*******Firm extended Deadline for direct submission*********
Dear colleagues
We are currently working on the elaboration of the book "Combating
Cyberbullying in Digital Media with Artificial Intelligence"
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/cbai-book/home-page
This book will be published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA (the
proposal has already been accepted by the publisher) at the end of November
2023.
We are still searching for some chapters for the book, related to:
*- Artificial Intelligence for combating Cyberbullying*
*- Machine learning for combating Cyberbullying*
*- Deep Learning for combating Cyberbullying*
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for combating Cyberbullying
If you are interested, please you need to submit your manuscript using pdf
format at lahby(a)ieee.org before *March 31, 2023* (firm deadline).
*There is no charge, it's free*
Thank you very much for your collaboration
Best regards
*Paper submissions are due on March 25, 2023 (one week ahead). So don't
miss it! *
Best Papers and Best Student Papers
AWARDS: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/awards/
****CALL FOR PAPERS****
IEEE CLOUD is the flagship conference in Cloud Computing. You are invited
to submit original
papers addressing all aspects of cloud innovations (
https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2023/cfp). You can submit your paper
to Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2023>
as a regular
paper (7~10 pages), short paper (4~6 pages), or Work-in-Progress paper (up
to 3 pages). Topics of interest include but are not limited to the
following:
● Cloud & AI
● Infrastructure
● Applications
● Cloud Management and Operations
● Cloud Security
● Cloud Economics
● Cloud as a Service
****IMPORTANT DATES (AT 5:00 AM UTC)****
Paper submissions open: December 1, 2023
UPDATED Paper submissions due: March 25, 2023
UPDATED Final notifications to authors: May 8, 2023
European project InnoCyPES (Innovative Tools for Cyber-Physical Energy
Systems) - Research Grant at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Who we are
The University of Salento is a young dynamic university, keen to expand
and to prove itself at a national and international level. Since 1955
the University of Salento has had the aim of promoting knowledge, skill
and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities.
From law to science, economics to engineering, humanities to media
studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of
professions as well as post- graduate and specialist courses tailor made
to meet the needs of the workplace. Eight Departments providing services
and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres
throughout the Salento area. The University of Salento has grown rapidly
in recent years, consolidating and reinforcing its role as the keystone
of the local cultural and social system. It also has a Ph.d. School and
Post-graduate schools for Cultural Heritage and for the Legal
Professions. The prestigious ISUFI Grandes écoles school offers
high-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses for scholarship
students to promote excellence.
Who we are looking for
We are seeking for exceptional, talented applicants committed to work in
the context of the European project InnoCyPES (Innovative Tools for
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems), a Marie Curie Action Innovative Training
Network providing world-leading and transferable scientific training to
a new generation of 15 high-achieving early stage researchers (ESRs). In
the course of their training, they will study, investigate and improve
various facets of digitalized and interconnected energy systems.
Supervised by a consortium of prominent and experienced academic
institutions, research institutes and industrial partners, they will
collaboratively develop a cutting-edge system management platform that
covers the entire lifecycle of data for energy system planning,
operation and maintenance, based on an understanding of the energy
system as a cyber-physical system.
The ESR research activity will be carried out on premises mainly at the
University of Salento. We invite applications from candidates working in
the field of Computer Science, who have experience and strong knowledge
with regard to data management (database etc), distributed systems,
Peer-to-Peer systems and blockchains, and who have a strong interest in
the research topic, covering large scale data management and
integration. Excellent programming skills in C/C++ in the Unix
environment are also required. We are aware of the fact that knowing all
the subjects listed above is even very difficult for a Master of Science
student. Therefore, highly motivated students who know some of the above
subjects listed above are encouraged to apply. Prospective candidates
must not have resided or carried out the main activity of study/work in
Italy for more than 12 months during the 3 years preceding the date of
the beginning of the contract. Additional requirements are listed in the
official public call.
The successful candidate will work in close cooperation with prof.
Massimo Cafaro and the members of the High Performance Computing
Laboratory at the University of Salento. Two secondments of four months
each at partners institutions are scheduled, along with the
participation in schools and workshops organised within the framework of
the InnoCyPES project. Moreover, the candidate will be given ample
opportunity to publish his/her scientific results and present them at
international conferences. The research grant will cover the ESR
position for 30 months. Additional funding may be obtained by project’s
partners covering a further six months to be spent in their laboratories.
