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DBSec 2017 - Deadline in a few days (March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time)
by Giovanni Livraga 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline in a few days! (March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time) *** ******************************************************** 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017 https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu ******************************************************** DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017 . All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 16, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time) [extended]. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time [extended] Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by res.mb.conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage: https://cd-make.net

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017 - Deadline extended to March 31, 2017
by res.mb.conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extended to March 31, 2017 ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 31, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[FNC-Conf] FNC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
by Wim Ectors 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All FNC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) FNC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/) FNC 2017 will be gel in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chairs Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Bjšrn A. Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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IEEE BIBM 2017 Call for Workshop Proposal
by CFP Conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

*Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine http://muii.missouri.edu/bibm2017/ Nov 13-16, 2017, Kansas City, MO, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger Conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in bioinformatics and biomedicine. Within these fields, workshops at BIBM form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Bioinformatics, Biomedicine and Healthcare Informatics. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these three fields. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., “reverse-engineering” of gene regulatory networks from experimental data, computational approaches to drug discovery, mathematical modeling of signaling pathways, analysis of the next-generation sequencing data, oscillations and synchronization of biological rhythms, wireless sensor networks, patient health records, medical signal processing; or broad, e.g., computational proteomics, *in-silico* diagnosis and prognosis, data mining and machine learning algorithms for biomedical applications, application of network research to biology, emerging technology in healthcare, aging research etc. Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* *May *1, 2017: Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs May 10, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 25, 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE BIBM Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., mathematical modeling of signaling pathways) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (Please do not change the final camera-ready submission date, feel free to adjust other dates) *Sept 20, 2016:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Oct 10, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors * Oct 25, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers * Nov 13-16, 2017:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Illhoi Yoo, University of Missouri, USA Email: yooil(a)health.missouri.edu Prof. Jane Huiru Zheng, Ulster University, UK Email: h.zheng(a)ulster.ac.uk ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DMB-LIST list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDMwIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Wim Ectors 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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AlCoB 2017: call for posters
by GRLMC 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

AlCoB 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2017 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal) on June 5-7, 2017. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by May 22, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 260 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ *CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* 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 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 this huge volume of 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 use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological 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 Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological 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 Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological 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: March 18, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 26, 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 Hasan Oğul, Başkent 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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[MobiSPC17] CFP 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Aurelia T. Williams, Norfolk State University, USA Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Call for Abstracts BAFI 2018
by Richard Weber 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

THIRD CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS ANALYTICS IN FINANCE AND INDUSTRY - BAFI 2018 January 17th - 19th, 2018 Santiago, Chile www.baficonference.cl Twitter: @bafichile Call for Abstracts The aim of the BAFI 2018 conference is to bring together researchers and developers from data science and related areas with practitioners and consultants applying the respective techniques in different business-related domains. Our goal is to stimulate an academic exchange of recent developments as well as to encourage the mutual influence between academics and practitioners. At BAFI 2018, the focus will be on methodological developments aimed at uncovering information contained in large data sets, as well as on business applications in various sectors, among them finance, retail, and telecommunications. Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to: Business Analytics - Applications: • Credit Scoring and Financial Modeling • Forecasting • Fraud Detection • Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval • Marketing, Business Intelligence, and e-Commerce • Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems • Social Network Analysis • Privacy-preserving Data Mining and Privacy-related Issues • Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Mining • Internet of Things (IoT) Business Analytics - Methods: • Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection • Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods • Statistical Learning Theory • Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining • Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data • Spatial and Temporal Data Mining • Deep Learning and Neural Network Research • Large Scale Data Mining • Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining STUDENT GRANTS We will offer a number of travel grants for students who present their work at BAFI 2018. The following two categories will be considered: • National category: students enrolled at a Chilean university or staying at a Chilean address at the time of the conference. • International category: students enrolled at a university outside Chile and staying abroad prior to the start of the conference. Please visit www.baficonference.cl for information on Submission Guidelines, Venue, Program, Conference Fees, and more. For more information, please contact us at info(a)bafi.cl

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Call for Papers - JSC Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning
by Francisco Botana 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Sorry for duplicates. ===================== *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar Journal of Symbolic Computation* https://www.journals. elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation GUEST EDITORS: Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain Zoltán Kovács, The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Austria Tomas Recio, University of Cantabria, Spain IMPORTANT DATES: - submission deadline: September 1, 2017 - notification of acceptance / rejection: February 2, 2018 - final versions: March 30, 2018 SCOPE: Since the last half century, automated deduction in elementary geometry has become one of the most successful achievements in the field of automated reasoning. Along these decades various methods and techniques have been studied and developed for automated proving and discovering of elementary geometry statements. On the other hand, dynamic geometry software systems have emerged, such as Cabri Geometry, C.a.R., Cinderella, DrGeo, GeoGebra, The Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expert, Geometry Expressions or Kig with an ever-increasing presence in mathematics education. Some of them possess a large number of users (over thirty million) all around the world. The merging of these two tools (automatic proving and dynamic geometry) is, thus, a very natural, challenging and promising issue, currently involving logic, symbolic computation, software development, algebraic geometry and mathematics education experts all from over the world. The Special Issue intends to be an opportunity for - presenting the current state of the art concerning the development of automatic proving features on dynamic geometry systems, - discussing the current and potential applications of such features in different contexts, such as CAGD or mathematics education. TOPICS (not restricted to): - Algorithmic aspects: formal, logic and algebraic geometry approaches, constraint solving, invariant and coordinate-free methods, real and complex geometry issues, probabilistic, synthetic approaches, techniques from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics. - Software aspects: Implementation of automated proving methods in dynamic geometry programs, design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed computing, considerations for modern hardware and new devices. User-interface issues, use with systems for digital libraries, courseware, ... - Application aspects: applications to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. Papers should follow the guidelines for JSC submissions (seehttps://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7…) and should be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018) The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: - What is the problem? - Why is the problem important? - What has been done so far on the problem? - What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem? - Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification) - Why is the contribution non-trivial? Make the paper complete (since there is no page limit): - All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed. - All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed. - All the theorems must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed). - All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be illustrated by well-chosen examples. * An international journal, the Journal of Symbolic Computation, founded by Bruno Buchberger in 1985, is directed to mathematicians and computer scientists who have a particular interest in symbolic computation. Automated theorem proving is one of the research areas of interest highlighted in the Journal’s description. The Journal of Symbolic Computation has a 1.030 Impact Factor, according to the last Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (2016).

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CALL FOR PAPERS - The 3nd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017)
by Bilan Zhu 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17)
by Yue Xu 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ (Extended FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Apr. 02, 2017) *** CONFIRMED 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 ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria. In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals. Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page: ..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AWARDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission of regular papers: Apr. 02, 2017 Notification of regular paper acceptance: May 15, 2017 Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference) Jun 05, 2017 Submission of Industry track papers: Apr. 23, 2017 Notification of Industry track paper acceptance: May 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track) Jun 05, 2017 Workshop and Special session proposal submission: Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance: Mar. 19, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers: May. 01, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May 22, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions) Jun 12, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission: May 01, 2017 Notification of Tutorial acceptance: May 15, 2017 Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers: May 14, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance: Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring): Jun. 18, 2017 Author Registration (Main Conference) May 29, 2017 Main conference: Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------------ Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Publicity Chairs: ---------------- Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ------------------------------------ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: --------------------------- Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany René Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tutorial Chairs: --------------- Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Industry Track Chairs: ---------------------- Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Webmaster: ----------- Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany Registrations, enquiries & special requests: -------------------------------------------- Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master: ------------------------------------ Sebastian Fuß, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Industry and Sponsorship Chairs: -------------------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt(a)uni-leipzig.de xtao(a)usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP: The 4th International Symposium on Intercloud and IoT
by FiCloud Conference 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

---------------Call for Papers--------------------------------------- The 4th International Symposium on Intercloud and IoT (ICI 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/ici2017/ Co-located with the IEEE FiCloud 2017 (http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Intercloud aims to create a cloud of clouds in order to enable interconnection between heterogeneous clouds. Objectives are to share resources, support extreme workload, efficiently process big data and place data and compute power closer to places where they are needed more. Intercloud can also minimise the vendor lock-in problem so that users can use services offered by multiple clouds. Intercloud can be used in a wide spectrum of applications including the IoT. For instance, according to the Cisco's Internet of Things Business Unit, Cisco plans to enhance IoT services through Intercloud in order to localise compute power and data processing where these are needed more - e.g., "sensors on a cargo ship can monitor whether the containers on board have shifted en route or gotten too hot or too cold. All those readings may add up to more data than is economical to send in real time to a data center half a world away via a narrowband satellite link” (Computerworld). The objective of the International Symposium on Intercloud and IoT (ICI) is to discuss and develop new models, methods, and techniques in order to realise the true vision of Intercloud and IoT services. It aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in order to discuss ideas and share knowledge on various issues related to the theme of the symposium. Topics of the ICI symposium include (but not limited to): - Architectures and models - Integration and collaboration - Network design and architecture - Software systems - Data processing and management - Context-aware service provisioning - Security, trust and privacy - Fault tolerance and reliability - Performance evaluation and modelling - Network communication protocols - Rules and policies - Business models and standards - Service level agreements Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 15 May 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Paper Publication and Submission: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.All papers accepted for this symposium are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). PC Chairs: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK

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Innovate-Data: The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications
by Innovate-Data 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) (IEEE CS-TCI) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 04 April 2017 (Extended) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
by FiCloud Conference 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

----------------------Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)------------------------------------- The IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 04 April 2017 (Extended) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France Ruben Casado, Accenture, Spain

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CFP: 14th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017)
by MobiWIS Conference 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)----------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017) (Springer, LNCS) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.mobiwis.org/2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and services. The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction. Conference Topics: - Smart and intelligent systems - Mobile software systems - Adaptive approaches for mobile computing - Middleware/SOA for mobile systems - Context- and location-aware services - Pervasive and ubiquitous applications - Data management in the mobile Web - Mobile cloud services - Mobile Web of Things - Mobile Web security, trust and privacy - Mobile networks, protocols and applications - Mobile commerce and business services - HCI in Mobile Applications and Socially Influencing Systems Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 04 April 2017 (Extended) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Submission Instructions: Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference website. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (tba). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0) Organizing Committee: General Chair Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop Coordinator Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Publicity Chair Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic International Liaison Chair George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK

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Healthcare'2017 deadline extended to March 31, 2017
by Jaime Lloret Mauri 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

The paper submission deadline of Healthcare�2017 has been extended to March 31, 2017. 2017 International Conference on Healthcare Science and Engineering (Healthcare�17) June 1 � 3, 2017, Zhengzhou, China http://healthcare.ha.edu.cn/2017 Call for Papers The traditional healthcare industry is undergoing a major paradigm shift due to the rapid advances, developments, and deployments of wearable, mobile, digital, machine learning, and big data technologies. These technologies have brought tremendous benefits and opportunities to the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of human diseases for a better quality of life, but meanwhile also present unprecedented performance and security challenges in the entire process of data collection, processing, analysis, synthesis, and visualization. The 2017 International Conference on Healthcare Science and Engineering (Healthcare�17) provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry and government in computer science, data analytics, medical informatics, biomedical engineering, and other engineering disciplines involving healthcare, as well as healthcare professionals, to share and exchange their knowledge and progresses of current research issues, technologies, and ideas in healthcare. This forum is focused on recent advances and developments of wearable, mobile, digital, machine learning, and big data technologies in the broad healthcare domain. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: � Big data analytics for healthcare � Machine learning techniques for healthcare � Security, confidentiality, and privacy in eHealth and mHealth � Visualization techniques for healthcare � eHealth virtual communities and collaborative techniques � Social computing and networking in healthcare � Smart and ubiquitous technologies for health and wellbeing � Tracking/wearable and mobile technology � Intelligent decision support systems in healthcare � Systems for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management � Healthcare informatics and information systems � Internet medical services and applications � Telemedicine, telehealth, and telecare � Mobile healthcare applications � Systems and methods for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) � Healthcare system management, improvement & reform � Infrastructures and facilities for healthcare Accepted papers will be recommended for publication in the special issues of several SCI-indexed journals including Journal of Healthcare Engineering and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. Online submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit unpublished work to Healthcare�17. All full-length papers (up to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format) should be submitted through EasyChair Conference System. Detailed information is available at: https://easychair.org/cfp/Healthcare2017. <https://easychair.org/cfp/Healthcare2017> Important dates: Submission deadline: 03/15/2017 03/31/2017 Notification date: 04/15/2017 Final manuscript due: 05/01/2017 Sponsoring societies: � Healthcare Engineering Alliance Society (HEALS, www.healthcare-engineering.org <http://www.healthcare-engineering.org> ) � Chinese Health Information Association � Healthcare Big Data International Collaboration Subcommittee (CHIA-HBDICS) Organizing Committee: � General Chairs: o Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China o Jianshuan Yao, Chinese Academy of Science o Zongmin Wang, Zhengzhou University, <mailto:zmwang@ha.edu.cn> China � Program Chairs: o Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology o Jian Wu, Zhejiang University o Ming Chyu, Texas Tech University o Jaime Lloret, Polytechnic University of Valencia � Local Arrangement Chairs: o MingliangXu, Zhengzhou University o Yusong Lin, Zhengzhou University � Publication Chairs: o Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell o Denise Ferebee, LeMoyne-Owen College � Publicity Chairs: o Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University o Liang Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University � Finance Chair: o Bing Zhou, Zhengzhou University � Web Chair: o Runzhi Li, Zhengzhou University

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WPDM 2017 CFP
by Massimo Cafaro 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: March 20, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 10, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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MMM-ACNS 2017 - Paper submission deadline is March 18, 2017
by Igor Kotenko 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MMM-ACNS 2017 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security August 28-30, 2017, Warsaw, Poland http://www.mmm-acns2017.pl/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://edas.info/N22996 ============================================================================ The main goals of MMM-ACNS-2017 are: - to bring together leading researchers from academia and governmental organizations as well as practitioners in the area of computer networks and information security with a focus on novel theoretical aspects of computer network security, - to facilitate personal interactions and discussions on various aspects of information technologies in conjunction with computer network and information security problems arising in large-scale computer networks. Former editions of MMM-ACNS were organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation and Binghamton University in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2012. They demonstrated the high interest of the scientific community to the theoretical and practical aspects of the computer network and information security. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - Adaptive security, - Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, prevention, - Anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud, anti-botnet techniques, - Applied cryptography, - Authentication, authorization and access control, - Cloud Security, - Computer and network forensics, - Covert channels, - Critical infrastructure protection, - Cyber-physical systems, - Cyber security of industrial control systems, - Data and application security, - Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security, - Deception systems and honeypots, - Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures, - Digital Rights Management, - eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment security, - Embedded system security, - Formal analysis of security properties, - Information resilience under malicious attacks, - Information warfare, - Internet and web security, - Intrusion prevention, detection, and response, - Language-based security, - Network resilience, - New ideas and paradigms for security, - Operating system security, - Reliability and dependability, - Risks metrics, risk analysis and risk management, - Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing, - Security event and information management, - Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures, - Security in social networks, - Security of emerging technologies: sensor, wireless/mobile, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, - Security of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, - Security modeling and simulation, - Security policies, - Security protocols, - Security verification, - Security visualization, - Self-protecting and healing, - Smartphone security, - Trusted computing, - Trust and reputation management, - Vulnerability assessment. The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages formatted according to the template of Lecture Notes in Computer Science provided by Springer at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The Best Paper Award will be given. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: March 18, 2017 - Notification deadline: April 15, 2017 - Camera-ready: April 30, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MMM-ACNS 2017 Organization: ----------------------- General Chairs Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) John Bay, Binghamton University (US) Publication Chair Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Victor Skormin, Binghamton University (US) Leonard Popyack, Utica Colllege (US)

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Deadline extended-Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017)
by Shao Ying Zhu 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Call for Papers Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017) (website: http://sns2017.eu/) in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017) July 3-7, 2017 Bologna, Italy Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies are radically changing telecommunication networks. NFV virtualizes network services to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware which aids resource management, provides faster service enablement and lowers OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes thereby offering improved programmability, ease of deployment, management, reduced costs, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic. But how does this widespread adoption of NVF-SDN impact on network security, especially with an increased attack surface implied by virtualization? In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks, requirements and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide methods and approaches to assure security and mitigate threats in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: * Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies * Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security * Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks * Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV * Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems * Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions * 5G security architecture, trust and confidence * Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN * Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network * Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT * Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing * Risk and compliance issues in SDN * Security architectures for SDN * Security standards for SDN * Security of SDN data plane * Security of SDN control plane * Security of SDN application plane * Security of routing in SDN * Security as a service for SDN Important Dates Paper registration: March 20, 2017 (Firm deadline) Paper Submission: March 27, 2017 (Firm deadline) Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2017 Camera Ready Papers: May 8, 2017 Paper Submission Guideline The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via JEMS at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2763. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Co-Chairs * Dr. Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, UK * Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France * Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, UK * Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece Technical Program Committee * Michail-Alexandros Kourtis - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Gergely Biczók - Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Roberto Bifulco - NEC Labs Europe, Germany * Carolina Canales - Ericsson, Spain * Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna * Augusto Ciuffoletti - University of Pisa, Italy * Miguel Angel Garcia - Ericsson, Spain * Ludovic Jacquin - Hewlett Packard Labs, UK * Harilaos Koumaras - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Jianxin Li-Beihang University, China * Antonios Litke - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain * Alan Miller - University of St Andrews, UK * Nikolaos Papadakis - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany * Sandra Scott-Hayward - Queen's University Belfast, UK * Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui - i2CAT, Spain * George Xilouris - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany * Antonio Agustin Partor Perales - Telefonica I&D, Spain * Dimitris Katsianis, Incites, Luxemburg Contact Shao Ying Zhu <s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.y.zhu@derby.ac.uk>> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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SmartIoT2017, August 25th-27th, 2017 at Dalian, China
by SmartIoT 2017 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017) will be held on 25th-27th, August 2017 at Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017 The primary goal of SmartIoT 2017 is to exchange, share and discuss the latest research, theories and applications for Smart Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Track 1. Architectures and systems of IoT * Track 2. Sensing, monitoring, networking and routing * Track 3. Cloud computing and Big data analysis * Track 4. Industrial 4.0 and Industrial IoT * Track 5. Localization, tracking and recognizing for IoT * Track 6. Social networks, multimedia and mobile computing * Track 7. Smart cities and internet of vehicles * Track 8. Emerging research or Technologies for CPS * Track 9. Control and decision making for smart IoT or CPS * Track 10. Security and privacy for smart IoT or CPS Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the SmartIoT 2017 submission site: http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017/submission.html Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI. Authors of 50% papers will be invited to submit their paper to a special issue in a SCI-indexed journal. Look forwards to receiving your submission. Best regards. Smart-IoT 2017 Organization Committee smartiot.conf(a)gmail.com 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017), 25th-27th, August 2017 in Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017

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16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

*** Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: · The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change · mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship · Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy · From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning · Mobile technology to support open and distance learning · Mobile technology for teaching and learning support · Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning · Design and development of learning material for mLearning · Learning objects and metadata for mLearning · Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies · Challenges for mLearning in developing countries · Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations · mLearning management systems (mLMSs) · Computer tablets · Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments · Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies · Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies · Location-aware technologies · Contextual and situated learning · Augmented reality · Serious gaming and simulations · Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates · Submission of Workshop Proposals: 31 March 2017 · Notification for Workshop Proposals: 7 April 2017 · Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 1 June 2017 · Submission Deadline for Workshop Papers: 21 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 15 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Workshop Papers: 25 August 2017 · Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 1 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom · Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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The 15th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017)
by Waleed Smari 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

[Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation*** ** *The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference* *(HPCS 2017)* *The 15th Annual Meeting* ** *July 17 - 21, 2017* *Genoa, Italy*** ** *http://hpcs2017.cisedu.infoorhttp://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 * ** *In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP*** ** *Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _March 24, 2017_- Extended* *(**Symposia* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017>*, **Workshops* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017>*and **Special Sessions* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017>*have their own deadlines**- please check the track of interest)* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, software and middleware in HPC systems, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be *tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits.* Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived *symposia, workshops and special sessions (**may have different deadlines)*: Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest. We also welcome colleagues interested in organizing tracks, including those without current organizers. Symposia: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 Workshops: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 Special Sessions: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 Tutorials: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu… DDC:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-doctoral-colloquium Demos:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-demos Panels:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-panels Posters:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters Sponsorships: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp… *SPECIAL ISSUES* Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. *FOLLOW US ON* *Twitter:*https://twitter.com/HPCS_Conference *Facebook:*https://www.facebook.com/HPCSConference/ ================================================================= *_Important Dates_**:* Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ———- *March 24, 2017 - Extended* Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————- *March 10, 2017* Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts ———————— *April 24, 2017* Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— *May 11, 2017* Conference Dates ——————————————————— *July 17 - 21, 2017* ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/orhttp://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Genoa in July. Thank you very much.Best Regards. HPCS 2017 Organizers

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[simu-conf] DEADLINE REMINDER - WinterSim 2017 Call for Papers
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

