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CAI 2017 -- Kalamata - Greece -- *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 ***
by Ilias Kotsireas 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

============================================================================ Third Call for Papers CAI 2017 7th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics June 25-28, 2017 Kalamata, Greece http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/CAI2017/ CAI is the biennial conference serving the community interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science, algebra, and related areas. CAI 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective five-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. ** Important Dates ** *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 *** Author notification: April 15, 2017 Early registration deadline: May 15, 2017 CAI 2017 General Chair Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CAI Steering Committee Symeon Bozapalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Olivier Carton, Universite Paris 7, Denis Diderot, France Manfred Droste, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany Zoltan Esik (deceased), University of Szeged, Hungary Werner Kuich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Dimitrios Poulakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Arto Salomaa, University of Turku, Finland Proceedings The CAI 2017 conference proceedings will be published in electronic form. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier). Topics Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track 1: Automata Theory and Logic Chair: Manfred Droste (Germany) Invited Speaker: Heiko Vogler (TU Dresden, Germany) Topics: This includes all topics of theoretical computer science with connections to automata theory and logic in computer science, in the broad sense. Submissions by e-mail: droste(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de A PC will select the 10% best submissions for a 'distinguished lecture'. Authors will receive a confirmation of this and will have more time than the usual talks. Track 2: Cryptography and Coding Theory Chairs: Stephane Ballet (France), Dimitrios Poulakis (Greece), Robert Rolland (France) Invited Speaker: Claude Carlet (Universite Paris 8, France) Topics: - Elliptic Curves Cryptography - Lattice Cryptography - Cryptanalytic Methods - Identity Based Cryptography - Symmetric Ciphers - Public Keys Cryptosystems - Digital Signatures - Steganography - Quantum Cryptography - Cryptographic Protocols - Computational Number Theory - Boolean Functions - Error-Correcting Codes - Algebraic-Geometric Codes - Code Based Cryptography - Quantum Codes Submissions by e-mail: stephane.ballet(a)univ-amu.fr, poulakis(a)math.auth.gr, robert.rolland(a)acrypta.fr Track 3: Computer Algebra Chairs: Rafael Sendra (Spain), Franz Winkler (Austria) Invited Speaker: Michael Wibmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Topics: - symbolic mathematical computation - exact algorithms - implementation of symbolic algorithms - applications Submissions by e-mail: Rafael.Sendra(a)uah.es, Franz.Winkler(a)risc.jku.at Track 4: Design Theory Chairs: Lucia Moura (Canada), Dimitris Simos (Austria) Invited Speaker: Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, USA) Topics: - algebraic and combinatorial methods in design theory - algorithms for construction and classification of designs - applications of combinatorial designs in computer science, coding theory and information theory - complexity problems in design theory Submissions by e-mail: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca , CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org Submission instructions: At the bottom of this mail. Track 5: Natural and Quantum Computing Chair: Mika Hirvensalo (Finland) Invited Speaker: Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada) Topics: - evolutionary algorithms - molecular computing - neural networks - quantum computing Submissions by e-mail: mikhirve(a)utu.fi For general inquiries regarding CAI 2017, please send e-mail to ikotsire(a)wlu.ca Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research. Submitted papers should not exceed 25 pages. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by e-mail to the track Chairs. All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. ======================================================== Instructions for Submissions for the Design Theory Track, CAI 2017: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 6 pages), containing original research results. The authors are responsible for convincing the reviewers of the correctness and interest of their results using only those six pages. Authors can add an optional appendix with proofs, sketches of proofs, or additional material. If included, the appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers if required to reach a decision. The appendix has no page limit, and because it will not be published, it cannot be referenced in the extended abstract. Submission of a paper implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of a lecture or academic thesis), that it is not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form. A special volume of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) will be dedicated to accepted extended abstracts to the Design Theory track of CAI 2017 and the publication date is expected for the second semester of 2018. The extended abstracts must comply with the ENDM LaTeX style and are limited to 6 pages, including the front matter, text, and references. Instructions for submission preparation may be obtained in the ENDM web page http://www.elsevier.com/locate/endm. Once prepared, the paper should be submitted by e-mail to the Design Theory track chairs using BOTH the email addresses below: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca, CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org NOTE: The publication of the extended abstract in the Design Theory track (ENDM) is independent and complementary to a possible submission of full papers to the volume of Theoretical Computer Science dedicated to best papers among all tracks of CAI 2017. =================================================