Details
Position: research grant at the Department of Engineering for
Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Duration: 30 months
Deadline for application: April 6, 2023
Remuneration: The research grant will last 30 (thirty) months. The
annual remuneration, gross of charges to be borne by the beneficiary and
inclusive of contributions and social security charges to be borne by
the University of Salento, consists of the following items:
1. Living allowance: Euro 40,966.56 (forty thousand nine hundred and
sixty-six/56);
2. Mobility allowance: Euro 7.200,00 (seven thousand two hundred/00);
3. Family allowance:
3.1. Euro 0 (zero) per researcher without family obligations;
3.2. Euro 6,000.00 (six thousand/00) for researchers with family
obligations (married or with a relationship recognised by Italian law or
that of the country of origin or with dependent children).
Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro
Research topic: Large scale data management and integration
This is a 30 months “Marie Curie ETN Early Stage Researcher position” on
the following topic. The sheer quantum of data being created and
collected across jurisdictions requires a carefully planned and
proactive approach to data management. The need for fusion and
integration of multiple data sources characterized by fragmented data
ownership is driving innovative approaches to large scale distributed
data management and integration to avoid inconsistent and inaccurate
data. The aim is to investigate, design and implement a fully
decentralized solution to provide efficient management of dynamically
updated information and support for distributed queries. One or more
domain specific use cases shall be identified within the context of the
project, considering both the current and future needs of some of the
involved partners. These nicely fit into the research plan, owing to the
need of surveying the user’s requirements to begin with; simultaneously,
the uses cases can also be thought of as sources of advanced data
management challenges.
The official public call is available here (In Italian and English):
https://www.unisalento.it/bandi-concorsi/-/bandi/view/66493326
Direct download link:
https://www1.unisalento.it/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=63872469&fold…
Application and declaration forms:
https://www1.unisalento.it/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=63872469&fold…
Prospective candidates can contact prof. Massimo Cafaro at
massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it for additional information and, if
required, for assistance in compiling the application.
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Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining & Machine
Learning
Head of HPC Lab https://hpc-lab.unisalento.it
Director of Master in Applied Data Science
Department of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Via per Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy
Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371
Web https://www.massimocafaro.it
Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro
E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it
E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org
E-mail cafaro(a)acm.org
INGV
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Via di Vigna Murata 605
Roma
CMCC Foundation
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce
massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population
is growing.
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The 20th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
(MobiSPC)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
August 14-16, 2023
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-23/
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Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an
active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous
advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless
networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID
technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC- solicits papers that
focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users
with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile
computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing
resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies
enabling those applications.
MobiSPC-2023 will provide a leading-edge, scholarly forum for researchers,
engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and
developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile
systems.
Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2023
- Paper Submission Due: April 4, 2023 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2023
- Final Manuscript Due: June 12, 2023
Publication
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All MobiSPC 2023 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in
the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer
Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content
platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely
available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (
www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation
Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/).
All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and
Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI
Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be
indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked
references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to
provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website
visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for
publication, in the special issues of:
- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
(IF: 7.104), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), (
http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and
Practice (IF: 5.594), by Elsevier (
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…)
- International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF:
3.030) (Pending), Elsevier (
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks)
MobiSPC 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 18th International
Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC,
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-23/).
MobiSPC 2023 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is
located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight
from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a
vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and
where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from
whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also
home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world
largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque
province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the
Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.
Conference Tracks
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- Component-based IoT
- Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Cloud Computing
- Mobile Data Management
- Mobile Social Networking
- Pervasive Computing
- Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management
- Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems
- Mobile Systems and Applications
Committees:
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General Chair
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Program Chairs
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium
Workshops' Chair
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France
Tracks Chairs
Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium
Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada
Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard,
France
Uneb Gazger, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA
Faouzi Kammoun, ESPRIT, Tunisia
Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada
Wendy Osborn, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden
Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
International Journals Chair
Atta Badii, Reading University, UK
Publicity Chairs
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Sohail Jabbar, The University of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines
Jake Speiran, Acadia University, Canada
Advisory Committee
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne,
France
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-23/#programCommittees
Steering Committee Chair
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information
Technology (SEIT)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
August 14-16, 2023
Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/
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The goal of the SEIT 2023 conference is to provide an international forum
for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and
government to address recent research results and to present and discuss
their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in
progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in
sustainable energy information technology.
Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2023
- Paper Submission Due: April 4, 2023 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2023
- Final Manuscript Due: June 12, 2023
Publication
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All SEIT 2023 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the
open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer
Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available
worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com)
and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The
papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI
numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and
direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted
papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected
papers will be invited for publication in an international journal.
