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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foundations of Data Science with Machine Learning Journal
by calls＠dsaa.co 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foundations of Data Science with Machine Learning Journal Data science is a hot topic with an extensive scope, both in terms of theory and applications. Machine Learning forms one of its core foundational pillars. Simultaneously, Data Science applications provide important challenges that can often be addressed only with innovative Machine Learning algorithms and methodologies. This special issue on Foundations of Data Science with Machine Learning Journal (MLJ) will highlight the latest development of the Machine Learning foundations of data science and on the synergy of data science and machine learning. Following the great success of the 2021 MLJ special issue with DSAA’2021, this 2022 special issue will further capture the state-of-the-art machine learning advances for data science. We welcome new developments in statistics, mathematics, informatics and computing-driven machine learning for data science, including foundations, algorithms and models, systems, innovative applications and other research contributions. Accepted papers will be published in MLJ and presented at a Journal Track of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA’2022) in Shenzhen, October 2022. Topics of Interest We welcome original and well-grounded research papers on all aspects of foundations of data science including but not limited to the following topics: ● Machine Learning Foundations for Data Science Auto-ML Information fusion from disparate sources Feature engineering, embedding, mining and representation Learning from network and graph data Learning from data with domain knowledge Reinforcement learning Non-IID learning, nonstationary, coupled and entangled learning Heterogeneous, mixed, multimodal, multi-view and multi-distributional learning Online, streaming, dynamic and real-time learning Causality and learning causal models Multi-instance, multi-label, multi-class and multi-target learning Semi-supervised and weakly supervised learning Representation learning of complex interactions, couplings, relations Deep learning theories and models Evaluation of data science systems Open domain/set learning ● Emerging Impactful Machine Learning Applications Data preprocessing, manipulation and augmentation Autonomous learning and optimization systems Digital, social, economic and financial (finance, FinTech, blockchains and cryptocurrencies) analytics Graph and network embedding and mining Machine learning for recommender systems, marketing, online and e-commerce Augmented reality, computer vision and image processing Risk, compliance, regulation, anomaly, debt, failure and crisis Cybersecurity and information disorder, misinformation/fake detection Human-centered and domain-driven data science and learning Privacy, ethics, transparency, accountability, responsibility, trust, reproducibility and retractability Fairness, explainability and algorithm bias Green and energy-efficient, scalable, cloud/distributed and parallel analytics and infrastructures IoT, smart city, smart home, telecommunications, 5G and mobile data science and learning Government and enterprise data science Transportation, manufacturing, procurement, and Industry 4.0 Energy, smart grids and renewable energies Agricultural, environmental and spatio-temporal analytics and climate change Contributions must contain new, unpublished, original and fundamental work relating to the Machine Learning Journal’s mission. All submissions will be reviewed using rigorous scientific criteria whereby the novelty of the contribution will be crucial. Submission Instructions Submit manuscripts to: http://MACH.edmgr.com. Select this special issue as the article type. Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: https://www.springer.com/journal/10994 All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal. Key Dates We will have a continuous submission/review process starting in Oct. 2021. Last paper submission deadline: 1 March 2022 Paper acceptance: 1 June 2022 Camera-ready: 15 June 2022 Guest Editors Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, United States Joshua Huang, Shenzhen University, China

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CfC 26th Ada-Europe Int. Conf. Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions 26th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2022) 14-17 June 2022, Ghent, Belgium www.ada-europe.org/conference2022 Organized by Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda (approval pending) and Ada Resource Association (ARA) #AEiC2022 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 26th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2022) will take place in Ghent, Belgium, in the week of 14-17 June, in dual mode, with a solid core of in-presence activities accompanied by digital support for remote participation. The conference schedule comprises a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. *** Schedule 16 January 2022: Submission deadline for journal-track papers, tutorials and workshop proposals. 27 February 2022: Submission deadline for industrial-track and work-in-progress-track abstracts. 14 March 2022: Notification of invitations-to-present for journal-track papers. Notification of acceptance for all other types of submission. 3 April 2022: Publication of advance program. *** Topics The conference is an established international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of developing, running and maintaining challenging long-lived, high-quality software systems for a variety of application domains including manufacturing, robotics, avionics, space, health care, transportation, cloud environments, smart energy, serious games. 