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Call for papers: PhD Forum at The 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference
by Mahdi NIKDAST 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Dear colleagues, I invite you and your students to submit your contributions to the PhD Forum at The 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC¹17). Please find more information below. Thank you! Best regards Mahdi Nikdast **Call for Papers: Ph.D. Forum at The 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC'17)** Forum webpage: http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/forum_17 The Ph.D. forum at IGSC'17 will provide an international forum for doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing and/or computing for a more sustainable planet to present their work to fellow researchers and practitioners in the green and sustainable computing community. The forum includes a poster session during which the students can present their work and receive constructive feedback for completion of their dissertation research. The Ph.D. forum is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research topic and have some preliminary results, but still have enough time remaining before their final defence that they can benefit from the forum discussions. **Accepted submissions will appear in IGSC'17 proceedings** *Paper submission guidelines* Current Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. The student should be the sole author of the paper, but the advisor and other contributors should be acknowledged. The topics of interest coincide with IGSC'17 are listed in the CFP page (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_17) The extended abstract should be three pages in IEEE conference proceedings style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht ml). All manuscripts should be in pdf format, in English, and registered and submitted through easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igsc17) under the "IGSC17 PhD Forum" submission track. Please kindly note that: - The research ideas in submissions should be mature enough to be presented in a paper and content can evolve to become the substantial part of a Ph.D. dissertation. The submissions should not have been published and not under review by other conferences or journals elsewhere. - The authors should outline related problems in the field and their current solutions, clearly motivate and formulate the research topic, present the preliminary idea, the proposed approach, and the preliminary experimental results achieved thus far, explicitly point out the intended contributions of the proposed work. Each submission will be reviewed by members of the forum¼s technical program committee. Abstracts will be judged on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference topics. Accepted abstracts will appear in the IGSC conference proceedings and will be indexed by DBLP and the IEEE digital library. All invited participants will be asked to provide a poster, which will be displayed throughout the conference. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to register for the conference and appear in person to present their work. The student rate will apply to authors who are currently full-time students. *Poster Presentation* Authors of accepted submissions should prepare a poster for presentation. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference and the students are required to be available during the poster session to discuss their work and answer related questions. The poster size should not exceed 841 x 1189 mm (width x height). The organizers encourage all Ph.D. Students in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet to participate in this Ph.D. Forum. *Ph.D. Forum Chair* Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca *Important dates* Paper submission due: August 31, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: September 4, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: September 7, 2017

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) at SC17: Extended abstracts due Sept. 1
by Jason D. Bakos 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2017 Friday Morning, November 17, 2017 Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 (one page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its third year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on legacy and new high-level programming models, optimizations specific to scientific computing and data analytics, tools for performance/energy improvements, FPGA computing in the cloud, and popular applications for reconfigurable computing such as machine learning and big data. ========================================================================== Submissions (one page extended abstract): Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high-performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in Supercomputer, Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Supercomputing, Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Runtimes/OS/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future-gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as a ONE PAGE EXTENDED ABSTRACT in ACM SIG Proceedings format. ========================================================================== You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2017 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: November 4, 2017 Workshop Date: November 17, 2017 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: H2RC is a half-day Friday workshop. It will be comprised of Keynote and invited talks and talks selected from paper submissions. ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Program Committee: Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Carl Ebeling, Altera Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Alan George, University of Florida Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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ESORICS 2017: Call for Participation