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP
by Barbara Kordy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

GraMSec 2017 - call for papers The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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CFP: Euro-EDUPAR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
by Rizos Sakellariou 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2017. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos/euroedupar/index.html Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In this context, the 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and/or research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2017 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 5, 2017: Paper submission deadline June 16, 2017: Author notification July 21, 2017: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings October 3, 2017: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Program Chair: Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster, Germany Thilo Kielmann, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, UCD, Ireland Tomas Margalef, UAB, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Gudula Ruenger, TU Chemnitz, Germany Jesper Larsson Traff, TU Wien, Austria Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia David Walker, Cardiff University, UK

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The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS'17)
by Peter Mueller 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Call for Papers and Participation The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2017) The 15th Annual Meeting July 17 - 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2017 - Extended You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, software and middleware in HPC systems, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (may have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest. http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. FOLLOW US ON Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPCS_Conference Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPCSConference/ ================================================================= Important Dates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline - March 24, 2017 - Extended Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline - March 10, 2017 Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts - April 24, 2017 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due - May 11, 2017 Conference Dates - July 17 - 21, 2017 ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Genoa in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2017 Organizers

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2nd CFP: CIBCB Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods
by Marco S. Nobile 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 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: 31 March 2017 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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[CfP] ICCST-2017: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/ The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges. All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process.Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore. As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city, its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will include a display of flamenco dancing. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017 Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017 Early Registration: August 15, 2017 Best Regards, ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee ICCST-2017 Executive Committee http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/

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ACA 2017, July 17-21, 2017, Jerusalem, Israel
by Ilias Kotsireas 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

ACA 2017, 23rd International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra Commemorating the heritage of Jonathan Michael Borwein Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel, July 17-21, 2017 The ACA conference series is devoted to promoting all kinds of computer algebra applications, and encouraging the interaction of developers of computer algebra systems and packages with researchers and users (including scientists, engineers, educators, and mathematicians). The 23nd International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA), will take place in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 17-21, 2017. Contact: aca2017(a)jct.ac.il Website: http://www.aca2017.jct.ac.il CONFERENCE FORMAT The ACA conferences are organized as a few keynotes and a series of Special Sessions. Talk submissions have to be directed to the organizers of an appropriate Special Session ACA 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS: Thierry Dana-Picard, Jerusalem College of Technology Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada ACA 2017 ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Michael Wester, Albuquerque, NM, USA Stanley Steinberg, Albuquerque, NM, USA Eugenio Roanes-Lozano, Madrid, Spain SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: ACA Working Group ACA 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (1) Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria (2) Rob Corless, Western University, London, ON, Canada (3) Sara Hershkovitz, Center for Educational Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel (4) Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, USA SESSIONS 1. Computer Algebra in Education 2. Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology 3. Computer differential and difference algebra and its applications 4. Computer algebra modeling in science and engineering 5. Computational Algebraic Geometry, and Post-Quantum Cryptography - Multivariate Public Key Cryptography 6. Computer Algebra for Applied Physics 7. Computer Algebra for Dynamical Systems and Celestial Mechanics 8. Algorithmic Combinatorics 9. Geometry of Plane Curves 10. Automated Theorem Proving in Dynamic Geometry 11. Algebraic methods in geometric modeling 12. Parametric polynomial systems 13. Computer Algebra in image processing 14. Computer Algebra in Algebraic Graph Theory 15. Poster session 16. General session PUBLICATION Book of abstracts: Abstracts have to be sent using the LaTeX template. Please send both the LaTeX source and a compiled PDF version to the corresponding session chair. The book of abstracts will be made available on the website prior the conference. Proceedings will be published as a special issue of the Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) Journal http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/11786

