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== CALL FOR PAPERS
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== SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Sun, May 7, 2017
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== MATES 2017
== 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies
== Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017
== Leipzig, Germany
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== MATES is the second best CORE ranked agent technology conference worldwide.
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== Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
== Web Intelligence (WI 2017)
== http://webintelligence2017.com/
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== *** CONFIRMED COMMON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ***
== Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence:
== Computational Social Science
== Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three
== intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing
== Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid
== Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI
== Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications
== Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for
== Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges
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== Extended submission deadline regular papers: Sun, May 7, 2017
== at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017
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Aims and Scope
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The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems (MAS). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains.
MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award.
The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series.
Topics of Interest
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MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multiagent platforms and tools
- Agent communication languages
- Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies
- Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of MAS
- Standards for agents and MAS
- MAS: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation
- Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations
- Adaptive agents and multiagent learning
- Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications
- Agent-based modeling and social simulation
- Mobile agents
- Autonomous robots and robot teams
- Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids)
- Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling
- Recommender agents
- Agent-based planning and scheduling
- Agent-based information retrieval
- Agent-based distributed data mining
- Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation
- Agents for the semantic Web
- Agents for the social Web
- Agents for the Internet of Services
- Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing
- Agents for cloud computing
- Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment
- Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy).
MATES PhD mentoring track
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The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the MATES homepage.
The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are
- to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers.
- to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems.
- to get advice for their (academic) career.
- to provide networking opportunities.
PhD-Paper Submission:
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Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work:
- Motivation
- State of the Art
- Methodical approach
- Preliminary results/findings (optional
- Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor
PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee.
The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to
Alexander Pokahr: pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Rene Schumann: rene.schumann(a)hevs.ch
Presentation and Publication:
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All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the MATES proceedings.
Invited Speakers
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Together with Web Intelligence 2017 MATES 2017 provides keynotes from renowned experts on up-to-date topics:
* Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science
* Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing - three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing
* Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI
* Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications
* Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0: Showcases and Challenges
Regular Paper Submission and Publication
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The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series.
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages (full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review.
Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal.
Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017
For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register for the conference.
Important Dates
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Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 7, 2017 (Regular Papers, EXTENDED)
Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 14, 2017 (PhD-Track Papers)
Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers: Sun, June 18, 2017
Conference: Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017
Conference Organisation
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General Chairs:
Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany)
Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Honorary Chairs:
Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Rene´ Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland)
Program Committee:
Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy)
Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France)
Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy)
Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK)
Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy)
Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden)
Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada)
Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany)
Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)
Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany)
Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan)
Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia)
Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany)
John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany)
Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland)
Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK)
Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany)
Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany)
Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Georg Weichhart (PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria)
Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
MATES Steering Committee
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Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Jörg P. Müller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria)
Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
For more information on the MATES conference series,please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series
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Dear Colleague,
The new book that I authored has been released and attempts to provide with
a clear and full understanding the smart city:
Understanding Smart Cities - A tool for Smart Government or an Industrial
Trick? Public Administration and Information Technology, Vol. 22, Springer
Science+Business Media New York, ISBN: 978-3-319-57014-3 (Print)
978-3-319-57015-0 (Online)
(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-…
[View More]57015-0)
It contains the historical evolution and the cutting edge information for
smart city, research and empirical evidence from 13 smart city cases
(Trikala, Tampere, Geneva, Seoul, New Songdo, Vienna, London, Washington DC,
New York City, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Dubai and Kyoto) and findings with
regard to smart city and smart government. Is a valuable material, which was
missing from the literature.
After reading this book, the reader will succeed in gaining answers for the
following questions:
. What is a smart city? Does it concern urban innovation or
something more complicated?
. What is the smart city in practice? What technological
artefacts are synthesized and in which manner they collaborate in order to
succeed in the owner's mission?
. How is the smart city market structured and does it concern an
industrial trick that leads government towards its development?
. How the smart city -and its development- are governed and what
is the role of government in a smart city?
. What is the smart government and how is it related with the
smart city?