by Cristina Alcaraz 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

============================================================================== ESORICS 2017: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Oslo, Norway — September 11-15, 2017 ============================================================================== WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. The 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) will be held in Oslo, Norway. ESORICS 2017 spans a total of 3 days, featuring: * 3 keynote speeches (Cormac Herley, Paul Syverson, Sandro Etalle) * 54 paper presentations in 3 days (Sep 11-13) * NN workshops (Sept 14 - 15) Registration ------------------------------------ Early Registration for ESORICS+Workshops 2017 is open, but will end soon. Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017@ntnu.edu Venue page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! Presentations Program ------------------------------------ The 54 papers of ESORICS 2017 are distributed between **18 sessions** in **two parallel tracks**. Following is the list of paper presentations for the main ESORICS conference. For the workshop programs, please consult their corresponding websites: * SECPRE 2017: https://samosweb.aegean.gr/secpre2017/ * SecSE 2017: http://secse.org * CBT 2017: http://www.deic.uab.cat/~jherrera/CBT/ * DPM 2017: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2017/ * STM 2017: http://stm2017.di.unimi.it * QASA 2017: http://www.iit.cnr.it/qasa2017/ * CyberICPS: http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2017/ * SIoT 2017: http://siot-workshop.org ### September 11 - Day 1 ########### 09:30 - 10:30 * Keynote: Cormac Herley 11:00 - 12:30 * Session 1: Security of embedded things - Shortfall-based Optimal Placement of Security Resources for Mobile IoT Scenarios Antonino Rullo, Edoardo Serra, Elisa Bertino and Jorge Lobo - Analyzing the Capabilities of the CAN Attacker Sibylle Froeschle and Alexander Stühring - Boot Attestation: Secure Remote Reporting with Off-The-Shelf IoT Sensors André Schaller, Florian Kohnhäuser, Steffen Schulz and Stefan Katzenbeisser * Session 2: Cryptographic Application I - Per-Session Security: Password-Based Cryptography Revisited Gregory Demay, Peter Gazi, Ueli Maurer and Björn Tackmann - Non-Interactive Provably Secure Attestations for Arbitrary RSA Prime Generation Algorithm Fabrice Benhamouda, Houda Ferradi, Rémi Géraud and David Naccache - Tightly Secure Ring-LWE Based Key Encapsulation with Short Ciphertexts Martin Albrecht, Emmanuela Orsini, Kenneth Paterson, Guy Peer and Nigel Smart 14:00 - 15:30 * Session 3: Documents and Authorship - Identifying Multiple Authors in a Binary Program Xiaozhu Meng, Barton Miller and Kwang-Sung Jun - Verifiable Document Redacting Herve Chabanne, Rodolphe Hugel and Julien Keuffer - Source Code Authorship Attribution using Long Short-Term Memory Based Networks Bander Alsulami, Edwin Dauber, Richard Harang, Spiros Mancoridis and Rachel Greenstadt * Session 4: Analysis of Security Protocols - Automated analysis of equivalence properties for security protocols using else branches Ivan Gazeau and Steve Kremer and Levente Buttyán - Secure Authentication in the Grid: A formal analysis of DNP3: SAv5 Cas Cremers, Martin Dehnel-Wild and Kevin Milner - Modular Verification of Protocol Equivalence in the Presence of Randomness Matthew Bauer, Rohit Chadha and Mahesh Viswanathan 16:00 - 17:30 * Session 5: Threat Analysis - Preventing Advanced Persistent Threats in Complex Control Networks Juan E. Rubio, Cristina Alcaraz and Javier Lopez - MTD CBITS: Moving Target Defense for Cloud-Based IT Systems Alexandru G. Bardas, Sathya C. Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou and Scott A. Deloach - Is my attack tree correct? Maxime Audinot, Sophie Pinchinat and Barbara Kordy * Session 6: Side Channels and data leakage - On-Demand Time Blurring to Support Side-Channel Defense Weijie Liu, Debin Gao and Mike Reiter - Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Hard-Drive Noise Mordechai Guri, Yosef Solewicz, Andrey Daidakulov and Yuval Elovici - Practical Keystroke Timing Attacks in Sandboxed JavaScript Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz, David Bidner, Clémentine Maurice and Stefan Mangard ### September 12 - Day 2 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Paul Syverson 10:30 - 12:00 * Session 7: Vulnerabilities and Malware - Mirage: Toward a Stealthier and Modular Malware Analysis Sandbox for Android Lorenzo Bordoni, Mauro Conti and Riccardo Spolaor - VuRLE: Automatic Vulnerability Detection and Repair by Learning from Examples Siqi Ma, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Cong Sun and Robert Deng - Adversarial Examples for Malware Detection Kathrin Grosse, Nicolas Papernot, Praveen Manoharan, Backes Michael and Patrick McDaniel Russo * Session 8: Privacy in Systems - PerfWeb: How to Violate Web Privacy with Hardware Performance Events Berk Gulmezoglu, Andreas Zankl, Thomas Eisenbarth and Berk Sunar - SePCAR: A Secure and Privacy-enhancing Protocol for Car Access Provision Iraklis Symeonidis, Abdelrahaman Aly, Mustafa Asan Mustafa, Bart Mennink, Siemen Dhooghe and Bart Preneel - Privacy Implications of Room Climate Data Philipp Morgner, Christian Müller, Matthias Ring, Björn Eskofier, Christian Riess, Frederik Armknecht