Conference Main Topics (A detailed list can be found at:
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/#callforPapers):
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- Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Policy
- Environmental
- Green Sustainability
- Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines
- Power Systems
- Renewable Energies
- Sensing & Monitoring
- Smart Systems
COMMITTEES:
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General Chair
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Program Chairs
Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Wayne Groszko, Dalhousie University, Canada
Workshops Chairs
Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
International Journals Chair
Isam Janajreh, Khalifa University, UAE
Publicity Chairs
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Advisory Committee
Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK
Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada
Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK
Ali Sayigh, World Renewable Energy Congress / Network
Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-23/#programCommittees
[** Apologies for Cross-postings -- please share **]
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Télécom SudParis is hiring a full-time Associate - Assistant Professor
of Cybersecurity
Application URL:
https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/maitre-de-conferences-en-…
Keywords: Cybersecurity Engineering, Threat and Vulnerability
Management, Digital Trust.
Hiring department: RST (https://rst.telecom-sudparis.eu/en/) Maryline
Laurent (maryline.laurent(a)telecom-sudparis.eu)
Hiring research team: SAMOVAR/SCN (https://scn.telecom-sudparis.eu/)
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (joaquin.garcia_alfaro(a)telecom-sudparis.eu)
Context
In a context where cyber attacks are particularly aggressive and
strike all types of companies and public services, the position aims
to cover threat management targeting sovereignty (security), health
(hospitals), transport (connected vehicle), logistics (IIoT) and
distribution environments (energy, factories), and operationalization
of formal models in cybersecurity (security proofs, malware analysis,
convergence between physical security and cybersecurity).
The teaching expectations are to conduct and expand the existing
cybersecurity engineering teaching program of Télécom SudParis on
digital infrastructures and protection of personal data for Master's
level, PhD Track, or in the engineering cycle of Telecom SudParis.
Active participation to CIEDS (Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence
and Security of IP Paris) and setting up of new research projects
within the SCN team of SAMOVAR are expected.
Expected profile
The candidate must demonstrate previous teaching experience on
cybersecurity engineering and closely-related fields; ability to
contribute and lead existing modules; delivery experience at the
engineering cycle, Masters, PhD Track or continuous professional
development levels; supervision of student projects (all levels).
The candidate must demonstrate research experience and publications
with international teams in high-impact journals and conferences;
experience on competing and securing prestigious external research
funding programs; successful management of the awarded grants;
experience on research team participation and development of results;
creation of new links with other research teams outside present and
past organizations (e.g. industry).
A varied research experience and publications with several teams will
be appreciated.
Mandatory requirements
The position requires: - PhD in cybersecurity engineering or
closely-related fields;
- Research and teaching experience in higher education;
- Publication in ranked international journals or conferences;
- Oral and written command of English
How to apply
Applications should be submitted online to:
https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/maitre-de-conferences-en-…
An application must contain a detailed CV, a statement of further
research and teaching activities at Telecom SudParis, coordinates of
at least two referees. Additional elements (motivation letter,
integration statement, research and teaching statement, teaching
records, reference letters, distinctions, etc.) are left to the
appreciation of the candidate.
Important dates:
- Application deadline: 31/03/2023
- Audition expected date: Between 9/05 and 02/06/23
- Expected work start date: 01/09/2023 (negotiable)
About us
Télécom SudParis (telecom-sudparis.eu), established in 1979 as the
Institut national des télécommunications (INT), is a Grande École
which belongs to the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Group. As a "Grande
Ecole", it trains tomorrow’s elite engineers and managers in the field
of digital sciences and technology. It is a founding member of
Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
SAMOVAR (samovar.telecom-sudparis.eu) is the research laboratory of
Telecom SudParis, in which the Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
research team (SCN, scn.telecom-sudparis.eu) conducts its activities.
SAMOVAR is the entity of the school evaluated by the HCERES (French
research evaluation council). It regroups all the academic staff of
Telecom SudParis, along with colleagues from ENSIIE doing research in
computer science.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris (ip-paris.fr) is a public higher
education and research institution comprising five prestigious French
engineering Schools: École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris,
Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis. Under the aegis of the Institute,
they bring together two centuries of expertise to pursue two major
goals: to develop world-class training programs and cutting-edge
research. Building on the strength of its five founding institutions,
the Institut Polytechnique de Paris has established itself as a
leading education and research institution in France and
internationally. École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris,
Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis have contributed to major
industrial and technological breakthroughs over the last two
centuries. Their alumni include Nobel prize-winners and prominent
figures in the worlds of politics, business and research.