This book contains five (5) chapters beyond the introduction. Chapter 2
explores the smart city theory (terminology and context), it defines several
city coalitions and organizations, it classifies cities according to their
approach and presents an architecture framework with several alternative
views to support smart city understanding. Then, chapter 3 explores the
smart city practice in terms of applied technology, services, standards and
exemplars. Chapter 4 analyzes the business terms of a smart city, via the
presentation of the alternative types of business that structure the smart
city market, while it determines the underlying smart city value and it
compares corresponding business models. Finally, it questions the potential
"smart city hoax" and differentiates city branding from marketing. Then,
chapter 5 utilizes the project and the innovation management perspectives to
demonstrate how a smart city can be developed from scratch. It shows how to
measure the existing potential of a city that can be compared with the
available technological and smart service choices and define the development
roadmap for the smart city owner. Finally, chapter 6 differentiates smart
city from smart government. It provides the term with definition and a
unified conceptual framework, which clarifies the context and the potential
of smart government, together with its interrelation with the smart city.
In brief:
Smart cities have emerged radically since their initial appearance in
literature in 1997 and they have attracted a significant scientific and
industrial attention since then. The primary smart city exemplars were able
to visualize local information -like a portal from local sources- or even to
simulate the city's landscape -like an online map-. These initial attempts
were followed by knowledge bases and networks of people, where common
knowledge was shared among the participants and they mainly concerned local
issues (e.g., employment for post-industrial areas).
All these exemplars were based on the Internet and no extra facility was
required, when cities started exploring cutting-edge infrastructure to
upgrade local information performance. In this respect, broadband and later
ultra-fast networks -wired and wireless- started being deployed in the city
and the urban space enhanced its ability to deliver several types of smart
services. Moreover, this infrastructure enabled cities to deal with several
local issues -e.g., environmental downgrading from human facilities,
transportation, aging etc.-, like waste management, intelligent
transportation, and tele-care service provision accordingly etc. This urban
upgrade with the use of technology started appearing in late 1990s and early
2000s and it was a critical milestone for the industrial engagement, which
saw extensive opportunities to grow and develop several products that range
from construction (e.g., sustainable buildings); to electronics (e.g.,
sensors for measuring internal and environmental performance, smart lighting
etc.); to engineering (e.g., transportation); to software engineering (e.g.,
smart service deployment); and even to new entrepreneurship (e.g., in data
and green economy).
This event was not accidental, since urbanization had started becoming a
reality and international reports show a significant rise of cities by 2050,
a shift that changes dramatically the role of city and of local government:
a city has to host an extensive community (like megacities do today); and
the government has to serve this community with a decreasing amount of
resources and to deal with significant challenges (e.g., poverty, climate
change and city competition etc.).
Such a potential demands a close collaboration between local governments and
the industry, while the role of the triple helix (government, university and
the industry) appears to be important. In this respect, several scholars and
practitioners suggest alternatives for such a collaboration and smart city
exemplars chose among them (e.g., Vienna has a strong collaboration with
local stakeholders; New Songdo was the outcome of a project coalition;
Masdar and other smart districts are the product of a
Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) etc.). However, the same partnership rises
criticism with regard to the open innovation character that the smart city
used to have, as well as whether the smart city is really a requirement for
governments or it is the outcome of marketing that obliges this
collaboration.
Regardless the justification of this criticism, smart city is a fact and
more and more cities either self-claim to be smart or undertake efforts to
enter this era, and a significant number of city coalitions and
organizations have been formed to handle this interest. Additionally, the
size of the smart city industry increases steadily and it is estimated to
exceed the amount of U.S. $1trillion by 2025, which justifies the private
sector's interest to develop new products and gain a share of this market.
On the other hand, almost all standardization bodies struggle to develop
standards to normalize and homogenize the developed solutions.
This reality comes in contrast to the ambiguous meaning of the terminology
that deals with smart city (e.g., the smart city itself, smart government
and smart governance etc.) and to the real concept and purpose of smart city
(e.g., does it concern a today or a tomorrow city with futuristic features
-like flying cars-?). Additionally, the role of government in smart city
development is still questioned, since its "marriage" with the private
sector might alter the vision or diverge the mission of government to deal
with the local challenges and instead to prioritize according to market's
willing (technology push).
In this regard, this book has multiple objectives. First, the aim of this
book is to clarify the smart city context and the role of government in
smart city. This book comes from the observation that the terms smart city
and smart governance are interconnected and they appear together but it is
not clear how and why. Second, this book aims to become a guide for
governments, researchers and practitioners to conceptualize and understand
what the smart city is -according to both literature and practice-, what are
the components that synthesize a smart city and what technological artefacts
can be used to serve the smart city mission. Third, it aims to provide the
readers with tools that can help them conceptualize, measure the potential,
manage the development and evaluate the outcome of a smart city project.