and Zinaida Benenson 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 9: Network security - Link-Layer Device Type Classification on Encrypted Wireless Traffic with COTS Radios Rajib Ranjan Maiti, Sandra Siby, Ragav Sridharan and Nils Ole Tippenhauer - Preventing DNS amplification attacks using the history of DNS queries with SDN Soyoung Kim, Sora Lee, Geumhwan Cho, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Jaehoon Paul Jeong and Hyoungshick Kim - Zero Round-Trip Time for the Extended Access Control Protocol Jacqueline Brendel and Marc Fischlin * Session 10: Controlling Access - No sugar but all the taste! Memory Encryption without Architectural Support Panagiotis Papadopoulos, George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Markatos and Sotiris Ioannidis - Tree-based Cryptographic Access Control James Alderman, Naomi Farley and Jason Crampton - Securing Data Analytics on SGX With Randomization Swarup Chandra, Vishal Karande, Zhiqiang Lin, Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 11: Information Flow - We are Family: Relating Information-Flow Trackers Musard Balliu, Daniel Schoepe and Andrei Sabelfeld - A Better Composition Operator for Quantitative Information Flow Analyses Kai Engelhardt - WebPol: Fine-grained Information Flow Policies for Web Browsers Abhishek Bichhawat, Vineet Rajani, Jinank Jain, Deepak Garg and Christian Hammer * Session 12: Blockchain and social networks - A Traceability Analysis of Monero’s Blockchain Amrit Kumar, Clément Fischer, Shruti Tople and Prateek Saxena -RingCT 2.0: A Compact Linkable Ring Signature Based Protocol for Blockchain Cryptocurrency Monero Shi-Feng Sun, Man Ho Au, Joseph Liu and Tsz Hon Yuen - Secure Computation in Online Social Networks Foteini Baldimtsi, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Stavros Papadopoulos, Alessandra Scafuro and Nikos Triandopoulos ### September 13 - Day 3 ########### 09:00 - 10:00 * Keynote: Sandro Etalle 10:30 - 12:30 * Session 13: Web Security - DeltaPhish: Detecting Phishing Webpages in Compromised Websites Igino Corona, Battista Biggio, Matteo Contini, Luca Piras, Roberto Corda, Mauro Mereu, Guido Mureddu, Davide Ariu and Fabio Roli - DOMPurify: Client-Side Protection against XSS and Markup Injection Mario Heiderich, Jörg Schwenk and Christopher Spaeth - Quantifying Web Adblocker Privacy Arthur Gervais, Alexandros Filios, Vincent Lenders and Srdjan Capkun * Session 14: Cryptographic signatures - Reusing Nonces in Schnorr Signatures Marc Beunardeau, Aisling Connolly, Remi Geraud, David Naccache and Damien Vergnaud - How to Circumvent the Structure-Preserving Signatures Lower Bounds MEssam Ghadafi - Server-Supported RSA Signatures for Mobile Devices Ahto Buldas, Aivo Kalu, Peeter Laud and Mart Oruaas 13:30 - 15:00 * Session 15: Formal techniques - Inference-Proof Updating of a Weakened View under the Modification of Input Parameters Marcel Preuß and Joachim Biskup - Verifying Constant-Time Implementations by Abstract Interpretation Sandrine Blazy, David Pichardie and Alix Trieu - AVR Processors as a Platform for Language-Based Security Florian Dewald, Heiko Mantel and Alexandra Weber * Session 16: Privacy and garbled circuits - Labeled Homomorphic Encryption: Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Processing of Outsourced Data Manuel Barbosa, Dario Catalano and Dario Fiore - New Way for Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Evaluation Raymond K. H. Tai, Jack P. K. Ma, Yongjun Zhao and Sherman S. M. Chow - Enforcing Input Correctness via Certification in Garbled Circuit Evaluation Yihua Zhang, Marina Blanton and Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani 15:30 - 17:00 * Session 17: Intrusion Detection - Secure IDS Offloading with Nested Virtualization and Deep VM Introspection Shohei Miyama and Kenichi Kourai - Network Intrusion Detection based on Semi-Supervised Variational Auto-Encoder Genki Osada, Kazumasa Omote and Takashi Nishide - LeaPS: Learning-Based Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi * Session 18: Cryptographic Applications II - Multiple Rate Threshold FlipThem David Leslie, Chris Sherfield and Nigel Smart - Stringer: Measuring the Importance of Static Data Comparisons to Detect Backdoors and Undocumented Functionality Sam L. Thomas, Tom Chothia and Flavio D. Garcia - Generic Constructions for Fully Secure Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption Kotoko Yamada, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Keita Emura, Goichiro Hanaoka and Keisuke Tanaka

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CFP to Special Issue in SCAC on Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World - Deadline Mar. 31, 2018
by Xiaokang Zhou 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] [SCAC Call for Papers] http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1608722/application/pdf/scalable+a… ======================================================================= Scalable Computing and Communications Special Issue on Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope Due to the emerging computing paradigm, the physical, social, and mental world are increasingly integrating and merging into the cyberspace. In this emerging but significant field, it is necessary to model the human individual information processing along with their corresponding behaviors, in order to build systematic knowledge about new phenomena, behaviors, properties and practices across the broad applications in cyber-enabled world. Specifically, studies related to scalable algorithm and behavioral analysis are conducted in terms of the cyber entities, as well as their relations and conjugations in physical, social and mental