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ICCSA2021 - Call for Paper - New deadline and Conference Date Change
by Massimiliano Petri 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Dear all, in order to increase the safety of participants and considering the vaccination campaign that is taking place in Italy we decided to move the conference dates to *13-16 September 2021*. At this date, the whole Italian population should be vaccinated and Sardinia island is the safest place in Italy. The conference will be in Hybrid mode (online and face to face). Consequently the new deadlines are: Â·*full paper submission End of April 2021 *for A2TM Workshop; Â·*notification of Acceptance 30 May 2021*; Â·***submission deadline *for *camera ready paper and registration 20 June 2021*. Thanks to your patience, Massimiliano Petri & Antonio Pratelli

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CFP: FiCloud 2021 Conference
by FiCloud Conference 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

--------------------Call for Papers ------------------------------ The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021) IEEE-CS TCI 23-25 August 2021, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/2021/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud is a modern computing platform for delivering on-demand computing services to service consumers over the Internet. Computing services include, for example, storage, memory, compute power, databases, and networking among others. Cloud services are generally provided using SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Unlike conventional distributed computing, cloud offers flexibility, scalability, efficiency and elasticity in service provisioning. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides 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: 1. Cloud Services Models 2. Security, Privacy and Trust 3. Software Systems, Models and Architectures 4. Blockchain in Cloud and IoT 5. Data and Knowledge Management 6. Context-aware Systems 7. Software-defined Networking 8. Performance Evaluation and Modelling 9. Networking and Communication Protocols 10. IoT Services and Applications 11. Smart Environment 12. Machine learning in Cloud and IoT 13. Energy Efficiency 14. Federation and Virtualization 15. Fog and Edge Computing 16. Industry Track 17. General Track – Future IoT and Cloud Computing Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 31 March 2021 Authors Notification: 20 May 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2021 Conference Venue: The organizing committee is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 situation. The safety and well-being of the conference participants is the main priority. The committee will confirm by Spring 2021 of whether to hold the conference onsite in Rome or as an online event. 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/2020/) All papers accepted for this conference are planned to 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 conference website).

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2021 - Papers due May 7
by Thomas Naughton 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> in conjunction with the 27th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Lisbon, Portugal August 30 - September 3, 2021 <http://2021.euro-par.org> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2021 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> - Resilience 2021 Submissions: TBD - Euro-Par 2021 website: <http://2021.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 7, 2021 (23:59 AoE) - Workshop author notification: July 16, 2021 - Workshop author registration: TBD - Workshop date: August 30 or 31, 2021 - Workshop camera-ready papers: TBD General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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FIP W.G. 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
by Paolo Ceravolo 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