DEADLINE REMINDER - Contributed Paper Deadline is April 7, 2017 One month left to submit contributed papers to the Winter Simulation Conference. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: - Agent-Based Simulation - Analysis Methodology - Architecture and Construction - Aviation Modeling and Analysis - Cyber-Physical Systems - Environment and Sustainability Applications - Future of Simulation - Gaming - Healthcare Applications - History of Simulation - Hybrid Simulation - Manufacturing Applications - Logistics, SCM, Transportation - Military Applications and Homeland Security - Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) - Modeling Methodology - Project Management - Simulation Education - Simulation Optimization - Social and Behavioral Simulation - Introductory Tutorials - Advanced Tutorials Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom PAPER DEADLINES & REQUIREMENTS All contributed paper submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the digital version of the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore, the ACM Digital Library and other databases. All papers must be presented for the paper to be fully published, copyrighted and disseminated. Instructions, information, submission forms and procedures are available on the WSC website. Each accepted paper must have a unique registration and a corresponding presentation at the conference by one of the paper's authors. Board approval is required if any single registration is attached to more than one paper. Registration deadline: November 3, 2017. Contributed Paper Deadlines - April 7, 2017: Electronically submit contributed papers not previously published or presented. Each submission must use the Word or LaTeX templates on the Authors Kit. The page size in the proceedings is 8.5 by 11 inches (21.6 cm by 27.9 cm). Papers should be at most 12 pages (including an abstract of not more than 150 words), except for introductory tutorials, advanced tutorials, history of simulation, and panel sessions, for which the limit is 15 pages. Submission implies that an author will attend WSC 2017 and present the paper, and all clearance required for publication of the paper will be obtained by July 15, 2017. Use of the authors' templates in one of the following formats is required: Microsoft Word or LaTeX. Submissions must be made through the WSC website. - June 2, 2017: Notification of acceptance. - June 30, 2017: Authors electronically submit corrected papers to the Proceedings Editor. - July 15, 2017: Authors electronically provide a final manuscript meeting all technical and format requirements to the Proceedings Editor. Poster Session or Ph.D. Colloquium (One or the other, submission to both Poster Session and the PhD Colloquium is not allowed for 2017) - August 18, 2017: electronically submit 2-page extended abstracts for presentations in the Poster Session and Ph.D. Student Colloquium. Extended abstracts are used for designing the tracks, but are not peer reviewed parts of the proceedings and are not archived in IEEE Xplore. - September 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance to authors (including details about submitting slides, and formats of the posters). - October 6, 2017: Final extended abstracts due. - November 17, 2017: Slides for the presentation due (see guidelines in the track information) - December 3, 2017: Bring your poster to WSC 2017. The Poster Madness Session and Ph.D. Colloquium both run on Sunday December 3, so participation in both is not possible. Case Study Deadlines - August 18, 2017: electronically submit 2-page extended abstracts for presentations. Extended abstracts are used for designing the tracks, but are not peer reviewed parts of the published proceedings and are not archived in IEEE Xplore. - September 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance to authors (including details about submitting slides, and formats of the posters). - October 6, 2017: Final extended abstracts due. [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Deadline Approaching: ACM WiSec 2017 Call for Papers
by chhagan.iiita＠gmail.com 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear colleague, Apologies for multiple postings. ************************************************************ ******************** ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2017) July 18 to July 20, 2017 in Boston, USA http://wisec2017.ccs.neu.edu/ ************************************************************ ******************** *Important deadlines:* - Abstract submission: March 13, 2017 - Paper submission: March 20, 2017 - Notification to authors: April 24, 2017 - Poster and demo proposal submission: May 17, 2017 - Notification to poster presenters: May 19, 2017 - Camera-ready version: May 29, 2017 All deadlines are 11:59:59 EDT. *Conference Scope:* ACM WiSec is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, cryptography, and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications such as Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* - Security & privacy for smart devices (e.g., smartphones) - Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity - Secure localization and location privacy - Cellular network fraud and security - Jamming attacks and defenses - Key management (agreement or distribution) for wireless or mobile systems - Information-theoretic security schemes for wireless systems - Theoretical and formal approaches for wireless and mobile security - Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security - NFC and smart payment applications - Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems - Wireless or mobile security for emerging applications (e.g, privacy in health, automotive, avionics, smart grid, or IoT applications) - Physical tracking security and privacy - Usable mobile security and privacy - Economics of mobile security and privacy - Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) security - Mobile malware and platform security - Security for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access systems - Security protocols for wireless networking The proceedings of ACM WiSec, sponsored by SIGSAC, will be published by the ACM. *Full and short papers* Full paper submissions to ACM WiSec 2017 can be up to 10 pages in the ACM conference style excluding the bibliography and well marked appendices, and up to 12 pages in total. ACM WiSec also encourages the submission of short papers with a length of up to 6 pages, which describe mature work of a more succinct nature. All papers must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website. *New at WiSec 2017* OPINION PAPERS: ACM WiSec 2017 invites papers (ACM conference style, up to 3 pages excluding references) that present personal perspectives on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks. Opinion papers could also criticize previous research or research directions, as well as highlight possible promising research directions. The opinions expressed in these papers are expected to be anyway corroborated by theoretical foundations, experiments, or experiences. Like the regular papers, the opinion papers will be reviewed by the WiSec Technical Program Committee. The selected opinion papers will be a part of the WiSec technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Opinion papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must have the prefix "Opinion:". *WiSec REPRODUCIBILITY LABEL:* This year WiSec is pioneering a process to support greater reproducibility in mobile and wireless security experimental research. The goal of this process is to increase the impact of mobile and wireless research, enable dissemination of research results, sharing of code and experiments set-ups, and to enable the research community to build on prior experimental results. Towards this goal, Wisec is introducing a reproducibility label to recognize papers whose results were reproduced by an independent group of researchers. Authors of accepted papers, can participate in this voluntary process by submitting their experiments following the reproducibility evaluation instructions. Authors are encouraged to plan ahead when running their experiments to minimize the overhead of applying for this label. *Posters and Demos* WiSec also solicits submission of posters and demos. *Double submissions* It is a policy of the ACM to disallow double submissions, where the same (or substantially similar) paper is concurrently submitted to multiple conferences/journals. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. *ORGANIZATION: * *General Chair:* Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA *Program Chairs:* Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Sneha Kumar Kasera, University of Utah, USA *Steering Committee:* Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (chair) William Enck, North Carolina State University Ivan Martinovic, Oxford University, UK Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University, USA Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Patrick Traynor, University of Florida, USA

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TSD 2017 - Second Call for Papers
by TSD 2017 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org As the spring is drawing nearer so does the deadline for submission of contributions. All papers need to be submitted until March 31. >>>> There are only 23 days left! <<<< TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017(a)tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Last Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

*** Last Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 22, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Recruitment - PhD Students & Interns on Cyber Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Zhou Jianying 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university established in collaboration with MIT. Cyber security is one of its most important areas and grows very fast with rich research funding. It has the world's best facilities in cyber physical systems including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. I am looking for promising PhD students who are interested in working in the area of cyber security. The position is fully funded up to 4 years with very competitive scholarship. Candidates should have an excellent background (with Bachelor or Master degree) in mathematics, computer science or electrical engineering and the ability to work on inter-disciplinary research projects. Acquaintance with cryptography and network/system security concepts as well as some programming skills will be considered as strong assets. More information of the PhD program is available at https://istd.sutd.edu.sg/phd/phd-overview/. I am also looking for PhD interns on cyber security, especially on cyber-physical system security (IoT, autonomous vehicle, and power grid etc.). The attachment will be at least 6 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses. More information of cyber-physical system security is available at http://jianying.space/cpss/. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Please also provide the names of two referees. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: <mailto:zhou_jianying@yahoo.com> zhou_jianying(a)yahoo.com Home: <http://jianying.space/> http://jianying.space/

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LAST CALL CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 15, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca _______________________________________________ computational.science mailing list computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science Hosted by Sardina Systems: Hyper-Efficient OpenStack Cloud https://www.sardinasystems.com

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** 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/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in 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 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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CFP 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) - Santa Maria Key, Cuba
by Rafael Falcon 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

First CALL FOR PAPERS ########################################## 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS ’17) Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara, Cuba October 24 – 26, 2017 ########################################## Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~rfalc032/isfuros2017/ Organized by: Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba (http://www.uclv.edu.cu) Sponsored by: International Rough Set Society (IRSS) Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Belgium ################# Aim and Scope ################# Fuzzy and rough set theories stand as two of the most prominent methodologies within the umbrella of Computational Intelligence to handle uncertainty in vague and inconsistent environments. They have enjoyed widespread success in a plethora of real-world application domains and remain at the forefront of numerous theoretical studies to consolidate and augment their well-established properties. The second edition of the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) will take place at Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel, Santa Maria Key, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba from October 24-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the Universidad Central de Las Villas (www.uclv.edu.cu) ISFUROS 2017 aims at providing a forum for exchange on fuzzy and rough set theories and their applications. The symposium includes tutorials, invited key lectures and paper presentations. The goals of ISFUROS 2017 are to strengthen the relationships among researchers and institutions working on fuzzy and rough set theories, to increase awareness of these topics among the Latin American research community and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. #################### Submission Topics #################### Submissions of original and previously unpublished work on fuzzy and rough set theories and applications are encouraged, including but not limited to the following topics: Fuzzy sets • Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals • Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware and architectures • Fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy clustering, classification and pattern recognition • Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing • Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization • Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems • Fuzzy systems design and optimization • Fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria decision making and decision support • Fuzzy logic and its applications in industrial engineering • Fuzzy information processing, information extraction and fusion • Hardware/software for fuzzy systems • Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems Rough sets • Covering / neighborhood-based rough sets • Decision-theoretic rough sets • Dominance-based rough sets • Game-theoretic rough sets • Bayesian rough sets • Variable consistency / precision rough sets • Rough clustering • Rough computing • Rough mereology • Rough-set-based techniques in Pattern Recognition, Machine learning and Big Data • Decision making methods based on rough sets. Hybridization of fuzzy and rough sets • Theoretical foundations of Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets. • Machine learning methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets • Decision making methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets Granular Computing • Information granulation / degranulation methods • Granular clustering / classification methods • Interval analysis, shadowed sets, near sets, probabilistic sets, etc. • Granular frameworks / hardware / software Applications • Astronomy • Big Data Analytics • Big Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Business Intelligence • Computer Vision • Cybernetics and Robotics • Cybersecurity • Finance / Retail / e-Commerce • Knowledge Management • Image Processing • Information Fusion • Internet of Things • Logistics • Machine Learning / Data Mining • Maritime Domain Awareness • Medicine and Health • Modeling and Simulation • Natural Language Processing • Natural Resources • Pattern Recognition • Risk Management • Security and Defense • Smart Cities • Web and Text Mining • Wireless Sensor Networks ########################## Conference Proceedings ########################## All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be made available to the conference attendees. The proceedings will have an ISBN and will be produced by UCLV’s publishing house. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a volume of Springer’s “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing” series. At least one of the authors must complete the conference registration by the early registration deadline; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program or proceedings. #################### Important Dates #################### May 15, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 30, 2017 Acceptance notification August 30, 2017 Camera-ready version October 24 – 26, 2017 ISFUROS 2017 ####################### Submission Guidelines ####################### Paper submission will be available from March 1st, 2017 via EasyChair. Please use this link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isfuros2017 Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Authors must adhere to Springer LNCS guidelines using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates. The papers must have a maximum of nine (9) pages. Up to two (2) extra pages can be purchased at 100 CUC each. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three (3) Technical Program Committee members. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using appropriate criteria. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, adoption potential, technical quality, and clarity. ############## Registration ############## TBA ################### Official Language ################### ISFUROS' official language is English. ######## Venue ######## ISFUROS 2017 will be held at the Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel in Santa Maria Key, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Santa Maria key is a tropical paradise 75 km north of Santa Clara city. It hosts some of the finest Cuban beaches in an environmentally friendly and utterly relaxing venue. ###################### Steering Committee ###################### Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba Chris Cornelis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bernard De Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada Francisco Herrera, Universidad de Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada ############################## Technical Program Committee ############################## TBA ############################## ISFUROS 2017 Co-Chairs ############################## Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba [rbellop-at-uclv-dot-edu-dot-cu] Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]

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IDC 2017 Call for Papers
by IDC 2017 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

(* Apologies for multiple copies *) Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to contribute by submitting papers to the 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing to be held during October 11-13, 2017 in Belgrade, Serbia. http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs/ <http://openurl.in/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/8be8f8d3900bec4e882dfc3d…> All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of the series Studies in Computational Intelligence. Please find enclosed the CfP, feel free to distribute them to your colleagues and other persons that might be interested in this event. Sincerely Yours, Mirjana Ivanovic Costin Badica -- Conference General Chairs of IDC'2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- *This is not a spam email*, you are receiving this email as you are on the contact list of Intelligent Distributed System <http://openurl.in/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/8be8f8d3900bec4e882dfc3d…> (IDS) Research Group. *If you do not want to receive further emails from us please reply to this email or hit the unsubscribe link.* unsubscribe from this list <http://openurl.in/remove/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/c868e3ec03861c76d…>

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Re: [computational.science] WPDM 2017 CFP
by MANUEL GRAÑA 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

unsuscribe Massimo Cafaro <massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it> escribió: > The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining (WPDM 2017) > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > As part of The International Conference on High Performance > Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) > http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 > > July 17 – July 21, 2017 > Genoa, Italy > > > Submission Deadline: March 20, 2017 > > Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters > > > SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES > > The Workshop on Parallel Data Mining is an international forum which > brings together researchers and practitioners working on different > high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel > applications. > > Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data > in order to extract useful and interesting information have become > popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make > sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even > though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they > are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data > mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of > sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to > current applications. > > Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and > implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel > computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and > processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms > can easily address both the running time and memory requirement > issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to > achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive > datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a > good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to > balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another > concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication > overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. > > The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to > on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data > mining algorithms and applications. > > Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data > mining applications requires addressing several key computing > problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in > interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all > forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and > applications, and related topics. > > The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: > > - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI > - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP > - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms > - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators > - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for > parallel data mining applications > - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms > - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments > - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data > mining applications > - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing > for data mining > - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications > and middleware > - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance > computing in data mining > - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques > for data management in high-performance computing for data mining > > > INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS > > You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on > above and other topics related to synergy between parallel > computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not > have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For > Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, > not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and > include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. > Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should > include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax > numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, > indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors > are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 > pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to > http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful > comments. > > Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair > paper submission site at > https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement > will be sent within 48 hours of submission. > > Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link > above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers > will be selected based on their originality, relevance, > significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and > references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of > the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At > least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to > register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at > the workshop. > > PROCEEDINGS > > Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. > Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be > posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to > have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and > be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is > projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and > indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. > > SPECIAL ISSUE > > Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, > selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. > Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made > available on the conference website. > > If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, > please contact the symposium organisers. > > > > > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- > March 20, 2017 > Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- > April 10, 2017 > Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2017 > Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July > 17 – 21, 2017 > > > WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS > > Massimo Cafaro > University of Salento, Italy > Phone: +39 0832 297371 > Fax: +39 0832 297235 > Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it > > Italo Epicoco > University of Salento, Italy > Phone: +39 0832 297235 > Fax: +39 0832 297235 > Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it > > Marco Pulimeno > University of Salento, Italy > Phone: +39 0832 297371 > Fax: +39 0832 297235 > Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it > > Giovanni Aloisio > University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate > Change Foundation, Italy > Phone: +39 334 6501704 > Fax: +39 0832 297235 > Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it > > International Program Committee: > > All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical > program committee members. > > Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. > Current TPC members: > > Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy > Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy > Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy > Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA > Kenli Li, Hunan University, China > Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy > Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia > Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy > Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy > Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA > Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil > Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada > > > > For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, > tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, > panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other > information about the conference location, registration, paper > formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: > http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or > contact one of the Conference's organisers. > > > > > - > > ************************************************************************************ > > Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. > Dept. of Engineering for Innovation > University of Salento, Lecce, Italy > Via per Monteroni > 73100 Lecce, Italy > Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 > Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro > E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it > cafaro(a)ieee.org > cafaro(a)acm.org > > CMCC Foundation > Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change > Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce > massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it > > ************************************************************************************ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > computational.science mailing list > computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org > https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science > > Hosted by Sardina Systems: Hyper-Efficient OpenStack Cloud > https://www.sardinasystems.com -- Computational Intelligence Group (http://www.ehu.es/ccwintco) Dept. 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Conference RPC 2017 - Reminder
by Organizing Committee RPC 2017 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Dear colleagues! 　 We remind you that registration on the Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) closes on April 1, 2017. You can register on the conference at the website http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/en_registration.html Registration due: April 1, 2017 Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017 　 The First Information Letter: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/files/inform_2017_eng.pdf. 　 For more information please visit the official website: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/ We will be glad to see you on the conference RPC 2017! Sincerely, Organizing Committee RPC 2017 Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru

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WPDM 2017 CFP
by Massimo Cafaro 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: March 20, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 10, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Conference RPC 2017 - Reminder
by Organizing Committee RPC 2017 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Dear colleagues! 　 We remind you that registration on the Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) closes on April 1, 2017. You can register on the conference at the website http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/en_registration.html Registration due: April 1, 2017 Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017 　 The First Information Letter: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/files/inform_2017_eng.pdf. 　 For more information please visit the official website: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/ We will be glad to see you on the conference RPC 2017! Sincerely, Organizing Committee RPC 2017 Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru

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IDC 2017 Call for Papers
by IDC 2017 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

(* Apologies for multiple copies *) Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to contribute by submitting papers to the 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing to be held during October 11-13, 2017 in Belgrade, Serbia. http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs/ <http://openurl.in/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/8be8f8d3900bec4e882dfc3d…> All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of the series Studies in Computational Intelligence. Please find enclosed the CfP, feel free to distribute them to your colleagues and other persons that might be interested in this event. Sincerely Yours, Mirjana Ivanovic Costin Badica -- Conference General Chairs of IDC'2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- *This is not a spam email*, you are receiving this email as you are on the contact list of Intelligent Distributed System <http://openurl.in/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/8be8f8d3900bec4e882dfc3d…> (IDS) Research Group. *If you do not want to receive further emails from us please reply to this email or hit the unsubscribe link.* unsubscribe from this list <http://openurl.in/remove/051382a23127d1d1a7607ae1a77fad13/c868e3ec03861c76d…>

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CFP: Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), Hong Kong, May 29, 2017
by Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2017 Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017) Hong Kong, May 29th, 2017 http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys17/ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human services and systems, including: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 11th, 2017 Notification: April 8th, 2017 Camera Ready: May 6th, 2017 Workshop Date: May 29th, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- *Organizing Committees* *Workshop Co-Organizers* Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- *Publicity Co-chairs* Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- *Technical Program Committee* Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Diane Cook, Washington State University, USA Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Jason Halstorm, Florida Atlantic University, USA David Irwin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Arpan Pal, TCS Innovation Lab, India Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Jinyuan Sun Stella, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Mi Zhang, Michigan State University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------

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by Thiesing, Frank 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

unsubscribe -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Frank M. Thiesing Hochschule Osnabrück Fakultät Ing.-Wissenschaften und Informatik Postfach 1940 49009 Osnabrück Tel: 0541/969-3127 Fax: 0541/969-3636 E-Mail: f.thiesing(a)hs-osnabrueck.de<mailto:f.thiesing@hs-osnabrueck.de> http://www.hs-osnabrueck.de Besucheradresse: Barbarastr. 16 (Gebäude SI) 49076 Osnabrück Raum: SI 0108 Postfach 31 gegenüber von Raum SI0032 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ICCSA 2017: Last Call For Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

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8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Last Call for Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

*** Last Call for Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions To submit a proposal for a Special Session, Tutorial or Workshop, please refer to the instructions on the web site. Topics of Interest Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Proposals: March 13, 2017 · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance: March 20, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Wim Ectors 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Wim Ectors 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All FNC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) FNC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/) FNC 2017 will be gel in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chairs Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Bjšrn A. Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Deadline extended - 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017)
by SECRYPT 2017 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline extended to March 22, 2017 *** ************************************************************************ 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) Madrid, Spain, 24-26 July 2017 http://secrypt.icete.org ************************************************************************ SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) will be held in Madrid, Spain, July 24-26, 2017. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security requirements Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.insticc.org/primoris/. Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper". Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: March 22, 2017 [extended] - Authors Notification: May 10, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 24, 2017 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 18, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 24, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: June 6, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Antunes, U. Porto, Portugal, Portugal Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy Prithvi Bisht, Adobe, United States Carlo Blundo, Universita' di Salerno, Italy Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Dario Catalano, Universita' di Catania, Italy Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Jun Dai, California State University, United States Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Tassos Dimitriou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece and Kuwait University, Kuwait Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Alberto Ferrante, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Mines-Telecom, TELECOM SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, United States Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Olivier Markowitch, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, United States Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Cristina Serban, AT&T, United States Daniele Sgandurra, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vicenc Torra, University of Skovde, Sweden Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Salerno, Italy Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, The College of William and Mary, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Qiben Yan, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States Yongjun Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore For any questions, please contact the program chair: secrypt2017(a)unimi.it

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FMEC 2017 Workshops (Finall Call), Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by FMEC 2017 Workshops 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Call for Workshop Papers Co-located With The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 Workshops: The Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html <http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing Systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First IEEE International Workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Important Dates: Submission Date: 6 March. 2017 (Firm Deadline) Notification to Authors: 20 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Please send any inquiry to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo <mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk <mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>.

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CfP (DEADLINE EXTENDED): 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Paper authors, title and short description submission deadline: March 12, 2017 Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 17, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks papers for special sessions addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. SMAP 2017 has the support of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society technical co-sponsorship. *Special session on Personalized delivery of cultural heritage content ----------------------------------- Digital cultural heritage is now a mature field, in which information technologies are used in the service of preserving cultural heritage. The digital form of resources allows for the exploitation of advances in data analytics, semantics, information retrieval, user interaction, profiling and personalization in order to develop new, exciting and stimulating exhibitions and cultural/educational/touristic experiences. For this special session we invite works that present and/or review the current state of the art in theory and practice, as well as promising recent advances, in the area of aligning the delivery process for cultural heritage content to the needs, goals, characteristics and preferences of individual users and user groups. The session is broad in scope, with the caveat that emphasis should be on the link between cultural heritage and personalization techniques. *Special Session on Multimodal affective analysis for human-machine interfaces and learning environments ----------------------------------- Affective analysis is a broad research area that focuses on the recognition, interpretation, processing and simulation of human affect, i.e., feelings or emotions. During the last years many efforts in the fields of content understanding and human-machine interaction have turned towards a more human-centered approach and complement traditional semantic-based ones by enhancing them with the users’ affective state while interacting with machines (typically computers, avatars and robots). This special session calls for research papers focusing on signal analysis and machine learning techniques that extract affective knowledge from auditory, visual and textual information usually employed in human-machine interaction and learning applications. Papers that focus on new signal representation, feature extraction and emotion modelling approaches are welcomed, as well as papers covering practical work, tools and applications. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

*** Third Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: · Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development · Architectures · Advanced Modularity · Cloud-based Applications · Co-Design · Component-Based System Design · Cyber-Physical Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages · FPGA Systems Design · ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) · Education and Training · Embedded Real-Time Software Systems · Integration Engineering · Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution · Model-Based System Development · Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems · Networked Control Systems · Reengineering & Reuse · Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security · Software Engineering · System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics · Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates · Submission of Papers: 1 May, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 · Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair · Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee · Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair · Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair · Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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DBSec 2017 - Deadline extended
by Giovanni Livraga 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline extended to March 16, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time) *** ******************************************************** 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017 https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu ******************************************************** DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017 . All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 16, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time) [extended]. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time [extended] Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu

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[IEEE ATC 2017 CFP]: Deadline is approaching
by ieeeatc17publicity 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Please accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ========================== IEEE ATC 2017 =============================== The 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing August 4-8, 2017, San Francisco, USA http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/atc/ contact: ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 ======================================================================== Computing systems are growing in capability and complexity including hardware, software, communications, networks, platforms, services, etc. Advanced computing (AC) aims to study and develop novel computing theories, models, technologies, systems and applications. At the same time, computing must be trustworthy to engender confidence that systems will remain secure and available. Trusted computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication systems and services, available, predictable, accountable, controllable, sustainable, dependable, reliable, and secure. ATC conferences have taken a leading role in addressing these challenges and achieving practical advanced computing systems with truly trustworthy services. Started in 2005, the series of ATC conferences have been held at Nagasaki (Japan), Vienna (Austria), Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong (China), Oslo (Norway), Brisbane (Australia), Xi'An (China), Banff (Canada), Fukuoka (Japan), Vietri sul Mare (Italy), Bali (Indonesia), Beijing (China) and Toulouse (France). ATC 2017 will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions, and keynote speeches. Established as a premier venue in the area of advanced and trusted computing, ATC 2017 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in the most innovative research and development related to Advanced Computing (AC) and Trusted Computing (TC). The ATC 2017 topics include, but are not limited to: - High Performance Computing and Networking - Service Computing and Engineering - Cloud Computing and Fog Computing - Software Defined Networking and Systems - Green Computing and Communications - Mobile and Wearable Computing - IoT/IoE Technologies and Applications - Big Data Analytics and Technologies - Advanced Cognitive Computing and Machine Learning - Advanced Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) - Advanced Affective Computing and Robotics - Advanced MENS/NEMS and Their Applications - Trust Specifications, Models and Standards - Trust Management in Distributed systems - Security and Privacy in Smart Systems - Cyber Life, Society and Intelligence - Cyber Physical Systems and Their Safety ======================================================================== Contact: ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com More information is at http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/atc/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and intended for the use of individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please delete it immediately and inform the sender. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or distribute this email or any attachments included. The contents of this email, including any attachments, may be subjected to copyright law. In such cases, the contents may not be copied, adapted, distributed or transmitted without the consent of the copyright owner.