spaces, which focuses more on the basic attributes, models, functions, and evolutions of cyber entities, and all their possible relations conjugated with real things. For this scientific and systematic study, numerous challenges are raised as: How to establish and improve the foundational theory and methodology for the scalable computing and data processing in the cyber-enabled world? How to find a unified way to study and represent the diversified cyber entities along with their behavior patterns and communications? How to systematically extract, create, and fuse the information, knowledge, and intelligence generated across the physical-social systems for the sustainable utilization? How to deal with the accompanying issues while producing numerous cyber things, such as security, reliability, and etc. Topics may include (but are not limited to): • Scalable Communications in Cyber-world • Data Centric Computing in Cyberspace • Scalable Knowledge Modeling and Management in Cyber-world • User Behavior Analysis and Modeling in Cyber-physical Systems • User Influence Measure and Model in Cyberspace • Cyber-Social Sensing and Behavior Analysis • Scalable Cyber Hybrid Interface/System Design • Scalable Mechanisms for Intelligent Transportation Systems • Cyber-Based Learning Analytics with Scalable Computing • Cyber-Empowered Sentiment Analysis and Mental Computing • Wearable Computing and Smart Sensor • Scalable Computing for Healthcare • Scalability in Cyber Security, Privacy and Reliability • Scalable algorithms for Cyber Visualization • Scalable deep learning architectures • Scalable Brain-inspired Computing and Soft Computing • Scalable Agent-based Computing • Scalable algorithms for the Internet of Things • Scalable algorithms for Edge computing (EC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) • Scalable Services for Pervasive Computing Submissions Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors of Scalable Computing and Communications available from http://www.springer.com/41122 , and submit online at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scac . To ensure that the manuscript is correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select "Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Tentative Schedule Paper Submission Due: Mar. 31, 2018 Completion of first review cycle: Jul. 15, 2018 Deadline for submitting the revised papers: Oct. 15, 2018 2nd review completion: Nov. 30, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscript Due: Dec. 31, 2018 Guest editors: Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan Kevin Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Flavia C. Delicato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Contact Information Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Zhou (zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp) -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention
by Andrii Shalaginov 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention. It is co-located with IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 that will take place in Boston, USA, December 11-14, 2017. Workshop webpage: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieeebigdata2017 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Sept 10, 2017: Due date for full workshop papers submission Oct 15, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2017: Camera-ready for accepted papers Dec 11-14, 2017: Workshop *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become inevitable in every aspect of the digital forensics process. Increase in personal devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage mediums) results in an expanding volume of potential evidence found in them. The increase in data is one of the largest challenges facing law enforcements’ timely prosecutions; with the effect, that human analysts can no longer be the lone actor in the loop. There is a need to create innovative and advanced models and analysis methods to help human analysts within law enforcements in order to automatically aid with the discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of evidence in criminal cases. Advanced big data analytics are important for cybercrime investigation and require novel approaches for automation. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithms - Machine learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modeling - Secure platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Secure collaborative platforms 2. Applications - Network forensics readiness - Cyber threats intelligence - Malware analysis and detection - Emails mining - Events correlations - Access logs analysis - Mobile and Internet of Things forensics - Fraud detection - Database forensics 3. Data - Novel datasets - Digital forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - Data storage standards - New formats and taxonomies *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Carl Leichter (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Ethan Rudd (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Hamid Ebadi (Chalmers University of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Michael McGuire (Towson University) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Pavel Gladyshev (Dublin School of Computer Science) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See formatting instructions here: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieee-bigdata-2017-formatting-ins… *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics”. Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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GraMSec 2017 - last call for participation
