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Conference RPC 2017 - Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications
by Organizing Committee RPC 2017 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Dear colleagues! We cordially invite you to attend the Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) to be held during September 25-29, 2017, on Russky Island at the Far Eastern Federal University Campus. The conference is organized by Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Automation and Control Processes of Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and IEEE New South Wales Section (Australia). The conference proceedings will be published in the international journal "Information Technology in Industry". It is indexed in Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) by Thomson Reuters. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academics and engineers in computer technology to meet, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks. It is a forum which focuses on specific disciplinary research as well as on multi-disciplinary studies. The uniqueness of RPC is that it enables scientists from Russia to link with academics from all around the world and that it gathers researchers not only from technical areas, but also from areas which apply the technologies. The working language of the conference is English. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -- intelligent computing; -- agent-based modeling and web-applications; -- computer networking, telecommunication and mobile communications; -- security and hacking; -- cloud computing: architecture, platforms, applications; -- ontologies for different domains and applications; -- IT in health care and education; -- computer vision, multimedia, GIS. Registration due: April 1, 2017 Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017 The First Information Letter: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/files/inform_2017_eng.pdf. For more information please visit the official website: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/ Sincerely, Organizing Committee RPC 2017 Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru

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CFP: Innovate-Data 2017 Conference
by Innovate-Data 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) 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: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP ScalCom 2017
by Gabriele Mencagli 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Apologize for multiple copies of this email. IEEE ScalCom 2017 Nowadays parallel architectures are ubiquitous and the arena of computing and communicating devices is quickly reaching an unprecedented scale. The trend is to keep increasing both the number of cores in a single device as well as the number of communicating devices. In this massively parallel and heterogeneous context, the need for scalable computing is everywhere and scalability is rapidly becoming a central aspect of computing. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2017) provides a forum for researchers willing to present their original work on scalable parallel and distributed computing. ScalCom offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas at the highest technical level related to communication networks, performance analysis, distributed applications with particular emphasis on scalability. We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work relating to all aspects of scalable computing and communications. The program committee will interpret it very broadly; everything from engineering principles to practical experiences on different levels of a parallel and distributed system including High Performance Computing (HPC), massively parallel systems and heterogeneous computing. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. The topics of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications include, but are not limited to: Cloud & fog computing: X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, and Storage performance, dependability, and service level agreements cloud programming models and tools fog computing algorithms and infrastructures. Extreme scale, multi-core, GPU, accelerators and novel architectures for Scalability-Rethinking: parallel programming models and tools GPU, MIC, and FPGA based parallel systems, heterogeneous platforms Extreme scale systems and applications peta-scale and exa-scale workloads high-performance and high-throughput computing fault-tolerance in large scale applications near-data processing and data-centric approaches. Modelling and Simulation of Large Complex Systems: cellular automata, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm Intelligence implementations integrated approach to optimization and simulation high-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems. Mobile, wireless and pervasive computing: queueing theory; design and performance analysis of communication networks distributed applications with emphasis on scalability; distributed applications deployment internet of things, communication protocols, energy aware computing pervasive computing, distributed robotics convergence of communication and computing. Tools for Big Data: statistical data mining extreme big data Hadoop convergence of IoT, cloud and big data Associated Activities: Panels on SCalable Computing and Communications Challenges Industrial Forum on Innovations and Engineering Demo/Expo, Tutorials Co-located Conferences: The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2017) The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017) The 3rd IEEE Smart World Congress The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2017) The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2017) The 2017 Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2017) Paper Submission: Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in length, following the IEEE proceedings format. Over-length submissions will not be accepted. Submissions will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Paper Publication: Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues. Important dates: Paper submission: March 10, 2017 Acceptance notification: May 10, 2017 Camera ready due: June 10, 2017 Registration due: June 16, 2017 Conference: August 4-8, 2017 General Chairs: Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Chairs: Frédéric