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CfDS: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

==== Call For Doctoral Symposium Submissions ==== Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*) is the umbrella for two closely related but independent conferences, the International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) and the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). The FAS* Doctoral Symposium provides an international forum for PhD students working in research areas addressed by FAS*. In this forum, PhD students will get unique opportunities to subject their research to the scrutiny of external experts, gain experience in the presentation of research, connect to peers and experts addressing similar problems, and get advice from a panel of internationally leading researchers. Different from the technical tracks of the conference, the FAS* Doctoral Symposium focuses on the specific needs of young researchers at the beginning of their career. As such, emphasis will be placed on a critical and constructive feedback that shall help participants to successfully conclude their PhD studies. PhD students working in any area addressed by the FAS* conferences are invited to submit a Doctoral Symposium paper in which they describe the key motivation and objectives of their research project, and reflect on the methodology as well as the current status of their PhD studies. Complementing the thematic focus of FAS*, we particularly solicit contributions in the following areas: - Engineering of self-organizing and self-adaptive systems - Complex cyber-physical and socio-technical systems - Self-* approaches in massive-scale decentralized systems - Application of self-* in robotics and spatial computing - Autonomic and cloud computing - Scalable and applied machine learning / data mining ==== Submission Instructions ==== Submissions should have a length of max. two pages (not including references) and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Authors should submit their papers using the EasyChair installation of the main conference, which is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017 Please note that only single-author submissions are accepted, which focus on the topic of the doctoral work. The name of the supervisor should be clearly marked below the author’s name in the paper. Submissions should further adhere to the following structure: - Motivation: motivate the open problem that you want to address and briefly summarize existing approaches along with their deficiencies. - Objectives: describe the key objectives of your PhD project and argue how achieving them will solve the open problem outlined in the motivation. - Methodology: outline what methodology you will adopt to meet the objectives of your project. Clearly state on what existing works your work will build. - Research Plan: describe what preliminary results – if any – you have already achieved and summarize your plans for future work. Please add a rough schedule that allows to judge whether your research plan is feasible. Authors of accepted papers shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the paper, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Doctoral Symposium papers will be advertised in the final program, and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the SASO proceedings. Papers will also be made available in the IEEE Digital Library. ==== Review Process==== Each submission will be reviewed by at least two Doctoral Symposium experts that cover the different areas of interest of the conference. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, the motivation and quality of the proposed research, as well as the suitability of the chosen methodology. Authors of accepted papers will have different opportunities to present their project at the conference. Besides a full presentation during the PhD Symposium session, an “Elevator Pitch Session” will be organized during the main conference, where authors get the chance to briefly showcase their research. In addition, the Best Doctoral Symposium paper will be selected and the award will be presented during the main conference. Finally, selected authors will have the additional chance to present their work via a poster in the poster session of the main conference. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 10, 2017 Notifications due: July 1, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference date: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Contact Information ==== Any inquiries related to the Doctoral Symposium should be directed to: Jean Botev (jean.botev(a)uni.lu) https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html

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[DBSec 2017] Call For Papers - Submission deadline approaching (March 6, 2017)
by Fengjun Li 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************ 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017, http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu **************************************************************************** ************ DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final a version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted Papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 6, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 6, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu.

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[MobiSPC17] CFP 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Aurelia T. Williams, Norfolk State University, USA Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017)
by Shao Ying Zhu 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Call for Papers Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017) (website: http://sns2017.eu/) in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017) July 3-7, 2017 Bologna, Italy Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies are radically changing telecommunication networks. NFV virtualizes network services to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware which aids resource management, provides faster service enablement and lowers OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes thereby offering improved programmability, ease of deployment, management, reduced costs, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic. But how does this widespread adoption of NVF-SDN impact on network security, especially with an increased attack surface implied by virtualization? In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks, requirements and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide methods and approaches to assure security and mitigate threats in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: * Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies * Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security * Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks * Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV * Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems * Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions * 5G security architecture, trust and confidence * Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN * Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network * Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT * Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing * Risk and compliance issues in SDN * Security architectures for SDN * Security standards for SDN * Security of SDN data plane * Security of SDN control plane * Security of SDN application plane * Security of routing in SDN * Security as a service for SDN Important Dates * Paper Submission: March 10, 2017 * Notification of Acceptance: April 18, 2017 * Camera Ready: May 3, 2017 Paper Submission Guideline The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via JEMS at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2763. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Co-Chairs * Dr. Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, UK * Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France * Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, UK * Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece Technical Program Committee * Michail-Alexandros Kourtis - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Gergely Biczók - Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Roberto Bifulco - NEC Labs Europe, Germany * Carolina Canales - Ericsson, Spain * Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna * Augusto Ciuffoletti - University of Pisa, Italy * Miguel Angel Garcia - Ericsson, Spain * Ludovic Jacquin - Hewlett Packard Labs, UK * Harilaos Koumaras - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Jianxin Li-Beihang University, China * Antonios Litke - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain * Alan Miller - University of St Andrews, UK * Nikolaos Papadakis - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany * Sandra Scott-Hayward - Queen's University Belfast, UK * Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui - i2CAT, Spain * George Xilouris - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany Contact Shao Ying Zhu <s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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[CFP] PACMA 2017 Deadline extended to March 15th
by Robertas Damaševičius 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

PACMA 2017 : Physiological and Affective Computing: Methods and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://www.iccsa.org/ When Jul 3, 2017 - Jul 6, 2017 Where Trieste, Italy Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2017 Notification Due Apr 28, 2017 Final Version Due May 15, 2017 Call For Papers Workshop on Physiological and Affective Computing: Methods and Applications (PACMA‘2017) will be held at the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2017) July 3 - 6, 2017 in Trieste, Italy. ICCSA 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful conferences previously held in Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013) and Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012). SCOPE Physiological interaction goes beyond the physical interfaces that a computer has, to use bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical signals of a human body, captured by hardware sensors, for novel advanced forms of human-computer interaction. A closely related concept is Affective computing, study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. Physiological and Affective Computing research combines engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computational intelligence, and more. TOPICS Include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal user interfaces - Assisted Living Environments - Advanced driver assistance systems - Computational Intelligence methods - Brain Computer Interface - Gaze and gesture tracking - Sentiment analysis - Affect based control - Speech, gait and facial affect recognition - Human biometrics for IT security - Applications for Robotics, interactive learning, gaming, virtual reality, smart environments, healthcare, assistive living, industrial automation, etc. PUBLICATION Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (edited by Springer). Submission: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py ORGANIZERS Robertas Damaševičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Christian Napoli, University of Catania, Italy Marcin Wozniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland CONFERENCE CONTACTS Web site: http://www.iccsa.org/

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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from 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 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 this huge volume of 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 use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological 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 Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological 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 Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological 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: March 11, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 18, 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 Hasan Oğul, Başkent 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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REV-A 2017 CFP
by Luiz DeRose 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

(Apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP. Please do forward it to interested colleagues.) -------------------- REV-A 2017 CFP --------------------- Re-Emergence of Vector Architectures Workshop - https://rev-a.github.io/ To be held in Conjunction with the IEEE Cluster 2017 September 5, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Paper submission: REV-A Submission<https://easychair.org/conferences/overview.cgi?a=13663824> Papers due: July 09, 2017 The commoditization of high performance computing to a broader range of applications coupled with the reduction in performance improvement from traditional scaling technologies has led to a broad interest in a number of new compute acceleration technologies from GPGPUs to CGRAs and FPGAs. Meanwhile, SIMD widths have been widening to try to keep up with computational demand and general purpose architectures have started incorporating features from the vector architectures that used to dominate high performance computing. From IBM's Vector Media eXtension (VMX) to NEC's SX architecture to Intel's Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX) to ARM's recently announced Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) -- all of the major general purpose architectures seem to have embraced a return to vector based functionality. Supporting these hardware developments there are a number of features being proposed for incorporation into modern programming models and languages in order to support the vector additions as well as restructuring memory access in order to feed the computational pipelines. Meanwhile application developers have been hard at work trying to refactor code to take advantage of wider vector units and more complicated memory hierarchies. Tools and techniques for developing for these new vector architectures are still evolving, particularly on emerging languages and runtimes. The REV-A 2017 workshop will be a full-day meeting to be held at the IEEE Cluster 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on all aspects of vector architectures, programming models, programming frameworks, and applications. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Programming framework * Programming model and language explorations * Compilation and optimization including: o algorithmic improvements o code optimization * Performance Analysis and Debugging Tools * Performance Metrics and Evaluations * Libraries and run-time systems * Design, generation, verification and validation of representative applications * Case-studies of representative applications * Innovative applications for vector architectures * Hardware studies and micro-architectural implementation tradeoffs The REV-A workshop proceedings will be published along with the IEEE Cluster Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should follow the IEEE Xplore format for publication: not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal. Accepted papers will have a page limit of 8 pages, and authors can purchase an additional 2 pages, for a total of 10 pages maximum. Important Dates: Papers due: July 09, 2017 Author notification: August 11, 2017 Camera-ready final papers due: August 25, 2017 REV-A Workshop: September 05, 2017 Workshop Chairs: Luiz DeRose Cray Inc. Eric Van Hensbergen ARM Research Program Committee: David Abramson University of Queensland Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mootaz N. Elnozahy KAUST Roger Espasa SemiDynamics Michael Garland NVIDIA Ian Karlin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory David Lilja University of Minnesota Sally McKee Chalmers University of Technology Sanyam Mehta Cray Inc. Hiroshi Nakashima Kyoto University Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University Mitsuhisa Sato Riken Sunil Shrestha Cray Inc. Mateo Valero Barcelona Supercomputing Center / UPC Jeffrey Vetter Oak Ridge National Laboratory Felix Wolf TU Darmstadt Pen-Chung Yew University of Minnesota

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[IEEE ICCI*CC'17:] IEEE ICCI*CC'17: Deadline Extended to April 1 @Oxford Univ.
by Yingxu Wang 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Dear Colleagues, Upon numerous requests the deadline for paper submission to IEEE ICCI'CC’17 (16th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing) has been extended to April 1, 2017 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-17) Special session proposals and short papers are welcome in the areas of computational intelligence, cognitive informatics, cognitive computing, neurocomputation, cognitive machine learning, brain-inspired systems The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'17 will be published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Extended versions of selected papers will be published in EI or SCI indexed journals. Full papers are expected to be around 6-10 pages in IEEE double column format. Short papers (4-5 pages) that report industrial experience, case studies, work in progress, or graduate students’ research are also welcome. Paper submission site is at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc17 . We look forward to meeting you at University of Oxford during July 26-28, 2017. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'17 Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of ieeeicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: ieeeicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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Call for Papers - 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017)
by Giovanni Livraga 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- October 9-11, 2017 http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/ IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cyber security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The 5th IEEE CNS will be held in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada from October 9, 2017 to October 11, 2017. Las Vegas, which in Spanish means ''The Meadows,'' is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Southern Nevada. The city is one of the top three leading destinations in the U.S. for conventions, business and meetings. It is also internationally renowned for its entertainment industry - gambling, shopping, fine dining and nightlife. Las Vegas is well serviced by major domestic and international airlines, with direct flights from major U.S. Cities as well as major cities in Europe and worldwide. The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research results in all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Anonymity and privacy technologies - Attacks and defenses - Computer and network forensics - Cyber deterrence strategies - Game-theoretic security technologies - High-availability communication systems - Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems - Information-theoretic security - Intrusion detection, prevention, and response - Key management, public key infrastructures, certification, and revocation - Location privacy - Malware detection and mitigation - Novel authentication technologies - Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies - Security and privacy for big data - Security and privacy for data and network outsourcing services - Security and privacy for mobile and wearable devices - Security and privacy in cellular networks - Security and privacy in cloud and edge computing - Security and privacy in crowdsourcing - Security and privacy in emerging wireless technologies (dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, millimeter wave communications, MIMO systems, etc.) - Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Security and privacy in single/multi-hop wireless networks: WiFi, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, body-area networks, disruption/delay tolerant networks, etc. - Security and privacy in smart and connected health - Security and privacy in smart cities, Internet of Things, and RFID systems - Security and privacy in social networks - Novel security metrics and models - Security for critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems, etc.) - Security for deep/machine learning applications in communications systems - Security for future Internet architectures and designs - Security for software-defined and data center networks - Secure routing and network management - Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy - Traffic analysis - Usable security and privacy - Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Manuscript submissions should be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) only. The page limit is 9 pages. Font size should be no smaller than 10 points. When you upload your PDF, EDAS should report the margins are no less than 0.625x0.625x1x0.75 with a text region no more than 7.25 inches x 9.25 inches on a standard US Letter document (8.5 inches x 11 inches). The minimum line spacing should be 10pt. More detailed rules on margins can be found in the conference website, and these rules will be automatically enforced by EDAS. PLEASE NOTE: Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the IEEE CNS 2017 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for concrete instructions and submissions rules and regulations and for author requirements of accepted authors. For more detailed information about the conference, please visit the conference website: http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Notification date: June 23, 2017 - Final paper: July 7, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS - Moti Yung, Snapchat and Columbia University, USA - Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** 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/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in 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 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by res.mb.conference 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposal
by CFP Conference 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

*IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years: The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. 1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. 2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries. 3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries. 4. The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2017 http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* May 20, 2017 Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs June 5, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 20 , 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, Please do not change the camera-ready date) *Oct 10, 2017:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Nov 1, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors *Nov 15, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers *Dec 11-14 2017:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Proposal Submission:* https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Email: cuzzocrea(a)si.dimes.unical.it Prof. Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Email: jtang02(a)syr.edu Prof. Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Email: toyoda(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDE3IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals: IEEE ISPA'17
by Peter Mueller 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, November 12-15, 2017 Introduction: The IEEE ISPA 2017 (15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 15th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2016 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2017 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA 2017 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Interests: (1) Systems and Architectures Track Cloud computing and data center technology Migration of computations Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability Energy management and Green Computing Wireless and mobile networks Internet of Things (IoT) Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC Parallel and distributed algorithms Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development Novel parallel programming paradigms Programming models for cloud services and applications Code generation and optimization Compilers for parallel computers Middleware and tools Scheduling and resource management Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track High-performance scientific and engineering computing Grid and cluster computing Pervasive and ubiquitous computing Databases, data mining, and data management Big data and business analytics Scientific cloud systems and services Internet computing and web services Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission and Publication Information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2017) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings Format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Important Dates: Workshop Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017 Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 Contact: Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ISPA 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (ISPA2017Guangzhou AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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LTA 2017 : 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications
by Robertas Damaševičius 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

LTA 2017 : 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/lta When Sep 4, 2017 - Sep 7, 2017 Where Prague, Czech Republic Submission Deadline May 10, 2017 Notification Due Jun 14, 2017 Final Version Due Jun 28, 2017 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> NLP <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=NLP> text mining <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=text%20mining> computational linguistics <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=computational%20linguistics> natural language processing <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=natural%20language%20processing> Call For Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications(LTA'2017) is to be held at Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 September, 2017. *Scope * Development of new technologies and various intelligent systems creates new possibilities for intelligent data processing. Natural Language Processing (NLP) addresses problems of automated understanding, processing and generation of natural human languages. LTA workshop provides a venue for presenting innovative research in NLP related, but not restricted, to: computational and mathematical modeling, analysis and processing of any forms (spoken, handwritten or text) of human language and various applications in decision support systems. The LTA workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers and professionals working in the domain of NLP to discuss present and future challenges as well as potential collaboration for future progress in the field of NLP. *Topics * The submitted papers shall cover research and developments in all NLP aspects, such as (however this list is not exhaustive): - computational intelligence methods applied to language & text processing - text analysis - language networks - text classification - document clustering - various forms of text recognition - machine translation - intelligent text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods - authorship identification and verification - author profiling - plagiarism detection - knowledge extraction and retrieval from text and natural language structures - multi-modal and natural language interfaces - sentiment analysis - language-oriented applications and tools - NLP applications in education - language networks, resources and corpora *Paper submission * Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file). The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. *Publication * Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be invited to Information Technology and Control journal (IF: 0.623). *CONFERENCE CONTACTS * Web site: https://fedcsis.org/

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CFP: The 3rd Int. Conf. on Big Data Innovation and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017)
by Innovate-Data 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017), IEEE CS-TCI. 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: 14th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017)
by MobiWIS Conference 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017) (Springer, LNCS) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.mobiwis.org/2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and services. The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction. Conference Topics: - Smart and intelligent systems - Mobile software systems - Adaptive approaches for mobile computing - Middleware/SOA for mobile systems - Context- and location-aware services - Pervasive and ubiquitous applications - Data management in the mobile Web - Mobile cloud services - Mobile Web of Things - Mobile Web security, trust and privacy - Mobile networks, protocols and applications - Mobile commerce and business services - HCI in Mobile Applications and Socially Influencing Systems Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Submission Instructions: Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference website. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (tba). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0) Organizing Committee: General Chair Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Co-Chairs Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop Coordinator Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Publicity Chair Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic International Liaison Chair George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24
by GRLMC 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: March 24, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 30 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior academics and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3-4 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 9, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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SBP-BRiMS'17 -- paper deadline extended
by Donald Adjeroh 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given numerous requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline for the conference. Please see below for the new deadline. SBP-BRiMS 2017 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Abstract Submission : Mar 1 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : Mar 8 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : Mar 27 (Mon), 2017 Final Version Submission : Apr 10 (Mon), 2017 Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival. Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017 Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, including the following: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference) Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night ABOUT SBP-BRiMS: SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing. Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ . CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes * Group interaction and collaboration * Group formation and evolution * Group representation and profiling * Collective action and governance * Cultural patterns & representation * Social conventions, social contexts and processes * Influence process and recognition * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness Behavior Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Methodological Challenges * Mathematical foundations * Verification and validation * Sensitivity analysis * Matching technique or method to research questions * Metrics and evaluation * Methodological innovation * Model federation and integration * Evolutionary computing * Optimization Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Technology and flash crowds * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of health policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Other Applications * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Viral marketing * Reasoning about development aid through social modeling * Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: The conference solicits three categories of papers: Regular papers (max. 10 pages) All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation. Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages) All topics and authors welcome. Published online. Typically a poster presentation. Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages) Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation. Paper Formatting Guideline The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6- 793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal “Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high- profile journal. The submission website will be available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission. PUBLICATION For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches. Tutorial proposal submission: Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the tutorial. * Description of the tutorial topic and structure. * Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the attendees). * Short bio and contact information of the organizers. More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. CHALLENGE: The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted on the conference website. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross- fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. BEST PAPER AWARDS: SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. HOTEL AND LOGISTICS: Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP- BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the STATLER-SBP-BRIMS list, click the following link: https://listserv.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDE0IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2Np…

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CFP - ICA3PP Workshop: PBio 2017 (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in Journal of Computational Biology (IF: 1.537, Q1)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Call for Papers --- ICA3PP Workshop: 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (Impact Factor: 1.537, Quartile Q1, ISSN: 1066-5277) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 26, 2017 http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/ https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/ https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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CfW: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

==== Call for Workshops ==== The FAS* 2017 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conferences SASO 2017 and ICCAC 2017. FAS*W workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems as well as Cloud and Autonomic Computing. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO and ICCAC communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO/ICCAC conference. ==== Important Dates ==== Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 7, 2017* Workshop acceptance notification: April 14, 2017* CfP submission deadline: April 21, 2017 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 7, 2017 Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 21, 2017 Early registration deadline: TBD Camera-ready papers due: July 26, 2017 Workshop notes submission to workshop chairs: July 28, 2017 Workshops dates: September 18 & 22, 2017 * Please submit your workshop proposals as soon as possible (i.e. before April 7)! We will try to decide earlier on workshop acceptance in order to give the organizers more time to solicit papers. ==== FAS*W 2017 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ==== Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: PART 1: - Title of the workshop. - A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conferences. Please specify, which of the two main conferences the workshop assigned to (if any)! - Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. - The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A brief description of the workshop format. - List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations. - List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable). PART 2: The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. - Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. - An indication of the envisaged acceptance rate (if applicable). - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO or ICCAC workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. - All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the FAS*W 2017 Workshop Chairs, via Christopher Frantz, as described below. ==== Selection Criteria ==== The selection of the workshops to be included in the final FAS* 2017 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: - the scientific/technical interest of the topics, - the quality of the proposal, - complementarity with the conference topics, - balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and - the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. ==== Responsibilities of FAS* 2017 Workshop Chairs ==== For all accepted proposals, FAS* 2017 will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshops. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for FAS*. - Arranging for publication of proceedings. ==== Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers ==== Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: - Setting up a web site for the workshop. - Advertising the workshop (and the main FAS* conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. - Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee. - Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. - Writing a 1-page organizers? introduction for the workshop proceedings. Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). - FAS* reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. ==== Submissions and Inquiries ==== Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to: Christopher Frantz (cf(a)christopherfrantz.org) or Jeremy Pitt (j.pitt(a)imperial.ac.uk) https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html

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CFP Journal Symbolic Computation Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning
by Prof. Tomas Recio 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Please help us disseminating this announcement. Sorry for duplicates. ===================== *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar Journal of Symbolic Computation* https://www.journals. elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation GUEST EDITORS: Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain Zoltán Kovács, The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Austria Tomas Recio, University of Cantabria, Spain IMPORTANT DATES: - submission deadline: September 1, 2017 - notification of acceptance / rejection: February 2, 2018 - final versions: March 30, 2018 SCOPE: Since the last half century, automated deduction in elementary geometry has become one of the most successful achievements in the field of automated reasoning. Along these decades various methods and techniques have been studied and developed for automated proving and discovering of elementary geometry statements. On the other hand, dynamic geometry software systems have emerged, such as Cabri Geometry, C.a.R., Cinderella, DrGeo, GeoGebra, The Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expert, Geometry Expressions or Kig with an ever-increasing presence in mathematics education. Some of them possess a large number of users (over thirty million) all around the world. The merging of these two tools (automatic proving and dynamic geometry) is, thus, a very natural, challenging and promising issue, currently involving logic, symbolic computation, software development, algebraic geometry and mathematics education experts all from over the world. The Special Issue intends to be an opportunity for - presenting the current state of the art concerning the development of automatic proving features on dynamic geometry systems, - discussing the current and potential applications of such features in different contexts, such as CAGD or mathematics education. TOPICS (not restricted to): - Algorithmic aspects: formal, logic and algebraic geometry approaches, constraint solving, invariant and coordinate-free methods, real and complex geometry issues, probabilistic, synthetic approaches, techniques from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics. - Software aspects: Implementation of automated proving methods in dynamic geometry programs, design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed computing, considerations for modern hardware and new devices. User-interface issues, use with systems for digital libraries, courseware, ... - Application aspects: applications to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. Papers should follow the guidelines for JSC submissions (see https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171…) and should be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018) The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: - What is the problem? - Why is the problem important? - What has been done so far on the problem? - What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem? - Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification) - Why is the contribution non-trivial? Make the paper complete (since there is no page limit): - All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed. - All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed. - All the theorems must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed). - All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be illustrated by well-chosen examples. * An international journal, the Journal of Symbolic Computation, founded by Bruno Buchberger in 1985, is directed to mathematicians and computer scientists who have a particular interest in symbolic computation. Automated theorem proving is one of the research areas of interest highlighted in the Journal’s description. The Journal of Symbolic Computation has a 1.030 Impact Factor, according to the last Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (2016).

