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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* *www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>* Lyon, France August 28 - 31, 2017 In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …). *Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big Data Mining. *Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via* numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration *PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: * Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/ starting from January 2017. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 16, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 23, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017 Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK. Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK ***

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CRITIS 2017 Call for Papers
by Cristina Alcaraz 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Dear Colleague, we invite you to submit a contribution to CRITIS 2017, the International Conference on Critical (Information) Infrastructures Security. This year the conference will take place in Lucca, a gorgeous Renaissance city in Tuscany, 9-11 October 2017. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair; for poster contributions, submission can be limited to an extended abstract. All accepted contributions will be included in full length in the pre-proceedings that will appear at the time of the conference; accepted papers are planned to be published in the LNCS Springer-Verlag series. Special attention will be devoted to young talents. To this purpose, a price (YCA: Young Critis Award) will be awarded to the best contribution presented by a young author. On 12-13 October, the conference will be followed by two satellite workshops on Energy and Water. For further details, please visit our website www.critis2017.org . We would appreciate you advertise the conference by the attached leaflet. The organizers: Cristina Alcaraz, Hypatia Nassopoulos, Antonio Scala, Gregorio D’Agostino, Grigore Havarneanu

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[simu-conf] DEADLINE EXTENDED - WinterSim 2017
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Contributed Papers Deadline is April 28, 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: - Agent-Based Simulation - Analysis Methodology - Architecture and Construction - Aviation Modeling and Analysis - Cyber-Physical Systems - Environment and Sustainability Applications - Future of Simulation - Gaming - Healthcare Applications - History of Simulation - Hybrid Simulation - Manufacturing Applications - Logistics, SCM, Transportation - Military Applications and Homeland Security - Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) - Modeling Methodology - Project Management - Simulation Education - Simulation Optimization - Social and Behavioral Simulation - Introductory Tutorials - Advanced Tutorials Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Innovate-Data 2017 - Deadline Extended 18 April 2017 (Firm)
by Innovate-Data 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)----------------------------------- 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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IEEE FiCloud 2017 - Deadline Extended 18 April 2017 (Firm)
by FiCloud Conference 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

----------------------Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)------------------------------------- The IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France Ruben Casado, Accenture, Spain

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Preliminary CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] [Preliminary Call for Papers] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science ARCoSS series by Springer-Verlag (pending approval). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. PC members are strongly encouraged to submit papers. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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CFP - IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
by Peter Mueller 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Call for Papers for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, November 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Co-Located Conferences: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2017/ 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. Call for Workshop Proposals: The IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshops provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The themes of the IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshops should be related to the scopes of the IEEE ISPA 2017 main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of parallel and distributed systems, theories and applications. The organizers of the IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshops shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee on reviewing and selection of papers as well as planning workshop program. The registration fees for workshops will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops. The main conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society (indexed by EI Compendex). Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE ISPA 2016 Workshop Chairs via email by May 15, 2017: - Title of the workshop (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scopes, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bios of the key organizers and their experiences on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date (September 15, 2017) and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date (October 15, 2017). The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshop Chairs: Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden <karl DOT andersson AT ltu DOT se>; Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA <ammari DOT habib AT gmail DOT com>; Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia <syu AT deakin DOT edu DOT au>; Andy Li, University of Florida, USA <andyli AT ece DOT ufl DOT edu> 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 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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ECCOMAS VipIMAGE 2017 - FINAL Deadline
by VipIMAGE 2017 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2017 www.fe.up.pt/vipimage October 18-20, 2017, Porto, Portugal Chairs: João Manuel R. S. Tavares & Renato Natal Jorge, Universidade do Porto --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the submission deadline of the International Conference VipIMAGE 2017 - VI ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (www.fe.up.pt/vipimage) to be held in October 18-20, 2017, in Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel, Porto, Portugal, has been postponed to April 21 (FINAL deadline). Possible Topics (not limited to) - Signal and Image Processing - Computational Vision - Medical Imaging - Physics of Medical Imaging - Tracking and Analysis of Movement - Simulation and Modeling - Image Acquisition - Industrial Applications - Shape Reconstruction - Segmentation, Matching, Simulation - Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression - 3D Vision - Virtual Reality - Visual Inspection - Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis - Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization - Telemedicine Systems and Applications Invited Lecturers - Mário Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA - Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK - Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA - Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA Thematic Sessions - Advanced Techniques for Image-based Numerical Simulation in Biomedical Applications - Advances in Lung CT Image Processing - Application of Image Analysis in Musculoskeletal Radiology - Computational Vision and Image Processing applied to Dental Medicine - Computer Vision in Robotics - Emotions classification from EEG signals - Image Analysis and Machine Learning for Skin Ulcers - Imaging and Image Processing in Ophthalmology - Imaging and Simulation Techniques for Cardiovascular Diseases - Imaging of Flows in Lab-on-Chip Devices: Trends and Challenges - Infrared Thermal Imaging in Biomedicine - Meta-learning in Deep Learning: New Trends and Directions - Shape Analysis in Medical Imaging: From Math to Clinics Publications Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by Springer under the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" indexed by Elsevier Scopus. Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis international journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Index will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference. Springer Book: A book with invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be organized for publishing by Springer. Important Dates - Deadline for Extended Abstracts: April 21, 2017 (FINAL deadline) - Authors Notification: May 10, 2017 - Deadline for Papers: June 15, 2017 We are looking forward to see you in Porto in October, 2017, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (VipIMAGE 2017 co-chairs) For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/vipimage, the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/VipIMAGE2017, or join the LinkedIn group at: www.linkedin.com/groups/4752820.

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WPDM 2017 CFP Deadline Extended to April 15 2017
by Massimo Cafaro 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 (extended) Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. The best papers, in extended version, will be selected for possible publication in a special issue of a) Information Sciences, Elsevier; b) International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, Inderscience Publishers. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 15, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------------ May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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IEEE CIBCB 2017 – Extended Deadline 14th April
by Marco S. Nobile 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Final Deadline: 14 April 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/CIBCBss.html> hosted by IEEE CIBCB 2017 <http://cibcb2017.org/> 23-25 August 2017,Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Computational intelligence is frequently exploited to devise efficient heuristics to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology. However, these approaches are computationally challenging as they might require excessively burdensome execution times in the case of real-world problems, therefore limiting their applicability. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational intelligence methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * analysis and visualization of large datasets * analysis and visualization of genome-wide models * biomedical model parameterization * development of synthetic biological devices * drug design * emergent properties in complex biological systems * flux balance analysis * gene expression array analysis * high-throughput data analysis * high efficiency algorithms for solving biological problems * medical image analysis * medical imaging and pattern recognition * metabolic pathway analysis * mining of biomedical data * modelling, simulation and optimization of biological systems * molecular dynamics and molecular docking * molecular evolution and phylogenetics * molecular sequence alignment and analysis * prediction and searching of molecular structure and folding * spectral analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper submission: 14 April 2017 (final deadline) Paper acceptance notification: 2 June 2017 Final paper submission: 30 June 2017 Conference: 23-25 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Marco S. Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Ashlock - University of Guelph, Canada Paolo Cazzaniga - University of Bergamo, Italy Daniela Besozzi - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines * Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight(8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. * Papers must be in PDF and written in English.Detailed instructions and templates for preparing your manuscripts can be found here <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. * At maximum, two additional pages are permittedwith over-length page charge of US$125/page, to be paid during author registration. * Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. * All papers should be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system. Furhter information can be found in the CIBCB2017 submission page <http://cibcb2017.org/index.html#submission>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts Marco S. Nobile, PhD University of Milano-Bicocca Email: nobile(a)disco.unimib.it

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