Fourth, it aims to serve as a didactic material for students that enter the
smart city domain and in this respect, each chapter has specific learning
outcomes and a pool of questions to support learning. As such, several
outcomes from ongoing studies, an extensive scientific material (articles,
books and reports), inputs from experts, personal experiences and city
examples are utilized to serve the above quadruple mission.
The development of this book focused on the smart city owner perspective
(the one who develops and owns the smart city outcome) and it was based on a
multi-methods approach, which combines literature reviews and reports' and
standards' analysis; narrative walks and tests in cities; interviews with
smart city representatives; panels of experts; questionnaires etc. Moreover,
several articles were published during the development of this book that are
mentioned in acknowledgements, since each chapter generated important
research questions that had to be answered. Finally, two research projects
contributed partially the development of this book, which are also mentioned
in the acknowledgements.
--
Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos
Associate Professor
Business School
University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly
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TEI of Thessaly, 411 10 Larissa, Greece
tel/fax: +30 2410 684570
e-mail:lanthopo@teilar.gr
URL:http://de.teilar.gr/story/en-US/108/ANTHOPOULOS_Leonidas_Associate_Profe
ssor.html
LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/leonidasanthopoulos
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Associate Editor, International Journal of Public Administration in the
Digital Age (IJPADA), IGI-GLOBAL
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2017)
Lund, Sweden, September 18-20, 2017
Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-17/ <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-17/>
Important Dates:
Workshop Proposals: March 31, 2017
Paper Submission Due: May 1, 2017
Author Notification: June 21, 2017
Final Manuscript Due: July 21, 2017
ICTH is a premier venue for bringing …
[View More]together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and healthcare who are engaged in different facets of ICT and healthcare. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related topics of interests.
Lund University is a strong influence on Lund city, and several university buildings are located in the heart of the city. The combination of businesses, students and researchers from around the world has given birth to Lund's unique character as a city of strong research-based global industries. The Malmö region, including Lund, is the 4th most inventive region in the world. Sweden’s first and most successful research park, Ideon, is situated in Lund, and the country’s two largest research ventures, MAX IV Laboratory and the European Spallation Source (ESS) are located here. The students at Lund University comprise a large part of the population of the city and consequently have a significant impact on it and contribute to the youthful, laid-back atmosphere. The young population influences all aspects of life in Lund, from the daily rhythm of the city, to city planning, pubs and bars, museums and countless cultural and leisure activities. The combination of old traditions and history together with the bustling student life makes Lund a great place to live and study!
Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com <http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com <http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/ <http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com <http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com <http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex <http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/ <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:
International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652 <http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652>)
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, by IGI Global: (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distributed-systems… <http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distributed-systems…>)
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-comm… <http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-comm…>)
ICTH-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-17/ <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-17/>).
We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care
Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems
Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems
Clinical Data and Knowledge Management
Cloud Computing for Healthcare
Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare
Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care
Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare
Data Visualization
Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare
Digital Hospitals
Drug Information Systems
E-health & m-health
Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
Healthgrids
Health Portals
Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments
Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications
Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare
Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems
Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare
RFID Solutions for Healthcare
Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments
Telemedicine and Health Telematics
Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare
Usability & Socio Technical studies
User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications
Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare
Virtual Environments for Healthcare
Committees
General Chair
Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil
Program Chairs
Stephane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Workshops Chairs
Philipp Brune, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany
Wael M. El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium
Björn A Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden
Advisory Committee
Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada
Björn A. Johnsson
Doctoral student
Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University
Ole Römers väg 3, SE-223 63 Lund
+46 46 222 96 42
cs.lth.se/bjorn_a_johnsson <http://cs.lth.se/bjorn_a_johnsson>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC
'17)
held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High
Performance,
June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany.
(Springer LNCS Proceedings)
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Date: June 22, 2017
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2017 (extended),…
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abstract submission
Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179
Keynotes:
Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of
Technology and
John Goodacre, Professor in Computer Architectures University of
Manchester, Director of Technology and Systems ARM Ltd. Research Group and
Chief Scientific Officer Kaleao Ltd.
Call for Papers
Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor 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.
Various virtualization 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; I/O Virtualization
allows physical
NICs/HBAs 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 and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which
evolved
network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity
and flexibility; the
increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
promises to extend
this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths.
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
and the cloud.
Major Topics
- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the
cloud and grids
- OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity,
Shifter, i.a.)
- Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
- Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors,
FPGAs, etc.)
- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies
- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors
- Software defined networks and network virtualization
- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration
(Kubernetes i.a.),
- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability
- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud
workloads
- Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC
convergence
- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks,
RDMA, etc.)
- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
- I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems
- GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization
- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized
environments
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments
- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs
- Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government
- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
- Container security
- Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine,
Puppet, i.a.)
- Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors
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
Rolling Abstract Submission
May 2, 2017 - Paper submission deadline (extended)
May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification
June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day
July 18, 2017 - Camera-ready version due
Chair
Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece
Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational
Science, Japan
Program committee
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK
Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA
Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA
Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA
Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA
Maria Girone, CERN, Europe
Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA
Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland
Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA
Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway
Na Zhang, VMWare, USA
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA
Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan
Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
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, key words, 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.
Format Guidelines:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract, Paper Submission Link:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179
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) 2017, June 18-22,
Frankfurt,
Germany.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17)
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRAIN INFORMATICS
November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China
Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/
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[EXTENDED!!] FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 1, 2017
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*** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ***
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[View More]Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China)
Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US)
Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China)
Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US)
Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US)
==================================================
Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to
bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of
neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science,
artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and
neuroimaging technologies.
BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological,
biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain
informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and
well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies,
including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud
computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery
related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that
explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a
difference in various large-scale brain studies and their
applications.
BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract
submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All
submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be
included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI.
Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and
Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of
Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal
based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book
publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book
series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
*** Topics and Areas ***
Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science
Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems
Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management
Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health
Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing
IMPORTANT DATES (Extended):
===========================
May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers
May 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers
June 10, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance
June 20, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance
June 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts
July 10, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance
November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions
November 17-18, 2017: Main conference
PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
=================================
TYPE-I (Full Paper Submissions; Submission Deadline: May 1, 2017):
Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All full
length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers)
will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.
TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions; Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017):
Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is
particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included
in the conference program, and will be published as a single,
collective proceedings volume.
Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a
subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is
capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or
italicize your full title.
Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the
abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author
slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as
conflict of interest information for each author listed.
Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable
graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author,
support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the
submission form.
Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation
formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred"
or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you
would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if
necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to
be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no
preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the
best format for the program.
Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone
who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee
can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers.
Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and
abstracts.
*** Post-Conference Journal Publication ***
The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain
Informatics journal (Springer-Nature,
http://www.springer.com/40708). Accepted papers from the conference,
including their Best Paper Award papers, will be expanded and revised
for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It
is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for
authors of Brain Informatics conference.
*** Awards ***
Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student paper.
ORGANIZERS
==========
General Chairs
Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA)
Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Program Committee Chairs
Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China)
Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Organizing Chairs
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
Beijing University of Technology, China
Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
Beijing University of Technology, China)
Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
Beijing University of Technology, China)
Workshop/Special-Session Chairs
An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China)
Tutorial Chair
Wenming Zheng (South East University, China)
Publicity Chairs
Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
Beijing University of Technology, China)
Steering Committee Chairs
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)
*** Contact Information ***
tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn
shouyiw(a)uta.edu
yang(a)maebashi-it.org
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IEEE CloudCom 2017
9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Hong Kong, 11 - 14 December 2017
http://2017.cloudcom.org/
Important Dates
Full paper submission: 30 June 2017
Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2017
Call for Papers
The "Cloud" is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided …
[View More]as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.
The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology & Science 2017 (CloudCom 2017) will be the 9th in the series of conferences, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, that brings together researchers, developers and users interested in cloud computing systems to present and discuss the needs of, and innovations in, the area and related technologies.
Topics of interest of CloudCom 2017 include, but are not limited to:
Architecture and Virtualization
Cloud Services and Applications
IoT and Mobile on Cloud
Big Data
High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud Security and Privacy Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge and Fog Computing Track details are listed below.