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

*** Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 21, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by res.mb.conference 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Proposals for Sessions/Workshops/Tutorials: March, 06, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April, 01, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage: https://cd-make.net

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Workshop on Deep Learning
by sara＠dirf.org 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Deep Learning Applications (Co-located with the Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017) Luton, UK August 16-18, 2017 (www.dirf.org/intech) Deep Learning (DL) is an important component of computational intelligence which has the core domain machine learning research in it. It provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, and so on. DL is gaining applications in many domains due to the availability of large amount of data coupled with machine learning algorithms. As the DL applications are on increasing trend a workshop on it will enable to identify the emerging trends in the domain. The proposed workshop will address the below listed but not limited themes. Neural network architectures DL Applications to the Natural Sciences Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Deep Learning for Computer Vision Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Automatic Terminology Extraction Deep Learning of Behaviors Probabilistic Graphical Models Algorithms Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Multi-modal Deep Learning Deep Learning Security Neural Networks From Statistical Decision Theory and Deep Neural Networks Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Deep Learning in the Brain Deep Learning for Sequences Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Deep Learning for Video Games Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Natural Language Understanding Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of many peer reviewed and indexed journals. Important Dates Submission of papers: June 01, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2017 Camera Ready: August 01, 2017 Registration August 01, 2017 Conference: August 16-18, 2017 Organizers Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Engineering and Technology Institute, Mexico Submissions at-http://www.dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ Contact- intech(a)dirf.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: WPDM 2017
by Massimo Cafaro 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: March 20, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 10, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Cf Proposals for workshops and special sessions - deadline extension till 12.3. - IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### Call for Proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops **************extended, firm Deadline till 12.3.2017**************** IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop and Special session proposal submission:Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:Mar. 15, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:May 22, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: June 29, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)Jul. 17, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Special session and Workshop proposals are invited to the 2017 Web Intelligence conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany, on August 23-26, 2018. Their objective is to complement the regular program with specific or emerging topics that are of particular interest to the Web Intelligence community and, in case of Workshops, to provide a forum for intense and deep-going discussions. Special Session and Workshop proposals need to address topics that do not pertain to well-established tracks of WI. They may, however, cut across and beyond disciplines traditionally represented at WI conferences. Special Sessions ---------------- Typically, each Special Session comprises at least 3 regular presentations, or 5 short ones, or an adequate mixture of these. The first paper in a Special Session may serve as an introduction to the field, aimed at listeners, who are not experts in the field yet and, therefore, could also be an overview paper. An organizer should not contribute with more than one paper. Workshops --------- The purpose of the CP workshops is to provide a more informal venue in which participants can: * explore specific research areas in depth, * discuss new research directions, * study specific application areas of Web Intelligence, or * bring together researchers from different areas with shared interests. How is a proposal meant to look like? ------------------------------------- Prospective organizers of Special Sessions or Workshops (called events in the following) should submit proposals indicating: 1. Title and acronym of the event 2. Duration (in half-day steps) -for Workshops only 3. Description of the event topic, and a draft version of CFP (not exceeding 500 words) 4. Short description on how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions (CfP spreading?) 5. Preliminary list of invited speakers (if already available) 6. Past records (if any) 7. Short bio of the organizers 8. Tentative program committee (if already available) 9. Contact information of the organizers (including name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address) Evaluation of Proposals: ------------------------ Special session and Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, its uniqueness, the qualifications of the proposers and their experience. The proposers are expected to have at least a PhD degree and a good publication track record in the proposed area. A tentative accept/reject decision on the proposal will be sent to the proposers within a short period after its receipt by the Special Sessions and Workshop Chairs. Accepted special sessions and Workshops will be listed on the website. However, it may be that we suggest that an accepted proposal shall be combined with a similar proposal to avoid multiple Special Sessions or Workshops on a similar topic. A final decision will be made two weeks after the special session proposal deadline. High quality outcomes (papers) of these events may be considered for publication in a journal (e.g., Web Intelligence journal (IOS Press, www.iospress.nl/journal/web-intelligence-and-agent-systems/) or the Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/journal/multiagent-and-grid-systems/) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROPOSAL SUBMISSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Proposals are to be send by Email to: WSChair(a)webintelligence2017.com For further information either visit the WI 2017 homepage (see above) or contact any of the Special session and Workshop chairs (see below). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland, Agata.Filipowska(a)ue.poznan.pl Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia, o.hussain(a)adfa.edu.au Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile, jvelasqu(a)dii.uchile.cl Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, yqchen(a)ict.ac.cn Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany, reinhold(a)wifa.uni-leipzig.de -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Fwd: BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from 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 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 this huge volume of 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 use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological 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 Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological 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 Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological 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: March 11, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 18, 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 Hasan Oğul, Başkent 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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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy) The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…) In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…) Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP
by Barbara Kordy 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS - GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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Call for Papers
by Yousef Farhaoui 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

The goal of the BDRT2017 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in the ambient systems paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ambient systems theory, practices and their applications. International Workshop on Big Data and Networks Technologies *(BDNT’2017)* Held in parallel with The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium https://bdnt2017.sciencesconf.org/ *Important dates: * Paper submission deadline: March 30, 2017 Notification of Decision: April 28, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Workshops Date:July 24-26, 2017 *Topics:* - Multimedia and Social Computing - Service Oriented Computing for Systems &Applications - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management - Smart Environments and Applications - Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture - Systems Security and Privacy - Systems Software Engineering - Vehicular Networks and Applications - Computer vision - Mobile computing - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces - Emerging Networking, Tracking & Sensing Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences - General: Distributed systems, networks & applications - Digital signal and image processing - Computational Science - Decision science - Business Intelligence *Publication:* All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. *Contact* - bdnt2017(a)gmail.com - youseffarhaoui(a)gmail.com -- cdlt Yousef farhaoui | **************************************************** | Yousef FARHAOUI | Department of Computer Science | Faculty of sciences and Technic | Moulay Ismail University | B.P 509, Boutalamine, | Errachidia, Morocco. | Tel: +212 672377651 *****************************************************

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fifth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** 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/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in 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 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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IJCS SI CFP: Communication and Computation Cooperation (3C) Network
by Kezhi Wang 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please disseminate this CFP to your colleagues & contacts. ============================================================== INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Editor in Chief: Mohammad S. Obaidat Impact Factor: 1.099 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1131/homepage/spe… CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Communication and Computation Cooperation (3C): Principles, Algorithms and Systems Scope With growing popularity of mobile communications and the explosion of the resource hungry applications, mobile users are expecting to receive much higher experiences than before, which poses an increasingly high burden on the existing wired and wireless communications. Thanks to the fast development of the cloud computing and virtualization techniques, more and more communication and service related functions may be realized and implemented in cloud, as exemplified by the recent progress in cloud radio access networks (C-RAN), mobile cloud computing (MCC) and network function virtualization (NFV), etc. With the transition from conventional hardware based environment to a software based infrastructure, computing resource can be allocated more dynamically, conveniently and flexibly to the communications and other services. However, allocating more computation resource than networking or user expecting will contribute to a waste of the energy, whereas lack of computing resource in communications will result in packet loss or failure of information transmission. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to investigate the Communication and Computation Cooperation (3C), as well as the related principles, algorithms, protocols and systems. This special issue expects to create a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to publish the key results and techniques in all aspects of 3C. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Communication and computation cooperation and management systems * Principles and critical R&D issues in 3C * 3C related algorithms, designs and protocols * 3C related techniques in Internet of things (IoT) * 3C based approaches in sensor networks * 3C research in C-RAN * 3C based mobile cloud/edge/fog computing * Quality of service (QoS) related problems in 3C * 3C based cross layer optimization * 3C in 5G communications * 3C based offloading techniques * 3C in software-defined networking (SDN) * 3C aided device to device communications * Energy and power minimization in 3C * Wired and wireless network related function virtualization in 3C * Security and privacy related issues in 3C * Performance examination and analysis in 3C * 3C assisted social networking Instructions for Manuscripts Submitted articles must describe original research which have not been published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. Submissions must be directly sent via the IJCS submission web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs and select Special Issue: Communication and Computation Cooperation: Principles, Algorithms and Systems as manuscript type during step 1 of the submission process. Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines in the International Journal of Communication Systems. Instructions for Contributors are in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5996/home/ForAuthors.html Important Dates Manuscript Due: 1 April 2017 Decision Notification: 1 July 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 1 September 2017 Tentative Publication Date: December 2017 Guest Editors Dr. Kezhi Wang, University of Essex, U.K., Email: kezhi.wang(a)essex.ac.uk<mailto:kezhi.wang@essex.ac.uk>; kezhi.wang(a)outlook.com<mailto:kezhi.wang@outlook.com> Prof. Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan, Email: jin(a)waseda.jp<mailto:jin@waseda.jp> Prof. Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Email: hamidsharif(a)unl.edu<mailto:hamidsharif@unl.edu>

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP
by Barbara Kordy 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS - GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. As the previous two years, the GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings are planned to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (confirmation pending). Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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Deadline Approaching: Research Fellow positions in Computer Security
by chhagan.iiita＠gmail.com 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Research Fellow positions in Computer Security University of Padua - SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group JOB DESCRIPTION: The SPRITZ <http://spritz.math.unipd.it/> Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Padova is looking for four research fellows to participate in the project funded by EU H2020 titled “Solutions for access and safe use of mobile scanners devices”. IoT is about connecting billions of objects, things, devices. The overall objective of TagItSmart! ( tagitsmart.eu) is to create a set of tools and enabling technologies integrated into a platform with open interfaces, enabling users across the value chain to fully exploit the power of condition-dependent FunCodes, to connect mass-market products with the digital world across multiple application sectors. The key requirements for the position are as follows: - Recent PhD (or significant research experience) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related areas. - Hands-on experience in some of the following areas will be plus: - Internet of Things (IoT) - Application/service provisioning architectures - Android security - Security and reliability in RFID/NFC scanning - Trusted Platform Module - Software design/implementation and prototyping skills. - Algorithms design and implementation skills. - Experience in working on EU projects is desirable. - Publications in high impact journals and well known conferences. ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA AND THE SPRITZ GROUP The University of Padua is the University of Galileo Galilei, and the first University that awarded a degree to a woman. The first ever report issued by the National Research Assessment Committee set the University of Padova as the highest ranking among leading Italian universities for the quality of its research results. Based on the number of citations of articles and publications by its researchers (source: ISI), the University of Padova ranks among the top three Italian universities for total impact index, productivity index, and presence index. SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group is a group of researchers very passionate in investigating security and privacy issues related to current and future technologies. The SPRITZ group was founded (in 2011) and is led by Prof. Mauro Conti (http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/) The group is mostly based at the University of Padua, while it enjoys worldwide collaborations. For more information about our group please visit: http://spritz.math.unipd.it/ HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates are invited to contact Prof. Mauro Conti <http://www.math.unipd.it/%7Econti/> directly (conti(a)math.unipd.it) For more information about the position and how to apply please visit the following link: http://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=1971 Applications must be received by March 01, 2017. -- Thanks, Best Regards, Chhagan Lal, PhD, Research/Postdoc Fellow, University of Padua - Department of Mathematics, *SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group* *http://spritz.math.unipd.it/team.html <http://spritz.math.unipd.it/team.html>*

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FMEC 2017 (Finall Call): The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE FMEC 2017 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php> Co-loacated with (SDS 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php> Call for Papers: Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2017 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 20 Feb. 2017 (Firm) Notification to Authors: 13 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017> Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/ Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Ejaz Ahmed, NIST, USA * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA. Publication Co-Chairs: * Ali Safa Sadiq, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Publicity Chair: * Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. Steering Committee: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo <mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk <mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>.

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WPDM 2017 The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: March 20, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 10, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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[DBSec 2017] Call For Papers: Submission deadline March 6, 2017
by Fengjun Li 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************ 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017 https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu **************************************************************************** ************ DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final a version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted Papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 6, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 6, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu.

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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from 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 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 this huge volume of 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 use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological 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 Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological 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 Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological 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: March 11, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 18, 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 Hasan Oğul, Başkent 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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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by res.mb.conference 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Last CfP: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org <http://www.smap2017.org/> ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Submission of full papers (General Track and Special Sessions): February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks papers for special sessions addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. SMAP 2017 has the support of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society technical co-sponsorship. *Special session on Personalized delivery of cultural heritage content ----------------------------------- Digital cultural heritage is now a mature field, in which information technologies are used in the service of preserving cultural heritage. The digital form of resources allows for the exploitation of advances in data analytics, semantics, information retrieval, user interaction, profiling and personalization in order to develop new, exciting and stimulating exhibitions and cultural/educational/touristic experiences. For this special session we invite works that present and/or review the current state of the art in theory and practice, as well as promising recent advances, in the area of aligning the delivery process for cultural heritage content to the needs, goals, characteristics and preferences of individual users and user groups. The session is broad in scope, with the caveat that emphasis should be on the link between cultural heritage and personalization techniques. *Special Session on Multimodal affective analysis for human-machine interfaces and learning environments ----------------------------------- Affective analysis is a broad research area that focuses on the recognition, interpretation, processing and simulation of human affect, i.e., feelings or emotions. During the last years many efforts in the fields of content understanding and human-machine interaction have turned towards a more human-centered approach and complement traditional semantic-based ones by enhancing them with the users’ affective state while interacting with machines (typically computers, avatars and robots). This special session calls for research papers focusing on signal analysis and machine learning techniques that extract affective knowledge from auditory, visual and textual information usually employed in human-machine interaction and learning applications. Papers that focus on new signal representation, feature extraction and emotion modelling approaches are welcomed, as well as papers covering practical work, tools and applications. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** 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/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in 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 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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[IEEE ATC 2017] Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposal DEADLINE: Feb 15
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Dear colleague, apologies for multiple postings. In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017), we will organize some workshops. The workshop proposals should be submitted to ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com Further information are provided in the ATC Call for Workshop page[1] . All accepted papers will be included in the ATC 2017 proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop/Special Session proposals should contain following information: · The title of the workshop/special session, including both full name and abbreviation (for workshop) · The objectives, scope, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) · The short bios of the key organizers and their related experience · The procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants · A tentative list of program committee members · The (tentative) website/URL of the proposed workshop/special session Important Schedule for ATC Workshops and Special Sessions: · Proposal Due: extended to Feb 15, 2017 · Proposal Notification: extended to Feb 20, 2017 · Paper Submission, Notification: TBD by individual workshops · Final Camera-ready Paper Due: June 10, 2017 Best regards, Riccardo Lazzeretti riccardo.lazzeretti(a)math.unipd.it Workshop Chair IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017) Links: ------ [1] http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartworld/2017/atc/cfw.php

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2nd National Conference on Advances in Computer Science
by ACS Conference 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

*Dear Sir/Ma'am* *Greetings!* GNA University is state-of-the-art University promoted by GNA Group. GNA University has established with the vision of creating a distinguished teaching and research university; to cater to the needs of the society in terms of quality education and to build world class talent pool. The University promotes practical approach and innovative ways of thinking that creates an inspiring place of study and research. The key strength of GNA University lies in its effort towards reducing the gap between academia and industry. In order to bridge the gap between industry and academia *GNA University* is providing a platform for Academicians, Scientists, Researchers and Professionals who are involved in research in the field of Computer Science and Engineering to come together and share their innovative research contributions with all like-minded Computer Professionals to amalgamate together at *2nd **National Conference on Advances in Computer Science on April 29, 2017.* The conference invites desirous delegates to put across their coveted work. *We invite your abstract/research paper(s) which are NOT submitted or published or under consideration anywhere in other conferences or journals; in electronic format via email at **acs.conference(a)gna.university* <acs.conference(a)gna.university> *Important Dates –* *Submission Close: March 15, 2017* *Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2017* *Registration Open: March 20, 2017* *Early Bird Registration Ends: April 01, 2017* *Registration Close: April 15, 2017* *Conference Date: April 29, 2017* More about conference can be found at *conference.gna.university* <http://conference.gna.university/> If this call for paper is not of your area of interest kindly forward it to a researcher who is working in this field. *Best Regards* *Conference Convener * *GNA University* *For any queries please feel free to contact us at +91-96469-50813 or write back at acs.conference(a)gna.university* Click here to reply or forward

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration February 24
by GRLMC 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration February 24*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: February 24, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 31 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto), tba Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 9, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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1st CFP: CIBCB Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods
by Marco S. Nobile 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/CIBCBss.html> hosted by IEEE CIBCB 2017 <http://cibcb2017.org/> 23-25 August 2017,Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Computational intelligence is frequently exploited to devise efficient heuristics to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology. However, these approaches are computationally challenging as they might require excessively burdensome execution times in the case of real-world problems, therefore limiting their applicability. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational intelligence methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * analysis and visualization of large datasets * analysis and visualization of genome-wide models * biomedical model parameterization * development of synthetic biological devices * drug design * emergent properties in complex biological systems * flux balance analysis * gene expression array analysis * high-throughput data analysis * high efficiency algorithms for solving biological problems * medical image analysis * medical imaging and pattern recognition * metabolic pathway analysis * mining of biomedical data * modelling, simulation and optimization of biological systems * molecular dynamics and molecular docking * molecular evolution and phylogenetics * molecular sequence alignment and analysis * prediction and searching of molecular structure and folding * spectral analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper submission: 31 March 2017 Paper acceptance notification: 2 June 2017 Final paper submission: 30 June 2017 Conference: 23-25 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Marco S. Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Ashlock - University of Guelph, Canada Paolo Cazzaniga - University of Bergamo, Italy Daniela Besozzi - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines * Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight(8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. * Papers must be in PDF and written in English. Detailed instructions and templates for preparing your manuscripts can be found here <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. * At maximum, two additional pages are permittedwith over-length page charge of US$125/page, to be paid during author registration. * Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. * All papers should be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system. Furhter information can be found in the CIBCB2017 submission page <http://cibcb2017.org/index.html#submission>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts Marco S. Nobile, PhD University of Milano-Bicocca Email: nobile(a)disco.unimib.it

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8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Third CFP, Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

*** Third Call for Papers and Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. To submit a proposal for a Special Session, Tutorial or Workshop, please refer to the instructions in the web site. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Proposals: March 13, 2017 · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance: March 20, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 24, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 · Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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Call for papers: SBP-BRiMS'17
by Donald Adjeroh 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBP-BRiMS 2017 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Abstract Submission : February 22 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017 Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 2017 Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival. Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017 Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, including the following: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference) Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night ABOUT SBP-BRiMS: SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing. Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ . CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes * Group interaction and collaboration * Group formation and evolution * Group representation and profiling * Collective action and governance * Cultural patterns & representation * Social conventions, social contexts and processes * Influence process and recognition * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness Behavior Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Methodological Challenges * Mathematical foundations * Verification and validation * Sensitivity analysis * Matching technique or method to research questions * Metrics and evaluation * Methodological innovation * Model federation and integration * Evolutionary computing * Optimization Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Technology and flash crowds * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of health policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Other Applications * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Viral marketing * Reasoning about development aid through social modeling * Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: The conference solicits three categories of papers: Regular papers (max. 10 pages) All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation. Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages) All topics and authors welcome. Published online. Typically a poster presentation. Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages) Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation. Paper Formatting Guideline The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6- 793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal “Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high- profile journal. The submission website will be available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission. PUBLICATION For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches. Tutorial proposal submission: Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the tutorial. * Description of the tutorial topic and structure. * Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the attendees). * Short bio and contact information of the organizers. More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. CHALLENGE: The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted on the conference website. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross- fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. BEST PAPER AWARDS: SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. HOTEL AND LOGISTICS: Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP- BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.