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: - Real-Time and Safety-Critical Systems: design, implementation and verification challenges, novel approaches, e.g., Mixed-Criticality Systems, novel scheduling algorithms, novel design and analysis methods; - High-Integrity Systems and Reliability: theory and practice of High-Integrity Systems, languages vulnerabilities and countermeasures, architecture-centred development methods and tools; - Reliability-oriented Programming Languages (not limited to Ada): compilation and runtime challenges, language profiles, use cases and experience reports, language education and training initiatives; - Experience Reports: case studies, lessons learned, and comparative assessments. Refer to the conference website for the full list of topics. *** Call for Journal-track Submissions Following the journal-first model inaugurated in 2019, the conference includes a journal-track that seeks original and high-quality submissions that describe mature research work in the scope of the conference. Accepted papers for this track will be published in the "Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC2022)" Special Issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). General information for submitting to the JSA can be found at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture. Submissions should be made online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/ by selecting the "VSI:AEiC2022" option for the paper type. In order to speed up publication, the JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model, whereby acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. On that account, authors are encouraged to submit as early as they can, no later than 16 January 2022. Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review will be invited to present their work at the conference. Ada-Europe, the main conference sponsor, will cover the Open Access fees for the first four papers to gain final acceptance, which do not already enjoy OA from personalized bilateral agreements with the Publisher. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chair, Jérôme Hugues, at the listed address. *** Call for Industrial-track Submissions The conference seeks industrial practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner-peer review process. Interested authors shall submit a short (one-to-two pages) abstract, by 27 February 2022, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2022, strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style (cf. http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference, and will also be invited to expand their contributions into full-fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the Industrial track of the Conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chair, Alejandro R. Mosteo, at the listed address. *** Call for Work-in-Progress-track Submissions The Work-in-Progress track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research, and (b) early-stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4-page papers that describe research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal track as yet. Early-stage ideas, are 1-page papers that pitch new research directions that fall in the scope of the conference. Both kinds of submission must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent MSc graduates and PhD students are especially sought. Authors shall submit their work by 27 February 2022, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2022, strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style (cf. http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference, and will also be offered the opportunity to expand their contributions into 4-page articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the Conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chair, Frank Singhoff, at the listed address. *** Academic Listing The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal-track proceedings of the conference, was ranked Q1 (SJR) in the year 2020, also featuring 72th percentile in CiteScope (Scopus). The Ada User Journal, venue of all other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference. *** Call for Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the conference scope, with an academic or practitioner slant, including hands-on or practical elements. 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), the intended level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and a statement motivating attendance. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair, Aurora Agar Armario, at the listed address, with subject line: "[AEiC 2022: tutorial proposal]". The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half-day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference proper. Workshop proposals shall be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop and Tutorial Chair, Aurora Agar Armario, at the listed address, with subject line: "[AEiC 2022: workshop proposal]". Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in the heart of the city of Ghent, Belgium, capital of the East Flanders province, a halfhour train ride north-west of Brussels. Ghent is rich in history, culture and higher-education, with a top-100 university founded in 1817. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it * Journal-track Chair Jérôme Hugues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA jjhugues at sei.cmu.edu * Industrial-track Chair Alejandro R.Mosteo, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain amosteo at unizar.es * Work-in-Progress-track Chair Frank Singhoff, University of Brest, France frank.singhoff at univ-brest.fr * Tutorial and Workshop Chair Aurora Agar Armario, NATO, the Netherlands aurora.agar at ncia.nato.int * 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 * Local Chair Vicky Wandels, University of Ghent, Belgium Vicky.Wandels at UGent.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 26th 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), Warsaw, Poland ('19), and online from Santander, Spain ('21). 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, AEiC 2022 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be * 26th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2022) * June 14-17, 2022, Ghent, Belgium * www.ada-europe.org/conference2022