LOULERGUE, Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA Massimo TORQUATI, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity Chair: Gabriele MENCAGLI, University of Pisa, Italy Mohamed ELWAKIL, Northern Arizona University, USA More details can be found via http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/scalcom/ Contact: scalcom2017(a)googlegroups.com -- ****************************************************** * Dr. Gabriele Mencagli, PhD * * Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa * * Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) * * Phone: 0039 050 2213132 * * Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it * ****************************************************** -- ****************************************************** * Dr. Gabriele Mencagli, PhD * * Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa * * Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) * * Phone: 0039 050 2213132 * * Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it * ******************************************************

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A Call for Book Chapters
by Pethuru Raj Chelliah 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

*<< Sorry for Multiple Postings>* *The Book Title: *Cloud and Fog / Edge Infrastructures for Data Science *Editors* *Pethuru Raj, *Cloud Architect, IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, Bangalore, India *Anupama Raman, *Senior Consultant- Societe Generale Global Solution Center, Bangalore, India Proposals Submission Deadline: Feb. 17, 2017 Full Chapters Due: July 30, 2017 Submission Date: August 30, 2017 *Introduction* The surging popularity of the data science domain is definitely a positive pointer for sustaining the exciting journey of the world economy, which is increasingly digital, insightful, idea and API-driven. Data science is an interdisciplinary field that collectively leverages the distinguished and decisive contributions to machine learning (ML), statistics, Mathematics, computer science, and various analytical methods. It is a new form of art that draws out hidden knowledge in the form of value-adding patterns, associations, opportunities, possibilities, usable tips, actionable insights, predictions, decisions, actions, etc. However, we need highly optimized and organized IT infrastructures for automating the process of knowledge discovery and dissemination through the data science algorithms and methods. Cloud infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) are being touted as the most appropriate one for data science. For real-time data science, the recent model of fog/edge computing is being prescribed. That is, devices at the edge locations and user environments can be clubbed and clustered together in an ad hoc and on-demand fashion to create a kind of device clouds for performing data analytics quickly, easily and affordably. This book is being readied to tell all on the smart leverage of cloud and fog /edge infrastructures for achieving next-generation data science functionalities and facilities. *Objective* We have been fiddling with the programming era. We have programming languages and frameworks in plenty in order to precisely teach compute machines how to process, mining, and analyze data to squeeze out useful and usable information. But the next-generation systems and devices will be cognitive in the sense that they can be self-learning, training, modeling, understanding and reasoning in order to think, decide, interact, and do like humans. Previously we had to feed the data and program logic into the systems towards knowledge discovery. But cognitive systems, while ingesting data, contextualize and automate the process of generating personalized, predictive and prescriptive insights. That is, cognitive systems automatically analyze to exhibit intelligent behavior. Data science is the prominent field of study and research for bringing forth cognitive systems. This book is primarily planned to empower our readers with all the right and relevant algorithms and tools on data science to sustain the cognitive journey. We would like to dig deeper and describe the infrastructural components such as software-defined clouds and fog device clouds for simplifying and streamlining the next-generation data science requirements. There will be chapters on cloud infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) and edge/fog infrastructures that facilitate the formation and sustenance of device clouds in order to have powerful data science facility in place. *Target Audience* · Data Science Researchers and Faculty Members · Cloud Administrators, Architects and Consultants · Data Scientist, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts · Statisticians who want to use data science to derive useful inferences from data · Big data professionals who are aspiring to use data science more efficiently for big data use cases · Professionals in all industries who are aspiring to use data science in their respective domains for process efficiency cost optimization and so on *Recommended Topics* · Business Analytics · Deterministic, Diagnostic and prognostic Analytics · Predictive Analytics · Prescriptive Analytics · Cognitive Analytics · Data Mining Algorithms · Machine Learning Algorithms · Deep Learning Algorithms · Domain-specific Analytics (Retail, healthcare, energy, and utility, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, logistics and transports, banking and Insurance, Automotive electronics and avionics, Life science, metals and mining, Communication, Entertainment, Infotainment, etc.) · Big, Fast, Streaming and IoT Analytics and Applications · Text, Images and Video Analytics · Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Event-driven Architecture (EDA) · RESTful Cloud Services · Software-defined Cloud Infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) · Edge / Fog Infrastructures · Cloud Orchestration and Brokerage Services · Integrated Platforms, Middleware, and Databases for Data Science (Open Source as well as Commercial-grade) · Data Virtualization and Integration Tools and Platforms · Knowledge Visualization Dashboards and Engines and Report-Generation Tools · The Internet of Things (IoT) Edge Data Analytics · Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neural Networks (NN) · Natural Language Processing (NLP) *Submission Procedure* Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *February 