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[IEEE ICCI*CC'17:] Cognitive Computing | Neurocomputation | Cognitive Machine Learning | Brain-Inspired Systems
by Yingxu Wang 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Dear Colleague, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'17) will be held at Oxford University, UK, during July 26-28, 2017 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-17) The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer, Computational Intelligence, and SMC Societies. The theme of ICCI*CC’17 is on Neurocomputation, Cognitive Machine Learning, and Brain-Inspired Systems. You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'17 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'17 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the proceedings will be published in leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with EI/ISI indexes. Paper submission site is at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc17. Submission deadline will be on Feb. 28, 2017. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'17. Sincerely, Prof. Yingxu Wang IEEE ICCI*CC'17 Co-Chair HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (UC Berkeley) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Freddie Hamdy (Oxford), Newton Howard (Oxford), and Yingxu Wang (U of Calgary) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Newton Howard (UK) and Prof. Amir Hussain (UK) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of ieeeicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: ieeeicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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FINAL Call for Papers CGI'17
by Marina Gavrilova 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Final Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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2nd Call for papers CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Apologies for Multiple Postings ------------------------------------------- 17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'17 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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The International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Dear CRITIS Community and CI(I)P Community in general, The International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2017) reaches its 12th anniversary this year. After several successful editions in the past, CRITIS continues the tradition of presenting innovative research and exploring new challenges in the field of critical (information) infrastructures protection (C(I)IP) and fostering the dialogue with stakeholders. The event will take place in Lucca from Oct 9th to 11th with the following thematic sessions: CS Cyber Security HF Human Factors TR Transport EM Emergency Management UR Urban Resilience IS Trust and Information Sharing Together with CRITIS, and in the line with the tradition, Satellite Workshops with take place just after the main conference, from Oct 12th to 13th. Moreover, apart from the traditional sessions where original works and significant improvements will be presented, there will be other sessions devoted to Ongoing Projects and Operators. Given this, we invite to participate in where the event will serve to meet and exchange ideas and concerns with experts in the field. For any other information of the event, do not hesitate to check the official website at: http://www.critis2017.org Looking forward to seeing you at CRITIS 2017! Yours sincerely, Programme Chairs

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fourth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

*** Fourth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 1, 2017 (*** extended ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Deadline Extension - IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

=== DEADLINE EXTENSION === The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 17, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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Fully funded participation at the 2017 Global Scientist Forum in Shenzhen, China
by 姚新(YAO Xin) 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

2017 Global Scientist Forum March 18-20, 2017 Shenzhen, P. R. China I. Introduction The Global Scientist Forum at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) aims to provide a platform for academic exchanges and discussions among young scholars at home and abroad, to promote interdisciplinary and academic innovation, and to discuss the approach towards developing world-class universities and disciplines. Through the recruitment of world-class talents, we plan to develop SUSTech into a leading research university with unique characteristics in the world. We now invite qualified researchers to attend the 2017 Global Scientist Forum at SUSTech, Shenzhen on 18-20 March 2017. II. Minimum Requirements for Applicants (a) Under the age of 40 (b) A doctoral degree obtained from an internationally renowned university and institute; or a Ph.D from a Chinese university with 3+ years overseas working experiences. Research excellence is the most important criterion in selecting the candidates (i.e., Forum participants). We are particularly interested in candidates in the broad field of computer science and engineering. III. Forum Schedule Registration Date: March 18, 2017 Date of the Forum: March 19-20, 2017 IV. Application Procedure Application Deadline: 1 March 2017. Please submit your CV to institutional mailbox of SUSTech Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (aais(a)sustc.edu.cn) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering (liuj6(a)sustc.edu.cn) with the subject line of "SUSTech Global Scientist Forum Application - Department of CSE". Successful applicants will be notified before March 10, 2017. V. Funding for Travel and Accommodation (a) Free accommodation and food will be provided. (b) Travels: All invited scholars should purchase their own tickets. We will provide travel subsidies of CNY 6,000-12,000 per person (depending on distance) for overseas scholars and CNY 5,000 per person for domestic ones. VI. Contact Information (a) Ms Jing Liu (Department of CSE), Tel: +86-75588015125, Email: liuj6(a)sustc.edu.cn (b) Dr Kun Yang (AAIS), Tel: +86-75588015717, Email: yangk(a)sustc.edu.cn (c) Dr Huihui Sun (AAIS), Tel: +86-755-88015716, Email: sunhh(a)sustc.edu.cn VII. Salary and Benefits for recipients of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" SUSTech provides generous remuneration to recipients of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" as well as one of the best working and living conditions in the sector. In addition to national research funds (CNY 1-3 million) and personal income subsidies (CNY 500,000), Guangdong Province will support each "Thousand Youth Talent" additional research funding of CNY 500,000 and additional personal income subsidy of CNY 250,000. Furthermore, Shenzhen City will provide each "Thousand Youth Talent" further research funding of CNY 5 million and further personal income subsidy of CNY 2 million ("Shenzhen peacock talent plan B"). On top of all these supports from the central, Guangdong and Shenzhen governments, SUSTech will also provide research funding of CNY 1 million. In addition, SUSTech will also fund one PhD studentship per year to every faculty member. In short, a recipient of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" will receive a total of CNY 7.5-9.5 million research funding, and CNY 2.75 million personal income subsidies (which is on top of the highly competitive salaries offered by SUSTech). VIII. About SUSTech Southern University of Science and Technology is a public university founded in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China. It is intended to be a top-tier international university that excels in interdisciplinary research, nurturing innovative talents and delivering new knowledge to the world. It has been widely regarded as a pioneer and innovator in moving China's higher education forward to match China's ever-growing role in the international arena. Currently, SUSTech has a total of 318 faculty members, including 14 academicians of CAS/CAE, 12 "Changjiang" scholars, 34 "Thousand Talents", and more than 60 "Thousand Youth Talents". In 2016, 14 scholars successfully gained the title of Thousand Youth Talents" by applying through SUSTech, which was ranked No. 9 among all universities and institutes in China. In 2016, SUSTech secured 197 research projects with total funds of CNY 372 million. In the "Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars" supplement, SUSTech ranked No. 62 among the top 100 institutions in the world with the most remarkable growth of high quality research papers (the growth rate is 2442.5%, ranking No. 3 in the world). IX. About Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech was founded in 2016. It currently has 12 professors, all of whom hold doctoral degrees or have years of experience in overseas universities. Among them, two were elected into the 1000 Talents Program in China; three are IEEE fellows; one IET fellow. The department is expected to grow to 50 tenure track faculty members eventually, in addition to teaching-only professors and research-only professors. Our current research strength is in artificial intelligence, with three IEEE Fellows in this field. We also have expertise in smart sensing, UAVs, cognitive robotics, big data analytics, parallel and distributed computing, smart cyber-physical systems, wireless networks and communications, mobile health, cryptography, service computing and software engineering. Our five strategic areas for future growth include: Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Robotics; Computer Systems and Networks; Computing Theories. We have a strong PhD programme joint developed with some of the best technological universities in the world, including Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Technology Sydney, etc. All our PhD students will spend at least one year in one of these overseas universities.

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Subject: CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** 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/ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in 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 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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GECCO 2017 Workshop "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology"
by José Santos Reyes 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

GECCO 2017 Workshop “ Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology” http://eccsb2017.irlab.org/ http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/HomePage In the last two decades, many computer scientists in Artificial Intelligence have made significant contributions to modeling biological systems as a means of understanding the molecular basis of mechanisms in the healthy and diseased cell. The field of computational biology includes the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems . The focus of this workshop is the use of nature-inspired approaches to central problems in computational biology, including optimization methods under the umbrella of evolutionary computation. Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Genome and sequence analysis with nature-inspired approaches. * Computational systems biology. * Biological network modeling and analysis. * Use of artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems in the modeling of biological problems. * Study and analysis of properties of biological systems like self-organization, self-assembled systems, emergent behavior or morphogenesis. * Hybrid approaches and memetic algorithms in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Multi-objective approaches in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Use of natural and evolutionary computation algorithms in protein structure classification and prediction (secondary and tertiary). * Mapping of protein and peptide energy landscapes. * Modeling of temporal folding of proteins. * Protein design. * Protein-ligand and protein-protein docking. * Stability and dynamics of biomolecular systems. * Applications in atomic clusters: Water clusters, Leonard Jones clusters, metal clusters, etc. * Applications in cellular systems: micelle, single organisms, bacterial cells, etc. * Applications in stem cell differentiation and development, lineage programming and cell fates. * Evolutionary search strategies to assist cryo-electron microscopy and other experimental techniques in model building. * Surrogate models and stochastic approximations of computationally expensive fitness functions of biomolecular systems. -- José Santos Reyes Departamento de Computación Facultad de Informática Universidad de A Coruña tf: 981167000 Ext 1257 http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/ai/~santos/santos.html

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LATA 2017: call for participation
by GRLMC 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

LATA 2017: call for participation****************************************************************************** 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2017 Umeå, Sweden March 6-9, 2017 Organized by: Department of Computing Science Umeå University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2017/ ****************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, March 6 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Thomas Wilke: Finite Backward Deterministic Automata on Infinite Words - Invited Lecture 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:15 Thomas Troels Hildebrandt, Christian Johansen, Håkon Normann: A Stable Non-interleaving Early Operational Semantics for the Pi-calculus Adam Jardine, Kevin McMullin: Efficient Learning of Tier-based Strictly k-Local Languages Makoto Kanazawa, Ryo Yoshinaka: The Strong, Weak, and Very Weak Finite Context and Kernel Properties 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch 13:45 - 15:00 Benedikt Brütsch, Patrick Landwehr, Wolfgang Thomas: N-Memory Automata Over the Alphabet N Lisa Hutschenreiter, Rafael Peñaloza: An Automata View to Goal-directed Methods Ruggero Lanotte, Massimo Merro: A Calculus of Cyber-Physical Systems 15:00 - 15:15 Break 15:15 - 16:30 Costas S. Iliopoulos, Ritu Kundu, Solon P. Pissis: Efficient Pattern Matching in Elastic-Degenerate Texts Shmuel Tomi Klein, Dana Shapira: Integrated Encryption in Dynamic Arithmetic Compression Manasi S. Kulkarni, Kalpana Mahalingam: Two-Dimensional Palindromes and Their Properties --- Tuesday, March 7 09:00 - 09:50 Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Andreas Pieris: Logic, Languages, and Rules for Web Data Extraction and Reasoning over Data - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Janusz A. Brzozowski, Corwin Sinnamon: Complexity of Left-Ideal, Suffix-Closed and Suffix-Free Regular Languages Nadia Creignou, Markus Kröll, Reinhard Pichler, Sebastian Skritek, Heribert Vollmer: On the Complexity of Hard Enumeration Problems Yo-Sub Han, Sang-Ki Ko, Timothy Ng, Kai Salomaa: Consensus String Problem for Multiple Regular Languages 11:35 - 13:05 Lunch 13:05 - 14:20 Johannes Schmidt: The Weight in Enumeration Johanna Björklund, Loek Cleophas: Minimization of Finite State Automata Through Partition Aggregation Haiming Chen, Ping Lu: Derivatives and Finite Automata of Expressions in Star Normal Form 14:20 - 14:35 Break and Group Photo 14:35 - 15:50 Henk Don, Hans Zantema: Finding DFAs with Maximal Shortest Synchronizing Word Length Hellis Tamm, Brink Van Der Merwe: Lower Bound Methods for the Size of Nondeterministic Finite Automata Revisited Dusan Knop: Partitioning Graphs into Induced Subgraphs 16:00 - 18:00 Touristic Visit --- Wednesday, March 8 09:00 - 09:50 Franz Baader, Oliver Fernández Gil, Pavlos Marantidis: Approximation in Description Logics: How Weighted Tree Automata Can Help to Define the Required Concept Comparison Measures in FL0 - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Nariyoshi Chida, Kimio Kuramitsu: Linear Parsing Expression Grammars Flavio D'Alessandro, Oscar H. Ibarra, Ian McQuillan: On Finite-Index Indexed Grammars and Their Restrictions Mark-Jan Nederhof, Anssi Yli-Jyrä: A Derivational Model of Discontinuous Parsing 11:35 - 13:05 Lunch 13:05 - 14:20 Jirí Síma, Petr Savický: Cut Languages in Rational Bases Giovanni Casu, G. Michele Pinna: Merging Relations: a Way to Compact Petri Nets' Behaviors Uniformly Vidhya Ramaswamy, Jayalal Sarma, K. S. Sunil: Space Complexity of Reachability Testing in Labelled Graphs 14:20 - 14:35 Break 14:35 - 15:50 Dick Grune, Wan Fokkink, Evangelos Chatzikalymnios, Brinio Hond, Peter Rutgers: Detecting Useless Transitions in Pushdown Automata Chunmiao Li, Xiaojuan Cai: Hardness Results for Coverability Problem of Well-Structured Pushdown Systems Adrien Pommellet, Marcio Diaz, Tayssir Touili: Reachability Analysis of Pushdown Systems with an Upper Stack --- Thursday, March 9 09:00 - 09:50 Harald Beck, Minh Dao-Tran, Thomas Eiter: LARS Stream Reasoning and Temporal Logic - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:10 Davide Bresolin, Ivan Lanese: Most General Property-Preserving Updates Bernd Gärtner, Ahad Noori Zehmakan: Color War: Cellular Automata with Majority Rule 11:10 - 11:25 Break 11:25 - 12:15 Stefan Gerdjikov, Stoyan Mihov: Over which Monoids is the Transducer Determinization Procedure Applicable? Mika Hirvensalo, Etienne Moutot and Abuzer Yakarylmaz: On the Computational Power of Affine Automata 12:15 - 12:25 Closing 12:25 - 13:55 Lunch

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Important Dates · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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[simu-conf] Winter Simulation Conference 2017 - Call for Papers
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa. Las Vegas, NV http://www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks. WSC 2017 also incorporates MASM, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain. 50TH ANNIVERSARY KEYNOTES Keynote Speaker: Barry L Nelson - Northwestern University Titans Robert G. Sargent - Syracuse University Bernard P. Zeigler - University of Arizona PAPER DEADLINES & REQUIREMENTS All contributed paper submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore, ACM DL, and others. Contributed Paper Deadlines - April 7, 2017: submission deadline. - June 2, 2017: Notification of acceptance. - June 30, 2017: Ready Camera Version. - July 15, 2017: Final manuscript. Registration deadline: November 3, 2017. WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE, INFORMS-SIM and SCS, with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA, ASIM, IEEE/SMC and NIST. [problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca <mailto:vsim-conf-owner@sce.carleton.ca> - apologies for multiple postings]

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CFP: Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), Hong Kong, May 29, 2017
by Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2017 Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017) Hong Kong, May 29th, 2017 http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys17/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human services and systems, including: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 11th, 2017 Notification: April 8th, 2017 Camera Ready: May 6th, 2017 Workshop Date: May 29th, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Organizing Committees* *Workshop Co-Organizers* Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Publicity Co-Chairs* Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Technical Program Committee* Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Diane Cook, Washington State University Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Arpan Pal, TCS Innovation Lab, India Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Mi Zhang, Michigan State University ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Call for papers - Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017)
by Dario Russo 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Call for papers Seventh Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017) http://mocs.disi.unibo.it/ July 3rd, 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Organized by: National Research Council of Italy University of Messina, Italy in association with: The Twenty-Second IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017) Important Dates --------------- Submission: March 27, 2017 Notification: April 17, 2017 Camera-ready: April 24, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 Scope and topics ---------------- The low cost of hardware components and the rapid growth of a business model for Cloud services are two important drivers for the success of the Cloud. Nevertheless, most of the players today require also to analyze data available on the Cloud with a holistic approach provided often by data mining techniques. Under this respect, services designed for complex scenarios like Smart Cities benefit of this new Cloud era. The objective is to track and comprehend the flow of novelty in Cloud systems and to put on the foreground all the features and related issues, with a particular attention to the convergence of Cloud systems together with Smart City systems and on the (re)use of open Cloud platforms for designing services for Smart Cities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Experiences on the use of Cloud systems when applied to services designed for Smart Cities; - Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems scalability and to achieve resource saving in socio-technical Smart City systems - Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective - Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; - New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level, within/between data centres (intra- /inter-domain); - Big Data flows processing for Smart City scenarios; - Relationship between IoT and Cloud systems in Smart City scenarios; - (Re)use of open Cloud-integrated platforms for the design of Smart Cities services. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2017 Proceedings and will submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org) Contacts -------- Michele Girolami: michele.girolami(a)isti.cnr.it Maria Fazio: mfazio(a)unime.it

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Call for Papers - 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017)
by SECRYPT 2017 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) Madrid, Spain, 24-26 July 2017 http://secrypt.icete.org ************************************************************************ SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) will be held in Madrid, Spain, July 24-26, 2017. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security requirements Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.insticc.org/primoris/. Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper". Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: March 2, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 3, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 17, 2017 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 18, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 24, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: June 6, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Antunes, U. Porto, Portugal, Portugal Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy Prithvi Bisht, Adobe, United States Carlo Blundo, Universita' di Salerno, Italy Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Dario Catalano, Universita' di Catania, Italy Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Jun Dai, California State University, United States Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Tassos Dimitriou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece and Kuwait University, Kuwait Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Alberto Ferrante, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Mines-Telecom, TELECOM SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, United States Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Olivier Markowitch, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Cristina Serban, AT&T, United States Daniele Sgandurra, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vicenc Torra, University of Skovde, Sweden Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Salerno, Italy Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, The College of William and Mary, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Qiben Yan, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States Yongjun Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore For any questions, please contact the program chair: secrypt2017(a)unimi.it

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session in track "Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"
by talbi 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Special Session on "*Synergy between optimization and simulation*" in track "*Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"* In conjunction with *Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017)* Barcelona, Spain, July 4th-7th 2017 Submission deadline: February 15, 2017 *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Most real-world problems are complex and stochastic and, thus, hard to approach. Such problems originate from a wide range of areas including manufacturing and production, logistics and supply chain management, healthcare, and many more. Simulation and optimization have traditionally been considered separately as alternative approaches to deal with such problems. The recent advances in computational power have promoted the proliferation of hybrid techniques that combine both approaches. This special session seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced single- and multi-objective metaheuristics and simulation based for instance on surrogate models, their applications in different fields including the above ones, their integration in simulation software, their parallelization on various hardware platforms (multi-core processors, coprocessors such as GPU and Xeon Phi, clusters, etc.), and any related issues. *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS* Authors are encouraged to submit unpublished and outstanding original contributions.Submissions are only electronic, in PDF format, using the EasyChair system. They are welcome in any of the three categories S1-S3: ** S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages. S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. They must follow the submission guidelines below. Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings that will be available at the conference. Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2017 conference proceedings. Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings. *Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit papers to both the general and the special sessions. During submission, authors will be required to specify which track they are submitting their paper to. Submitted papers (both regular and special sessions) must be formatted according to MIC/MAEB 2017 guidelines. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates (both LaTeX and Microsoft Word) are available below. Submission is only electronic, in PDF format, using the *EasyChair system link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2017 At least one author of each accepted paper and poster is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Only one paper or poster per registered author will be accepted (one author cannot present a paper and a poster at the conference, only one type of presentation). All papers are due electronically by the deadline reported below. Submissions that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be accepted for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. If there are problems with the electronic submission, the program chairs will contact the designated author by email. *Final version submission* The final version in PDF format should be upload via EASY CHAIR. There is no copyright. *Electronic templates* The electronic templates for formatting the papers are available in the following formats. Please follow the formatting guidelines for correctly typesetting the paper. ** ·File mic2017Latex.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Latex.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Latex. Specifically, oClass file (mic2017.cls): This file requires also additional files (graphicx.sty, geometry.sty, times.sty, babel.sty, fancyhdr.sty), which are usually included in the most common LaTeX distributions. oExample LaTeX template (example.tex). oExample BibTeX file (example.bib). oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf). ·File mic2017Word.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Word.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Microsoft Word. Specifically: oTemplate (mic2015.dot). oDocument (mic2015.doc) oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf) *Poster Session and Ph.D Colloquium*** A Poster Session will be held during the conference where posters will exhibited for informal browsing with opportunities for individual discussion with their authors. The Ph.D. Colloquium addresses Ph.D. students that are within one year of their graduation (planning to graduate around July 2018). Students close to graduation will be given an opportunity to showcase their work during a short presentation session in the Colloquium, and in this way obtain valuable feedback and introduce yourself to a network that can be of important relevance in your career. The submission for the *Poster Session and the Ph.D Colloquium *should be of format S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Submission deadline*: February 15, 2017 *Notification of acceptance*: February 27, 2017 *Camera-ready papers*: March 6, 2017 *Early registration due date*: March 31, 2017 *Conference*: July 4-7 2017 *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Nouredine Melab* Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: nouredine.melab(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:nouredine.melab@univ-lille1.fr> * El-Ghazali Talbi *Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: el-ghazali.talbi(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:%C2%A0el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr> __ *Peter Korošec* Jožef Stefan Institute <http://www.ijs.si/> Ljubljana, Slovenia Email: peter.korosec(a)ijs.si <mailto:peter.korosec@ijs.si> *Boris Naujoks* TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science Gummersbach, Germany Email: boris.naujoks(a)th-koeln.de