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Live e-Lecture by Petros Maragos: “Introduction to Tropical Geometry and its Applications to Machine Learning”, 26th October 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Lecture by Prof. Petros Maragos (NTUA Laboratory on Intelligent Robotics and Automation, Greece), a prominent AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘Introduction to Tropical Geometry and its Applications to Machine Learning’, on Tuesday 26th October 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: <https://authgr.zoom.us/s/99103637681> https://authgr.zoom.us/s/99103637681 & Passcode: 148148 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media, <https://www.elise-ai.eu/> ELISE, <https://www.humane-ai.eu/> Humane AI Net, <https://tailor-network.eu/> TAILOR, <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> VISION, currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics. Lectures are typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. Other upcoming lectures: 1. Prof. Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (UNIVERSITA` DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO (UNIMI), Italy), 9th November 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 2. Prof. Cees Snoek (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM, Netherlands), 23rd November 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. More lecture infos in: <https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/?type=future> https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/?type=future The lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> AIDA email list and <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, N. Sebe -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Multiple vacancies at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

We have advertised five opportunities to join the top ranked School of Computing and Information Systems in Australia (THES and QS). Please share with your networks and encourage applications.. Full details below. Algorithmic Fairness: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/906606/senior-lecturerassociate-professo… Machine Learning and Systems (two positions): https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/906506/lecturer-or-senior-lecturer-i… Digital Ethics: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/906636/senior-lecturerassociate-prof… Information Systems: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/904639/lecturersenior-lecturer-infor… Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Level 3, Melbourne Connect – 700 Swanston Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin

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[Call for Nomination] - BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award
by haotianshu＠ict.ac.cn 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] CALL FOR NOMINATION ========================================================== 2021 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (1000$) https://www.benchcouncil.org/html/awards.html#doctor Submission deadline: October 15, 2021 End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) Online Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/BSTqXUBTgB4gG3EM8 ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) established the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in the broad field of benchmarks, data, standards, evaluations, and optimization. Prof. Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, Prof. Xiaoyi Lu from the University of California, Merced, and Dr. Jeyan Thiyagalingam from STFC-RAL will co-lead the Award Committee. Among the submissions, four candidates will be selected as finalists. They will be invited to give a 30-minute presentation at the 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench’21, virtual, Nov 14-16, 2021) and contribute research articles to BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations. Finally, one among the four will receive the award, which carries a $1,000 honorarium. Eligibility ------------------------ The committee welcomes the proposals from the following communities (but not limited to): architecture, systems, database, high-performance computing, machine learning or AI, medicine, bioinformatics, or other scientific disciplines. An eligibility cycle opens October 1, 2019, and ends the following October 15, 2021. Nominations are welcomed from any country. -- Only those who were awarded Ph.D. in the past two years are eligible for this award. -- Only the accepted final version of a nominated Ph.D. dissertation will be considered, and it must have been filed with the writer’s institution during the nomination cycle. -- The writer or the writer’s Ph.D. advisor can nominate a dissertation, and a dissertation may be nominated only once. -- The benchmarks, data, or tools that are the essential contributions of the dissertation should be open-sourced. -- The committee members cannot nominate their students. -- Each dissertation version submitted for consideration must include an English abstract of 3,000 words maximum. Submissions ------------------------ Online Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/BSTqXUBTgB4gG3EM8 Nominations