# SIMPDA 2021 ## ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS ### In conjunction with the 25th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems – ADBIS 2021 – Tartu, Estonia, August 24-26, 2021 [http://simpda2021.di.unimi.it](http://simpda2021.di.unimi.it) ### AN ACTIVITY FROM THE [IEEE TASK FORCE ON PROCESS MINING](https://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/doku.php?id=start) ## About SIMPDA The increasing automation of business processes and the growing amounts of process data become available opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining, and modeling. The aim of the *IFIP W.G. 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis* is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of advanced *research papers*, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive *Ph.D. seminar* and selected research and *industrial demonstrations*. This year the symposium will be held in Tartu, in cunjunction with the ADBIS conference. ###Call for Papers The **IFIP W.G. 2.6** *International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis* **(SIMPDA 2021)** offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation, and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers, and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 6 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the **CCIS template** and **Springer** paper preparation rules, see: [https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. ### Call for post-Proceedings The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the **LNBIP series** [Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing](http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for late 2020 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 5-8 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: * Business process modeling languages, notations, and methods * Lightweight process model * Data-aware and data-centric approaches * Big Data process representation and management * Online Process Mining * Process mining with Big Data * Variability and configuration of process models * Process simulation and static analyses * Process data query languages * Process data mining * Process data visualization and reporting * Privacy-aware process data mining * Process metadata and semantic reasoning * Process patterns and standards * Foundations of business process models * Resource management in business process execution * Process tracing and monitoring * Process change management and evolution * Business process lifecycle * Case studies and experience * Social process discovery * Crowdsourced process definition and discovery  ### Call for Ph.D. Research Plans The SIMPDA Ph.D. Seminar is a workshop for **Ph.D. students** from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. **Research plans** should be at most of 6 page long and should be organised following the following structure: * Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. * Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. * Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). * Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. * Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. * Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA Ph.D. award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA Ph.D. Jury to the best research plan submitted. ### CALL for Demonstrations Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 12 pages. ### Submission Guidelines Contributions to all calls should be submitted electronically to the Symposium management system connecting to [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adbis2021](https://easychair.org/co…. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to participate in the conference and present his/her work. The papers submitted must be sent in PDF, following CCIS template and Springer paper preparation rules, see: [https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ### Important Dates | Milestone | Deadline| | ------ | ------ | | Paper Submission| April 9, 2021| | Notification of Acceptance| May 14, 2021| | Submission of Camera Ready Papers| June 11 2021| | Symposium| August 24 2021| | Post-proceeding submissions| 30 January 2022| ## Organizers ### CHAIRS * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Maria Teresa Gomez Lopez, University of Seville, Spain ### Program Committee Han van der Aa, University of Mannheim Edgar Weippl, University of Vienna Angel Jesus Varela Vaca, University of Seville Wil Van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa Robert Singer, FH JOANNEUM Tamara Quaranta, Amazon Dublin Mirjana Pejic-Bach, Faculty of Economics & Business Luisa Parody, Universidad Loyola Andalucía Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu Maria Leitner, University of Vienna & AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Universitat Politècnica de València Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST Benoît Depaire, Hasselt University Angelo Corallo, Università del Salento Faiza Allah Bukhsh, University of Twente Karima Boudaoud, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Helen Balinsky, Hewlett Packard Laboratories Chintan Amrit, University of Amsterdam