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CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17
by Marco Lützenberger 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17 ===== Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems Track (MSIAAS’17) ===== - held at the 49th Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 2017) - July 9-12, 2017 - Bellevue, Washington, US - http://scs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CFP_MSIAAS-v2.pdf === TRACK DESCRIPTION === The increasing popularity of the Internet of Things, or IoT metaphor emphasizes that heterogeneous systems are the norm today. A system deployed in a netcentric environment eventually becomes a part of a system of systems (SoS). This SoS also incorporates adaptive and autonomous elements (such as systems that have different levels of autonomy and situated behavior). This makes design, analysis and testing for the system-at-hand a complex endeavor in itself. Testing in isolation is not the same as a real-system operation, since the system’s behavior is also determined by the input, which evolves from the environment. This exact factor is difficult to predict, due to an ever-increasing level of autonomy. Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) frameworks are required in order to facilitate SoS design, development, testing, and integration. In more particular, these frameworks have to provide methods to deal with intelligent, emergent, and adaptive behavior as well as autonomy. The subject of emergent behavior and M&S of emergent behaviors takes the center stage in such systems as it is unknown how a particular system responds in the face of emergent behavior arising out of interactions with other complex systems. Intelligent behavior is also defined as an emergent property in some complex systems. Consequently, systems that respond and adapt to such behaviors may be called intelligent systems as well. This track has two objectives. The first objective aims to focus on M&S of the following aspects of complex SoS engineering and brings researchers, developers and industry practitioners working in the areas of complex, adaptive and autonomous SoS engineering that may incorporate human as an integral part of SoS operations. This objective covers the following topics: - Theory for adaptive and autonomous systems - Intelligence-based systems - Computational intelligence and cognitive systems - Human-in-the-loop systems - M&S Frameworks for intelligent behavior - Methodologies, tools, and architectures for adaptive control systems - Knowledge engineering, generation and management in IAAS - Weak and Strong emergent behavior, Emergent Engineering - Complex adaptive systems engineering - Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) capability and collaborative behavior in IAAS - Applications to robotics, unmanned vehicles systems, swarm technology, semantic web technology, and multi-agent systems - Netcentric IAAS - Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) environments - Simulator design for IAAS systems - Modeling tools for IAAS design - Modeling, engineering, testing and verification of complex behavior - Development and testing of complex and distributedsystems - Modeling, simulating, and testing IoT environments and applications The second objective is to advance the science of complexity as applicable in M&S discipline. Complexity is a multi-level phenomenon that exists at structural, behavioral and knowledge levels in such SoS. Emergent behavior is an outcome of this complexity. Understanding emergent behavior as an outcome of this complexity will provide foundation for resilient intelligent systems. Following are some of the topics related to this objective, but not limited to: - Complexity in Structure: network, hierarchical, small-world, flat, etc. - Complexity in Behavior: Micro and macro behaviors, local and global behaviors, teleologic and epistemological behaviors - Complexity in Knowledge: ontology design, ontology-driven modeling, ontology-evaluation, ontology transformation, etc. - Complexity in Human-in-the-loop: artificial agents, cognitive agents, multi-agents, man-in-loop, human-computer-interaction - Complexity in intelligence-based systems: Situated behavior, knowledge-based behavior, memoic behavior, resource-constrained systems, energy-aware systems - Complexity in adaptation and autonomy - Complexity in architecture: Flat, full-mesh, hierarchical, adaptive, swarm, transformative - Complexity in awareness: Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) - Complexity in interactions: collaboration, negotiation, greedy, rule-based, environment-based, etc. - Complexity in Live, Virtual and Constructive environment - Complexity in Artificial Systems, Social systems, techno-economic-social systems - Complexity in Model Engineering of complex SoS - Complexity in Model Specification using modeling languages and architecture frameworks such as UML, PetriNets, SysML, DoDAF, MoDAF, etc. - Complexity in Simulation environment engineering: distributed simulation, parallel simulation, cloud simulation, netcentric parallel distributed environments - Complexity in Testing and Evaluation tools for SoS engineering - Complexity in Heterogeneity: Hardware/Software Co-design, Hardware in the Loop, Cyber Physical Systems, the Internet of Things - Metrics for Complexity design and evaluation - Verification, validation and accreditation of Complexity in SoS - Application of Complexity aspects in domain engineering: Financial, Power, Robotics, Swarm, Economic, Policy, etc. - SoS Failure due to Complexity === Important Dates === Paper Submission: February 20, 2017 Author Notification: May 1, 2017 Submission of Work in Progress (SCSC-WIP) Papers: May 5, 2017 Notification of Work in Progress: May 10, 2017 Camera-ready Paper: May 14, 2017 === Track Chair(s) === Saurabh Mittal, MITRE Corporation (smittal(a)mitre.org) Jose L. Risco Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (jlrisco(a)ucm.es) Marco Lützenberger, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany (marco.luetzenberger(a)dai-labor.de) Claudia Szabo, University of Adelaide, Australia (claudia.szabo(a)adelaide.edu.au) === Submission Guidelines === Original and high-quality technical papers are solicited for review, possible presentation and subsequent publication in the conference proceedings. For further instructions, please refer to the Submission Instructions in the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System web site. Contributed papers should be 5 to 12 pages long. They will be peer reviewed and – if accepted and presented at the conference submitted to the ACM Digital Library. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during SummerSim’17 review process. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the symposium and must present the paper at the symposium. For author guidelines on how to submit a paper, see: http://scs.org/authorskit/

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CFP 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) - Santa Maria Key, Cuba
by Rafael Falcon 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

First CALL FOR PAPERS ########################################## 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS ’17) Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara, Cuba October 24 – 26, 2017 ########################################## Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~rfalc032/isfuros2017/ Organized by: Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba (http://www.uclv.edu.cu) Sponsored by: International Rough Set Society (IRSS) Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Belgium ################# Aim and Scope ################# Fuzzy and rough set theories stand as two of the most prominent methodologies within the umbrella of Computational Intelligence to handle uncertainty in vague and inconsistent environments. They have enjoyed widespread success in a plethora of real-world application domains and remain at the forefront of numerous theoretical studies to consolidate and augment their well-established properties. The second edition of the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) will take place at Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel, Santa Maria Key, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba from October 24-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the Universidad Central de Las Villas (www.uclv.edu.cu) ISFUROS 2017 aims at providing a forum for exchange on fuzzy and rough set theories and their applications. The symposium includes tutorials, invited key lectures and paper presentations. The goals of ISFUROS 2017 are to strengthen the relationships among researchers and institutions working on fuzzy and rough set theories, to increase awareness of these topics among the Latin American research community and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. #################### Submission Topics #################### Submissions of original and previously unpublished work on fuzzy and rough set theories and applications are encouraged, including but not limited to the following topics: Fuzzy sets • Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals • Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware and architectures • Fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy clustering, classification and pattern recognition • Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing • Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization • Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems • Fuzzy systems design and optimization • Fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria decision making and decision support • Fuzzy logic and its applications in industrial engineering • Fuzzy information processing, information extraction and fusion • Hardware/software for fuzzy systems • Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems Rough sets • Covering / neighborhood-based rough sets • Decision-theoretic rough sets • Dominance-based rough sets • Game-theoretic rough sets • Bayesian rough sets • Variable consistency / precision rough sets • Rough clustering • Rough computing • Rough mereology • Rough-set-based techniques in Pattern Recognition, Machine learning and Big Data • Decision making methods based on rough sets. Hybridization of fuzzy and rough sets • Theoretical foundations of Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets. • Machine learning methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets • Decision making methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets Granular Computing • Information granulation / degranulation methods • Granular clustering / classification methods • Interval analysis, shadowed sets, near sets, probabilistic sets, etc. • Granular frameworks / hardware / software Applications • Astronomy • Big Data Analytics • Big Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Business Intelligence • Computer Vision • Cybernetics and Robotics • Cybersecurity • Finance / Retail / e-Commerce • Knowledge Management • Image Processing • Information Fusion • Internet of Things • Logistics • Machine Learning / Data Mining • Maritime Domain Awareness • Medicine and Health • Modeling and Simulation • Natural Language Processing • Natural Resources • Pattern Recognition • Risk Management • Security and Defense • Smart Cities • Web and Text Mining • Wireless Sensor Networks ########################## Conference Proceedings ########################## All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be made available to the conference attendees. The proceedings will have an ISBN and will be produced by UCLV’s publishing house. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a volume of Springer’s “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing” series. At least one of the authors must complete the conference registration by the early registration deadline; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program or proceedings. #################### Important Dates #################### May 15, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 30, 2017 Acceptance notification August 30, 2017 Camera-ready version October 24 – 26, 2017 ISFUROS 2017 ####################### Submission Guidelines ####################### Paper submission will be available from March 1st, 2017 via EasyChair. Please use this link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isfuros2017 Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Authors must adhere to Springer LNCS guidelines using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates. The papers must have a maximum of nine (9) pages. Up to two (2) extra pages can be purchased at 100 CUC each. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three (3) Technical Program Committee members. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using appropriate criteria. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, adoption potential, technical quality, and clarity. ############## Registration ############## TBA ################### Official Language ################### ISFUROS' official language is English. ######## Venue ######## ISFUROS 2017 will be held at the Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel in Santa Maria Key, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Santa Maria key is a tropical paradise 75 km north of Santa Clara city. It hosts some of the finest Cuban beaches in an environmentally friendly and utterly relaxing venue. ###################### Steering Committee ###################### Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba Chris Cornelis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bernard De Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada Francisco Herrera, Universidad de Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada ############################## Technical Program Committee ############################## TBA ############################## ISFUROS 2017 Co-Chairs ############################## Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba [rbellop-at-uclv-dot-edu-dot-cu] Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]

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CfP WS on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE) as part of BIS, Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

*First Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE)* ** *as part of* ** *20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/* *Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017* *Important dates* Submission dateApr 17, 2017 Notification dateMay 15, 2017 Paper ready deadlineMay 29, 2017 Conference datesJun 28-30, 2017 *Links* BIS: http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/ SESSISE: Homepage *Workshop motivation* The climate changes, the catastrophe in Fukushima, the recent biggest blackout in history in India due to an overloaded electricity grid or the dwindling oil reserves world-wide are some of the manifold different reasons why countries massively increase their efforts in shaping their future energy generation, distribution, transportation and consumption, in short in future smart Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. They are expected to be the enablers of a high penetration of renewable energy, facilitate the wide adoption of electrical vehicles, increase the awareness and the involvement of the end-user in the energy scene, and altogether contribute to create a sustainable lifestyle for the eco-aware 21^st century citizen. Although much is still in a state of flux it is nevertheless commonly accepted that existing energy systems, infrastructures, environments, and business opportunities cannot simply be adapted or extended to address the requirements of the next generation of energy supply and consumption. Instead, a fundamental re-engineering is required. Thus, all these prospected transformations also bring with them numerous challenges and opportunities. Regardless of whether and how the energy supply will be designed and operated in the near future it is obvious that the key enabler for a successful transformation of the energy supply will be a meaningful and purposeful used ICT infrastructure. New solutions will consolidate and represent the combined knowledge and experience of different disciplines as engineering, business management and economics and computer science and, thus, contribute significantly to the stabilisation of the energy supply and to the success of involved companies. The IT backbone for such solutions will be distributed, collaborative, autonomous and intelligent software packages for simulation, monitoring, control and optimization as well as appropriate data and business models, reporting systems and maybe also mobile solutions. Besides the topic of future energy grids the recent past was also dominated by the discussion about so called smart cities and smart homes. A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services. This especially means that the contact between citizens and government is eased and improved substantially with the aim to equip inhabitants with more power, responsibility and easing their life substantially from bureaucratic and useless tasks. Another highly relevant goal is to reduce costs and resource consumption. Smart cities will connect, utilize and optimize a number of sectors including transport and traffic management, energy consumption and management or water and waste issues. However, they also need to rely on the next lower level of abstraction, namely smart buildings and homes. This, however, implies that smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings and homes, and smart infrastructures need to be deeply integrated in order to shape the smart overall energy environment of the future. And that looks more like a revolution than an evolution. Thus, revolutionary papers are highly welcome even if they are not too elaborated or too mature. This workshop is not meant to rely on the presentation of mature research results but wants to provide a lively environment with a lot of even vague input for intensive and fruitful discussions. For that, also shorter provocative statements and ideas are very welcome. *Workshop topics* The SESSISE workshopaims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using new IT-based solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. For this, the conference provides a forum for different scientific disciplines. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following areas and topics of interest: /Smart Grids, Smart Homes and Buildings, Smart Infrastructures/ •Smart Energy Systems •Energy Storage •Microgrids •Decentralized Control Systems •Stability in Energy Grids •Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks •Self-aware, Self-configuring or Self-healing Energy Systems •Simulation Environments for Smart Grids •Hybrid Energy Networks •Assistance Systems for Smart Energy control •Integrated Infrastructures •Development of Standards for Smart Grids •Industry, Municipality and University Cooperation •Sustainable Cities •Zero Energy Cities and Buildings /Smart Data Handling / •Alternative Data Storing and Proceeding Technologies •Big Data and Smart Energy Environments •Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks •Data Security •Data Structures and required Standards •Mobile Solutions for Smart Energy Environments •ICT Services in Smart Grids/Smart Cities/Smart Environments /Smart Markets, Trading and Business models/ •Forecasts / Predictions •Management of distributed Energy Generation and Storage •Business Models for (hybrid) Energy Networks •Products and User Interfaces •Business Models and electronic marketplaces for Smart Grids •Competition Analysis •Process Management •Electric Mobility •Solar Home Storage Systems •End Users and Demand Response *Structure of SESSISE* SESSISE will be a one or two day workshop and will include several presentation sessions for the accepted paper as well as invited overview papers on topics of overall interest in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is intended to give much space for lively discussions. The workshop is meant to end with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed. *Review Process* Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will include (in all cases possible): relevance, significance, impact, originality, quality of presentation, practical applicability. It is not expected that the papers prohibit mature research results. Good elaborated ideas, visions and directions which may be starting point for more intensive discussions are very welcome. The idea is less the presentation of narrow, however, mature research but the presentation of broader visions, possible solution spaces and research directions, open fields for research, emergent trends, etc. *Submission guidelines* All papers need to be formatted according to the Springer formatting instructions: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… */Regular papers/*: up to 12 pages */Short papers and Work-in-progress reports/*: up to6 pages */Demo papers/*: up to 4 pages Papers must be written in English and need to be submitted in PDF format. Submission system is available at EasyChair. /Original/work approved for presentation at SESSISE 2017 will be published in the BIS 2017 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2017 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. *Workshop proceedings* It is intended to publish revised papers in post-proceedings of BIS 2017 workshops as a book by Springer Publishing Company in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. *Journal publication of excellent papers* It is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a special issue, otherwise as regular papers. *Workshop organisers / PC Chairs* Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de Lars Moench, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; lars.moench(a)FernUni-Hagen.de Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; rkowalczyk(a)swin.edu.au *Program Committee* Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Germany Anke Weidlich, Hochschule Offenburg, Germany Christian Derksen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brasil Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Hangseng Che, University of Malaya, Malaysia Hanno Hildmann, Khalifa University, UAE Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier, Germany Jingxin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA Krzysztof Chmielowiec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Liana Cipcigan , Institute of Energy at Cardiff University:, UK Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany Michael Sonnenschein, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Germany Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Sajjad Siddiqi, Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany Zbigniew Nahorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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CfP IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ (FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Mar. 12, 2017) *** CONFIRMED TURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER *** Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994), Carnegie Mellon University, US Tentative title: The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page: ..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AWARDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission of regular papers:Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of regular paper acceptance:May01, 2017 Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Submission of Industry track papers:Apr. 23, 2017 Notification of Industry track paper acceptance:May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track)May29, 2017 Workshop and Special session proposal submission:Feb. 01, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:Feb. 15, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:Apr. 16, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)May29, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission:May01, 2017 Notification of Tutorial acceptance:May15, 2017 Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers:May14, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance:Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring):Jun. 18, 2017 Author Registration (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------------ Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Publicity Chairs: ---------------- Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ------------------------------------ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: --------------------------- Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany René Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tutorial Chairs: --------------- Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Industry Track Chairs: ---------------------- Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Webmaster: ----------- Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany Registrations, enquiries & special requests: -------------------------------------------- Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master: ------------------------------------ Sebastian Fuß, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Industry and Sponsorship Chairs: -------------------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt(a)uni-leipzig.de xtao(a)usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CGI'17 CFP - Deadline in 2 weeks
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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CfP 12th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '17)
by VHPC 17 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

==================================================================== 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) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS) Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 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 February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline April 25, 2017 - Paper submission deadline May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day June 25, 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 Josh Simons, 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 - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline extended
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland Submission deadline: 10th February http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Submission Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more information about the submission process (including the “abstract only” option), please consult the conference website ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/) Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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CfP 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, Aug. 23 - 26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

==================================================================== ==CALL FOR PAPERS ==MATES 2017 ==15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies ==Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017 ==Leipzig, Germany == ==http://mates2017.uni-trier.de == == Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on ==Web Intelligence (WI 2017) ==http://webintelligence2017.com/ ==================================================================== ==Submission deadline: Sun, April 23, 2017 ==at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 ==================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. 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 ================== 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 multiagent systems - Standards for agents and multiagent systems - Multiagent systems: 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 ========================= 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. Paper Submission: 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 short papers are up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted with Springer LNCS style. 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 pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Presentation and Publication: 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 theMATES proceedings. If you would like to participate actively in this event please contact both chairs by Email: Invited Speakers ================ In keeping with its tradition, MATES 2017 offers invited keynotes which are delivered by highly renowned experts on relevant topics of the broad area of intelligent agent technology. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, April 23, 2017 Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers:Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference:Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 Paper Submission and Publication ================================ 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. Conference Organisation ======================= 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) 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 ======================== 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 ========================================================================= -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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CFP- The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
by Francesco Buccafurri 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David, Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian, Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe, Feltus Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena, Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel Carl von Ossietzky, Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil, Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University ,US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Last Call: dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track - CfP Due Feb. 3/2017
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- The dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities. The BB-Track invites contributions that discuss pending technological challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on BB thought and knowledge. Some corresponding thoughts have been outlined by scholars in BB Volume (http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319541419) that has been released recently. Moreover, after Vienna, Krems, and Shanghai, BB is comming to the dg.o 2017 in New York! More information regarding dg.o 2017 (18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research) is available on conference's official website (http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/) We're welcoming research papers, works in progress and tutorials that deal with innovation and ideas, which bypass BB and look forward with regard to ICT and governance. All submissions have to be forwarded with the subject "dg'o 17 BB-Track" to both the track chairs: Dr. Alois Paulin, TU Vienna, Austria (alois(a)apaulin.com <mailto:alois@apaulin.com> ) Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Thessaly, Greece (lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> )

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BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10
by GRLMC 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2017 Bari, Italy February 13-17, 2017 Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ******************************************************** --- Regular registration deadline: February 10, 2017 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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OFC Announces 2017 Technical Program
by OSA 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Advance Registration Deadline: 20 Feb. [1]OFC Registration is Open [2] [3]REGISTER [4]INVITED SPEAKERS [5]HOTEL RESERVATIONS OFC 2017 Technical Program Just Published Online This is your first opportunity to see the entire OFC 2017 technical program online including contributed papers, abstracts and invited speakers. * Browse sessions by type, category or day * Search by author, title, category and more! [6]BROWSE THE PROGRAM [7] Stay up-to-date in advances in the field Over 100 technical sessions, 10 workshops and 15 tutorials feature invited speakers and contributed papers covering hot topics such as integrated photonics, open hardware and software platforms, SDN/NFV, data center interconnects, and much more. Register by 20 February 2017 and save! [8]REGISTER Take advantage of all OFC has to offer. Add a Short Course to your OFC experience. Short Courses are a good way to get clear, concise overviews of important topics in optical communications and networking. You will receive a syllabus with course notes, a valuable take-home reference. Registration fees are required. [9]VIEW SHORT COURSES Make Your Hotel Reservation The best rooms go first so book now to guarantee the best possible hotel experience at the lowest rates! There are many events in town that week so it is more important than ever to reserve your hotel room now through onPeak. It's the most convenient and economical way to make travel arrangements for the event. [10]RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM [11]Image [12]Image [13][14] [15][16] The Optical Society 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, USA 20036 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - References 1. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 2. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 3. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 4. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/ 5. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 6. https://ofc2017.abstractcentral.com/planner.jsp 7. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 8. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 9. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/short-courses/ 10. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 11. https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=1134727 12. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/about/ofc-blog/ 13. http://www.comsoc.org/ 14. http://www.photonicssociety.org/ 15. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ 16. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ This message was sent to computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from: OSA | list(a)igigroup.com | IGI Group, Inc. | PO Box 35880 | Brighton, MA 02135 Unsubscribe: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=36158000&l=29400&s=16FD&m=4…

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[AIS @ CEC 2017] A few days left CfP - AIS: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory
by Mario Pavone 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

* Apologies if you received multiple copies * Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. CALL FOR PAPERS Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/ ais.cec2017(a)gmail.com *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017 *** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System; - Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms; - Novel algorithms and new immune operators; - Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques; - Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and complexity of immune inspired algorithms; - Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques; - Systems & Synthetic Immunology. This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org) * IMPORTANT DATES: paper submission: January 30, 2017 notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017 final paper submission: March 12, 2017 Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017 * ORGANIZERS: Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Jon Timmis, University of York, UK -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ======================================================

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Third Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

*** Third Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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CGSI'17 CFP
by Marina Gavrilova 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

============================================================ 17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 ============================================================ Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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TSD 2017 - First Call for Papers
by TSD 2017 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017(a)tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017

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

26 Jan '17

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

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

25 Jan '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP ScalCom 2017
by Gabriele Mencagli 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

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

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

24 Jan '17

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

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

24 Jan '17

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

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

24 Jan '17

(Please accept our apologies if you receive this email more than once) ----------------------Call for Papers-------------------------------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modeling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France

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

23 Jan '17

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

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

23 Jan '17

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

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

21 Jan '17

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

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

21 Jan '17

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

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Call for Papers - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline 31st January 2017
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Submission Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more information about the submission process (including the “abstract only” option), please consult the conference website ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/) Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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Call for papers: SBP-BRiMS'17
by Donald Adjeroh 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBP-BRiMS 2017 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Abstract Submission : February 22 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017 Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 2017 Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival. Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017 Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, including the following: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference) Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night ABOUT SBP-BRiMS: SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing. Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ . CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes * Group interaction and collaboration * Group formation and evolution * Group representation and profiling * Collective action and governance * Cultural patterns & representation * Social conventions, social contexts and processes * Influence process and recognition * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness Behavior Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Methodological Challenges * Mathematical foundations * Verification and validation * Sensitivity analysis * Matching technique or method to research questions * Metrics and evaluation * Methodological innovation * Model federation and integration * Evolutionary computing * Optimization Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Technology and flash crowds * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of health policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Other Applications * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Viral marketing * Reasoning about development aid through social modeling * Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: The conference solicits three categories of papers: Regular papers (max. 10 pages) All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation. Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages) All topics and authors welcome. Published online. Typically a poster presentation. Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages) Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation. Paper Formatting Guideline The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6- 793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal “Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high- profile journal. The submission website will be available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission. PUBLICATION For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches. Tutorial proposal submission: Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the tutorial. * Description of the tutorial topic and structure. * Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the attendees). * Short bio and contact information of the organizers. More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. CHALLENGE: The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted on the conference website. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross- fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. BEST PAPER AWARDS: SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. HOTEL AND LOGISTICS: Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP- BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.