by Barbara Kordy 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

****************************************************************** GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ****************************************************************** ABOUT GraMSec Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Such models have been subject of academic research and they have also been widely accepted by the industrial sector, as a means to support and facilitate threat analysis and risk assessment processes. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies and tools for their practical usage. PROGRAM 8:45 – 10:00 INVITED TALK Dr. Anoop Singhal, NIST Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems 10:00 – 10:35 BREAK (eclipse + coffee) 10:35 – 12:35 SESSION 1: Security Modeling 10:35 – 11:15 (regular paper) Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford, Alexandr Vasenev, and Roel Wieringa Graphical Modeling of Security Arguments: Current State and Future Directions 11:15 – 11:35 (short paper) Brian Ruttenberg, Dave Blumstein, Jeff Druce, Michael Howard, Fred Reed, Leslie Wilfong, Crystal Lister, Steve Gaskin, Meaghan Foley, and Dan Scofield Probabilistic Modeling of Insider Threat Detection Systems 11:35 – 12:15 (regular paper) Angèle Bossuat and Barbara Kordy Evil Twins: Handling Repetitions in Attack–Defense Trees - A Survival Guide 12:15 – 12:35 (short paper) Letitia Li, Florian Lugou, and Ludovic Apvrille Security Modeling for Embedded System Design 12:40 – 14:00 LUNCH 14:00 – 15:40 SESSION 2: Risk Analysis 14:00 – 14:40 (regular paper) Karin Bernsmed, Christian Frøystad, Per Håkon Meland, Dag Atle Nesheim, and Ørnulf Jan Rødseth Visualizing Cyber Security Risks with Bow-Tie Diagrams 14:40 – 15:20 (regular paper) Aitor Couce-Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David Ríos-Insua CSIRA: A Method for Analysing the Risk of Cybersecurity Incidents 15:20 – 15:40 (short paper) Ryan Habibi, Jens Weber, and Morgan Price Circle of Health Based Access Control for Personal Health Information Systems 15:40 – 16:10 BREAK 16:10 – 17:10 SESSION 3: Attack Trees 16:10 – 16:50 (regular paper) Peter Gjøl Jensen, Axel Legay, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen Quantitative Evaluation of Attack Defense Trees using Stochastic Timed Automata 16:50 – 17:10 (short paper) Olga Gadyatskaya and Rolando Trujillo-Rasua New Directions in Attack Tree Research: Catching up with Industrial Needs GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php If you need a visa support letter, please check http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/visa.html GENERAL CHAIR Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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The 2017 ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017)
by ICT DataScience 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

The 5th ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017) [http://www.bigdatalab.ac.cn/~dsbda/2017/] In conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017) [http://icdm2017.bigke.org/] New Orleans, USA · November 18, 2017 Introduction ================ Due to the rapid development of IT technology including Internet, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, and Internet of Things, as well as the consequent decrease of cost on collecting and storing data, big data has been generated from almost every industry and sector as well as governmental department. The volume of big data often grows exponentially or even in rates that overwhelm the well-known Moore’s Law. Meanwhile, big data has been extended from traditional structured data into semi-structured and completely unstructured data of various types, such as text, image, audio, video, click streams, log files, etc. It is no doubt that big data can offer us unprecedented opportunities. However, it also poses many grand challenges. Due to the massive volume and inherent complexity, it is extremely difficult to store, aggregate, manage, and analyze big data and finally mine valuable information/knowledge from the complex data/information networks. Therefore, in the presence of big data, the theories, models, algorithms and methods of traditional data related fields, such as, data mining, data engineering, machine learning, statistical learning, computer programming, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, uncertainty modeling, and high performance computing etc., become no longer effective and efficient. On the other hand, some data is generated exponentially or super-exponentially in a streaming manner. Therefore, how to delicately analyze and deeply understand big data so as to obtain dynamical and incremental information / knowledge, is a grand challenge. In general, at the era of big data, it is expected to develop new theories, models, algorithms, methods, and paradigms for mining, analyzing, and understanding big data, and even a new inter-discipline, Data Science, for studying the perception, acquisition, transportation, storage, management, analysis, visualization, and applications of big data, and finally implement the transformation from data to knowledge. DSBDA 2017 aims to provide a networking venue that will bring together scientists, researchers, professionals, and practitioners from both industry and academia and from different disciplines (including computer science, social science, network science, etc.) to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, share experiences, promote collaborations, and report state-of-the-art research work on various aspects of data science and big data analytics. Topics ================ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data science and data analytics * Acquisition, representation, indexing, storage, and management of big data * Processing, pre-processing, and post-processing of big data * Models, algorithms, and methods for big data mining and understanding * Knowledge discovery and acquisition from big data * Visualizing analytics and organization for big data * Streaming data processing * Context data mining from big Web data * Social computing over big Web data * Industrial and scientific applications of big data * Tools for big data analytics Submissions ================ The page limit of workshop papers is 8 pages in the standard IEEE 2-column format (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/ templates.html), including the bibliography and any possible appendices. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2017 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2017.bigke.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/submit. php?subarea=SP04&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2017/ icdm17/scripts/ws_submit.php. Note that all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2017 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Therefore, papers must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conferences or journals. Important Dates ================ Submissions Due Date: August 7, 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2017 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15, 2017 Workshop Date: November 18, 2017 Steering Committee =================== Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China Prof. Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Chairs ================ Dr. Xiaolong Jin Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: jinxiaolong(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Jiafeng Guo Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: guojiafeng(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Huewei Shen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: shenhuawei(a)ict.ac.cn

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[Deadline Extended] - BI 2017 - Call for Abstracts
by Yang 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17) "Investigating the Brain and Mind from Informatics Perspective" November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ --------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 30, 2017 One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B --------------------------------------- *** INVITED SPEECHES *** 1. "Multimodal Modelling of Network Propagation of Neuropathology in Dementia" Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada) 2. "Neural Correlates of Word, Sentence and Story Comprehension" Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US) 3. "The Cognitive Neural Basis of Object Knowledge" Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China) 4. "Harnessing Large-Scale Data-Sharing to Drive Discovery and Bench-to-Bedside Translation in Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury" Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US) 5. "Computational Psychophysiology Based Research Methodology for Mental Health" Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China) 6. "Multiscale Gene Expression Signatures in the Mammalian Brain in Health and Disease" Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) 7. "Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Analysis" Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) *** WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Abstract submission (TYPE II) is still open! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To submit abstracts to workshops/special sessions, please visit http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/workshops.htm # Workshop on Brain and Artificial Intelligence (BAI 2017) Organizers: Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Shuliang Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China # Workshop on Knowledge Representation: Brain and Machine (KRBM 2017) Organizers: Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University, China Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China # Workshop on Affective, Psychological and Physiological Computing (APPC 2017) Organizers: Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China Zhijun Yao, Lanzhou University, China Mi Li, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Big Data and Visualization for Brainsmatics (BDVB 2017) Organizers: Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anan LI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # Workshop on Brain Big Data Based Wisdom Service (BBDBWS 2017) Organizer: Jiajin Huang, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Semantic Technology for eHealth (STeH 2017) Organizers: Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands # Workshop on Big Data Neuroimaging Analytics for Brain and Mental Health (BDNABMH 2017) Organizer: Shouyi Wang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA # Workshop on Novel Methods of the Brain Imaging in the Clinical and Preclinical Neuroscience (NMBICPN 2017) Organizers: Vassiliy Tsytsarev, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA Vicky Yamamoto, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA Yan Li, University of Southern Queensland, Australia # The 1st International Workshop on Deep Learning in Brain MRI and Pathology Images (DLBMPI 2017) Organizers: Yan Xu, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, BUAA Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia # Workshop on Mesoscopic Brainformatics (MBAI 2017) Organizers: Dezhong Yao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Yong He, Beijing Normal University, China Li Dong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China # Special Session on Brain Informatics in Neurogenetics (BIN 2017) Organizers: Hong Liang, Harbin Engineering University, China Lei Du, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Li Shen, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA # Special Session on BigNeuron Project (BP 2017) Organizers: Zhi Zhou, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA Min Liu, Hunan University, China ================================================== Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies. BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies, including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a difference in various large-scale brain studies and their applications. BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI. Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing IMPORTANT DATES : =========================== May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers June 20, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers August 30, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts (TYPE-II) (for both main conference and workshops/special sessions) November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions November 17-18, 2017: Main conference ABSTRACT (TYPE-II) SUBMISSIONS : ================================= (Submission Deadline: August 30, 2017): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. ----------------------------------------------- One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B ----------------------------------------------- *** Post-Conference Journal Publication *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted abstracts from the conference will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA) Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Chairs Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China) Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA) Organizing Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China) Tutorial Chair Wenming Zheng (South East University, China) Publicity Chairs Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn shouyiw(a)uta.edu yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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Research Fellow Position at NTU-Delta Corporate Lab
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

A Research Fellow position is immediately available at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This position is part of a corporate lab initiative involving NTU and Delta Electronics, a leading electronics manufacturing company. Successful candidate will conduct research to improve the resilience of industrial Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things against dynamic environment conditions and cyber-attacks. The candidate should have obtained a PhD degree in computer science or computer engineering (or relevant disciplines) and demonstrated strong research ability by publications on prestigious venues in the areas of sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, and/or security. The candidate is expected to have good hands-on and programming skills. Knowledge and experiences with industrial systems are strong pluses. The candidate will work with a team of five researchers, multiple NTU faculty members and Delta engineers. The position will provide an excellent opportunity to perform both basic and translational research in close collaboration with industry. Other advantages of the position include: (1) stable multi-year fund subject to satisfactory performance, (2) various opportunities in Singapore's strategic cyber resilience research cluster, e.g., Temasek Fellowship (http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/trf/index_trf.html) (3) high-quality living and low tax rates in Singapore. Interested candidates can send CV with full publication list to Dr. Rui Tan at tanrui(a)ntu.edu.sg Project Overview: Computer systems that control physical environments like manufacturing processes, known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), have transformed significantly. Due to device proliferation and large-scale connectivity, a variety of functionalities are now feasible in CPS. However, connectivity also means that these systems operate in unreliable open environments, and hence resiliency to faults (reliability), malfunctions (safety) and attacks (security) become important. This resiliency is fundamentally dependent on the resiliency of the cyber-infrastructure of CPS (communication network and computation nodes), which plays a central role of data delivery and execution of control. The objective of this project is to design a resilient cyber-infrastructure for such emerging CPS. The project will design and prototype a resilient cyber-infrastructure including hardware platforms, middleware solutions and communication protocols. The developed solutions are expected to be used in real industrial systems. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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Final CFP - IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
by Peter Mueller 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