Institut Mines-Télécom (imt.fr) is a public institution dedicated to
higher education and research for innovation. It is a key player in
the fusion of science, engineering and digital technology, and takes
its schools’ skills into the major fields of transformation in digital
technology, industry, energy and the environment as well as their
impact on the industry of the future, cities, health, and autonomy.
(Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP)
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WSCC 2023: Euro-Par 2023 International Workshop
International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum
Date: 28 August - September 2023
Location: Limassol, Cyprus
Workshop web page: https://wscc2023.di.unipi.it/
Euro-Par web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/
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* Call for Papers
The “Compute Continuum” paradigm promises to manage the heterogeneity and
dynamism of widespread
computing resources, aiming to simplify the execution of distributed
applications improving data
locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy management as
well as other non-functional
features. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and
segregation in tiers,
enabling applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a
continuum of resources spanning
from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal
scaling patterns, this paradigm
also offers more detailed adaptation actions that strictly depend on the
specific infrastructure components
(e.g., to reduce energy consumption, or to exploit specific hardware such
as GPUs and FPGAs). This enables
the enhancement of latency-sensitive applications, the reduction of network
bandwidth consumption,
the improvement of privacy protection, and the development of novel
services aimed at improving living,
health, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by
application developers without having
to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed.
Therefore, to unleash the true
potential offered by the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and
infrastructure-aware management
is desirable, if not mandatory, calling for novel interdisciplinary
approaches that exploit optimization
theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
methods.
In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the
area of distributed systems with
particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and
autonomic features to deal with
variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of
heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures.
A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following:
- Scalable architectures and systems for Compute Continuum
- System software for cloud-edge-IoT orchestration
- Distributed and decentralized management of resources and application
deployment in the Compute Continuum
- Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum
- Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis
- Compute Continuum as a service
- Energy-efficient solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum
- AI in the Compute Continuum
- Scalable applications for Compute Continuum (IoT, microservices,
serverless)
- Data-intensive and stream processing systems and applications in the
Compute Continuum
- Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum
- Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum
- Benchmarks and experimental platforms for reproducible experiments in the
Compute Continuum
* Submission Instructions
The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They
should be between a minimum of 10
and a maximum of 12 pages.
* Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the
Special Issue of the Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems on
“Scalable Compute Continuum”. For important dates and additional info, see
the related Call for Papers:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems/ab…
* Important Dates
May 5th, 2023 Paper submission deadline
June 19th, 2023 Paper acceptance notifications
July 2nd, 2023 Camera-ready due
* Workshop Co-Chairs
- Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- Patrizio Dazzi, University of Pisa, Italy
- Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy
- Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy
- Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy
Looking forward to receiving your excellent submissions soon.
Best regards,
Valeria Cardellini, Patrizio Dazzi, Gabriele Mencagli, Matteo Nardelli, and
Massimo Torquati
[apologies for cross-postings, title/abstract due on Sunday, paper due on 19th]
The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) <https://vhpc.org/> is an international forum
bringing together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud
scenarios, in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research
to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.
The 18th edition of VHPC will be held on May 25th, 2023, jointly with the ISC High-Performance 2023
<https://www.isc-hpc.com/> conference and exhibition in Hamburg (Germany), and it welcomes contributions on the research
topics detailed below. Paper submissions are due on March 19th. Accepted papers will be published on Springer LNCS
series, and indexed by Scopus, among others.
*Keynote Talk*
We're happy to announce that VHPC'23 will feature an excellent keynote talk:
* “*What is RCU and How Does it Help the Linux Kernel Scale?* <https://vhpc.github.io/keynote1/>", *Paul E. McKenney*,
Software Engineer at Meta
*Workshop Overview*
Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern
data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to seamlessly manage complex infrastructures,
to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been
increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to
marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.
Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine
virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous
software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a
very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e.,
containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence
within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of
responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library
surface. I/O virtualization, in turn, allows physical network interfaces to exchange traffic with multiple VMs or
containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays independently from the
underlying physical topology, is another fundamental enabling technology for Cloud/HPC infrastructures. Last, storage
virtualization needs to evolve to support increasingly demanding requirements in terms of performance and reliability
for the managed application data.
*Topics of Interest*
The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire
software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and cloud computing, focusing
on the following major topics:
* HPC on Containers and VMs;
* Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization;
* Lightweight applications with Unikernels;
* HPC-as-a-Service.
Each of these major topics encompasses design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and
configuration/tooling, leading to the following detailed, but non-necessarily exhaustive, list of topics of interest:
Design / Architecture:
* Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.)
* Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.)
* Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)
* VM & Container trust and security models
* Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation
* Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
* Cloud-based quantum compute services
* Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
* Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation
* Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies
* Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines
* Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.)
* Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments
* Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties
* ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
Management:
* Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments
* HPC services integration, services to support HPC
* Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management
* Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers
* Workflow coupling with VMs and containers
* Unikernels and lightweight VM application management
* Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration)
* Models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources
Performance Measurements and Modeling:
* Performance improvements for, or driven by, unikernels
* Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
* Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale
* Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads
* Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud
* Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures
* Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications
Configuration / Tooling:
* Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers
* Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments
* Measuring and controlling "OS/Virtualization noise"
* Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels
* GPU virtualization operationalization
*Organization*
The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion
sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive
demonstrations.
For more information and detailed paper submission instructions, refer to the VHPC'23 webpage: https://vhpc.org/
*Important Dates*
* *Mar 12th, 2023*: Abstract registration (/rolling abstract registrations always open/)
* *Mar 19th, 2023*: Paper submission deadline (/Springer LNCS/)
* *Apr 15th, 2023*: Acceptance notification
* *May 25th, 2023*: Workshop Day
* *Jun TBA, 2023*: Camera-ready version due (/post-workshop/)
*General Chairs*
* Michael Alexander, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
* Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus Ltd., UK
* Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
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Tommaso Cucinotta, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, PhD
Head of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
http://retis.sssup.it/~tommaso/eng/research.html
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* CALL FOR PAPERS -- e-HPWAS’23 (e-Health Pervasive Wireless
Applications and Services)
* www.ehpwas.org
* June 21, 2023
* Montreal, Canada
* in conjunction with the 19th WiMob 2023 - Rank B
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*Important dates*
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- Paper submission : April 13, 2023
- Acceptance notification: May 5, 2023
- Camera ready paper: May 19, 2023
- e-HPWAS 2023 : June 21, 2023
The 11th International IEEE Workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless
Applications and Services eHPWAS'23 (in conjunction with the prestigious
19th IEEE WiMob conference) targets providing optimal, secure and
context aware e-health services with the best quality of services and
user’s experience.
Applications and services are considered in wireless environments and
architecture with the use of IoT (Internet of things), big data analysis
and a strong heterogeneity of access technologies, sensors, terminals,
users’ needs and services (data, content, live streams or complex
network services).
eHPWAS encourages the submission of original works describing research
results, practical or industrial e-health solutions. Papers describing
advanced prototypes, platforms, techniques and general survey for
discussing future perspectives and directions are also encouraged.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- e-Health services in smart environments (smart homes, smart medical
institutions, smart cities)
- e-Health and the Internet of Things (IoT)
- e-Health and the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
- e-Health, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques
- e-Health and 5G/6G networks
- e-Health and Big Data analysis, summarization, prediction
- Sensor networks for e-Health services (e.g. BAN, WPAN, 5G, 6G,
LoRaWAN, etc.)
- Network interoperability in the e-health ecosystems
- Wireless network security and privacy (e.g. access networks, exchanged
and shared medical data)
- Wireless sensors, mobiles and cognitive radio networks
- User acceptance of advanced and complex e-health services
- Quality of Experience (QoE) with e-health applications, services and
network technologies
- Real-time e-Health services
- Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR)
for e-Health
- e-Health services composition and adaptation
- Delay tolerant networking (DTN) with e-health services development
- Norms for e-Health data exchange and distributions (e.g. HL7 norms,
electronic health information exchange-HIE, Health Record-HER)
- Existing and ongoing Web norms and communication technologies for
e-Health (e.g. WebRTC)
- Context Models for people monitoring and Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Heterogeneity of e-Health environments and platforms (used sensors and
actuators, heterogeneous access technologies, medical places)
- Techniques and models for performance evaluation, simulation, and
optimization
All accepted papers of the workshop will be published in the 19th WiMob
proceedings. All the Conference content will be submitted for inclusion
into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I)
databases. The workshops will be held on June 21, 2023 (Montreal, Canada).
All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The eHPWAS
organizers will select a number of candidates for the award among
accepted papers.
The e-HPWAS organizers plan to have selected papers appear in a special
journal issue. A selection of accepted papers of high quality will be
considered and authors will be invited to produce an extended version to
be published in a special issue of a specialized journal.
PAPER SUBMISSION DUE: April 13, 2023
For any enquiries, please contact: Tayeb.Lemlouma[at]irisa.fr
- Detailed call for papers: http://www.ehpwas.org/cfp.html
- EDAS submission link: https://www.edas.info/N30689
- eHPWAS Web site: http://www.ehpwas.org