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FINAL CfP Ada-Europe 2017, Sun 22 Jan submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Papers 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 will take place in Vienna, Austria. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition features a focused Special Session on Reliable and Safe Robotics. *** DEADLINE Sunday 22 JANUARY 2017 *** Regular & Special Session Papers + Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair Ben Brosgol <brosgol at adacore.com> For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be

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[Call for paper] ICCST-2017: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Dear colleague, Apologies for multiple postings. Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/ The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges. All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process. Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore. As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city, its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will include a display of flamenco dancing. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017 Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017 Early Registration: August 15, 2017 Best Regards, ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee ICCST-2017 Executive Committee http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/

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[IEEE ATC 2017] Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposal
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Dear colleague, Apologies for multiple postings. In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017), we will organize some workshops. The workshop proposals should be submitted to ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com Further information are provided in the ATC Call for Workshop page: http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartworld/2017/atc/cfw.php All accepted papers will be included in the ATC 2017 proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop/Special Session proposals should contain following information: • The title of the workshop/special session, including both full name and abbreviation (for workshop) • The objectives, scope, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) • The short bios of the key organizers and their related experience • The procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants • A tentative list of program committee members • The (tentative) website/URL of the proposed workshop/special session Important Schedule for ATC Workshops and Special Sessions: • Proposal Due: Jan. 30, 2017 • Proposal Notification: Feb. 05, 2017 • Paper Submission, Notification: TBD by individual workshops • Final Camera-ready Paper Due: June 10, 2017 Best regards, Riccardo Lazzeretti riccardo.lazzeretti(a)math.unipd.it Workshop Chair IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017)

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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IHPCES 2017: 2nd CFP (deadline: February 7)
by Xing Cai 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

*** Call for Papers *** Seventh International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES-2017) http://nkl.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2017/ In conjunction with ICCS 2017 Conference Zurich, Switzerland, June 12-14, 2017 http://iccs-meeting.org/ Paper Submission Due: Feb.07, 2017 (10-pages) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 Author Notification: Mar.10, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers: Mar.31, 2017 ----------------------------------------- IHPCES 2017 invites original contributions on all topics related to Computational Earth Sciences, including, but not limited to: * Large-scale simulations on both homogeneous and heterogeneous supercomputing systems in earth sciences, such as atmospheric science, ocean science, solid earth science, and space & planetary science, as well as multi-physics simulations. * Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation. * Advanced numerical methods such as FEM, FDM, FVM, BEM/BIEM, Mesh-Free method, and Particle method etc. * Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies focused on issues such as performance, scalability, portability, data locality, power efficiency and reliability. * Software engineering and code optimizations for parallel systems with multi-core processors, GPU accelerators or Xeon Phi co-processors. * Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing such as mesh generation, I/O, workflow, visualization and end-to-end approaches. * Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing with emphasis on integration, interoperability and hardware-software co-design. All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings of ICCS2017, published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science/ Detailed workshop info: http://nkl.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2017/ If you have any further questions, please contact the following WS co-chairs: Kengo Nakajima (University of Tokyo) nakajima(at)cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp<http://cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/> Xing Cai (Simula Laboratory, Norway) xingca(at)simula.no<http://simula.no/>?

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call for papers and special session cmmse
by Prof. Jesús Vigo-Aguiar 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

CMMSE 2017 17th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (including the celebration of the 70th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Sproessig ) Barceló Costa Ballena Golf & SPA July 4-8, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain. http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/ Call for Presentations CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: The 2017 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE-2017), is the fourteen of this conference series. CMMSE2015 aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields and participate in special sessions different from but still close to their own interests. Standard presentation: 20+5 minutes in length. Special Sessions: Minimum of 8 presentations. Symposiums more than 10 presentations. Symposiums chairs can act as plenary speakers. FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS contact: <mailto:cmmse@usal.es cmmse(a)usal.es <mailto:cmmse@usal.es> IMPORTANT DATES: May 17, 2017 -- Deadline for submission of Abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (12 pages). May 26, 2017 -- Notification of Acceptance June 12, 2017 – Registration (with podium) June 20, 2017 -- Registration (without podium) August 10, 2017 -- Deadline for submission (SPECIAL ISSUES). Sept. 10, 2017-- Special issue final selection. JOURNALS INVOLVED: (all indexed by SCI-ISI) Computational Chemistry & Mathematical Chemistry · Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer) · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures (Taylor & Francis). Computational Mathematics · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier) (solicited) · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). · International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Computer Science · Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). ___________________________________________________________- Jesus Vigo-Aguair Ph.D., Professor of Applied Mathematics Chairman CMMSE 2017 Conference: <http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/> http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/ Editor <http://www.springerlink.com/content/101749/> Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer). Guest Editor <http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/journal/11227> Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). Editor <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1476> Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). Guest Editor <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505613/descrip tion#description> Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier). Editor <http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcom20/current> International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Editor Int. Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Willey) Editor International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking (SERSC Society. <http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJFGCN/> http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJFGCN/) ISI Web of Science ResearcherID: <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6215-2012> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6215-2012 University of Salamanca Phone at college +34+923+294500 ext 1537 or +34+ 677578643 Secretary Dept. +923+294500 ext 1552 (9:00-14:00) P THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT: before printing this e-mail think whether it is really necessary. Piense en el medio ambiente. Imprima este correo sólo si es necesario.

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Final Call for Abstracts - Environmental computing workshop at ISGC 2017 (Taipei, Taiwan, March 6 2017)
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Environmental Computing workshop Co-located with ISGC 2017 March 6, 2017, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Abstract submission deadline 25th January 2017 http://envcomp.eu/ISGC17 There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology, hydrology, agronomy or disaster risk management and response – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The topic is of acute interest due to societal challenges and technical developments that require developing approaches to generalise, productise and mature current state-of-the-art environmental modelling solutions for managing disasters and disaster risks. The workshop will bring together together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Paper submissions by groups working on these or related fields are encouraged in order to inspire communication across different specialties. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Paper submission One page abstracts (less than 500 words) should be submitted by January 25th 2017 via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isgc2017envcomp The results of the review process will be communicated to authors by 7th February 2017. Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ISGC17 info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CGI'17 CFP
by Marina Gavrilova 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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Postdoc stipends
by Erik Elmroth 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Dear all, I kindly ask for your help in distributing the following information to anyone potentially interested. —— Umeå University, Sweden, announces 8 postdoc stipends (2 years) in autonomous systems, including two topics in Cloud Management: * Postdoc on Anomaly Detection in Future Cloud Computing Infrastructures: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2279-16 * Postdoc on Autonomous Resource Allocation for Rack-Scale Systems: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2286-16) * All 8 postdoc stipends in autonomous systems: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/grants/6-2279--2286-16 Application deadline is February 1, 2017 —— With kind regards, Erik Elmroth

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CfP for ENGAGE 2017 (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering)
by Werner Benger 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) workshop being organized under the auspices of CGI’17. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, 27th June 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. Please find full details in the call for papers below. We hope to see you in Yokohama! Kind regards, The ENGAGE Workshop Organizers: Andreas Aristidou (a.m.aristidou_AT_gmail.com) Dietmar Hildenbrand (dietmar.hildenbrand_AT_gmail.com) Eckhard Hitzer (hitzer_AT_icu.ac.jp) G. Stacey Staples (sstaple_AT_siue.edu) Werner Benger Olav Egeland George Papagiannakis Kanta Tachibana Yu Zhaoyuan ========================================================================== “Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering Workshop” - Call for Papers http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/#workshop PDF version of this call: http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/assets/ENGAGE_WShop_27June2017Yokohama_rv14D… Since ACM SIGGRAPH2001 and 2003 conferences, there has been limited attention on the benefits of employing W. K. Clifford's geometric algebras (GA) in solving computer graphics and vision problems. In the meantime, the geometric algebra community focused on GA applications and greatly advanced it as an adequate and viable computing technology. The CGI’16 “Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering Workshop” began to bridge that gap. Under the auspices of CGI’17, ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) (new workshop name 2017) on Tuesday, 27th June 2017 in Yokohama, Japan, will again engage in a novel multi-disciplinary approach from mathematics, to computer graphics, computer vision and general computer science fields where GA has strong potential to provide novel answers to existing mathematical problems. GA is in a particularly well suited position to allow cross-disciplinary solutions in software engineering as it provides an intuitive and insightful common denominator across mathematical disciplines that have often advanced and specialized for specific application purposes; the use and knowledge of GA encourages us to overcome distinct, seemingly incompatible paths by providing a shareable mathematical base again. For example, we expect geometric algebra based contributions to GIS research, data modelling & data structures, adaptive & parallel computing, remote sensing data analysis, UAV target location and other domains. We invite original contributors in the form of full and short papers, that advance the state-of-the-art of the application of geometric algebra as well as of its computing technology in topics related, but not limited to: Full application of the conformal model to object description, modeling, deformations, registration, manipulation, interaction, tracking, camera system, visibility Feature Detection & Data Analysis LIDAR and Point Cloud Algorithms Data Models, Cross-Disciplinary Data Description, Software Interoperability Scientific & Information Visualization Computer graphics rendering Computer animation and simulation Augmented and Virtual Reality Application of Clifford analysis to lighting schemes Application of Clifford Fourier transforms and Clifford wavelets to 2D and 3D images, including color images Higher dimensional geometric algebras GA computing GA integrations in programming languages GA hardware implementations Geographic Information Systems Other engineering/applied science applications using GA, like robotics applications, graph computing etc. Accepted full length ENGAGE papers will be published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (MMA), published by John Wiley & Sons, and will be orally presented at the conference. See also the “Author Guidelines” at MMA. Online submission opens Jan. 1st 2017 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mma. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the Special Issue "Engage (Staples)". All authors of accepted short ENGAGE papers will be invited either to an oral presentation or to a poster presentation. The accepted CGI’17 ENGAGE short papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series. For author instructions please refer to http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ - call-for-papers. When submitting a short paper via EasyChair please choose the track "ENGAGE"! After the workshop, extended versions of the highest ranked short papers of the workshop proceedings will be invited for publication in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (MMA), published by John Wiley & Sons. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers: (10-15 pages, use MMA latex style file mmaauth.cls) Abstract submission (ca. 200 words): Feb. 6th 2017 to sstaple_AT_siue.edu Paper submission: Feb. 13th 2017 Paper notification: Mar. 20th 2017 Camera ready papers due: Apr. 10th 2017 See “Author Guidelines” at MMA. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the Special Issue “Engage (Staples)”. Short Papers: (same as the CGI’17 short papers, between 4-6 pages, ACM DL format) Short Paper submission: Apr. 10th 2017 Short Paper notification: May 8th 2017 Camera ready papers due: May 22nd 2017 For further information, please turn directly to the ENGAGE Workshop organizers: Andreas Aristidou (a.m.aristidou_AT_gmail.com) Dietmar Hildenbrand (dietmar.hildenbrand_AT_gmail.com) Eckhard Hitzer (hitzer_AT_icu.ac.jp) Stacey Staples (sstaple_AT_siue.edu) Werner Benger Olav Egeland George Papagiannakis Kanta Tachibana Yu Zhaoyuan -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Werner Benger Visualization Research Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University (CCT/LSU) 2019 Digital Media Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Tel.: +1 225 578 4809 Fax.: +1 225 578-5362

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Updated information on SEIT 2017
by Seonghoon Kim 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, Hope all is well with you and thank you again for your interest in submission of your paper to a prestigious annual conference held in Europe annually. The deadline of the paper submission has been extended until *23th Jan 2017*. This is final due date will not be extended so please consider the opportunity of presenting your research related to any sustainability and energy related research. *See attached *for more detailed information regarding the conference this year. Rcently, I have accepted to serve as the publicity co-chairs for the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2017), http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/) that will be held in May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal. Also, I am serving as a workshop chair for this conference. I am wondering if you can disseminate the CfPs to your colleagues and friends. Both the flyer and the CfPs can be downloaded from the following link: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/#callforPapers hope you are interested in submitting the paper in the conference no later than 12/22/16. Thank you so much for your support anytime in advance. Yours sincerely, Seonghoon Kim Seonghoon Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management Engineering Building, Rm. 1121 201 COBA Drive, BLDG 232 Statesboro, GA 30458

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CfP: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017 https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/ ************************************************************************* Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017) ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the foundations of engineered systems that self-adapt and self-organize. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment. This has led the software engineering, distributed systems, and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. They form the basis for many other so-called self-* properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, or self-optimization. SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary meeting, where contributions from participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering of a cross-pollination of ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications can emerge. The eleventh edition of the SASO conference embraces this inter-disciplinary nature, and welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and application-focused dimensions of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Systems theory: nature-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks and models; control theory; - System properties: robustness; resilience; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness; - Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; architectures; methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems; - Theory and practice of organization: self-governance, change management, electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons, knowledge management, and the general use of rules, policies, etc. in self-* systems - Theory and practice of adaptation: mechanisms for adaptation, including evolution, logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility - Socio-technical systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; humans-in-the-loop; ethics and humanities in self-* systems; - Data-driven approaches: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage behavior of complex systems; - Self-adaptive and self-organizing hardware: self-* materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware; - Education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self-* systems education; Applications and experiences with self-* systems in any of the following domains are of particular interest: + Smart systems: smart grids, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, etc. + Industrial automation: embedded self-* systems, adaptive industrial plants, Industry 4.0, cyber physical systems + Transportation: autonomous vehicles, traffic optimization + Autonomous systems: aerial vehicles, undersea vehicles, autonomous robotics + Internet of Things: self-* for network management, self-* applied to cyber security We are looking for contributions that present new fundamental understanding of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems and how they can be engineered and used, including: novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks, tools, and practical experiences in building or deploying systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Likewise, papers describing substantial innovation or insights in the use and communication of self-* systems in the classroom are welcome. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 1, 2017 Paper submission: May 10, 2017 Notification: June 30, 2017 Camera ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ---------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------- Submissions can be up to 10 pages, formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide, and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please submit your papers using the SASO 2017 conference management system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Note that a separate Call for Poster and Demo Submissions will also be issued. As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they must not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and must not currently be under review for another archival conference. We also highlight the IEEE policies regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/ID_Plagiaris…) --------------------- Review Criteria --------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies, etc. Appropriate references must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, we encourage papers to be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers should provide an indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality. ------------------------------- Conference General Chair ------------------------------- Ada Diaconescu Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris, FR -------------------- Program Chairs -------------------- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine, USA Hella Seebach, Augsburg University, Augsburg, DE

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Student Travel Grants
by Announce Announcements 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

*** Student Travel Grants *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Applications Due: January 22, 2017 (FIRM DEADLINE) *** *** Notification: January 31, 2017 (late applications will not be considered) *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. The objective of IUI's student support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Intelligent User Interfaces to become active members of the IUI community. To apply, the student should be actively enrolled as a student in an academic institution. Priority will be given to students who are first authors of accepted papers and to participants in the doctoral consortium, to minorities and women. Recipients of the stipend are also expected to help the conference organization as student volunteers. The level of support will be determined by the availability of funds and the number of eligible applications. The student volunteer chairs are here to help, please contact us at sv2017(a)iui.acm.org if you have any questions that are not covered by the documents and links found below. Currently, there are four grant schemes available which are detailed below: - The SIGAI Student Travel Grant. - The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI. - The German AI Society Travel Grant - for German students. - The National Science Foundation Travelling Grant - for US students. The IUI Chairs will decide about the allocation of the sources of support to students that will be eligible for travelling grants (there are some differences between the sources and what is required from the students - see below). The application should include: 1. Full name. 2. Email address. 3. The school you are attending, your major, and the country in which the school resides. 4. If you will present at the conference, please provide the title of the submission and its type (e.g. research paper, student consortium, demo). Please note if you have submitted but have not found out if your submission has been accepted. 5. A short statement describing your research interests and how you wish to benefit from attending IUI 2017. 6. The location you are flying from and the cost for your airfare, as determined by the availability of low-cost economy fares for travel to the conference. Please describe any other expenses you expect to accrue, but do not include registration and housing costs, as they are similar for all students. 7. Students may specify if they are female, ethnic minority, or students with disabilities, as we will consider these aspects when discussing the applications. A letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor (or supervising faculty member) sent separately by email to the Student Volunteer Co-Chairs at sv2017(a)iui.acm.org. If you are also applying to the Student Consortium, one appropriately worded recommendation letter can be used for both applications, or you may submit a slightly different letter for each application. Please submit your single, combined PDF (except letter of recommendation) to: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… by January 22nd 2017. Types/sources of support The SIGAI Student Travel Grant Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGAI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGAI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. You must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms ($11 dues). The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGCHI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGCHI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGCHI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The German AI Society Travel Grant The German AI society (AI chapter of the Gesellschaft für Informatik) is kindly offering support for German students or students working in Germany to attend the IUI Conference. This support is provided in the form of three small stipends (500 EUR each) to partially cover the registration fee and the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. After the conference, students write a short report (1 page) for the national AI magazine. Students must be member of the German AI society before submitting the reimbursement forms. The NSF Travelling Grant (Only for US students) We are happy to announce that student participation support provided by NSF to attend the IUI Conference will be provided (limited to US students). This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from the NSF funding must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed.

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CfP: Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2017), September 7-9, 2017, Cagliari, Italy
by Massimo Bartoletti 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

CIBB 2017 Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 14th International Conference September 7-9, 2017, Cagliari, Italy <http://cibb2017.unica.it>http://cibb2017.unica.it === Important Dates === March 25, 2017.........................Tutorial and Special Session proposal May 29, 2017............................Paper submission deadline June 22, 2017……....................Acceptance notification July 17, 2017............................Early author registration July 22, 2017............................Camera-ready due September 7-9, 2017................CIBB in Cagliari === Scope === The main goal of the CIBB international conference is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum open to researchers interested in the application of computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology and medical informatics. Cutting edge methodologies capable of accelerating life science discoveries will be discussed. Following its tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together researchers from the international scientific community interested in advancements and future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Also, looking at current trends and future opportunities at the edge of computer and life sciences, the application of computational intelligence to system and synthetic biology, and the consequent impact on innovative medicine will be of great interest for the conference. Theoretical and experimental biologists are also invited to participate in order to present novel challenges and foster multidisciplinary collaboration. The scientific program of CIBB 2017 will include Keynote Speakers, tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Next generation sequencing bioalgorithms - Multi-omics data analysis - High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data - Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data - Software tools for bioinformatics - Methods for comparative genomics - Methods for functional classification of genes - Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data - Health-Informatics and Medical Informatics - Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data - Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics - Algorithms for pharmacogenomics - Biomedical text mining and imaging - Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine - Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data - Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures - Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Bio-molecular databases and data mining - Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and synthetic systems - Computational simulation of biological systems - Methods and advances in systems biology - Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems - Network systems biology - Models for cell populations and tissues - Methods for the engineering of synthetic components - Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems - Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology === Publication === Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). === Submission guidelines === Authors should submit papers prepared according to the following instructions: - Papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format) - Papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages - We warmly recommend the use of the provided latex template and instructions <http://cibb2017.unica.it/cibb2017-sample-v.1.3.zip>. Should this not be possible, authors should reproduce the format and style of the sample paper available with the latex style. - Papers should be submitted in PDF format on the Easy Chair conference system at this link <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibb2017>. === Tutorials and Special Sessions === CIBB 2017 will run a number of Tutorials and Special Sessions. Any topic of interest for the conference is eligible for a tutorial. Tutorials typically last from one to three hours. Special sessions focus on a specific, possibly cutting-edge, topic of interest for CIBB 2017. Special session organisers will be responsible for call dissemination, the reviewing process and organizing oral presentations. Typically, a special session will have at least 4 accepted papers and may have an invited speaker (to be negotiated). Tutorial proposals, including title, a one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters, are due by March 25th, 2017. Please send proposals to cibb2017(a)gmail.com. Special Session proposals, including the session's title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at least 4, possibly more, potential authors are due by March 25th 2017. Proposals of special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they are submitted. A special session is expected to have at least 4 accepted papers. Please send proposals to <cibb2017(a)gmail.com>cibb2017(a)gmail.com === Invited speakers === Alessandra Carbone (Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative, UMR 7238 CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France) Valentina Boeva (Institut Curie Research Center Paris, France and INSERM U900, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Computational Systems Biology of Cancer, and Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France). Manja Marz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, RNA Bioinformatics and High Throughput Analysis, Germany) === Organization === General Chairs Massimo Bartoletti <http://tcs.unica.it/members/bart>, University of Cagliari, Italy Gunnar Klau <http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Eklau/>, CWI, Netherlands Leif Peterson <http://www.houstonmethodist.org/faculty/leif-peterson>, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA Biostatistics Technical Chair Antonio Eleuteri <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Eleuteri>, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University, UK Bioinformatics Technical Chair Alberto Policriti <http://users.dimi.uniud.it/%7Ealberto.policriti>, University of Udine, Italy Organisation committee Andrea Bracciali <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/%7Eabb/>, University of Stirling, UK Tiziana Cimoli <http://tcs.unica.it/members/tiziana-cimoli>, University of Cagliari, Italy Alessandro Sebastian Podda <http://tcs.unica.it/members/sebastian-podda>, University of Cagliari, Italy Special Session Organizer Andrea Bracciali <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/%7Eabb/>, University of Stirling, UK === Steering committee === Pierre Baldi <http://www.igb.uci.edu/%7Epfbaldi/>, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Elia Biganzoli <http://www.medicina.unimi.it/Facolta/Personale/DocentiRicercatori/BIGANZOLI…>, University of Milan, ITA Clelia Di Serio <http://www.unisr.it/persona.asp?id=299>, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, ITA Alexandru Floares <http://www.saia.ro/16-ismds.html>, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jon Garibaldi <http://ima.ac.uk/home/garibaldi/>, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Nikola Kasabov <http://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/nikola-kasabov>, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Francesco Masulli <http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/>, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA Leif Peterson <http://www.methodisthealth.com/tmhri.cfm?id=37614>, TMHRI, Houston, Texas, USA Roberto Tagliaferri <http://www.unisa.it/docenti/robertotagliaferri/index>, University of Salerno, ITA

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FMEC 2017 CFP: The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE FMEC 2017 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Co-loacated with (SDS 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php Call for Papers: Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2017 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Ejaz Ahmed, NIST, USA * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA. Publication Co-Chairs: * Ali Safa Sadiq, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Publicity Chair: * Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. Steering Committee: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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2nd CfP: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org <http://www.smap2017.org/> ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Special Session proposals: January 20, 2017 Special Session approval: January 27, 2017 Submission of full papers: February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks special sessions proposals addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27
by GRLMC 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: January 27, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 28 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), tba George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), tba Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), tba OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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SDS 2017 CFP: The Fourth International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017), Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE SDS 2017 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE -Spain Section) Co-loacated with (FMEC 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Call For Papers: Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and managements (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers.One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015 and SDS'2016), The fourth International confernce on Software Defined Systems 2017 (SDS'2017) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2017 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCS MS2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yojiro UO, IIJ Innovation Institute Inc., Japan. Publication Co-Chairs: * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. * Angelo Furfaro, University of Calabria, Italy Publicity Chair: * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Steering Committee: * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA (Chair) * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on SDS 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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PDSEC/IPDPS-17 workshop: extended deadline Jan 27
by Peter Strazdins 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

(apologies for cross-postings) DEADLINE: PDSEC-17: extended deadline: Jan 27 (final) The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-17) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec17 will be held on Jun 02, 2017, Florida USA in conjunction with IPDPS 2017. Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, systemwide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. The focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due (FINAL EXTENSION) . . . . . January 27, 2017 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 24, 2017 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2017 (TBC) Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 02, 2017 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GHCE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EXTENDED! Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline has been extended until January 15, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time), extended until Jan 15, 2017 ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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call for papers CMMSE 2017
by Prof. Jesús Vigo-Aguiar 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