=============================================================================== Final Call for Papers for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) =============================================================================== Paper Submission Deadline extended to August 15, 2017 (Firm Deadline) ***One of China Computer Federation (CCF) Class "C" Conferences*** Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Central South University, China Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE TCSC. Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Co-Located Conferences: (1) The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017) http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ (2) The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017) http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 11+ Keynote Speeches Shared by Co-Located IEEE ISPA 2017 & IEEE IUCC 2017 & SpaCCS 2017 Conferences: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/KeynoteSpeeches.htm Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA (Fellow of APS (Physics) and Fellow of ACM (Computing)) https://www.soic.indiana.edu/all-people/profile.html?profile_id=203 Title: Next Generation Grid: Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Runtimes from Cloud to Edge Applications Keynote Speaker 2: Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of UK, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IEE/IET) http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/newcomms/?q=people/lh Title: Quantum-Search Algorithms, Quantum Codes and All That... Keynote Speaker 3: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada (Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~boukerch/ Title: Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: A New Challenge for Smart Cities Keynote Speaker 4: Prof. Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (IEEE Fellow) https://cis.temple.edu/~wu/ Title: Optimizing MapReduce Framework through Joint Scheduling of Overlapping Phases Keynote Speaker 5: Prof. Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore (IEEE Fellow) http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ Title: Privacy-Preserving Access Control and Computations of Encrypted Data in the Cloud Keynote Speaker 6: Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada (IEEE Fellow) http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/~ljilja Title: Data Mining and Machine Learning for Analysis of Network Traffic Keynote Speaker 7: Professor Kin K. Leung, Imperial College London, UK (IEEE Fellow) http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~kkleung/ Title: TBD. Keynote Speaker 8: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia (FIEE, FBCS, FACS, FIEAust, FIMA) https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/vijay-varadharajan Title: Security Challenges in Software Defined Networks Policy based Security Architecture for Software Defined Networks Keynote Speaker 9: Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Cheung Kung Scholars Chair Professor, Fellow of the CCF) http://www.linkedin.com/in/jinhust Title: Towards Dataflow-based Graph Accelerator Keynote Speaker 10: Prof. Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~jianhua/mahome/ Title: TBD. Keynote Speaker 11: Prof. Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ Title: Big Data - Big Application * More keynote speakers will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI&EI indexed special issues (confirmed): (1) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.79) http://tii.ieee-ies.org/ (2) IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: to appear soon) https://www.computer.org/web/tetc (3) IEEE Access (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.270) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/ (4) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.364) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ (5) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.430) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ (6) Cluster Computing - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.514) http://link.springer.com/journal/10586 (7) Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.331) https://link.springer.com/journal/11042 (8) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.320) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput… (9) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.94) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/ (10) Security and Communication Networks - Hindawi (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.806) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/ (11) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE (13) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES (14) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn * More special issues will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2017 (Extended Firm Deadline) Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 General Chairs: Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Chairs: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Program Vice Chairs: (1) Systems and Architectures Track Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA (2) Technologies and Tools Track Julien Bourgeois, Universit¨¦ de Franche-Comt¨¦, France Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China (3) Applications Track Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Weigang Li, University of Brasilia, Brazil Steering Chairs: Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee Members Please check the conference website for detail. Workshop Chairs Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Publicity Chairs: Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Publication Chair: Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chair: Pin Liu, Central South University, China Organizing Chairs: Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Webmaster: Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China 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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