for the BenchCouncil Doctoral Dissertation Award should be submitted using the online nomination form. Submitted materials should explain the contribution in terms understandable to a non-specialist. Each nomination involves several components: -- Name, address, phone number, and email address of the candidate's thesis advisor -- Name, address, and email address of the candidate. Affiliation should be the name of the school. -- Suggested citation. The citation should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing the critical technical or professional accomplishment for which the candidate merits this award. Note that the final wording for awardees will be at the discretion of the Award Committee. -- Nomination statement (200-300 words in length) addressing why the candidate should receive this award. This should address the significance of the dissertation, not simply repeat the information in the abstract. -- A copy of the dissertation. Each submitted dissertation for consideration must include an English abstract of maximally 3000 words. -- Endorsement letters. At least two supporting letters should be included from experts in the field who can provide additional insights or evidence of the dissertation’s impact. (The nominator/advisor may not write a letter of support.) Each letter should include the name, address, and telephone number of the endorser. The nominator should collect the letters and bundle them for submission. The endorsement letter and supporting letters can be combined in one file in your pdf upload. Review Criteria ------------------------ Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, the potential impact on theory and practice. In the first round, the four candidates will be singled out. Each one will give a 30-minute presentation in the distinguished Ph. D. dissertation session chaired by the committee, and contribute research articles to BenchCounncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation. Finally, one candidate will be awarded the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award carrying a $1,000 honorarium. The award is presented each year at the Awards Banquet during BenchCouncil Bench Conference ( https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench/ ). Award Committee --------------------- Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee Dr. Xiaoyi Lu, The University of California, Merced Dr. Jeyan Thiyagalingam, STFC-RAL Dr. Lei Wang, ICT, CAS Dr. Spyros Blanas, The Ohio State University 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench’21) ========================================================== Bench’21 Website: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html Conference date: Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2021 (Virtual) ========================================================== Bench’21 conference invites manuscripts describing original work in the area of benchmarking, evaluation methods and tools in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Architectures. All accepted papers will be presented at the Bench’21 conference and will be published in a special issue of the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation (TBench, https://www.benchcouncil.org/journal.html ). Sponsored and organized by the BenchCouncil, Bench’s multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm, and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation, measurement and optimization, and dataset generation. BenchCounncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations (TBench) is an open-access multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to benchmarks, standards, evaluations, optimizations, and data sets. It will take a hybrid publication mode with the Bench Conference. Both TBench and Bench use a double-blind review process. Papers that are accepted to present at the Bench conference will appear in the issue of TBench immediately following acceptance. Meanwhile, the accepted TBench papers will be encouraged but not mandatory to register and present at the Bench conference. TBench will be OA without any charge. It seeks a fast-track publication with an average turnaround time of two months. Submit your paper at https://www.editorialmanager.com/tbench/default.aspx TBench Editorial Board Co-EIC Prof. Dr. Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences and BenchCouncil Prof. Dr. Tony Hey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory STFC, UK Advisory Board Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Prof. D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA

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Online seminars in Tensor Computation, October to December
by Jeremy Gibbons 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Seminar Series on Tensor Computation http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/Programming%20Languages/ The following seminars on tensor computation will take place at 4pm UK time on Fridays this coming term. (Note that the clocks change in the UK part way through the series!) The seminars will be held online, via Zoom. Registration instructions are on the webpage above. All are welcome. [Dr Albert Cohen](https://research.google/people/106208/), Google 15 Oct: *Herding Tensor Compilers* [Professor Jonathan Ragan Kelley](http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrk/), MIT 22 Oct: *Halide* [provisional title] [Dr Conal Elliott](http://conal.net/) 29 Oct: *Can Tensor Programming Be Liberated from the Fortran Data Paradigm?* **clocks change: UK moves from BST=UTC+1 to GMT=UTC** [Professor Markus Püschel](https://acl.inf.ethz.ch/people/markusp/), ETH Zürich 5 Nov: *Program Generation for Small Scale Linear Algebra* [Professor Martin Elsman](https://elsman.com/), Copenhagen 12 Nov: *Futhark* [provisional title] [Rohan Yadav](https://rohany.github.io/), Stanford 19 Nov: *Compilation of Sparse Array Programming Models* [provisional title] [Professor Gabrielle Keller](https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/GKKeller), Utrecht 26 Nov: *Accelerate: High-Performance Computing in Haskell* [Dr Dimitrios Vytiniotis](https://dimitriv.github.io/), Google 3 Dec: *Automating Tensor Partitioning on Meshes of Accelerators* [provisional title] Seminar conveners: [Jeremy Gibbons](http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/) [Peter Braam](https://www.braam.io/) Jeremy.Gibbons(a)cs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. +44 1865 283521 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/