CMMSE 2017 17th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (including the celebration of the 70th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Sproessig ) Barceló Costa Ballena Golf & SPA July 4-8, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain. http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/ Call for Presentations CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: The 2017 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE-2017), is the fourteen of this conference series. CMMSE2015 aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields and participate in special sessions different from but still close to their own interests. Standard presentation: 20+5 minutes in length. Special Sessions: Minimum of 8 presentations. Symposiums more than 10 presentations. Symposiums chairs can act as plenary speakers. FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS contact: <mailto:cmmse@usal.es> cmmse(a)usal.es IMPORTANT DATES: May 17, 2017 -- Deadline for submission of Abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (12 pages). May 26, 2017 -- Notification of Acceptance June 12, 2017 – Registration (with podium) June 20, 2017 -- Registration (without podium) August 10, 2017 -- Deadline for submission (SPECIAL ISSUES). Sept. 10, 2017-- Special issue final selection. JOURNALS INVOLVED: (all indexed by SCI-ISI) Computational Chemistry & Mathematical Chemistry · Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer) · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures (Taylor & Francis). Computational Mathematics · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier) (solicited) · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). · International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Computer Science · Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). · International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (solicited, Word Scientific)

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including PhD consortia and workshops. WORKSHOPS Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entitites. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gamper(a)inf.unibz.it · Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl The proposal should include: · a workshop title · estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day) · names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · a (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · a workshop main goals · the list of a workshop topics · preliminary CFP · how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: · organize the workshop's program committee · disseminate the workshop call for papers · solicit submissions · conduct the reviewing process · prepare the final workshop program The official language of workshops is English. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. PUBLICATION Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in Computer and Information Science'. We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017 · Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017 · Workshops held: September 24, 2017 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs. COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Scietech 2017 - Bali Indonesia : Call for Keynote Speakers
by Rudy Lolo 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Dear Professors and Researchers, The 5th International Conference on Science & Engineering in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics 2017 (ScieTech 2017) will be held at the The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, during 21 - 22 January 2017. The detail of ScieTech 2017 is in http://scietech.org/ We would like to announce with 3 (three) Keynote speakers positions with qualifications at least PhD in one of the areas of Physics, Mathematics and or Chemistry with depth publications in Journals and have solid research on those areas. The ScieTech 2017 will cover the accomodation in The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali for two nights as well as support of the travel from origin country to Bali round trip. Kindly please send your CV and abstract for review whether aligned with ScieTech 2017 via email to scietechconf(a)gmail.com on the latest 11 January 2017. Sincerely yours, ScieTech 2017 Committee

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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WTA 2017: programação disponível
by Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa (LTA/PCS/USP) 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

============================================================ WTA 2017 - Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa ============================================================ 26 e 27 de Janeiro de 2017, EPUSP, Brasil Página oficial: http://usp.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=c… Caro amigo, Motivado pela realização de tantos trabalhos, envolvendo uma grande quantidade de pessoas que desenvolvem pesquisas relacionadas à área de Tecnologia Adaptativa, o LTA -- Laboratório de Linguagens e Técnicas Adaptativas realizará, nos próximos dias 26 e 27 de Janeiro de 2017, nas dependências da EPUSP -- Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, nosso tradicional WTA 2017 -- Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa, tendo como objetivos: - servir como fórum de discussão sobre assuntos relacionados à área de Tecnologia Adaptativa - promover um encontro anual de pesquisadores e interessados nos assuntos da área, sua integração e sua interação com a comunidade - disseminar e fomentar o desenvolvimento e a utilização da Tecnologia Adaptativa - fomentar a produção e promover a divulgação de material técnico sobre Tecnologia Adaptativa - materializar o primeiro do que deverá em breve representar uma série de eventos, possivelmente de âmbito nacional e internacional, focalizados em Tecnologia Adaptativa Como responsável pelo LTA desde sua criação, e como coordenador deste evento, tenho o prazer de convidar V.S. para abrilhantar com sua participação esse evento, tão importante para a Tecnologia Adaptativa. Para que se viabilize a realização desse encontro, com o tradicional padrão de qualidade que temos anualmente obtido, espero contar com a valiosíssima participação presencial de V.S. a esse XI WTA, assistindo às sessões técnicas do evento e participando dos debates e trabalhos técnicos a serem desenvolvidos na ocasião. Como resultado material do evento, serão produzidos textos inéditos, que integrarão as memórias do mesmo, e servirão como importantes fontes de referência para trabalhos posteriores. Importante: a décima primeira edição do Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa será realizada no Auditório do Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e de Materiais. A entrada é pela Travessa 3, na Avenida Professor Mello Moraes, 2463, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP. O local está indicado no seguinte link do Google Maps: http://usp.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… Solicitamos que V.S. confirme com a possível urgência sua participação, para que possamos oficializá-la. A inscrição é gratuita e poderá ser realizada através do formulário eletrônico disponível no website do evento: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… A programação já está disponibilizada no website do evento: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… Agradecemos a sua atenção e esperamos reencontrá-lo(a) na ocasião do evento. Atenciosamente, Prof. Dr. João José Neto Coordenador geral do WTA 2017 -- Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa ---------------------- Para remover o e-mail computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org desta lista de notificação, por favor clique no link a seguir: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=…

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CfP extended due Jan. 20, 2017: AW4city 2017 3rd ACM International Smart City Workshop in Perth, Australia - Web Applications and Smart Cities: Enhancing Livability with Web Applications for smart cities
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AW4city 2017, 3rd International ACM Smart City Workshop: Enhancing Livability with Web Applications for smart cities In conjunction with WWW'17: 26th World Wide Web International Conference Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017 http://aw4city2017.wordpress.com Workshop Objective ---------------------------- Following up the success of past events at WWW2015 and WWW2016, AW4City 2017 aims to keep on attracting a significant international attention with regard to web applications for smart cities. The aim of this workshop is to address web-based application and Apps' design and development in the smart city and urban context. More specifically, it focuses on innovative applications smart city component and more specifically on the design and implementation of web-based applications and Apps. This component is crucial, since it addresses all the smart city dimensions: . Economy, since new types of entrepreneurship and innovative business models appear in data, creative and climate economies, and develop web applications and Apps. . Mobility, with regard to urban transportation (intelligent transportation), distance working, job offering demonstration etc. . Environment, since applications enhance resource management, transportation improvement, environmental monitoring etc. . Living, since applications enhance local life (i.e., e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, e-tourism etc.). . People, since they concern applications' end users and . Governance, where open data and e-government applications play crucial roles in smart city operation. This year, the workshop will emphasize on the contribution of web applications and Apps to city livability. Livability stands for local quality of life and citizen satisfaction in terms of education, environment, stability, healthcare, and infrastructure. Livable Melbourne for instance, is the outcome of a development, policy and planning path, while today is the showpiece, the workplace, and the venue for the young and restless to play. In this respect, this workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications and Apps can enhance city's quality of life and citizen satisfaction (i.e., from smart service delivery; from transactions with the local government and utilities; from the existence of local online gaming, training, entertainment, business etc.). Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of smart cities and web application development to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of smart city trends with regard web application development that interconnect citizens, businesses and government in a smart city. AW4City 2017 is timely, since an increasing criticism is being generated that smart city represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): . Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; . Smart City management systems; . Practices of Web applications and Apps in smart cities; . Creative partnerships and creative industries in Smart City (Internet Economics and Monetization); . Pervasive Web and Mobility for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) . The role of government for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); . Web Infrastructure standardization; . The role of standards on smart city web mining; . Smart city e-services for evaluation and benchmarking; . Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; . Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities: the role of web applications. Submission ------------------------------------- We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 6 pages long (max 5000 words), including the abstract and appendices. Discussion papers may be short (up to 4 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------- The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of WWW2017's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: - written in English; - contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; - be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; - be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop's chairs. - occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system. Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2017 conference can be found on http://www.www2017.com.au Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) or some other relative journals (i.e., Journal of Knowledge Economy (JKEC) and Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JoI) published by Springer). Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2016 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> with the subject: "AW4city 2017 proposal" Details of the programme will be made available online. Important Dates ------------------------- Extended Submissions due: Jan. 20th, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 9, 2017. Workshop authors' registration and camera-ready papers: Feb. 17, 2017 Workshop day: April 3, 2017 For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ------------------------------ Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Associate Professor, University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen(a)tudelft.nl <mailto:M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl> Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, Brunel Business School, Brunel University London Uxbridge, United Kingdom, vishanth.weerakkody(a)brunel.ac.uk <mailto:vishanth.weerakkody@brunel.ac.uk> Program Committee Members (tentative) ------------------------------ . Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan . Sofia Toufic Shwayri, University of California at Berkeley . Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe . Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform . Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. . Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) . Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. . Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia . Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia . Mag. Michael Sachs, Zentrum fur E-Governance, Donau-Universitat Krems. . Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA . Nikolaos Mavridis, NCFSR Demokritos, Greece . Alois Paulin, TUWien, Vienna, Austria.

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

*** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Ada-Europe 2017 EXTENDED 22 January submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

The Ada-Europe 2017 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to finalize their contributions, and hence extended the deadline for all submissions to Sunday 22 January 2017. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 22 JANUARY 2017 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 22nd 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), and Pisa, Italy ('16). General Information ------------------- The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 will take place in Vienna, Austria. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. Schedule -------- 22 January 2017: Submission of papers, industrial presentation, tutorial and workshop proposals 26 February 2017: Notification of acceptance to all authors 19 March 2017: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2017: Industrial presentations, tutorial, and workshop material required Topics ------ The conference has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. This edition of Ada-Europe features a focused Special Session on Reliable and Safe Robotics. Following the increasing trend of robotic systems in industrial and public environments it is more and more important to address software systems to control autonomous vehicles. This special topic discusses issues regarding challenging problems in the field of autonomous navigation and sensor fusion. Topics include (but are not limited to): frameworks for robotics, planning and system modelling, as well as multi-agent and logistics applications. For the general track of the conference, topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance. - Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods. - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities. - Software Architectures: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture- Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development. - Methods and Techniques for Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools. - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK. - Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. - Mainstream and Emerging Applications: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc. - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics. - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 new language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. Call for Regular and Special Session Papers ------------------------------------------- Authors of papers which are to undergo peer review for acceptance are invited to submit original contributions by 15 January 2017. Paper submissions shall not exceed 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors for both the general track and the special session shall submit their work via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017. The format for submission is solely PDF. The International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies is ranked class A in the CORE ranking and Microsoft Academic Search has it in the top third for conferences on programming languages. The conference is listed in DBLP, SCOPUS and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index, among others. Proceedings ----------- Conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the conference. Camera-ready accepted papers are due strictly by 19 March 2017 (format guidelines available at the conference site). Failure to comply and to register for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. Call for Industrial Presentations --------------------------------- The conference seeks industrial presentations which deliver value and insight but may not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors are invited to submit a presentation outline of exactly 1 page in length by 15 January 2017. Submissions shall be made via EasyChair following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017. The format for submission is solely PDF. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract and submit it by 30 April 2017, aiming at a 20-minute talk. The authors of accepted presentations will be invited to submit corresponding articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information please contact the Industrial Chair directly. Awards ------ Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Call for Tutorials ------------------ Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of the conference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day events. Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposed topic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day), the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and a statement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as well as a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. Call for Workshops ------------------ Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) Call for Exhibitors ------------------- The commercial exhibition will span the three days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. Grants for Reduced Student Fees ------------------------------- A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected to be available for students who would like to attend the conference or tutorials. Contact the Conference Chair for details. Venue ----- The conference will take place at Palais Eschenbach, in the heart of Vienna, Austria. Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Chair Wolfgang Kastner, TU Vienna, Austria k(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at Program Co-Chairs Johann Blieberger, TU Vienna, Austria blieb(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at Tullio Vardanega, Università di Padova, Italy tullio.vardanega(a)math.unipd.it Special Session Chair Markus Bader, TU Vienna, Austria markus.bader(a)tuwien.ac.at Tutorial and Workshop Chair Ben Brosgol, AdaCore, USA brosgol(a)adacore.com Industrial Chair Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & innovation, Denmark jacob(a)jacob-sparre.dk Exhibition Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland ahlan(a)Ada-Switzerland.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Markus Bader, TU Vienna, Austria markus.bader(a)tuwien.ac.at Program Committee ----------------- Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Ted Baker, NSF, USA Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., Korea Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Lukas Esterle, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, France Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Wilfried Kubinger, FH Technikum Wien, Austria Albert Llemosí, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kristina Lundkvist, Mälardalen University, Sweden Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Justus Piater, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Jorge Real, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Sergio Sáez, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Theodor Tempelmeier, University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, Germany Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi, Finland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Tullio Vardanega, Univ. di Padova, Italy Armin Wasice, University of California at Berkeley, USA Michael Zillich, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Industrial Committee -------------------- Ian Broster, Rapita Systems Ltd, UK Jørgen Bundgaard, Ramboll, Denmark Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT), Austria Egil Harald Høvik, Kongsberg, Norway Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence & Space, Spain Björn Lundin, Consafe Logistics, Sweden Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland Paolo Panaroni, Intecs, Italy Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Andreas Richtsfeld, DS Automotion GmbH, Austria Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Emilio Salazar, GMV, Spain Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & Innovation, DK Jean-Loup Terraillon, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Sergey Tverdyshev, SysGO, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair *** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017 *** June 12-16, 2017 *** Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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Deadline in a few days - 32nd IFIP TC-11 SEC 2017 International Information Security and Privacy Conference
by IFIP SEC 2017 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline in a few days! (January 09, 2017 - 11:59pm American Samoa Time) *** 32nd IFIP TC-11 SEC 2017 International Information Security and Privacy Conference Rome, Italy, May 29 - 31, 2017 http://ifipsec.org/2017/ The IFIP SEC conference is the flagship event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC-11, www.ifiptc11.org) Previous SEC conferences were held in Ghent (Belgium) 2016, Hamburg (Germany) 2015, Marrakech (Morroco) 2014, Auckland (New Zealand) 2013, Heraklion (Greece) 2012, Lucerne (Switzerland) 2011, and Brisbane (Australia) 2010. We seek submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control and authentication - Applied cryptography - Audit and risk analysis - Biometrics - Big data security and privacy - Cloud security and privacy - Critical infrastructure protection - Cyber-physical systems security - Data protection - Data and applications security - Digital forensics - Human aspects of security and privacy - Identity management - Information security education - Information security management - Information technology mis-use and the law - Managing information security functions - Mobile security - Multilateral security - Network & distributed systems security - Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design - Privacy enhancing technologies - Security and privacy in crowdsourcing - Security and privacy in pervasive systems - Security and privacy in the Internet of Things - Security and privacy policies - Surveillance and counter-surveillance - Trust management - Usable security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer Science and Business Media. All papers must be written in English. Submissions should be at most 14 pages long in total including references and appendices. Submissions should not be anonymized. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. Each paper will receive at least three reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the journal Computers & Security. Those papers will undergo at least one other review round. IMPORTANT DATES Submission due: January 09, 2017 (11:59pm American Samoa Time) [extended] Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2017 Deadline for final version: March 07, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Luigi V. Mancini, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIR Theo Dimitrakos, Huawei and University of Kent, UK PUBLICITY CHAIR Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA - Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis, USA - Rainer Boehme, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Joppe Bos, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium - Yazan Boshmaf, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar - Dagmar Brechlerova', Czech republic - William Caelli, IISEC Pty Ltd, Australia - Jan Camenisch, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland - Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar - Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK - Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France - Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France - Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Bart De Decker, KU Leuven, Belgium - Gurpreet Dhillon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA - Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France - Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden - Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Lynn Futcher, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa - Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg - Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA - Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand - Martin Johns, SAP Research, Germany - Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Audun Josang, University of Oslo, Norway - Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Kwangjo Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea - Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany - Dogan Kesdoganto, Universitat Regensburg, Germany - Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia - Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Peter Lambert, DST, Australia - Gert L. Mikkelsen, The Alexandra Institute, Denmark - Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain - Stephen Marsh, UOIT, Canada - Refik Molva, EURECOM, France - Paolo Mori, CNR, Italy - Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan - Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Daniel Olejar, Comenius University, Slovakia - Panos Papadimitratos, KTH, Sweden - Andras Pataricza, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Philippos Peleties, CCS, Cyprus - Guenther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany - Giuseppe Persiano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy - Gilbert Peterson, AFIT, USA - Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany - Alexander Pretschner, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Sihan Qing, Peking University, China - Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Carlos Rieder, ISec AG, Switzerland - Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Damien Sauveron, University of Limoges, France - Abbas Shahim, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Ingrid Schaumuller-Bichl, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria - Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway - Adesina Sodiya, Federal University of Agric, Nigeria - Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Paulo Verissimo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Rossouw Von Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa - Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, USA - Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria - Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenija - Steffen Wendzel, Steffen Wendzel, Germany - Andre' Zuquete, Instituto de Engenharia Electronica e Telematica de Aveiro, Portugal For more information, contact the organizing chairs at sec2017(a)unimi.it or visit http://ifipsec.org/2017/

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BigDat 2017: early registration January 13
by GRLMC 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

BigDat 2017: early registration January 13*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 3rdINTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2017 Bari, Italy February 13-17, 2017 Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ******************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 13, 2017 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Analytics and Optimization for Industrial Applications: Introduction, Algorithms, and Examples Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Data Analytics Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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CFP: 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2017)
by Xianzhi Wang 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* The 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2017) To be held in conjunction with Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Conference (ANT'17), May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal website: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2017/ ******************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Paper Submission: Jan 22, 2017 (extend deadline) Author Notification: Feb 13, 2017 Final Manuscript: Mar 13, 2017 The new developments in this area raise many research questions including interaction, security, collaboration, context, discovery, and privacy of physical things in the virtual world. Despite the tremendous progress in Internet technologies the research community continues to wrestle with some of these questions. This Symposium focuses on disseminating novel ideas and research directions in this fast emerging area of the Internet of Things. This Symposium also aims to bring together academics and practitioners in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas for the Internet of Things. The Symposium will be platform to provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to join hands, exchange ideas and focus on solutions that will enhance the life of the growing population on the Internet. It will lead to identifying new directions and setting the scope for developments in this area. The participants will be enlightened with intellectual discussions, highlighting the advances in technology that bridges the physical world and the digital world.This Symposium aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things.The 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things will take place in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2017), Madeira, Portugal in May 16-19, 2017.Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Big Data and the Internet of Things - Urban Computing and Smart Cities - Data Management Approaches for the Internet of Things - Searching and Information Retrieval for the Internet of Things- Communication systems and architectures for the Internet of Things- Robustness of environmental management with the Internet of Things- Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds- Business models and processes for the Internet of Things- Impacts on the security, privacy and risks on the physical world- Applications and interaction for social networking- Location and discovery of things on the Internet- Web of Things - Internet of Everything - Industrial Internet- Smart Objects- Case studies in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics and Transport- Green Internet of Things- Mobile Internet of Things- Internet of Services- Sensor Webs - Social Internet of Things - Graph Databases- Semantic Web of Things - Large scale IoT Data - IoT Monetisation PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science. The templates are available for - MS Word: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/templates/ANT15_PROCS_Template.docm - Latex: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/templates/ecrc-procs.rarAuthors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iupt2017) Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the Symposium Program Committee. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in a journal special issue. ORGANIZATION ------------ General Chairs: Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Program Chairs: Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy Publicity Chairs: Xianzhi Wang, UNSW, Australia Program Committee: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2017/#/OrganizingCommittee 上一封下一封 « 返回

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[Deadline Approaching] CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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[SEIT17] CFP 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

-------------- Call for Papers ---------------------- The 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-17) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/ **************************************************************************** Important Dates =========== - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2017 (Final) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 The goal of the SEIT-17 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. SEIT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/) Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Committees ======== General Chair Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, The Flemish Institute of Technological Research, Belgium Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs çlvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Jess Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Advisory Committee Bilal A. Akash, Dhofar University, Oman Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chairs Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria Seonghoon Kim, Georgia Southern University, USA Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/#programCommittees

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[ANT17] CFP 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/ *Important Dates =========== - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2017 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 ANT 2017 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) - Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) ANT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/) Conference Tracks ============== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - Internet of Things - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences - Multimedia and Social Computing - Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management - Smart Environments and Applications - Systems Security and Privacy - Systems Software Engineering - Vehicular Networks and Applications - General Track COMMITTEES ========= General Chairs Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program Vice Chairs Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Mtiers, France Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Publicity Chairs Rui Dins, Instituto de Telecomunicaes, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Call for Papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Miao, Wang 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - Information Technology - Computer Science - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27
by GRLMC 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), tba Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), tba George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), tba Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), tba Li Erran Li (Columbia University), tba Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), Deep Learning for Games - But not for Playing them OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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FNC 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Zahoor Khan 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Call for Workshops Proposals The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications Leuven, Belgium July 24-26, 2017 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ Important Dates: * Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 FNC-2017 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of FNC-2017 and its related areas. Proposal Format * Title of the workshop * Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) * Draft Call for paper of the workshop * Tentative list of TPC members Workshops' Chair Zahoor Khan, PhD Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE (zahoor.khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:zahoor.khan@hct.ac.ae>) (Adjunct Faculty) Dalhousie University, Canada (zahoor.khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:zahoor.khan@dal.ca>)

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Fwd: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM Subject: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017) To: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline is January 7, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Wish you all best wishes for the end of 2016 and a Happy New Year 2017! Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Invitation to visit Tehran for 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry
by Mohades 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry March 1-6, 2017 Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran URL: <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry (WSCG) will be held on March 1-6, 2017 in Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. This is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers in computational geometry and related fields as well as interested researchers and students, from all over the world. The school covers advanced topics in computational geometry and related fields presented by the invited speakers as well as the primary concepts of these fields presented in a 3 day seminar held before this event. This workshop provides a friendly atmosphere to work on computational geometry problems, present and discuss the results, and establish scientific collaborations. An international certificate will be presented by the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry to the participants. The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry will cover concepts in Computational Geometry and Architectural Geometry. General Information: IMPORTANT DATES * Early registration deadline: Feb 4, 2017 * Seminar on primary concepts of Computational Geometry: Feb 26, 2017 * Winter School on Computational Geometry: Mar 1-6, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS * Maike Buchin, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois, U.S * Matias Korman, Tohoku University, Japan More information on the coming 9th WSCG is available on <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir. If you have any question regarding this event please do not hesitate to contact us via <mailto:algocg@aut.ac.ir> algocg(a)aut.ac.ir.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We look forward to seeing you in the school. Ali Mohades, Chair of the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry, Laboratory of Algorithms and Computational Geometry, Amirkabir University of Technology

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