification,
root-cause analysis, service quality assurance, IT service and
resource management
- Analytics and machine learning applications to cyber-security,
intrusion detection, threat analysis, and failure detection
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Paper Submission
All papers should be submitted through the IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management manuscript submission site at
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm. Authors must indicate in the
submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the
"Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management" special issue. Each
submission will be limited to 14 pages in IEEE 2-column format.
Detailed author guidelines can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/author-guidelines.
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Important Dates
Submission Deadline: May 3, 2017
Author Notification: July 15, 2017
Revision Deadline: September 15, 2017
Final Decision: November 1, 2017
Camera Ready: December 1, 2017
Publication: March 2018
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Guest Editors
Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK)
Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)
Nur Zincir-Heyood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia)
For more information, please contact the guest editors at
TNSM.SI.BDM(a)gmail.com.
(Apologies to those who may have received this message more than once.)
CALL FOR PAPERS - SISAP 2017
10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
Munich, Germany, October, 4 - 6, 2017
Web site: http://www.sisap.org/2017/
Submission site (EasyChair) is now open at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisap2017.
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Scope
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The 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
(SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers
in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological
problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining,
information retrieval, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition,
computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many
others that make use of similarity search as a necessary supporting service.
>From its roots in metric indexing, SISAP has expanded to become the only
international conference entirely devoted to all issues surrounding the
theory, design, analysis, practice, and application of content-based and
feature-based similarity search.
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Topics
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The specific topics include, but are not limited to:
* Similarity queries - k-NN, range, reverse k-NN, top-k, approximate, etc.
* Similary measures - graph, structural, time series, complex data, tensors,
secondary similarity, etc.
* Similarity operations - joins, ranking, classification, categorization,
filtering, etc.
* Indexing and access methods for similarity-based processing
* Evaluation techniques for similarity queries and operations
* Merging/combining multiple similarity modalities
* Cost models and analysis for similarity data processing
* Scalability issues and high-performance similarity data management
* Feature selection and extraction for similarity search
* Multimedia retrieval systems
* Security and privacy of similarity search
* Similarity for forensics and security
* Distributed similarity search
* Similarity search cloud services
* Languages for similarity databases
* Applications of similarity-based operations
* Visual analytics for similarity-based operations
* Test collections and benchmarks
* Performance studies and comparisons
* Industrial applications and case studies
* Theory - models of similarity, intrinsic dimensionality, discriminability
and contrast, manifolds and subspaces, etc.
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Important Dates
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Abstracts Due: May 12, 2017
Full Papers Due: May 19, 2017
Conference: October 4-6, 2017
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Paper Submission and Publication
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SISAP 2017 allows for three forms of submissions: long research papers
(from 9 to 14 pages), short research papers (of up to 8 pages) and
demo papers (of up to 8 pages). Full papers are expected to be descriptions
of complete technical work, whereas short papers can describe innovative
approaches or preliminary results which may nevertheless require more work
to mature. Vision papers and other position papers should be submitted as
short research papers.
Demo submissions should provide the motivation for the demonstrated concepts,
the information about the technology and the system to be demonstrated
(including a system description, functionality and figures when applicable),
and should state the significance of the contribution. The scenarios within
which the demonstration applies should also be explained. Evaluation criteria
for the demonstration proposals include: novelty, technical advances and
challenges, and the overall practical attractiveness of the demonstrated
system.
By submitting a paper, its authors commit to its presentation at the
conference in the event that the paper is accepted. For an accepted paper
to be included in the proceedings, at least one of its authors must register
for the conference. At SISAP 2017, all research papers will be presented
both orally and in a poster session. The demos will also be presented in
the poster session - posters should be prepared for these as well.
All research and demo papers will be given an entry in the conference
proceedings.
Papers submitted to SISAP 2017 must be written in English and formatted
according to the LNCS guidelines. Papers will be submitted in PDF format
through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisap2017).
If you experience any problems during the submission, please contact the
Program Committee Co-Chairs at sisap2017(a)easychair.org.
The proceedings of SISAP will be published by Springer as a volume in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For SISAP 2016, as in
previous years, extended versions of 5 excellent papers will be invited
for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Systems.
The conference will also confer a Best Paper Award, as judged by the
Program Committee Co-Chairs and Steering Committee.
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Special Session for Industry
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A special session devoted to industrial applications and case studies
will also take place. Submissions are solicited in multimedia, broadcasting,
archiving, image processing, social networks, bioinformatics, and any other
area in which similarity technology has made a practical impact.
Of particular interest are submissions concerned with one or more of the
following:
* Use cases and scenarios
* Best practice for similarity search
* Adoption of similarity search in new industrial contexts
* Requirements for research and development
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Keynote Speakers
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Christian S. Jensen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Cyrus Shahabi
University of Southern California, USA
Reinhard Förtsch
Deutsches Archäologisches Intitut (German Institute for Archaeology), Germany
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Organization
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Steering Committee
Edgar Chávez, CICESE, Mexico
Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
General Chair
Peer Kröger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Christian Beecks, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Peer Kröger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Local Arrangements
Susanne Grienberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Janina Bleicher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Proceedings Chair
Felix Borutta, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Web Chair
Florian Richter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*8th International Workshop on*
*Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)*
Held in parallel with
*28th International Conference on Database and *
*Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)*
*www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>*
Lyon, France
August 28 - 31, 2017
In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological
technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related
to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next
Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput
sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these
data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed
in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a
challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and
numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution
of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of
biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very
limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex
biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt
new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches
to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us
in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand,
structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the
other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge
Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends.
Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to:
*Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation
and Management
(data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks
and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant
data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction
(motifs, subgraphs,
…), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid
approaches, embedded approaches, …).
*Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological
sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data
biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …),
Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…),
Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and
Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to
Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big
Data Mining.
*Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering,
Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization,
Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the
classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via*
numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological
Nuggets of Knowledge Integration
*PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: *
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP
format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting
<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers
will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One
of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and
present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and
electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/
starting from January 2017.
*IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 16, 2017
Submission of full papers: April 23, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017
Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE:*
Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair)
Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy
Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France
Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil
Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK
Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France
Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK.
Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida,
India
Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco
Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy
Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA
Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK
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Dear Colleague,
we invite you to submit a contribution to CRITIS 2017, the International
Conference on Critical (Information) Infrastructures Security.
This year the conference will take place in Lucca, a gorgeous
Renaissance city in Tuscany, 9-11 October 2017.
Papers can be submitted via EasyChair; for poster contributions,
submission can be limited to an extended abstract. All accepted
contributions will be included in full length in the pre-proceedings
that will appear at the time of the conference; accepted papers are
planned to be published in the LNCS Springer-Verlag series.
Special attention will be devoted to young talents. To this purpose, a
price (YCA: Young Critis Award) will be awarded to the best contribution
presented by a young author.
On 12-13 October, the conference will be followed by two satellite
workshops on Energy and Water.
For further details, please visit our website www.critis2017.org . We
would appreciate you advertise the conference by the attached leaflet.
The organizers:
Cristina Alcaraz, Hypatia Nassopoulos,
Antonio Scala, Gregorio D’Agostino,
Grigore Havarneanu
DEADLINE EXTENDED - Contributed Papers Deadline is April 28, 2017
Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017
Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa
11011 W. Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89135
www.wintersim.org
WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE!
>From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies,
modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available
technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make
readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of
data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and
critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new
hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working
together in geographically distant areas.
After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and
Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent
technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in
heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on
demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues,
massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors
that can process applications on demand.
WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation
Everywhere!
WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and
Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation
International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical
Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man
and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
LOCATION
WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV.
The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the
world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to
the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center.
PROGRAM
WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory
tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are:
- Agent-Based Simulation
- Analysis Methodology
- Architecture and Construction
- Aviation Modeling and Analysis
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Environment and Sustainability Applications
- Future of Simulation
- Gaming
- Healthcare Applications
- History of Simulation
- Hybrid Simulation
- Manufacturing Applications
- Logistics, SCM, Transportation
- Military Applications and Homeland Security
- Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS)
- Modeling Methodology
- Project Management
- Simulation Education
- Simulation Optimization
- Social and Behavioral Simulation
- Introductory Tutorials
- Advanced Tutorials
Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks
provide background on established and new methods, tools and application
domains.
WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for
Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis
conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain
operations.
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]
------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017
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The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications
(Innovate-Data 2017)
(IEEE CS-TCI)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/
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Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and
governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex
and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of
conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of
the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social
media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth
of big data.
Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and
applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and
various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern
and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can
help societies and economies and speed up innovations.
The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the
art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in
an effort to present their research work and share research and development
ideas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovations in big data
- Data models and architectures
- Applications of big data
- Big data engineering and design
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Data protection and integrity
- Identity theft, data loss and leakage
- Legal and ethical issues
- Data analytics and metrics
- Data representation and structures
- Data management and processing
- Data capturing and acquisition
- Tools and technologies
- QoS of big data
- Social networks analysis
- Data searching and mining
- Visualisation of data
- Personal data logging and quantified-self
- Context-aware data
- Personalisation of data
- Data economics
- Applications of open and big data
- Open and linked data
- Methodologies and use cases
- Usability issues
- Storages and network requirements
- Network models and protocols
- Big data in cloud and IoT
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results
and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short
papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column
template. See instructions on the conference website (
http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service
(CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of
their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm)
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair
Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia
International Liaison Chair
Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain
Publicity Chair
Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Journal Special Issues Coordinator
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
----------------------Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017
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The IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and
Cloud (FiCloud 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/
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The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global
network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self
configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the
future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in
order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as
physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars,
refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly
integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through
the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will
be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies
including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy,
food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and
so on.
IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited
capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less
reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals
mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of
storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary
aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited
capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit
from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more
distributed and dynamic manner.
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in
scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It
provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from
academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their
research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT
and cloud computing.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
- Software Architecture and Middleware
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Context-awareness and Location-awareness
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Software-defined Networking
- Performance Evaluation and Modelling
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- IoT Services and Applications
- Network Design and Architecture
- Smart Environment
- Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing
- Energy Efficiency
- Virtualization
- Clouds at the Edges
- Industry Track
- General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results
and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short
papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column
template. See instructions on the conference website (
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference
proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service
(CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also
submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and
other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of
their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm)
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee:
General Chair:
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Program Co-Chairs:
Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany
Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada
Local Organising Chair:
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop Coordinator:
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
Journal Special Issues Coordinator:
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chair:
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Track Chairs:
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China
Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada
Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India
Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Fano Ramparany, Orange, France
Ruben Casado, Accenture, Spain
[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]
[Preliminary Call for Papers]
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 presented at the conference and included in the proceedings to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science ARCoSS series by Springer-Verlag (pending approval).
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. PC members are strongly encouraged to submit papers.
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 (EPFL, 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)