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Live e-Lecture by Prof. Andreas Geiger: 'Towards Robust End-to-End Driving', 23rd March 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. Andreas Geiger (University of Tübingen, Germany), a prominent AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘Towards Robust End-to-End Driving’, on Tuesday 23rd March 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/92425987539 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media, ELISE <https://www.elise-ai.eu/> , Humane AI Net <https://www.humane-ai.eu/> , <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> Vision, currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics, starting with the above mentioned e-lecture. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) Lectures will be typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. Other upcoming lectures: 1. Prof. Anibal Ollero (University of Seville, Spain), 4th May 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 2. Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (University College London, UK), 18th May 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. More lecture infos in: <http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/ These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> and <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. M. Chetouani, N. Cesa-Bianchi, F. Heintz, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Call For Papers - 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
by Miguel Areias 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ Fully virtual event organized by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto. Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks and special sessions. In attach, follows the CFP for the Applications Track and for the Recently Published Research Track. ========================================================================= Scope ***** Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: ** Foundations:Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning, Knowledge representation. ** Languages issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming techniques. ** Programming support: Program analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution visualization. ** Implementation: Compilation, Virtual machines, Memory management, Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling, Foreign interfaces, User interfaces. ** Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and coinductive logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming, Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Theorem proving, Argumentation, Probabilistic programming, Machine learning. ** Applications: Databases, Big data, Data integration and federation, Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and semantic web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences, Cybersecurity, Robotics, Education. Tracks and Special Sessions *************************** Besides the main track, ICLP 2021 will host additional tracks: ** Applications Track: this track invites submissions of papers on emerging and deployed applications of LP, describing all aspects of the development, deployment, and evaluation of logic programming systems to solve real-world problems, including interesting case studies and benchmarks, and discussing lessons learned. ** Recently Published Research Track: this track provides a forum to discuss important results related to logic programming that appeared recently (from January 2019 onwards) in selective journals and conferences, but have not been previously presented at ICLP. Each track will have its own dedicated chairs, PC and evaluation criteria. The attached CFPs specify the submission details. ICLP 2021 will also host: ** MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming: the purpose of MentorLP is to support students and newcomers to pursue careers in logic programming research. This workshop will hold technical sessions on cutting-edge research in logic programming, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare and succeed for a research career. We will have leaders in logic programming research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. We will also have live discussions among participants on how to overcome challenges and make contributions to the research community. MentorLP is dedicated to fostering and supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups to attend. ** Fall School on Logic and Constraint Programming: the school is suited for those who wish to learn advanced topics in logic programming and constraint programming. It will consist of a serie of half-day tutorials. ** Doctoral Consortium: the Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to make a presentation in a session of the main ICLP conference. ** Tutorials and Co-located Workshops. Important Dates *************** ** Abstract registration (regular papers): May 3, 2021 ** Paper submission (regular paper): May 10, 2021 ** Notification to authors (regular paper): June 27, 2021 ** Paper Submission (short papers): July 4, 2021 *+ Revision submission (TPLP papers): July 14, 2021 ** Final notifications (all paper kinds): July 30, 2021 ** Camera-ready copy due (all paper kinds): August 10, 2021 ** Conference: September 20--27, 2021 Submission Details ****************** Expected submissions to the main track (for the additional tracks, please follow the specific CFP): ** Regular papers (14 pages in TPLP format, including references) must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere. These restrictions do not apply to previously accepted workshop papers with a limited audience and/or without archival proceedings. The accepted regular papers will be published in TPLP, along with the selected ICLP-TPLP papers. The program committee may recommend some regular papers to be published as technical communications (TCs), along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The authors of the TCs can also elect to convert their submissions into extended abstracts (2 or 3 pages) for inclusion in the proceedings. This should allow authors to submit a long version elsewhere. ** Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/) including references) can describe published research. The accepted short papers that describe original and previously unpublished work will be published as TCs, along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. The accepted short papers that describe published research will be made available at the conference webpage, with the permission of the authors. All accepted regular papers and technical communications will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions will be done via EasyChair. The submission Web page for ICLP2021 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021 Organization ************ ** General Chair Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal ** Program Chairs Andrea Formisano, University of Udine, Italy Y. Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, USA ** Organizing and Publicity Chair Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal ** Applications Track Alex Brik, Google Inc., USA Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium ** Recently Published Research Track Gian Luca Pozzato, University of Genova, Italy Neng-Fa Zhou, CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA ** MentorLP - Mentoring Workshop on Logic Programming Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA ** Workshop Chair Nicos Angelopoulos, Cardiff University, UK ** Doctoral Consortium and Fall School Chairs Bart Bogaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria, Italy ** Programming Contest Chair Mario Alviano, University of Calabria, Italy Program Committee ***************** TO BE ANNOUNCED ========================================================================= Any additional question can be directed towards ICLP Chairs: iclp2021(a)easychair.org =========================================================================

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CFP: FiCloud 2021 - Deadline Extended
by FiCloud Conference 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

---------------------Call for Papers - Deadline Extended ------------------------------ The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021) IEEE-CS TCI 23-25 August 2021, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/2021/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud is a modern computing platform for delivering on-demand computing services to service consumers over the Internet. Computing services include, for example, storage, memory, compute power, databases, and networking among others. Cloud services are generally provided using SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Unlike conventional distributed computing, cloud offers flexibility, scalability, efficiency and elasticity in service provisioning. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides 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: 1. Cloud Services Models 2. Security, Privacy and Trust 3. Software Systems, Models and Architectures 4. Blockchain in Cloud and IoT 5. Data and Knowledge Management 6. Context-aware Systems 7. Software-defined Networking 8. Performance Evaluation and Modelling 9. Networking and Communication Protocols 10. IoT Services and Applications 11. Smart Environment 12. Machine learning in Cloud and IoT 13. Energy Efficiency 14. Federation and Virtualization 15. Fog and Edge Computing 16. Industry Track 17. General Track – Future IoT and Cloud Computing Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 31 March 2021 Authors Notification: 20 May 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2021 Conference Venue: The organizing committee is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 situation. The safety and well-being of the conference participants is the main priority. The committee will confirm by Spring 2021 of whether to hold the conference onsite in Rome or as an online event. 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/2020/) All papers accepted for this conference are planned to 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 conference website).

