ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy
http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/>
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ARES CONFERENCE
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security.
ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map.
Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS).
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chair
Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Program Committee Chairs
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11
Author Notification: May 22, 2017
Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017
Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017
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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals.
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work:
-full paper (10 pages)
-short paper (6 pages)
-workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated)
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.
Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US
Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil
Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK
Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK
Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany
Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France
Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany
Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria
Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US
Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK
Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US
Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria
Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany
Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US
Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands
Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria
Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany
Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria
Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria
Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US
Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy
Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy
Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria
Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control
Availability, Dependability, and Resilience
Botnets and Botnet Monitoring
Business Continuity & Resilience
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Cryptography
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications
Dependability Aspects of e-Government
Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software
Designing Security Requirements
Digital Forensics
E-Commerce Dependability
Identity Management
IPR of Security Technology
Incident Response and Prevention
Information Flow Control
Information Hiding and Steganograhpy
Interoperability Aspects
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy
Mobile Security
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Network Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Process based Security Models and Methods
Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures
Resilience of Computing Systems
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids
Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things
RFID Security and Privacy
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Safety Critical Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security and Usability
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security in Electronic Payments
Security in Electronic Voting
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Software Security
Threats and Attack Modelling
Trusted Computing
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trust Models and Trust Management
Wireless Security
*IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals*
2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)
http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/
December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA
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The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big
Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected
workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which
will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over
the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research,
development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form
crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the
examination of new ideas.
Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years:
The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established
itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data.
1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 (
http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/ regular paper acceptance rate:
17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400
registered participants from 40 countries.
2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 (
http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm, regular paper
acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with
more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries.
3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/
, regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov
1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries.
4. The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/
, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec
5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries.
The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)
will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It
will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big
Data Research, Development, and Applications.
Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop,
forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and
guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the
Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made
available at the Conference.
The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected
papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal
issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular
papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of
authors of accepted papers.
*Workshop Topics*
Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives
in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum
for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results
and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and
practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid
Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph
Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management,
Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data
Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2017
http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ for more possible workshop
topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop
chairs for feedback.
*Important Dates*
May 20, 2017 Workshop proposal submission due:
a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail
to any of the Workshop Chairs
June 5, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers
June 20 , 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers
*Guidelines for Workshop Proposals*
Proposals for 2017 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following
components.
1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data)
2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background,
importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop)
3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting
topics or areas covered by workshop)
4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the
Camera-ready submission date,
Please do not change the camera-ready date)
*Oct 10, 2017:* Due date for full workshop papers submission
*Nov 1, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors
*Nov 15, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers
*Dec 11-14 2017:* Workshops
5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of
workshop)
6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas)
7. Invited keynote speakers (optional)
*Workshop Proposal Submission:*
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW
*Workshop Chairs:*
Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
Email: cuzzocrea(a)si.dimes.unical.it
Prof. Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA
Email: jtang02(a)syr.edu
Prof. Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Email: toyoda(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed
Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017)
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/
Venue & Dates:
Guangzhou, China, November 12-15, 2017
Introduction:
The IEEE ISPA 2017 (15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting
leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking,
including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications,
reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During
the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are
invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems
(multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed
systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines).
The 15th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA
conferences in the years from 2003 to 2016 in Asia, Europe, Australia and
North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations,
workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2017 is sponsored by
the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE
Computer Society. IEEE ISPA 2017 is particularly interested in research
addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile
computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the
quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches
to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its
applications.
Scope and Interests:
(1) Systems and Architectures Track
Cloud computing and data center technology
Migration of computations
Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability
Energy management and Green Computing
Wireless and mobile networks
Internet of Things (IoT)
Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems
(2) Technologies and Tools Track
Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development
Novel parallel programming paradigms
Programming models for cloud services and applications
Code generation and optimization
Compilers for parallel computers
Middleware and tools
Scheduling and resource management
Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations
Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security
(3) Applications Track
High-performance scientific and engineering computing
Grid and cluster computing
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Databases, data mining, and data management
Big data and business analytics
Scientific cloud systems and services
Internet computing and web services
Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing
Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive
applications
Software Defined Networks and its applications
Submission and Publication Information:
All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2017) with PDF
format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that
have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English,
must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length
charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE
Computer Society proceedings Format (
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
) with Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a
paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be
accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be
included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at
the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high
quality international journals.
Important Dates:
Workshop Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017
Author Notification: September 15, 2017
Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017
Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017
Contact:
Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ISPA 2017 to:
Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers
(ISPA2017Guangzhou AT gmail DOT com).
Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/
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When Sep 4, 2017 - Sep 7, 2017
Where Prague, Czech Republic
Submission Deadline May 10, 2017
Notification Due Jun 14, 2017
Final Version Due Jun 28, 2017
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Call For Papers
The 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and
Applications(LTA'2017) is to be held at Federated Conference on Computer
Science and Information Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 September,
2017.