Track 1: Architecture and Virtualization
Intercloud architecture models
Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues Networking technologies Programming models & systems/tools Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs Storage & file systems Scalability & performance Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance Operational, economic & business models Green data centers Computational resources, storage & network virtualization Resource monitoring Virtual desktops Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery Modeling & performance evaluation Disaster recovery Energy efficiency
Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications
Cloud services models & frameworks
Cloud services reference models & standardization Cloud-powered services design Business processes, compliance & certification Data management applications & services Application workflows & scheduling Application benchmarks & use cases Cloud-based services & protocols Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications Application development and debugging tools Business models & economics of cloud services Self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring cloud systems
Track 3: IoT and Mobile on Cloud
IoT cloud architectures & models
Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT
Cloud-based context-aware IoT
Mobile cloud architectures & models
Green mobile cloud computing
Resource management in mobile cloud environments Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments Cloud-based mobile networks and applications
Track 4: Big Data
Machine learning
Data mining
Approximate & scalable statistical methods Graph algorithms Querying & search Data lifecycle management Frameworks, tools & their composition Dataflow management & scheduling
Track 5: High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud
Load balancing
Middleware solutions
Scalable scheduling
HPC as a Service
Programming models
Use cases & experience reports
Cloud deployment systems
TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC
Track 6: Security and Privacy
Accountability & audit
Authentication & authorization
Cloud integrity
Cryptography for & in the cloud
Hypervisor security
Identity management & security as a service Prevention of data loss or leakage Secure, interoperable identity management Trust & credential management Trusted computing Usable security
Track 7: Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge and Fog Computing
Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure Utility Computing (UC) Cloud Brokering Problem Edge Computing infrastructure Cloudlets Fog Computing Systems
** Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2017).
Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format. All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts (expected acceptance rate: ~18%).
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper.
The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2017 will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Distinguished papers will be invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals.
Important Dates
Full paper submission: 30 June 2017
Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2017
Final paper submission: 22 September 2017
Author registration deadline: 22 September 2017
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C a l l F o r P a p e r s
Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2017)
Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017
WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/
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Overview
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ESORICS is the annual European research event in …
[View More]Computer Security. The
Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European
countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the
academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research
contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the
Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished
research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of
papers discussing industrial research and development.
Important Dates
------------------------------------
* Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2017
* Notification to authors: June 16, 2016
* Camera ready due: June 26, 2016
Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* access control
* accountability
* ad hoc networks
* anonymity
* applied cryptography
* authentication
* biometrics
* data and computation integrity
* database security
* data protection
* digital content protection
* digital forensics
* distributed systems security
* embedded systems security
* inference control
* information hiding
* identity management
* information flow control
* information security governance and management
* intrusion detection
* formal security methods
* language-based security
* network security
* phishing and spam prevention
* privacy
* privacy preserving data mining
* risk analysis and management
* secure electronic voting
* security architectures
* security economics
* security metrics
* security models
* security and privacy for big data
* security and privacy in cloud scenarios
* security and privacy in complex systems
* security and privacy in content centric networking
* security and privacy in crowdsourcing
* security and privacy in the IoT
* security and privacy in location services
* security and privacy for mobile code
* security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing
* security and privacy policies
* security and privacy in social networks
* security and privacy in web services
* security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
* security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures
* security verification
* software security
* systems security
* trust models and management
* trustworthy user devices
* usable security and privacy
* web security
* wireless security
Paper Submission Guidelines
------------------------------------
Submissions must be made through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(LNCS).
All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are
submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point
font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at
most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the
appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All
submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to
the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their papers will be presented at the conference.
Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American
Samoa time (UTC-11).
Organisation Committee
------------------------------------
General Chairs:
* Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), Norway.
Organization Chair:
* Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway.
Workshop Chair:
* Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), Norway.
Program Committee Chairs:
* Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
* Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Program Committee:
Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy
Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany
Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria
Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK
Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK
Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France
Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano,
Italy
Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France
Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA
Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China
Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK
Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK
Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA
Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany
Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia
Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain
Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy
Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA
Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Refik Molva, EURECOM, France
Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes
Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA
Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany
Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy
Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland
Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design,
Singapore
jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Ben Smyth, Huawei, France
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK
Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Publicity Chair
* Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*8th International Workshop on*
*Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)*
Held in parallel with
*28th International Conference on Database and *
*Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)*
*www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>*
Lyon, France
August 28 - 31, 2017
In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological
technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related
…
[View More]to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next
Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput
sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these
data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed
in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a
challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and
numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution
of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of
biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very
limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex
biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt
new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches
to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us
in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand,
structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the
other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge
Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends.
Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to:
*Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation
and Management
(data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks
and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant
data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction
(motifs, subgraphs,
…), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid
approaches, embedded approaches, …).
*Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological
sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data
biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …),
Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…),
Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and
Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to
Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big
Data Mining.
*Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering,
Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization,
Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the
classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via*
numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological
Nuggets of Knowledge Integration
*PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: *
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP
format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting
<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers
will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One
of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and
present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and
electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/
starting from January 2017.
*IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 23, 2017
Submission of full papers: April 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017
Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE:*
Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair)
Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy
Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France
Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil
Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK
Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France
Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK.
Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida,
India
Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco
Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy
Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA
Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK
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C a l l F o r P a p e r s
Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2017)
Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017
WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/
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Overview
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ESORICS is the annual European research event in …
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Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European
countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the
academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research
contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the
Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished
research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of
papers discussing industrial research and development.
Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017
* Notification to authors: June 16, 2016
* Camera ready due: June 26, 2016
Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* access control
* accountability
* ad hoc networks
* anonymity
* applied cryptography
* authentication
* biometrics
* data and computation integrity
* database security
* data protection
* digital content protection
* digital forensics
* distributed systems security
* embedded systems security
* inference control
* information hiding
* identity management
* information flow control
* information security governance and management
* intrusion detection
* formal security methods
* language-based security
* network security
* phishing and spam prevention
* privacy
* privacy preserving data mining
* risk analysis and management
* secure electronic voting
* security architectures
* security economics
* security metrics
* security models
* security and privacy for big data
* security and privacy in cloud scenarios
* security and privacy in complex systems
* security and privacy in content centric networking
* security and privacy in crowdsourcing
* security and privacy in the IoT
* security and privacy in location services
* security and privacy for mobile code
* security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing
* security and privacy policies
* security and privacy in social networks
* security and privacy in web services
* security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
* security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures
* security verification
* software security
* systems security
* trust models and management
* trustworthy user devices
* usable security and privacy
* web security
* wireless security
Paper Submission Guidelines
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Submissions must be made through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(LNCS).
All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are
submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point
font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at
most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the
appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All
submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to
the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their papers will be presented at the conference.
Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American
Samoa time (UTC-11).
Organisation Committee
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General Chairs:
* Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), Norway.
Organization Chair:
* Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway.
Workshop Chair:
* Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), Norway.
Program Committee Chairs:
* Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
* Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Program Committee:
Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA
Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy
Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany
Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria
Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK
Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK
Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France
Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano,
Italy
Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France
Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA
Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China
Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK
Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK
Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA
Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany
Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia
Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain
Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy
Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA
Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Refik Molva, EURECOM, France
Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes
Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA
Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany
Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy
Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland
Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design,
Singapore
jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Ben Smyth, Huawei, France
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK
Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Publicity Chair
* Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
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Computational Lithography Technology group at Intel is inviting candidates
to apply for full time positions, who desire to work on solving challenging
problems and become a part of creating future generation technologies.
The job requires Ph.D. degree in CS, EE or related scientific fields. We
are looking for candidates who are graduated or planning to graduate soon.
Interested candidates can send their resumes to sandeep.k.dey(a)intel.com.
Feel free to forward to candidates/groups who might …
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*Sr. Imaging Scientist*
*Description:* Computational Lithography Technology group at Intel is
seeking scientists and engineers to invent and support Intel’s march along
Moore's Law. The individual will participate in image analysis, software
performance optimization, parallel programming, computational geometry,
research and development for creating new numerical models and algorithms
for extracting even more resolution out of existing imaging technologies as
well as supporting mission critical software in a production environment.
The position requires working in a team with other scientists and
engineers, and interfacing with a large technology development
organization. Good communication skills with demonstrated attention to
detail and results orientation are required.
*Qualifications:*
Minimum Qualifications
- PhD degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,
Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
Note: due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the work our team is
comprised of world leading experts in fields ranging from
Optics/Electromagnetism to Chemical Engineering and Robotics
- Demonstrated coding proficiency, preferably in C++
*Preferred Qualifications*
Background in one or more of the following areas:
- Signal Processing, Image Processing, Computer Vision
- Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining
- Parallel and Distributed Programming and Algorithms
- Optics & Electromagnetics Theory
- Numerical modeling
- Computational geometry
- Computational lithography methods
- Linear/Non-linear optimization
- Big data
*Job Location:* Hillsboro, Oregon. Located in the beautiful Portland Metro
Area, 15 miles west of downtown Portland, Intel Oregon is the largest and
most complex Intel site in the world, a global center of semiconductor
research and manufacturing, and the largest private employer in the state.
*About Our Team:* We are a highly motivated multi-disciplinary team whose
expertise range from computer engineering to physics, electrical
engineering to chemical engineering. Our team produces world class
solutions for computational lithography systems and has won several Intel
achievement awards as well as software quality awards.
Thank you.
Sandeep Kumar Dey
Senior Imaging Scientist.
Computational Lithography Technology Group
Intel Corporation
sandeep.k.dey(a)intel.com
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