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RAID 2021 (Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses): Call for Participation, Virtual and Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain on October 6-8, 2021
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

** Apologies for Cross-postings -- please share ** The 24th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2021) Virtual & Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain -- 6-8 October 2021 https://raid2021.org/ Registration is due soon: https://raid2021.org/registration/ =========================================================================================== *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** We invite you to attend RAID IN PERSON, the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusion and Defenses (RAID2021), one of the top information security conferences. The 24th edition of the conference will be held in a mixed mode, on site / online, preferably on site, at San Sebastian, Spain for three days October 6, 7 and 8, 2021. San Sebastian (Donostia in Basque language) is a beautiful city famous by its cuisine, boasting more Michelin stars per square metre than any other city on the planet. It is also listed among the World’s 20 Best Surf Towns by National Geographic. RAID organisation is composed of local and international recognised researchers in information Security. It aims at bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel research contributions related to computer and information security. The conference is known for the quality and thoroughness of the reviews of the papers submitted, the desire to build a bridge between research carried out in different communities, and the emphasis given on the need for sound experimental methods and measurement to improve the state of the art in cybersecurity. You can find all registration information and procedure at: http://raid2021.org/registration (*There are special discounts for students, and there will be a few student travel grants available (details being worked out) *) *** KEYNOTE *** - Mathias Payer (EPFL) "Riding the Fuzzing Hypetrain". More information at: https://raid2021.org/program/ *** SOCIAL ACTIVITIES *** Dinner in a traditional cider house, a boat trip around the bay of San Sebastian, and a fantastic Gala Dinner at a one Michelin star restaurant. More information at: https://raid2021.org/social-activities/ *** CONFERENCE PROGRAM *** The conference program includes different tracks presenting the latest state-of-the-art results in the topics of: Computer, network, and cloud computing security Malware and unwanted software Program analysis and reverse engineering Mobile Security Web security and privacy Vulnerability analysis techniques Usable security and privacy Intrusion detection and prevention Hardware security Cyber physical systems security and threats against critical infrastructures IoT security Statistical and adversarial learning for computer security Cyber crime and underground economies Denial-of-Service attacks and defenses Security measurement studies Digital forensics Program is now available at https://raid2021.org/program/ *** VENUE *** For travel arrangements, please check https://raid2021.org/venue-travel/

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CFP OLA'2022 Optimization & Learning @Sicilia Italy
by El-ghazali Talbi 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2022 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 18-20 July 2022 Syracuse (Sicilia), Italy http://ola2022.sciencesconf.org/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2022 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2022 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages Important dates: =============== Invited session organization Dec 20, 2021 Paper submission deadline Jan 28, 2022 Notification of acceptance March 25, 2022 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the conference. -- ********************************************************************** OLA'2022 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 18-20 July 2022, Syracuse, Sicilia, Italy http://ola2022.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS guide2research.com

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CFP: Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms @ Evostar 2022