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CFP PST'17 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS CALL FOR PAPERS Privacy, Security and Trust 2017 Conference Privacy, Security and Trust 2017 (PST 2017) will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on August 28-30, 2017. PST 2017 is the 15th conference in this series, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results, developments and ideas in areas of Privacy, Security and Trust. The City and the University of Calgary are located in the foothills of the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 1,050 meters. Calgary hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics and annually holds the world famous Calgary Stampede. The natural beauty of the Rockies are easily accessible including Banff National Park, Lake Louise, and Canmore, which are a short drive from the city of Calgary. GENERAL INFORMATION: ________________________________________ PST 2017 topics are inter-disciplinary across Privacy, Security and Trust. Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to: • Access Control • Adversarial Machine Learning • Anonymity, Accountability and Audit • Attacks on Security and Privacy • Authentication • Biometrics • BlockChain and Related Technologies • Computer and Network Forensics • Cryptographic Protocols • Distributed Trust and Consensus • Formal Methods for Security and Privacy • Identity Management • Intrusion Detection • Key Management • Metrics for Security and Privacy • Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologies • Program Analysis for Security and Privacy • Quantum-Resistant Cryptography • Reputation Systems • Threat Modeling and Risk Analysis PST 2017 also seeks application of security and privacy technologies and the related socio-technical issues to, but not limited to, the following: • Big Data • Cloud Computing • Critical Infrastructures • CryptoCurrencies • Cyber-Physical Systems • e-Services • Internet of Things • Mobile Computing • Operating Systems • Databases • Social Media • Society, Economy, Legislation and Policy • Software Development and Programming Languages • Usability • Virtualization and Software Defined Network • Wireless and Wired Networks More details on the publication process will be announced on the conference website. http://www.ucalgary.ca/pst2017 Best Paper Award(s) will be presented. IMPORTANT DATES: ________________________________________ Submission Deadline: May 26, 2017 Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2017 Author Registration: July 20, 2017 Pre-proceedings Deadline: July 25, 2017 Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: ________________________________________ High-quality papers in all PST-related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as 'regular' papers up to 10 pages, or 'short' papers of up to 6 pages. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submissions. IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be downloaded here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html PAPER SUBMISSION: ________________________________________ Go to the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pst2017 The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore as in previous editions of the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must register by July 20, 2017. A regular registration is required. Accepted (short or regular) papers will be published in the proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ General Chair: Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada Program Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Local Organizing Chair: Mike Jacobson, University of Calgary, Canada Privacy Track Chair: Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Security Track Chair: Philip Fong, University of Calgary, Canada Trust Track Chair: Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Publicity Chair: Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ Ali Ghorbani (Chair), University of New Brunswick, Canada Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada Nora Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Patrick McDaniel, Penn. State University, USA Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Hossein Sarrafzadeh, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ Elli Androulaki, IBM Research, Switzerland Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Erman Ayday, Bilkent University, Turkey Foteini Baldimtsi, George Mason University, USA Anirban Basu, KDDI Research, Japan Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University, USA Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jeremy Clark, Concordia University, Canada Nicolas Courtois, University College London, UK Nora Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven, Belgium Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR, Italy José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand Gerhard P. Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Herrmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ghassan Karame, NEC Research Labs, Germany Aniket Kate, Purdue University, USA Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Aggelos Kiayias, University of Athens, Greece Pascal Lafourcade, University Clermont Auvergne, France Mohammad Mannan, Concordia University, Canada Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Keith Martin, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Atsuko Miyaji, School of Information Science, Japan Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Melek Önen, EURECOM, France Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Dominique Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sid Stamm, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA Douglas Stebila, McMaster University, Canada Willy Susilo, Wollongong University, Australia Nadia Tawbi, Universite Laval, Canada Julie Thorpe, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Vicenç Torra, University of Skövde, Sweden Mahesh Tripunitata, University of Waterloo, Canada Marten van Dijk, University of Connecticut, USA Huaxiong Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Amr Youssef, Concordia University, Canada Ting Yu, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore CONTACT: ________________________________________ General questions regarding PST 2017 can be directed to: PST2017(a)ucalgary.ca ______________________________________________ computational.science mailing list computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science Hosted by Sardina Systems: Hyper-Efficient OpenStack Cloud https://www.sardinasystems.com

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Deadline: 17.04.2017: Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE) as part of BIS, Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017
by Rainer Unland 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