17, 2017*, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by *February 28, 2017*, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *July 31, 2017*, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/ publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. *Note:* There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer-review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the E-Editorial DiscoveryTM online submission manager. *The Book Publisher* This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2017. *Important Dates* *February 17, 2017:* Proposal Submission Deadline *February 28, 2017*: Notification of Acceptance *July 31, 2017*: Full Chapter Submission *August 30, 2017:* Review Results Returned *September 30, 2017*: Final Acceptance Notification *October 31, 2017*: Final Chapter Submission *Any Inquiries* Pethuru Raj (peterindia(a)gmail.com) Anupama Raman (muralianu2001(a)gmail.com) For more information, please visit this page http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2559 Thanks and regards peter Pethuru Raj PhD Infrastructure Architect IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence IBM India, Bangalore 560045 *Personal Web Site*: www.peterindia.net *Linkedin Page*: http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterindia

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Professorship in High Performance Computing, Umea University, Sweden
by Bo Kågström 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear everyone, Umea University welcomes applications for a permanent position as full Professor in High Performance Computing at the Department of Computing Science. We are seeking a strong academic leader with a clear strategic vision, that will have an important role and large freedom in developing the area of HPC at the department. The position includes research (at least 75% of full-time during the first six years of employment) as well as teaching and supervision at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. Collaboration with or an active role in leadership within the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N, www.hpc2n.umu.se ), is also an opportunity. Link to complete add: http://umu.mynetworkglobal.com/what:job/jobID:127859/ Dead-line for applications is March 2, 2017. An ongoing high-profile extreme-scale computing research project funded by the European Commission within the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program under Horizon 2020 is NLAFET (www.nlafet.eu ). For further information contact Head of Department Pedher Johansson (pedher(a)cs.umu.se) or Professor Bo Kagstrom (bokg(a)cs.umu.se) With best regards, Bo Kagstrom

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FiCloud 2017 Second Call For Papers
by Joyce El Haddad 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

(Please accept our apologies if you receive this email more than once) ----------------------Call for Papers-------------------------------------------------- The 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 Modeling - 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: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK 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 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

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iWAPT 2017 deadline approaching: The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
by Boyana Norris 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

============================================================== :: iWAPT 2017 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2017/ <http://www.iwapt.org/2017/> June 2, 2017 at Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA The iWAPT 2017 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2017. http://www.ipdps.org/ <http://www.ipdps.org/> =============================================================== # Important dates Submission closes: Monday, Jan 23, 2017 (AOE) **Extended** Author notification: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 Camera-ready: Friday, March 10, 2017 Workshop: Friday, June 2, 2017 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017> (If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.) # About iWAPT iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following areas (the list is not exhaustive): * Machine-adaptive algorithms and software * Program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Parallel and distributed computing * Numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures * Compilation, e.g., iterative and empirical compilers * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper Submission guidelines Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: LaTex Package (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> Word Template (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>). Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPS proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE’s online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper. # Program Committee PC Chair: Toshiyuki Imamura, Riken AICS, Japan PC Vice Chair: Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University, USA Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan # Organizing Committee * (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * (General Vice-Chair) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * (SC liaison) Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan * (Finance Chair) Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * (Web Chair) Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * (Publicity Chair) Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan * (PC Chair) Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN AICS, Japan # Contact iwapt2017(a)iwapt.org <mailto:iwapt2017@iwapt.org> =============================================================== iWAPT2017 Program Committee Chair Dr. Toshiyuki Imamura Advanced Institute for Computational Science, RIKEN -- Boyana Norris norris(a)cs.uoregon.edu

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IEEE COMPSAC 2017 - Final Call for Papers (paper submission deadline extended to January 31st)
