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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 1st call
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

********************************************* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************* Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2020) https://cas2020.webnode.com/ Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2020 organizer)

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FINAL CfC Ada-Europe 2020 Conference - Tue 14 Jan deadline!
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 *** DEADLINE Tuesday 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020 aka Ada-Europe 2020) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program and vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. The 2020 edition of the conference continues the major revamp in the registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors. Journal-Track Papers: submit via https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/advances-in-reliable-software-technologies Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, jorge.garrido at upm.es Later deadline of 31 March 2020 for Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020 For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2020 Publicity Chair *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 8-12, 2020 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2020

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[simu-conf] EXTENDED DEADLINE APPROACHING + JOURNAL OPPORTUNITY. Theory and Foundations of Modeling & Simulation (TMS)
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Theory and Foundations of Modelling and Simulation Track Spring Simulation Conference – Washington DC George Mason University – May 2020 Submission deadline approaching: January 6, 2020. http://www.tmsdevs.org Top articles will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue for the SIMULATION journal https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sim (Special Issue information: http://bit.ly/TMSSPECIALISSUE ) TMS aims to provide a forum to present the most recent advances in the Theory and Foundations of Modeling and Simulation. The focus is on the M&S concepts, methods, methodology, practice, and toolkits, as well as related lessons learned and challenges. This track welcomes unpublished papers, and not under consideration in other venues, on the topics below as well as others that can help deepen and expand M&S Theory and Foundations for better understanding and development of computing, physical, and human systems. * Modeling & Simulation Formalisms (Agents, DEVS, Petri nets, Statecharts, etc.) * Multi-Paradigm/Multi-Domain Modeling, Multi-Resolution/Multi-Scale Modeling * Model Composition, Hybrid Modeling Languages, Multi-Modal Modeling * Model Checking, Formalism-Based Model Debugging, Model Transformation * Modular Hybrid, Spatially Distributed, and Ultra Large Scale Systems * Embedded, IoT, and Fog Computing Systems * Parallel, Distributed, Real-Time, Cloud-Based, and Interactive Simulation * Co-simulation, Interoperability, Simulation Languages, Numerical Solvers * Simulation and Model Development Visualization Tools * Model Libraries, Repositories, and Data Formats Organization Committee: General Chairs: Joachim Denil, University of Antwerp, Belgium Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs: Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Cristina Ruiz-Martin, Carleton University, Canada Further information: http://www.tmsdevs.org [apologies for cross postings – problems/issues/comments: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Job Opening: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on tenure-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (PR0311/18-19) * The appointees will perform high-impact research; to teach and manage programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as to contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. They will be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues within the Department to contribute to two special thematic applications including (a) health informatics and (b) secure and privacy-aware computing, and/or outside the Department to contribute to interdisciplinary research projects under our University’s Research Cluster on Data Analytics and A.I. in X. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department’s key research areas: (i) computational intelligence, (ii) databases and information management, (iii) networking and systems, and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. Applicants should also show strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and be able to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Special consideration will be given to candidates with research background related to financial technologies, and secure and privacy-aware computing. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr. William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Those who have responded to the advertisement posted in March 2019 need not re-apply. *Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure*: Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer. Closing Date: *25 January 2020 (or until the positions are filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=503

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WHPC Summit - Paper submission deadline extended to 10 January
by Jana Makar 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