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[Bench'21 Call for Papers] - 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'21) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2021 ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarks, Data, Standards, Measurements, and Optimizations are fundamental human activities and assets. The Bench conference has two essential duties: promote data or benchmark-based quantitative approaches to tackle multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary challenges; connect architecture, system, data management, algorithm, and application communities to better co-design for the inherent workload characterizations. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmarks, data, standards, measurements, and optimizations community as a whole. Second, it is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conference. The past meetings attracted researchers and practitioners from the architecture, system, algorithm, and application communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. There are three submission opportunities, and the reviewing process is double-blind. Upon acceptance, papers will be scheduled for publication in the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluation (TBench https://www.benchcouncil.org/journal.html ) and presentation at the Bench'21 conference. Regularly, the Bench conference will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from all organizations, the Bench conference presents the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using publicly available benchmarks. Each article receives a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 articles. We welcome the industry leaders as sponsors to provide the testbed and the honorariums for the above awards. Call for papers ------------------------ We solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations of: -Big Data -Artificial intelligence (AI) -High performance computing (HPC) -Machine learning -Big scientific data -Datacenters -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -Internet of Things(IoT) -Block chain -Data management and storage -Financial domains -Education domains -Medical domains -Other application domains **Data: -Detailed descriptions of research or industry data sets, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. -Analyses or meta-analyses of existing data and original articles on systems, technologies and techniques that advance data sharing and reuse to support reproducible research. -Evaluations of the rigour and quality of the experiments used to generate data and the completeness of the descriptions of the data. -Tools generating large-scale data while preserving their original characteristics. **Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies of: -Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms -Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks, IoT applications -Computer architectures, hardware accelerators, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage networks -HPC -Operating systems, file systems and databases -Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing, fog and edge computing -Mobile and personal computing systems -Energy-efficient computing systems -Real-time and fault-tolerant systems -Security and privacy of computing and networked systems -Software systems and services, and enterprise applications -Social networks, multimedia systems, web services -Cyber-physical systems, including the smart grid **Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools for: -Analytical modeling techniques and model validation -Workload characterization and benchmarking -Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis -Sustainability analysis and power management -System measurement, performance monitoring and forecasting -Anomaly detection, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting -Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling -Experimental design, statistical analysis and simulation **Measurement and evaluation: -Evaluation methodologies and metrics -Testbed methodologies and systems -Instrumentation, sampling, tracing and profiling of large-scale, real-world applications and systems -Collection and analysis of measurement data that yield new insights -Measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, assessment of performance bottlenecks) -Methods and tools to monitor and visualize measurement and evaluation data -Systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings -Advances in data collection, analysis and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing) -Reappraisal of previous empirical measurements and measurement-based conclusions -Descriptions of challenges and future directions that the measurement and evaluation community should pursue **Optimization methodologies and Tools. Important Dates ------------------------ There are three submission opportunities over the year. Spring submission website: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/ -Abstract registration: May 15, 2021 -Paper submission: May 21, 2021 -First-round author notification: June 21, 2021 -Rebuttal and Revision Period: June 21-July 21, 2021 -Second-round author notification: August 10 Summer submission website: TBD -Abstract registration: August 1, 2021 -Paper submission: August 7, 2021 -First-round author notification: September 7, 2021 -Rebuttal and Revision Period: September 7-October 7, 2021 -Second-round author notification: November 7, 2021 Winter submission website: TBD -Abstract registration: December 15, 2021 -Paper submission: December 21, 2021 -First-round author notification: January 21, 2022 -Rebuttal and Revision Period: January 21-February 21, 2022 -Second-round author notification: March 21, 2022 Paper Submission ------------------------ There are three submission opportunities, and the reviewing process is double-blind. Upon acceptance, papers will be scheduled for publication in the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluation (TBench) and presentation at the Bench'21 conference. All accepted and eligible papers will be considered, by a panel of reviewers, for the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award and the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research. Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 12 double column pages in TBench format (All research article page limits do not include references and author biographies). For a short paper, the page limit is 8 double column pages in TBench format, not including references and author biographies. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is pre-registered will be removed from the proceedings. Submission site: https://bench2021.hotcrp.com/ TBench Latex template: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/els-cas-templates.zip Awards --------------------- * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers). - BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. The Reviewing Process ----------------- The reviewing process for submissions is a hybrid of the traditional conference and journal models. There are three possible outcomes from the first round of submission: -Accept with Shepherding: a PC member will shepherd every accepted paper to ensure that the reviewers' essential suggestions are incorporated into the article's final version. This is similar to the “Minor Revision” outcome at a journal. -One-shot Revision: This is similar to the “Major Revision” outcome in a journal. In such cases, the authors will receive a list of issues that must be addressed before the paper can be accepted. Authors may then submit a revision of the paper during the rebuttal period. The revision should include an author's response to the reviewers' issues as part of the appendix of the article. If this paper's revision is not submitted within this time, then any resubmission will be treated as a new paper. The outcome after resubmission of a “one-shot revision” will either be “Accept with Shepherding” or “Reject.” The one-shot revision may be rejected, for example, if the reviewers find that the issues they raised were not satisfactorily addressed in the revision. -Reject: If the paper is rejected, it may not be resubmitted to any Bench deadline within 12 months following the paper's initial submission. Organization ----------------- Bench Steering Committees Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Prof. Dr. D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University Prof. Dr. Felix, Wolf, TU Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced Dr. Wanling Gao, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS Prof. Dr. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences &BenchCouncil