by IEEE COMPSAC 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear Colleague, please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended until January 31st, 2017. IEEE COMPSAC 2017 www.compsac.org Where: Turin, Italy. July 4–8, 2017 Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2017 IEEE COMPSAC offers opportunities for recommending best papers for inclusions in IEEE publications (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities for more details). ======================================= IEEE COMPSAC 2017 ======================================= COMPSAC (www.compsac.org) is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging problems, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, plenary and specialized panels, fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on emerging and important topics. The theme of the 41st COMPSAC is Building Digital Autonomy for a Sustainable World. COMPSAC 2017 Symposia are as follows: CELT: Computer Education & Learning Technologies CAP: Computer Architecture & Platforms DSAT: Data Sciences, Analytics, & Technologies EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications HCSC: Human Computing & Social Computing ITiP: IT in Practice MOWU: Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Computing NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet, & Web Technologies SEPT: Security, Privacy, & Trust SETA: Software Engineering Technology & Applications Sessions will include topics and issues related to adaptive learning and teaching, autonomous computing, wearable computing, the internet-of-things, social networking, cross-domain data fusion, privacy, security and surveillance, cloud computing, big data, physiological computing, self-aware and self-expressive systems, and emerging architectures and network issues that affect all these developing technology-driven innovations. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. COMPSAC offer publication opportunities in IEEE journals following the "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" and "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Schemes (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities) ======================================= JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES ======================================= COMPSAC is offering opportunities to recommend our best papers for inclusion in IEEE publications, and to encourage presentation of already published journal papers during the conference. These schemes, to be executed at the discretion of individual COMPSAC symposia and workshops chairs, are as follows: COMPSAC "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" Scheme: Chairs may offer the authors of accepted papers opportunity for publication in an IEEE journal. In this C1J2 Scheme, a chair initiates the process to offer the paper(s), together with their COMPSAC reviews, for publication in an IEEE journal to the journal editor-in-chief (EIC). EICs may or may not use our reviews at their discretion, but may instead prefer to rely solely on their own reviewer communities. Such papers accepted by a journal for publication will appear in the COMPSAC proceeding as only an abstract accompanied by a note that the paper has been submitted to the journal for consideration for publication in that journal. If the paper is accepted for publication, a link to it will be provided in the conference proceedings, thus providing conference participants access to that paper. The paper will still be registered for COMPSAC and must as well be presented during the conference. If such a paper is not accepted by the journal, the paper will be later included in the conference electronic proceedings. COMPSAC "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Scheme: Similar to the above mentioned scheme, but taking place in the reverse order is the J1C2 scheme – journal publication first, conference presentation to follow. A published work in an IEEE journal, say within couple of years, or even accepted but not yet published, may be submitted to and presented at COMPSAC. If accepted, the conference proceedings will contain an abridged abstract and a link to the published version, thus conference participants may have access to that paper. This scheme benefits authors by presenting their work to a wider audience in person, discussion, networking with peers, and driving renewed interest to their work. The process is as follows: the author offers a paper by proposing it as a full-text manuscript submission to a symposium or a workshop; the paper is then lightly reviewed for suitability, scope, technical content and merit by the PC of the symposium/workshop; finally, the PC Chair(s) proposes a notification decision. The author then registers the paper and presents it during the conference at the time identified in the program. ============== KEYNOTES ============== Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley ============== MAIN DEADLINES ============== Main Conference Papers Due: 31 January 2017 Main Conference Notification: 27 March 2017 Workshop Papers Due: 10 April 2017 Workshop Paper Notification: 25 April 2017 Camera Ready and Registration Due: 9 May 2017 --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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GPC-2017: The 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing - May 11-14 - Cetara, Amalfi Coast, Italy - DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Francesco Palmieri 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call For Papers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC-2017) May 11-14, 2017, Cetara, Amalfi Coast, Italy http://gpc2017.di.unisa.it/ Call For Papers Conference Outline ================== Green computing in the context of cloud and pervasive computing is a newly-emerging research field in computer science and engineering. Pervasive computing and cloud computing are two promising paradigms in human's daily life. With the exponential growth in the deployments of techniques in pervasive computing and cloud computing, both of them have to face the critical issues on energy consumption, for example, controlling the energy consumed by the large-scale cloud datacenters, and prolonging the battery life of mobile devices in pervasive computing and Internet of Things. Therefore, new architectures, systems and related techniques, such as mobile cloud computing, software-defined networking and hybrid cloud services, are being developed to make the computing in cloud datacenters and in pervasive wireless devices more productive and energy efficient, for shaping a "Green" world in the future. GPC 2016 is the next event in a series of highly successful