WHPC Summit Update: The paper submission deadline has been extended to 10 January 2020, so there’s still time to send in your abstracts before (or during!) the holiday break! Please share this across your networks! -------------------------------- Call for Submissions Women in HPC (WHPC) Summit Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada 29 April - 01 May, 2020 * Paper submission deadline extended! * Submission Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: extended to 10 January, 2020 Poster Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2020 Submission Topics The WHPC Summit is seeking submissions of papers and posters on a diverse range of technical topics, including but not limited to: Programming models and applications for HPC, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Architectures and accelerators on high performance platforms Computational Models and Algorithms for HPC, Big Data and AI Addressing cyber security issues in HPC, Big Data and AI Large-scale data analytics and machine learning trends Using machine learning to analyze large-scale system Performance modeling, analysis and benchmarking of HPC, AI and Big Data applications/architectures Intersection of cloud and HPC System software to accelerate the performance of data-intensive applications In addition to technical topics, WHPC is also soliciting submissions on topics related to diversity, inclusion and leadership, including but not limited to: Methods and techniques to create a diverse workforce Inclusive leadership and retention strategies Building diversity advocates and allies Dealing with unconscious bias and sexism in the workplace Achieving the right work/life balance Fostering creativity through diversity Statistics about women's representation in HPC community More information on paper and poster submissions is available here. If you have any questions or would like more information about the Summit or submissions, please email: info(a)womeninhpc.org. -- Jana Makar Communications Manager New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) www.nesi.org.nz @NeSI_NZ Level 10 – 70 Symonds Street, Auckland 1010 My office hours are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

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Ada-Europe 2020 Conference - EXTENDED 14 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

The Ada-Europe 2020 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most submissions is extended to Tuesday 14 January 2020. 3+ weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020 aka Ada-Europe 2020) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program and vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. The 2020 edition of the conference continues the major revamp in the registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2020: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals (EXTENDED) 20 March 2020: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2020: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers 30 April 2020: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2020 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/advances-in-reliable-software-technologies Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 14 January 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chair Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Program Committee Mario Aldea Rivas, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Iain Bate, University of York. UK Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST, FR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Marisol García Valls, Univ. Pol. de València, ES J. Javier Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI (USA) Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Patricia López Martínez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, NO Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Eugenio Villar Bonet, Univ. de Cantabria, ES *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Javier Coronel, FentISS, ES Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT), AT Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence and Space, ES Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, IT Laurent Rioux, Thales R&T, FR Marian Roselló, Terma, NL Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, FR Emilio Salazar, GMV, ES *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2020 Publicity Chair *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 8-12, 2020 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2020

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CfP VHPC20: HPC Containers-Kubernetes
by Michael Alexander 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Abstract registration Deadline: Jan 31st, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr 05th, 2020 Springer LNCS Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services can be become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes) - Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC - Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declerative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch - Scheduling, job management - Execution paradigm - workflow - Data management - Deployment paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Jan 31st, 2020 - Abstract Apr 5th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=26973 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020)
by Tumeo, Antonino 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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CFP: PDSEC-20 workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Peter Strazdins 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

(apologies for cross-postings) The 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20 will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Submission Deadline Extended [IWSMAI'20] CFP : International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
by IWSMAI Workshop 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

*International Workshop on **Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence* *(IWSMAI 2020)* *Submission Deadline Extended* *April 6 - 9, 2020, Warsaw, Poland.* https://sites.google.com/view/iwsmai/home The aim of IWSMAI is to bring together researchers, professors and students from around the world to present their latest ideas and research results within the scope of IWSMAI 2020. This workshop will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence fields. The workshop will include presentations of contributed papers, poster sessions, and state of the art lectures by invited keynote speakers. *Topics:* · Artificial Intelligence · Statistical methods · Data Analysis and Data mining · Computational Statistic · Supervised and unsupervised learning · Statistical methodology · Bioinformatics · Medical statistics · Deep Learning · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Data Collection and Applications · Data Science and Blockchain Technology · Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Big Data · Mathematical Statistics · Economic intelligence · Statistical Software (R, SAS, Python) All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line (indexed by *Scopus)* *Important Dates:* · Paper submission deadline: *December 22, 2019 * · Notification of acceptance: *January 13, 2020* · Camera-ready submission: *February 10 **, 2020* · Workshop Date : *April 6-9, 2019* *Contact :* Email: abdallah.abarda(a)uhp.ac.ma

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