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CFP: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics @ ACM GoodIT2021
by Chilean Scholar 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Call For Papers: Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics In conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) The GoodIT conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society. The conference focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. The Special Track on AI for Tackling Dis/Misinformation during Pandemics focuses on new data technologies based on artificial intelligence, data governance, machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis to aid experts in analyzing large volumes of social media data in order to detect fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. A number of open challenges need more investigation from the research community, such as recent trends in composing information disorder by combining false and real content, the mechanisms that drive fake content diffusion during pandemics, how to differentiate fake content from personal viewpoints, why people tend to believe fake content and make decisions based on it during pandemics, and what are the different motivations behind the dissemination of fake content. Fact-checking and claim verification are two important strategies that are worth incorporating in the automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. ************ Key Dates ************ Papers Submission Due: May 1, 2021 Authors Notifications: June 22, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2021 GoodIT 2021: September 09-11, 2021 ************ Important Links ************ Special Track Website: https://aitdmp.conceptechint.net Submission Link: https://goodit2021.hotcrp.com/ ************ Submission Guidelines ************ All submissions will be reviewed using a single-blind review process. The identity of referees will not be revealed to authors, but authors can keep their names on the submitted papers, on figures, bibliography, etc. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. ACM has partnered with Overleaf, a free cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. The ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors at: www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Special issues associated with the conference are being organized. ************ Topics ************ Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in various topics related to rumors, fake news, misinformation, and disinformation during and after pandemics, are invited, with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools for automated tackling and curtailment of fake content during and after pandemics. Topics include (but are not limited to): -AI approaches for the detection of online influence and manipulation -AI approaches to identify misinformation and disinformation campaigns -AI approaches for spotting misinformation and disinformation spreaders. -Social media mining for automated detection of misinformation propagation and disinformation circulation -AI approaches for automated identification and verification of claims -AI approaches for intention detection for misinformation and disinformation contents -AI approaches for credibility assessment of Social media sources -AI approaches for fake news curtailment, filtering and prevention. -AI approaches for analysis/detection of distributed and multi-platform misinformation and disinformation disseminations -AI approaches for predicting the Impact of misinformation and disinformation during pandemics -New datasets and evaluation methodologies to aid in automated detection and analysis of misinformation and disinformation content in social media channels **********The Conference Sponsored by********** Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers & Society http://www.sigcas.org/