events focusing on pervasive and environmentally sustainable computing. In the last nine years, the GPC conference has been successfully held and organized all over the world: Taichung, Taiwan (2006), Paris, France (2007), Kunming, China (2008), Geneva, Switzerland (2009), Hualien, Taiwan (2010), Oulu, Finland (2011), Hong Kong (2012), Seoul, Korea (2013), Wuhan, China (2014), Plantation Island, Fiji (2015) and Xian, China (2016). It aims to establish a high-standard world forum for researchers and developers to share their excellent ideas and experiences in the areas of green computing and communications in the broad context of pervasive computing and cloud computing. GPC 2016 welcomes the original and innovative paper submissions from the academia, industry and government, describing theoretical advances, system design, implementation and experimentation on the following topics, but not limited to: * Energy-efficient computing, communication and virtualization architectures and protocols * Monitoring, sensing, control and management of energy-aware systems * Integration, scheduling and management of renewable energy sources * Cloud, cluster and grid computing * Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive computing * Service-oriented computing * Ubiquitous communications and networks * Social network and services * Sensor, ad hoc networks, mobile agents and networking * Multimedia and machine to machine communications * Instrumentation and measurement studies on energy-efficient systems * Economy and business models in cloud computing and pervasive computing * Innovative technologies for robustness and reliability of energy-aware systems * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guarantee for customers in cloud computing * Incentives and innovative pricing for the management of cloud resources * Multi-core systems, parallel and distributed systems * Internet of things, and cyber physical systems * Trade-offs between performance, energy and other resources in cloud datacenters and pervasive computing * Energy-aware mobile cloud systems and large-scale applications * Semantic web, semantic grid, metadata and ontology related to pervasive and distributed computing * Programming models, tools and environments for distributed and pervasive computing * Modeling and control of variability in demand and supply of green energy sources * Data analytics for energy-efficient systems * Security and privacy in pervasive and cloud computing * Grid and pervasive applications, including e-Science and e-Business applications * Light weight cryptography * Efficient cloud to client secure communication * Efficient secure mobile apps Special Issues ============== - IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE, ISSN: 0163-6804, "Human-Driven Edge Computing and Communication", JCR IF=5.125 (Q1) - Information Sciences, Elsevier, ISSN: 0020-0255, â€œInnovative Smart Methods for Security: Emerging Trends and Research Challengesâ€, JCR IF=3.364 (Q1) - Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-739X, "Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs", JCR IF=2.430 (Q1) - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, ISSN: 1084-8045, "Security in Cloud Computing", JCR IF=2.331 (Q1) - Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-8655, "Robustness, Security and Regulation Aspects in Current Biometric Systems (RSRA-BS)", IF=1.586 (Q2) - Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, ISSN: 1380-7501, "Semantic Approaches for Multimedia Retrieval Applications", JCR IF=1.331 (Q2) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, ISSN: 1532-0634, "Security and Privacy Issues in Fog Computing", JCR IF=0.942 (Q3) - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE, 2377-3782, "Cryptography and Data Security in Sustainable Computing" - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE, 2168-6750, "Cyber Security Threats and Defense Advances" - Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, 2214-2126, "Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust" - - More Special Issues will be added... Please check the section at the conference website here: http://gpc2017.di.unisa.it/gpc2017/index.php/special-issue/ Publication =========== The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. A selection of the best papers will be asked to be extended in SCIE-indexed journals Special Issues. The information about the Special Issues will be advertised later on the conference website. Submission Guidelines ===================== 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. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (*.pdf? including the bibliography and appendices with LNCS template. Submissions must be made to the submission website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gpc2017 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. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Due: February 10, 2017 ( FIRM ) Authors Notification: February 28, 2017 Camera ready due: March 05, 2017 Registration by: March 05, 2017 Conference Dates: May 11-14, 2017 Organization ============ Honorary Chairs --------------- A B M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji Alfredo De Santis, University of Salerno, Italy Moti Yung, Snapchat and Columbia University, USA Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia General Chairs -------------- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Program Chairs -------------- Man Ho Allen Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Program Vice-Chairs ------------------- Francesco Colace, University of Salerno, Italy Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, Australia Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Chair) Nabil Abdennadher, Univ. of applied Sciences, West. Switzerland Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California - Irvine, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan, China Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada International Advisory Committee -------------------------------- Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Athula Ginige, Western University of Sydney, Australia Fred Glover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Genoveffa Tortora, University of Salerno, Italy (Chair) Xun Yi, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs ---------------- Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Zhe Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada Publication Chairs ------------------ Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Michele Nappi, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs --------------- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Alessandra De Benedictis, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Fang-Yie Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Industry Forum Committee ------------------------ Nicolae Bogdan, Huawei German Research Center, Germany Gerardo Costabile, British Telecom Italy, Italy Leonardo Impagliazzo, Ansaldo STS and Hitachi Rail, Italy Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Giovanni Motta, Google Inc., USA Malek Ben Salem, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Yang Yanjiang, Huawei Singapore Research Centre, Singapore Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Andrea Bruno, University of Salerno, Italy Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Luigi Catuogno, University of Salerno, Italy Raffaele Pizzolante, University of Salerno, Italy Keynote Speakers ------------------------ Paolo Balboni, European Privacy Association, Belgium Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Athula Ginige, Western University of Sydney, Australia Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Cristina Alcaraz, Universidad de MÃ¡laga, Spain Saadat Mehmood Alhashmi, University of Sharjah - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Flora Amato, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Karl Andersson, LuleÃ¥ University of Technology, Sweden Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Lynn Batten, Deakin University, Australia Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Ion Bica, Military Technical Academy, Romania Chiara Boldrini, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Eleonora Borgia, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Raffaele Bruno, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Fulvio Bruno, Ericsson, Italy Giuseppe Bruno, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Bruno Carpentieri, University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Carullo, Coritel - University of Salerno, Italy William Casey, Carnegie Mellon University and CERT, USA Mario Casillo, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Giuseppe Cattaneo, University of Salerno, Italy Raffele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy Rohitash Chandra, The University of South Pacific, Fiji Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Chin-Ling Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Yu Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ray Chak-Chung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Seong-je Cho, Dankook University , South Korea Chang Choi, Chosun University, South Korea Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland Antonio Colella, Italian Army and Italian Atlantic Committee, Italy Clara Maria Colombini, University of Milan, Italy Marco Conti, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Luigi Coppolino, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Napoli â€œParthenopeâ€, Italy Sadie Creese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ciriaco D'Ambrosio, University of Salerno, Italy Salvatore Dâ€™Antonio, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Napoli â€œParthenopeâ€, Italy Gareth Davies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy Ali Dehghantanha, University of Salford, United Kingdom Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Changyu Dong, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy Ugo Fiore, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Raul Garcia Castro, UniversidadÂ PolitÃ©cnicaÂ deÂ Madrid, Spain Jean-Philippe Georges, UniversitÃ© de Lorraine, France Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Meriem Guerar, University of Sciences and Technology of Oran, Algeria Jinguang Han, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, United Kingdom Md Shahadat Hossain, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Fu-Hau Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Mauro Iacono, Second University of Naples, Italy Lu Jiqiang, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore Dan Johansson, UmeÃ¥ University, Sweden Erisa Karafili, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Pan Koo Kim, Chosun University, South Korea Ah-Lian Kor, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Ashok Kumar Das, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India Junzuo Lai, Jinan University, China Cheng-Chi Lee, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Saverio Lemma, University of Salerno, Italy Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada Kaitai Liang, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan Jung-Chun Liu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Marco Lombardi, University of Salerno, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Daniel Xiapu Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Daniele Manini, UniversitaÌ€ degli Studi di Torino , Italy Stefano Marrone, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Ben Martini, University of South Australia, Australia Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Gianluigi Me, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy Weizhi Meng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Fabio Mercorio, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Alessio Merlo, Univerity of Genoa, Italy Mario Mezzanzanica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Mauro Migliardi, University of Padua, Italy Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Philip T. Moore, Lanzhou University, China Jose A. Morales, Carnegie Mellon University and CERT, USA Vincenzo Moscato, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Paolo Napoletano, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Surya Nepal, Data61 CSIRO, Australia Marek R. Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Antonio Picariello, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Antonio Piccinno, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Reza Reyhanitabar, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat PolitÃ¨cnica de Catalunya Â· BarcelonaTech, Spain Eric Rondeau, UniversitÃ© de Lorraine, France Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Ioan Salomie, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Carlo Sansone, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Kewei Sha, University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA Siamak Fayyaz Shahandashti, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Roopak Sinha, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Fei Song, Beijing Jiao Tong University, China Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Toronto, Canada Giancarlo SperlÃ¬, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Marco Tambasco, Coritel - University of Salerno, Italy Pierguilio Tempesta, Universidad Complutense, Spain Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Simon Tjoa, St. PÃ¶lten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcello Trovati, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Allan Tucker, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Wei Wang, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Sheng Wen, Deakin University, Australia Tao Xiang, Chongqing University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia Kangbin Yim, Soon Chun Hyang University, South Korea Siu Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea Meng Yu, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China Tsz Hon Yuen, Huawei Singapore, Singapore Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Baokang Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, China Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Xiaomin Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, China

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AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29
by GRLMC 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 29 ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ********************************************************************************** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2017 Aveiro, Portugal June 5-7, 2017 Organized by: Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ ********************************************************************************** AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be: Department of Mathematics University of Aveiro Campus Universitário de Santiago 3810-193 Aveiro SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2017 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions posters INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Biehl (University of Groningen), Prototype-based Models for the Analysis of Biomedical Data Benedict Paten (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Human Genome Variation Map Project Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Villeurbanne), Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, TR) Stephen Altschul (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Yurii Aulchenko (PolyOmica, Groningen, NL) Timothy L. Bailey (University of Nevada, Reno, US) Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US) Philipp Bucher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH) Ken Chen (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US) Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX) Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL) Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University of Munich, DE) Terry Furey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US) Olivier Gascuel (Pasteur Institute, Paris, FR) Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, Denver, US) Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, JP) Osamu Gotoh (Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP) Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, GR) Javier Herrero (University College London, UK) Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, IE) Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, US) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP) Lukasz Kurgan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) Gerton Lunter (University of Oxford, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, ES, chair) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK) William Stafford Noble (University of Washington, Seattle, US) Cedric Notredame (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES) Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GR) Manuel C. Peitsch (Philip Morris International, Bern, CH) Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Graziano Pesole (University of Bari, IT) David Posada (University of Vigo, ES) Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE) Peter Robinson (The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US) Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, ES) David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, CA) Alejandro Schäffer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Xinghua Shi (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US) Nicholas D. Socci (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US) Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, DE) Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, US) Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, BE) Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, AT) Kai Wang (Columbia University, New York, US) Haim J. Wolfson (Tel Aviv University, IL) Ioannis Xenarios (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, CH) Jinn-Moon Yang (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, TW) Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, Orlando, US) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US) Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, US) Zhongming Zhao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Diana Costa (Aveiro, CIDMA) Daniel Figueiredo (Aveiro, CIDMA, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel A. Martins (Aveiro, CIDMA) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada) Armando J. Pinho (Aveiro, IEETA) Diogo Pratas (Aveiro, IEETA, co-chair) David Silva (London) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: January 29, 2017 – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 9, 2017 Early registration: March 9, 2017 Late registration: May 22, 2017 Submission to the journal special issue: September 7, 2017 COLLOCATED EVENTS: AlCoB 2017 will be collocated with the Fourth Workshop on Molecular Logic: http://molecularlogic2017.weebly.com/ QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2017 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universidade de Aveiro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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