*Scope *
Development of new technologies and various intelligent systems creates new
possibilities for intelligent data processing. Natural Language Processing
(NLP) addresses problems of automated understanding, processing and
generation of natural human languages. LTA workshop provides a venue for
presenting innovative research in NLP related, but not restricted, to:
computational and mathematical modeling, analysis and processing of any
forms (spoken, handwritten or text) of human language and various
applications in decision support systems. The LTA workshop will provide an
opportunity for researchers and professionals working in the domain of NLP
to discuss present and future challenges as well as potential collaboration
for future progress in the field of NLP.
*Topics *
The submitted papers shall cover research and developments in all NLP
aspects, such as (however this list is not exhaustive):
- computational intelligence methods applied to language & text processing
- text analysis
- language networks
- text classification
- document clustering
- various forms of text recognition
- machine translation
- intelligent text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods
- authorship identification and verification
- author profiling
- plagiarism detection
- knowledge extraction and retrieval from text and natural language
structures
- multi-modal and natural language interfaces
- sentiment analysis
- language-oriented applications and tools
- NLP applications in education
- language networks, resources and corpora
*Paper submission *
Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file).
The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are
available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit
and relevance to the workshop.
*Publication *
Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory
stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference
Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and
DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for
indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index,
SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography and Google Scholar
Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will
be invited to Information Technology and Control journal (IF: 0.623).
*CONFERENCE CONTACTS *
Web site: https://fedcsis.org/
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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: 10 March 2017
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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The 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information
Systems (MobiWis 2017)
(Springer, LNCS)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.mobiwis.org/2017/
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The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have
been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years
through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers
and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific
organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent
Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas
and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and
developments related to research issues of the mobile web and the
engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and services.
The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on
the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information
systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering,
Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and Knowledge Management,
Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction.
Conference Topics:
- Smart and intelligent systems
- Mobile software systems
- Adaptive approaches for mobile computing
- Middleware/SOA for mobile systems
- Context- and location-aware services
- Pervasive and ubiquitous applications
- Data management in the mobile Web
- Mobile cloud services
- Mobile Web of Things
- Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
- Mobile networks, protocols and applications
- Mobile commerce and business services
- HCI in Mobile Applications and Socially Influencing Systems
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Submission Instructions:
Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers
should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in Springer's LNCS
format. See submission instructions on the conference website.
Publication:
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the
conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be
invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues
in international journals (tba).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI
Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM
Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See LNCS - Information
on Abstracting and Indexing (
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0)
Organizing Committee:
General Chair
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Program Co-Chairs
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Local Organising Chair
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Workshop Coordinator
Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Publicity Chair
Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
International Liaison Chair
George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2017
Bilbao, Spain
July 17-21, 2017
Organized by:
University of Deusto
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/
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SCOPE:
DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 30 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes.
ADDRESSED TO:
In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior academics and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 3-4 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be:
DeustoTech, School of Engineering
University of Deusto
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao, Spain
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences
Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars
George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors
Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models
Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba
Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale
Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics
Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real
Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training
Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks
Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications
Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances
Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences
Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications
Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games
Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines
Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms
Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding
Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text
OPEN SESSION:
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 9, 2017.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
José Gaviria
Carlos Martín (co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra
Iker Pastor
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
David Silva
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Universidad de Deusto
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Apologies if you receive multiple copies.
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Given numerous requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline for the conference. Please see below for the new deadline.
SBP-BRiMS 2017
2017 International Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior
Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)
July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org
All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first
authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those
receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a
special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Abstract Submission : Mar 1 (Wed), 2017
Regular Paper Submission : Mar 8 (Wed), 2017
Author Notification : Mar 27 (Mon), 2017
Final Version Submission : Apr 10 (Mon), 2017
Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary,
presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation.
All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the
Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival.
Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a
short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online
proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume.
The online proceedings is not considered archival.
Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results,
technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the
military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All
short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for:
presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be
published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the
Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered
archival.
Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017
Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017,
including the following:
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference)
Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night
Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night
Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night
ABOUT SBP-BRiMS:
SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper
track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of
high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The
conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which
were co-located in previous years.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study
social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral
modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is
a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and
scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling
are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex
behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these
approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system
components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”)
and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational
sciences to the social and health sciences.
The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from
academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense
researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research
results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and
showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural
behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.
Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and
tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available
through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and
http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ .
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications.
Topics of interests include the following:
Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes
* Group interaction and collaboration
* Group formation and evolution
* Group representation and profiling
* Collective action and governance
* Cultural patterns & representation
* Social conventions, social contexts and processes
* Influence process and recognition
* Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
* Information diffusion
* Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Behavior Modeling
* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
* Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
* Models of reasoning and decision making
* Model validation & comparison
* Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior
* Physical models of human movement
* Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking
* Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* Knowledge acquisition/engineering
* Human behavior issues in model federations
Methodological Challenges
* Mathematical foundations
* Verification and validation
* Sensitivity analysis
* Matching technique or method to research questions
* Metrics and evaluation
* Methodological innovation
* Model federation and integration
* Evolutionary computing
* Optimization
Information, Systems, & Network Science
* Data mining on social media platforms
* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
* Inference of network topologies and changes over time
* Analysis of link formations and link types
* Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
* Analysis of high-dimensional networks
* Analytics for social and human dynamics
Military & Intelligence Applications
* Evaluation, modeling and simulation
* Group formation and evolution in the political context
* Technology and flash crowds
* Networks and political influence
* Group representation and profiling
* Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Applications for Health and Well-being
* Social network analysis to understand health behavior
* Modeling of health policy and decision making
* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other Applications
* Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
* Viral marketing
* Reasoning about development aid through social modeling
* Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:
The conference solicits three categories of papers:
Regular papers (max. 10 pages)
All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome
Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation.
Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages)
All topics and authors welcome.
Published online. Typically a poster presentation.
Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages)
Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation.
Paper Formatting Guideline
The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files
are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-
793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page.
All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a
maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for
posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking
results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using
the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted
on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website.
A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their
papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal
“Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high-
profile journal.
The submission website will be available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a
paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and
submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be
able to update your submission.
PUBLICATION
For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the
program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com.
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:
Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full
conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two
distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds
in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other
mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be
designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with
medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited
formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an
understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed
by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling
approaches.
Tutorial proposal submission:
Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information:
* Title of the tutorial.
* Description of the tutorial topic and structure.
* Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the
attendees).
* Short bio and contact information of the organizers.
More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including
instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to
the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information
becomes available. For further information, please contact
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
CHALLENGE:
The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in
previous years.
Additional details will be posted on the conference website.
FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:
Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization
Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross-
fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted
with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider
partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The
Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to
interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies.
Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives
from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA,
etc.
BEST PAPER AWARDS:
SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with
student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
HOTEL AND LOGISTICS:
Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference
website as it becomes available.
TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:
It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available
on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP-
BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.
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Call for Papers
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ICA3PP Workshop: 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in
Bioinformatics (proceedings published by Springer LNCS)
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Special Issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (Impact Factor:
1.537, Quartile Q1, ISSN: 1066-5277)
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 26, 2017
http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html
We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the
application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In
particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the
following topics:
- Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics.
- Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics.
- Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics.
- Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics.
- Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing).
- Multicore computing in Bioinformatics.
- Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics.
- Cluster computing in Bioinformatics.
- Supercomputing in Bioinformatics.
- Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics.
- Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics.
- Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics.
- Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics.
- Green computing in Bioinformatics.
- Mobile computing in Bioinformatics.
- Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics.
- Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in
Bioinformatics.
- Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in
Bioinformatics.
With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives
exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological
sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal
recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and
phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and
protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory
networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and
analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of
DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc.
All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at:
http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html
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Kind regards.
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Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es>
http://arco.unex.es/mavega
ARCO Research Group
University of Extremadura
Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications
Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n
10003 Caceres. SPAIN
Tel: +34-927-257263
Fax: +34-927-257187
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==== Call for Workshops ====
The FAS* 2017 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conferences SASO 2017 and ICCAC 2017. FAS*W workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems as well as Cloud and Autonomic Computing. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO and ICCAC communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO/ICCAC conference.
==== Important Dates ====
Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 7, 2017*
Workshop acceptance notification: April 14, 2017*
CfP submission deadline: April 21, 2017
Workshop paper submission deadline: July 7, 2017
Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 21, 2017
Early registration deadline: TBD
Camera-ready papers due: July 26, 2017
Workshop notes submission to workshop chairs: July 28, 2017
Workshops dates: September 18 & 22, 2017
* Please submit your workshop proposals as soon as possible (i.e. before April 7)! We will try to decide earlier on workshop acceptance in order to give the organizers more time to solicit papers.
==== FAS*W 2017 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ====
Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information:
PART 1:
- Title of the workshop.
- A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conferences. Please specify, which of the two main conferences the workshop assigned to (if any)!
- Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length.
- The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions.
- The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee.
- Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).
- A brief description of the workshop format.
- List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations.
- List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable).
PART 2:
The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including:
- A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
- A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop.
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees.
- An indication of the envisaged acceptance rate (if applicable).
- A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO or ICCAC workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.
- A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised.
- All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the FAS*W 2017 Workshop Chairs, via Christopher Frantz, as described below.
==== Selection Criteria ====
The selection of the workshops to be included in the final FAS* 2017 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including:
- the scientific/technical interest of the topics,
- the quality of the proposal,
- complementarity with the conference topics,
- balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and
- the capacity of the conference workshop program.
Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals.
==== Responsibilities of FAS* 2017 Workshop Chairs ====
For all accepted proposals, FAS* 2017 will be responsible for:
- Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
- Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshops.
- Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
- Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for FAS*.
- Arranging for publication of proceedings.
==== Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers ====
Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
- Setting up a web site for the workshop.
- Advertising the workshop (and the main FAS* conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation.
- Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee.
- Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements.
- Writing a 1-page organizers? introduction for the workshop proceedings.
Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings).
- FAS* reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs.
==== Submissions and Inquiries ====
Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to: Christopher Frantz (cf(a)christopherfrantz.org) or Jeremy Pitt (j.pitt(a)imperial.ac.uk)
https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html