** *[Apologies if you receive this more than once]* * Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### ** CALL FOR PAPERS ******First Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE)* ** *as part of* ** *20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/* *Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017* *Important dates* Submission dateApr 17, 2017 Notification dateMay 15, 2017 Paper ready deadlineMay 29, 2017 Conference datesJun 28-30, 2017 *Links* BIS: http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/ SESSISE: Homepage *Workshop motivation* The climate changes, the catastrophe in Fukushima, the recent biggest blackout in history in India due to an overloaded electricity grid or the dwindling oil reserves world-wide are some of the manifold different reasons why countries massively increase their efforts in shaping their future energy generation, distribution, transportation and consumption, in short in future smart Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. They are expected to be the enablers of a high penetration of renewable energy, facilitate the wide adoption of electrical vehicles, increase the awareness and the involvement of the end-user in the energy scene, and altogether contribute to create a sustainable lifestyle for the eco-aware 21^st century citizen. Although much is still in a state of flux it is nevertheless commonly accepted that existing energy systems, infrastructures, environments, and business opportunities cannot simply be adapted or extended to address the requirements of the next generation of energy supply and consumption. Instead, a fundamental re-engineering is required. Thus, all these prospected transformations also bring with them numerous challenges and opportunities. Regardless of whether and how the energy supply will be designed and operated in the near future it is obvious that the key enabler for a successful transformation of the energy supply will be a meaningful and purposeful used ICT infrastructure. New solutions will consolidate and represent the combined knowledge and experience of different disciplines as engineering, business management and economics and computer science and, thus, contribute significantly to the stabilisation of the energy supply and to the success of involved companies. The IT backbone for such solutions will be distributed, collaborative, autonomous and intelligent software packages for simulation, monitoring, control and optimization as well as appropriate data and business models, reporting systems and maybe also mobile solutions. Besides the topic of future energy grids the recent past was also dominated by the discussion about so called smart cities and smart homes. A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services. This especially means that the contact between citizens and government is eased and improved substantially with the aim to equip inhabitants with more power, responsibility and easing their life substantially from bureaucratic and useless tasks. Another highly relevant goal is to reduce costs and resource consumption. Smart cities will connect, utilize and optimize a number of sectors including transport and traffic management, energy consumption and management or water and waste issues. However, they also need to rely on the next lower level of abstraction, namely smart buildings and homes. This, however, implies that smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings and homes, and smart infrastructures need to be deeply integrated in order to shape the smart overall energy environment of the future. And that looks more like a revolution than an evolution. Thus, revolutionary papers are highly welcome even if they are not too elaborated or too mature. This workshop is not meant to rely on the presentation of mature research results but wants to provide a lively environment with a lot of even vague input for intensive and fruitful discussions. For that, also shorter provocative statements and ideas are very welcome. *Workshop topics* The SESSISE workshopaims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using new IT-based solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. For this, the conference provides a forum for different scientific disciplines. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following areas and topics of interest: /Smart Grids, Smart Homes and Buildings, Smart Infrastructures/ •Smart Energy Systems •Energy Storage •Microgrids •Decentralized Control Systems •Stability in Energy Grids •Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks •Self-aware, Self-configuring or Self-healing Energy Systems •Simulation Environments for Smart Grids •Hybrid Energy Networks •Assistance Systems for Smart Energy control •Integrated Infrastructures •Development of Standards for Smart Grids •Industry, Municipality and University Cooperation •Sustainable Cities •Zero Energy Cities and Buildings /Smart Data Handling / •Alternative Data Storing and Proceeding Technologies •Big Data and Smart Energy Environments •Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks •Data Security •Data Structures and required Standards •Mobile Solutions for Smart Energy Environments •ICT Services in Smart Grids/Smart Cities/Smart Environments /Smart Markets, Trading and Business models/ •Forecasts / Predictions •Management of distributed Energy Generation and Storage •Business Models for (hybrid) Energy Networks •Products and User Interfaces •Business Models and electronic marketplaces for Smart Grids •Competition Analysis •Process Management •Electric Mobility •Solar Home Storage Systems •End Users and Demand Response *Structure of SESSISE* SESSISE will be a one or two day workshop and will include several presentation sessions for the accepted paper as well as invited overview papers on topics of overall interest in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is intended to give much space for lively discussions. The workshop is meant to end with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed. *Review Process* Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will include (in all cases possible): relevance, significance, impact, originality, quality of presentation, practical applicability. It is not expected that the papers prohibit mature research results. Good elaborated ideas, visions and directions which may be starting point for more intensive discussions are very welcome. The idea is less the presentation of narrow, however, mature research but the presentation of broader visions, possible solution spaces and research directions, open fields for research, emergent trends, etc. *Submission guidelines* All papers need to be formatted according to the Springer formatting instructions: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… */Regular papers/*: up to 12 pages */Short papers and Work-in-progress reports/*: up to6 pages */Demo papers/*: up to 4 pages Papers must be written in English and need to be submitted in PDF format. Submission system is available at EasyChair. /Original/work approved for presentation at SESSISE 2017 will be published in the BIS 2017 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2017 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. *Workshop proceedings* It is intended to publish revised papers in post-proceedings of BIS 2017 workshops as a book by Springer Publishing Company in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. *Journal publication of excellent papers* It is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a special issue, otherwise as regular papers. *Workshop organisers / PC Chairs* Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de Lars Moench, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; lars.moench(a)FernUni-Hagen.de Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; rkowalczyk(a)swin.edu.au *Program Committee* Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Germany Anke Weidlich, Hochschule Offenburg, Germany Christian Derksen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brasil Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Hangseng Che, University of Malaya, Malaysia Hanno Hildmann, Khalifa University, UAE Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier, Germany Jingxin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA Krzysztof Chmielowiec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Liana Cipcigan , Institute of Energy at Cardiff University:, UK Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany Michael Sonnenschein, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Germany Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Sajjad Siddiqi, Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany Zbigniew Nahorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Paper Deadline 23.4.2017: MATES - 15th German Conf. on Multiagent System Technologies, Aug. 23 - 26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### ==CALL FOR PAPERS ==MATES 2017 (*/B-ranked conference/*) ==15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies ==Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017 ==Leipzig, Germany == ==http://mates2017.uni-trier.de == == Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on ==Web Intelligence (WI 2017) ==http://webintelligence2017.com/ == ==*** */CONFIRMED COMMON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS/* *** == Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: ==Computational Social Science == Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three ==intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing == Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid == Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI == Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications == Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for ==Industry 4.0:Showcases and Challenges ==================================================================== =*/Submission deadline regular papers: Sun, April 23, 2017/* ==at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 ==================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems (MAS). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award. The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. Topics of Interest ================== MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multiagent platforms and tools - Agent communication languages - Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies - Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of MAS - Standards for agents and MAS - MAS: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation - Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations - Adaptive agents and multiagent learning - Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications - Agent-based modeling and social simulation - Mobile agents - Autonomous robots and robot teams - Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids) - Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling - Recommender agents - Agent-based planning and scheduling - Agent-based information retrieval - Agent-based distributed data mining - Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation - Agents for the semantic Web - Agents for the social Web - Agents for the Internet of Services - Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing - Agents for cloud computing - Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment - Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy). MATES PhD mentoring track ========================= The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the MATES homepage. The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are - to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers. - to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems. - to get advice for their (academic) career. - to provide networking opportunities. PhD-Paper Submission: ---------------------- Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work: - Motivation - State of the Art - Methodical approach - Preliminary results/findings (optional - Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee. The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to Alexander Pokahr: pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Rene Schumann:rene.schumann@hevs.ch Presentation and Publication: ----------------------------- All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the MATES proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ Together with Web Intelligence 2017 MATES 2017 provides keynotes from renowned experts on up-to-date topics: * Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science * Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing * Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI * Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications * Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0:Showcases and Challenges Regular Paper Submission and Publication ================================ The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages (full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal. Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register for the conference. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, April 23, 2017 (Regular Papers) Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 14, 2017 (PhD-Track Papers) Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers:Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference:Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 Conference Organisation ======================= General Chairs: Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Honorary Chairs: Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rene´ Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) Program Committee: Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy) Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France) Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain) Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy) Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK) Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden) Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy) Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland) Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany) John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal) Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland) Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK) Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy) Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel) David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece) Georg Weichhart (PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria) Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) MATES Steering Committee ======================== Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jörg P. Müller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) For more information on the MATES conference series,please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series ========================================================================= -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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