by ccottap＠lcc.uma.es 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Resilient Bioinspired Algorithms Special Session of the EvoApps 2022 conference Part of EvoStar 2022 -- http://www.evostar.org/2022/ 20-22 April 2022 Aims and Scope -------------- The Special Session on Resilient Bio-Inspired Algorithms (RBA) of EvoApps will provide a specialized forum of discussion and exchange of information for researchers interested in exploring bio-inspired approaches (swarm intelligence, evolutionary computing) to attain resilient systems and processes. Resiliency is a major topic after major disruptions like COVID-19 where many organizations/systems were too brittle to quickly adapt and they simply broke. Designers of bio-inspired techniques should focus on such systems and help in their design and/or operation, in order to make them more adaptable and capable of withstanding such disruptions. This is for example the case of many organization/industrial processes that work as goal-oriented complex systems, often using AI tools. It is not uncommon that AI-enhanced complex projects face difficulties due to maintenance issues, scalability problems, or disrupted operation in the presence of major external disturbances. Resilience is thus not only a desired property of the system to which AI is applied, but also a sought property for AI methods themselves. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Resilience and fault-tolerance in computational intelligence Resilience on AI engineering using bio-inspired computing Resilience on hyper-automation including evolutionary machine learning, evolutionary machine vision, and evolutionary robotics. Resilience on complex systems Resilience on evolutionary software engineering Real-world situations where robustness and trustworthiness of solutions are mandatory Emerging topics not traditionally discussed within the swarm and evolutionary computation where resiliency is of significant applicability Important Dates --------------- Submision: 1 November 2021 Notification: 8 January 2022 Conference: 20-22 April 2022 Organizers ---------- Carlos Cotta Universidad de Málaga, Spain ccottap(at)lcc.uma.es Gustavo Olague CICESE, Mexico olague(at)cicese.mx

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Call for Papers - 1st WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN THE EXASCALE ERA
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 1st WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN THE EXASCALE ERA (PPEE) https://hipc.org/call-for-ppee/ | https://ppee-workshop.github.io/ in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-18, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW The upcoming exascale systems will impose new requirements on application developers and programming systems to target platforms with hundreds of homogeneous and heterogeneous cores. The four critical challenges for exascale systems are extreme parallelism, power demand, data movement, and reliability. These systems are aimed to solve problems that were previously out of reach and improve the parallel performance of applications by a factor of 50x. The power budget for achieving a billion billion (quintillion) floating-point operations per second (exaflops) should be within 20-30 MW. Moving the data on these systems relative to the computation will be challenging due to complex memory hierarchies. It would be essential to keep the CPUs/accelerators busy once they have the data to avoid memory bottlenecks. Failures on these systems are anticipated to occur many times a day, such that the existing approach for resiliency, such as checkpointing and restart, will not work. TOPICS The goal of this workshop is to attract leading researchers to exchange ideas and share their work-in-progress and latest results to address the exascale software challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * High-level programming models for many-cores / accelerators * Compilation techniques for hybrid CPU/accelerator parallelism * Intra-/Inter-node load balancing and scheduling * Runtime systems for high performance and high productivity * Comparisons of runtime systems and parallel programming models * OS/runtime and system software for many-core systems, accelerators, and non-uniform memory hierarchy * Optimizing data locality and data movement * Energy efficiency and optimizations * Resilience and fault-tolerance * Scalable algorithms * Scalable synchronization mechanisms * Concurrent data structures * Applying machine learning techniques in HPC IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: October 24, 2021 (encouraged) Paper Submission Deadline: October 31, 2021 (hard deadline) Paper Notification: November 15, 2021 Presentation Slides Upload Deadline: November 22, 2021 All Deadlines are by 11:59 pm AOE (UTC-12) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppee2021. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and must not exceed five (5) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted paper should list the authors and their affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. The accepted papers will be invited for presentation at the workshop. However, these papers will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will allow the authors to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the workshop. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, and relevance to the workshop. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Vivek Kumar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi Swarnendu Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Vishwesh Jatala, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai NOTICE ABOUT COVID-19 We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation globally and in India in particular. The decision whether to hold the conference on-site or virtually will be made before October 2021. Should the conference be held on-site, we understand that travel to India and within India may still be difficult or even impossible for some. Because travel from outside India will require an entry visa and that there may be travel restrictions still in place, we will arrange some form of remote presentation for those authors. We do not have changes to how accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore — every accepted paper will have at least one author who will register at the notified (reduced) registration fee and also present the paper at the conference (virtually/physically). Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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