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[LAST CFP] 2nd International workshop on Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing @ESWC-2021
by Sarra Ben Abbès 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Dear colleagues and researchers, Please consider submitting a paper for the 2nd International workshop "*Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing*" which will be held online or in Hersonissos, Greece - June 6th 2021. ** *DeepOntoNLP* - Call for Papers *** Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing (DeepOntoNLP) https://sites.google.com/view/deepontonlp-eswc2021 in conjunction with ESWC 2021 <https://2021.eswc-conferences.org/> online or in Hersonissos, Greece **Important dates** - Workshop paper submission due: *March 1st, 2021** March 14th, 2021* - Workshop paper notifications: March 31st, 2021 - Workshop paper camera-ready versions due: April 9th, 2021 - Workshop: June 6th, 2021 (Half-Day) All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). **Workshop description** In recent years, deep learning is applied successfully and achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of domains, such as image analysis. Despite this success, deep learning models remain hard to analyse data and understand what knowledge is represented in them, and how they generate decisions. Deep Learning (DL) meets Natural Language Processing (NLP) to solve human language problems for further applications, such as information extraction, machine translation, search and summarization. Previous works has attested the positive impact of domain knowledge on data analysis and vice versa, for example pre-processing data, searching data, redundancy and inconsistency data, knowledge engineering, domain concepts and relationships extraction, etc. Ontology is a structured knowledge representation that facilitates data access (data sharing and reuse) and assists the DL process as well. DL meets recently ontologies and tries to model data representations with many layers of non-linear transformations. The combination of DL, ontologies and NLP might be beneficial for different tasks: · Deep Learning for Ontologies: ontology population, ontology extension, ontology learning, ontology alignment and integration, · Ontologies for Deep Learning: semantic graph embeddings, latent semantic representation, hybrid embeddings (symbolic and semantic representations), · Deep Learning for NLP: summarization, translation, named entity recognition, question answering, document classification, etc. · NLP for Deep Learning: parsing (part-of-speech tagging), tokenization, sentence detection, dependency parsing, semantic role labeling, semantic dependency parsing, etc. **Objective** This workshop aims at demonstrating recent and future advances in semantic rich deep learning by using Semantic Web and NLP techniques which can reduce the semantic gap between the data, applications, machine learning process, in order to obtain a semantic-aware approaches. In addition, the goal of this workshop is to bring together an area for experts from industry, science and academia to exchange ideas and discuss results of on-going research in natural language processing, structured knowledge and deep learning approaches. We invite the submission of original works that is related -- but are not limited to -- the topics below. **Topics of interests** · Construction ontology embeddings · Ontology-based text classification · Learning ontology embeddings · Semantic role labelling · Ontology reasoning with Deep Neural Networks · Deep learning for ontological semantic annotations · Spatial and temporal ontology embeddings · Ontology alignment and matching based on deep learning models · Ontology learning from text using deep learning models · Unsupervised Learning · Text classification using deep models · Neural machine translation · Deep question answering · Deep text summarization · Deep speech recognition · and so on. **Submission** The workshop is open to submit unpublished work resulting from research that presents original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches. All submissions must be PDF documents written in English and formatted according to LNCS instructions for authors <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Ffr%2Fcomputer…>. Papers are to be submitted through the Easychair Conference Management System <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deepontonlp2021>. We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full research papers (8-10 pages): Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Workshop topics - Short papers (4-6 pages): Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, in order to present the paper, there, and to the conference. For further instructions please refer to the ESWC 2021 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F2021.eswc-conferences.org%2F&sa=…> page. **Publication** The best papers from this workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2021. **Workshop chairs** *Sarra BEN ABBES*, Engie, France *Rim HANTACH*, Engie, France *Philippe CALVEZ*, Engie, France **Program Committee** Nada Mimouni, CNAM, France Lynda Temal, Engie, France Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Valentina Janev, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Serbia Mohamed Hedi Karray, LGP-INP-ENIT, Université de Toulouse, France Efstratios Kontopoulos, Catalink Ltd, Cyprus Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Sanju Tiwari, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico Linda Elmhadhbi, Université de Toulouse, France Amir Laadhar, Aalborg University, Denmark Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France

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